Medvis was founded as a start-up in the spring of 2002. The company is comprised of a diverse group of experts from Medicine, Human Factors, Bioengineering, Computer Science, and Design. The interdisciplinary team has collaborated together for over 10 years. The track record of developing visualizations for such diverse applications as anesthesia, finance, and entertainment indicates the diversity of scope and scale of the projects it can tackle. Not only can the team quickly understand the needs of a new application, but it can also apply experience and perspectives from one application to another.
Jim has held positions at the University of Utah as an Assistant Research Professor, Assistant Director of the Center for the Representation of Multi-Dimensional Information, and Associate Research Scientist in the Center for High Performance Computing. He has published numerous articles on visualization applications across a broad range of applications and won the 2004 - 2005 Creative Acheivement Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
Rob has a background in experimental psychology, cognition, human information processing, and human factors research. For the past 10 years he has conducted human factors and usability testing for a variety of applications in the medical and information technology domains.. He has a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Marquette University and a Masters degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology from the University of N. Colorado. Rob specializes in usability testing, experimental design and statistical analysis. Rob has published numerous articles and won awards in the area of cognitive psychology, human factors and visualization research.
Dr. Egan completed his undergraduate education at Brigham Young University He attended medical school at the University of Utah School of Medicine After completing a residency at the University of Utah, Dr. Egan completed postgraduate training in anesthesiology and critical care at Stanford University. Dr. Egan is currently the Director of Neuroanesthesia at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and Immediate Past President of the Medical Staff. In addition, Dr. Egan served for many years as a board member, Treasurer, and President of the International Society for Anaesthetic Pharmacology. He has also served as Associate Editor for Anesthesiology and guest reviewer for numerous other pharmacology, anesthesia and bioengineering journals. Dr. Egan has lectured extensively in the United States and internationally, including numerous honorary and keynote lectures at major universities and national anesthesiology societies.
Ken received a BS in bioengineering from UC Berkeley, a MS in biomedical engineering and MD degree from Tulane University. For four years, he served as a staff scientist at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He completed a residency in Anesthesiology. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Utah and is the Director of the Center for Patient Simulation. He has served as a Capstone Project manager with student groups at several universities and as a consultant to several biomedical device companies. He has received extramural funding for and published numerous manuscripts in clinical pharmacology, medical education, pathophysiology of hemorrhagic shock and bioinstrumentation.
Noah has held positions as a Research Computer Scientist, Biomedical Engineer, and is the current technical director for the University of Utah Center for Patient Simulation (Department of Anesthesiology). He is an expert in the area of pharmacokinetic and dynamic modeling and has published extensively in the area. He received his undergraduate computer engineering degree and has over 8 years of experience in software engineering. He also has a M.S. and 6 years experience in biomedical engineering (medical monitoring, pharmacologic modeling, bioinstrumentation and scientific/information visualization).
Dwayne holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah and a BS in Physics from Brigham Young University. He is Professor of Anesthesiology, Medical Informatics and Bioengineering at the University of Utah. Dr. Westenskow is the author of 118 journal publications dealing with medical monitoring and control and has over 25 issued patents in the area of anesthesiology.