simulated patient<\/a> that brings the \u201chuman factor\u201d to health care training. An innovator and active researcher in the field, Welch currently has more than $3.8 million in research funding.<\/p>\nIn addition to serving as the Florida Hospital Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation at the College of Nursing, Welch is a co-director of the UCF Synthetic Reality Laboratory and holds additional faculty appointments in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the UCF Institute for Simulation & Training.<\/p>\n
Welch recently received the award at the 25th annual IEEE Virtual Reality conference in Reutlingen, Germany. The conference is the largest, most respected and prestigious in the field of virtual reality and three-dimensional computer interfaces. More than 500 academic and industry experts from over 20 countries attended this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am extremely humbled to receive this award, as it involves considerable effort on the part of many deserving people,\u201d said Welch. \u201cThese individuals inspire me to keep pushing forward for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award was established in 2005. Welch is the second UCF professor to have received the prestigious international honor. Kay Stanney, a former professor and trustee chair in the UCF Industrial Engineering & Management Systems Department, received the honor in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Endowed Chair Gregory F. Welch, a computer scientist and engineer on faculty in the UCF College of Nursing, was recently honored with the 2018 IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award for his contributions to human motion tracking and mixed reality applications in medicine and training. Presented by the Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) of IEEE, the world\u2019s largest…","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":77630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,12,23,24],"tags":[4869,12142,11268],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-85837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-health","category-research","category-science-technology","tag-college-of-nursing","tag-greg-welch","tag-healthcare-simulation"],"yoast_head":"\n
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