Invited Talk
Collaborative Modeling and Simulation: the Virtual Physiological Human vision
Marco Viceconti
Laboratorio di Tecnologia Medica
Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
Bologna, ITALY
The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) is an international research initiative, which aims to develop a framework of methods and technologies enabling an integrative investigation of the human physiology and pathology. The term integrative indicates the need to overcome the limitations of the reductionist approach, attempting to capture the emergences due to systemic interaction between space-time scales, organ systems, but also academic disciplines. In this brief presentation of the VPH initiative and of its early results we argue that the VPH is first and foremost an attempt to develop an effective environment for collaborative modeling and simulation.
Prof. Viceconti Short bio:
Marco Viceconti (M’97)
holds a Mechanical Engineering Degree
from the University of Bologna and a PhD from the University of Firenze.
After a period at the University of Wisconsin Madison, since 1990 he has
been working at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute,
in Bologna, Italy, where
he is Technical Director of the
Medical Technology Lab, and Director of the
Computational Bioengineering Lab, part of the recently established Bologna
Technopole. He is also contract professor of computational biomechanics at
the University of Bologna, and Scientific advisor of the BioComputing
Competence Centre, also located in Bologna. His main research interests are
related to the development and validation of medical technology, especially
that involving simulation. In his career he published over 200 papers, 160
of which are indexed in Medline, and serves are reviewer for many
international funding agencies and peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Viceconti is
internationally recognised as one of the key figures in the emerging Virtual
Physiological Human (VPH) community. Co-author of the first white paper on
VPH, coordinator of the STEP action that compiled the seminal VPH research
roadmap, animator of the World Integrative Research Initiative (WIRI), “VPH
Ambassador” for the VPH Network of Excellence, coordinator of one the three
VPH integrated projects (VPHOP), he is currently chairing the Board of
Directors of the forming
European VPH institute.
