Category: Center for Innovation in Pharmacy Simulation
UNC to Apply Machine Learning, AI to Improve Battlefield Medicine
September 10, 2018The University of North Carolina will use machine learning and artificial intelligence to help ensure that military health care providers are better prepared to handle the evolving conditions and traumatic injuries seen on the battlefield. The Department of Defense has awarded a grant of $1.6 million to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy to fund the two-year project. The military has asked the research team for an analytical tool that can evaluate real-world patient data to predict the skills, training and patient care guidelines that military health care workers will need in different scenarios. The project is being led by … Read more
Jerry Heneghan Gives Keynote at Serious Play Conference
July 27, 2016Jerry Heneghan, M.B.A., delivered the keynote address at this year’s Serious Play Conference, hosted by the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School from July 25-28. Global thought leaders in the field of serious games and simulations descended on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to participate in the Serious Play Conference. “Serious play” uses the fun, engaging qualities of entertainment games to improve participant interest in education and training and provide better research from the results Heneghan is a professor of the practice in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the director of the School’s Center for Innovation in … Read more