Scott Barrows, Director of Simulation Programming at the Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center in Peoria, Illinois presents his team’s development of medical simulations and interactive education.

This presentation will introduce participants to the active development of medical simulation and interactive education at one of the leading simulation centers in the world. At the Jump Center, innovation is successfully implemented into the reality of the current health care system. Simulation in health care serves to train, educate, and provide insight into the challenges and opportunities for improvement in process and product technology.

Medical and healthcare education has changed dramatically over the last 25 years. As a piece of the healthcare “triple aim” (improve the health of the defined population, enhance the patient care experience, and reduce the per capita cost of care), medical simulation is an essential piece of best practices in medical and healthcare education.

ABOUT THE JUMP CENTER
The Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center in Peoria, Illinois is one of the leading medical simulation facilities in the world. A collaborative institution between the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria and OSF Health System, the Jump Center is also a partner of the ARCHES program with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Engineering.

SIMnext, the product engineering arm of the Jump Center, is a related initiative where clinicians are guided by real-time patient data to provide the bridge between learning environments and real-life clinical experience. The Jump Center is also a member of Chicago-based MATTER, an innovation incubator for healthcare.

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SPEAKER BIO
Scott Barrows is the Director of Simulation Programming at the Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center in Peoria, Illinois. The research center is the largest medical simulation facility in the world, and affiliated with the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria and OSF Health System. The Jump Center is part of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ARCHES program. The center is also an innovation partner with MATTER and SIMnext.

Scott Barrows is a frequent advisor, lecturer, and collaborator at Stanford University School of Medicine and Apple. His work appears in over 55 medical textbooks and 270 surgical journals and other publications. He has directed 17 medical animations and videos and numerous software interactives.

Barrows was previously Vice-President of Marketing at a biotechnology laboratory in Virginia, and Vice-President of Creative at a medical software “think tank” in Nevada, where the company was awarded Nevada Software Company of the Year in 2012.

He was the Director of the Biomedical Visualization graduate program at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center for numerous years and is still serves on the adjunct faculty. He was also an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and served as an advisor to the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Business.

He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including recognition from two US Presidents, the Smithsonian Institution, and the University of Illinois (including 1988 Alumnus of the Year, College of Applied Health Sciences, and Excalibur Award for Excellence in Teaching).

Barrows is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Springfield (MA, Educational Leadership) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (BS, Biomedical Visualization, with Honors). He also attended the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.