Virtual Reality & the Patient Experience - March 21, 2023

Virtual Reality & the Patient Experience: Serious Illness, Healing Relationships & the Potential for Immersive Technologies to Improve Patient Experience

Justin Sanders, MD, MSc, FAAHPM

Kappy and Eric M. Flanders Chair of Palliative Care, Director of Palliative Care at McGill, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at McGill University

How can virtual reality improve patient care and experience? Hear about Dr. Sanders' work on the promotion of authentic healing relationships in serious illness through social-science informed and equity-focused communication and implementation research and immersive technologies.

BentleyPlus eligible competencies: Ethical Reasoning, Problem Solving, Community Engagement, Identity Awareness

In addition to his roles at McGill University, Dr. Sanders is an associate faculty member at Ariadne Labs, a health systems innovation center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. He is the co-founder, with Bentley University Professors Danielle Blanch-Hartigan and Jon Ericson, of the Virtual Communications Research Lab (VCR) at Bentley University.