Grants, Conferences, and Publications
MITACS Accelerate - $75,000
A 2-year project in collaboration with paramedics at Lakeridge Health Hospital and Ontario Tech University. The goal of the project is to create an effective teaching tool for the training of Pneumothorax decompression procedures. The project includes development, manufacturing, and methodic evaluation of the model.
MITACS Research Award - 6,000$
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Innovative research in medical simulation on the development of portable, customizable simulators for clinical procedures in nursing, surgical, and emergency care applications. This award resulted in the invention and development of maxSIMbox: NRP - a training tool used by Lakeridge Health Hospital Pediatric Department.
C-CASE 2020
maxSIMbox: The development and additive manufacturing of
portable and inexpensive simulators to support virtual, experiential learning platforms.
Arutiunian A, Artur Arutiunian, Jennifer Hiley, Geoff Hughes, Adam Dubrowski.
Canadian conference for the advancements of surgical education. October 29-30, 2020
Virtual conference
The Learner 2021​
Virtual Health Experiential Learning Platform (HELP) - Utilizing Gamified Educational Networking and Three-Dimensional Printing for Distance Training.
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Dubrowski A, Kapralos B, Patocskai E, *Torres A, *Arutiunian A, *Wahab S, *Weber T, *Mnaymneh M. (Submitted). The Learner: Twenty-eighth International Conference on Learning, July 9-11, Krakow, Poland.
* Indicates student
maxSIMhealth group
A. Arutiunian, and maxSIMhealth Group. An interconnected collective of manufacturing, design, and simulation labs to advance medical simulation training.
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In A. L. Brooks, S. Branham, B. Kapralos, A. Nakajima, J. Tyerman, and L. Jain (Eds.). Recent Advances in Technologies for Inclusive Well-Being: Virtual Patients, Gamification and Simulation. Springer-Verlag, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Germany (to appear 2020)