Summary: Dr. Spitzer discusses the process in giving new life to Susan Potter as a living cadaver<br> <a href="http://cuontheair.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019_vic-spitzer_web.jpg"></a><br> <a href="http://cuontheair.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019_vic-spitzer_potter.jpg"></a><br> Dr. <a href="http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/medicalschool/departments/CellDevelopmentalBiology/facultyresearch/Pages/VictorSpitzer.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Victor Spitzer</a>, director of the <a href="http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/medicalschool/centers/HumanSimulation/Pages/Home.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Human Simulation</a> at the <a href="http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/medicalschool/Pages/somWelcome.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Colorado School of Medicine</a>, chats with host <a href="https://www.cu.edu/office-president/ken-mcconnellogue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ken McConnellogue</a> about the amazing Virtual Human living cadaver. Dr. Spitzer and his team froze, sectioned and sliced body-donor Susan Potter, who died at age 87 and now lives on in 27,000 photos.<br> <br> * What is the virtual human and how can it help us connect to reality?<br> * Susan Potter: A philanthropist, fundraiser, body donor<br> * Slicing and imaging the body to teach students about anatomy and compassion.<br> * Susan Potter’s life and how it will impact the study of anatomy.<br> * A broken ‘promise’ – Potter said she’d die within a year; she lived 14 more years.<br> * Creating an unwitting bond after 14 years. “If I’m going to cut you up I don’t want to be your friend.”<br> * The dissecting process: Grinding off thin layers of tissue of the frozen body.<br> * The reverse engineering of the human body.<br> * How students will benefit from the Virtual Human, including her age, pathology and listening to Susan Potter discuss her pain and experience.<br> * The Visible Human from the 1990s – how it’s still being developed and moving ahead.<br> * How technology has improved the virtualization process.<br> * <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/01/visible-human-susan-potter-cadaver/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Geographic</a> – the longest running story in the magazine’s history.<br> * International attention and the reaction of readers to the story.<br> * Compassion versus competency – striving for both.<br> * Where the visible and virtual realities live now, virtual reality in place at CU.<br> * <a href="https://www.toltech.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Touch of Life Technologies</a> – fabricating the feeling of human tissue for medical students.<br> * Where does the traditional cadaver stand within the new age?<br> * What’s coming up in the next decade? Simulating movement with muscle contraction; flowing fluids through the body.<br> * Susan Potter now: What is she saying beyond the grave? Most likely that she’ll be happy when students are gaining knowledge from she has left them.<br> * The project completion estimate? Never!<br> * How Hollywood has helped the Visible and Virtual Human programs.<br> <br> Resources:<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/01/visible-human-susan-potter-cadaver/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan Potter gave her body to science. Her cadaver become immortal</a>, National Geographic<br> * <a href="https://www.cuanschutztoday.org/virtual-human-a-living-cadaver-pushes-boundaries-of-anatomical-science/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virtual human — a living cadaver — pushes boundaries of anatomical science</a>, CU Anschutz Today, Dec. 13<br> * <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswlf7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Befriending the woman I’d have to dissect</a>, BBC, March 12<br> * <a href="https://www.toltech.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Touch of Life Technologie...</a>
