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[Michelle Pollak <>]

INTERNET2 ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY WORKING GROUP TAKES STEPS NEEDED TO MAKE
INTERNET-BASED SURGERY A REALITY

WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 8, 2003 – A delegation of the Internet2(R)
Orthopaedic Surgery Working Group is attending the Second Annual
International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology Conference
(SICOT/SIROT) in Cairo, Egypt this week to underscore the benefits of
broadband high performance network access for advancing education and
clinical research throughout the global orthopaedic surgery
community.  Through advances in advanced networking applications
such as haptics, surgical simulation training and collaborative
videoconferencing technologies, Internet2 is enabling pioneering
scientists in medical and technical fields to make minimally-invasive,
Internet-based surgery techniques a future reality.

On Sept. 12, SICOT will hold the Second Symposium on Internet2
Applications to Orthopaedic Surgery.  Topics covered during the
symposium will include an introduction to Internet2; a surgical
simulation demonstration; an overview of regional and international
Orthopaedic Research Networks; a discussion on the convergence of
orthopaedic surgery and information technology, and much more.

“The Internet2 Symposium at SICOT will illustrate how demonstrations of
live surgery can be linked with rich anatomical media resources and with
live teaching so that expert surgeons and anatomists can reach students
at remote sites throughout the world,” said Parvati Dev, Ph.D., member of
the Internet2 Applications Strategy Council and part of the Internet2
delegation to Egypt.  “The immediacy of interactive live questions
that fly between the students and the surgeons or anatomists creates a
level of engagement that far exceeds the more passive presentations of
one-way web casts.”

 From Sept. 10 – 13, 2003, the Internet2 delegation will participate in a
number of meetings to introduce Internet2 to Egyptian leaders in
communications, information technology, higher education, and the global
orthopaedic surgery community.  Access to a sustainable, global,
information technology infrastructure with the capacity to deliver 100
percent reliable broadband access will make it possible for learning
technologies, such as surgical simulations, to occur daily over advanced
networks.  Meetings will occur with representatives from the
following Egyptian organizations:

+ Egyptian University Network
+ Project Hope, Cairo
+ National Training Institute
+ Nasser Institute Hospital & Research Centre
+ Library of Alexandria

Members of the Internet2 delegation include: Dr. Chadwick Smith, Chair of
the Internet2 Orthopaedic Surgery Working Group and President Elect
SICOT; Terry Clark, M.D., President of Medantic, representing Cisco
Learning Institute; Pavarti Dev, Ph.D. and Associate Dean of Learning
Technologies, Stanford University; Ed Johansen, J.D., facilitator of the
Internet2 Orthopaedic Working Group and the Internet2 Health Sciences
Advisory Group; Mary Kratz, MT (ASCP), program manager of Internet2
Health Sciences, and Emmett McEleney, M.D., orthopaedic surgeon with the
Mayo System.

Internet2 corporate member, Prous Science, will be recording the
Internet2 symposium and related activities.  The recordings will be
available in October 2003 at:
http://health.internet2.edu/sicot2003.html.

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About the Internet2 Orthopaedic Surgery Working Group
The Internet2 Orthopaedic Surgery Working Group is raising interest and
increasing engagement in applications that utilize advanced networks in
telemedicine, telerobotics, and medical research with the goal of making
minimally-invasive, Internet-based surgical techniques a reality. 
For more information, visit:
http://health.internet2.edu/WorkingGroups/OrthopaedicSurgery.html.

About Internet2(R)
Led by more than 200 U.S. universities, working with industry and
government, Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network
applications and technologies for research and higher education,
accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.  Internet2
recreates the partnerships among academia, industry, and government that
helped foster today’s Internet in its infancy.  For more information
about Internet2, visit:
http://www.internet2.edu/.

Contact:
Michelle Pollak, Internet2
+1-202-331-5345