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My name is Brian Quaranto MD, and I am a physician and general surgery resident from Buffalo, NY.
When I'm not in the OR, I investigate emerging technologies to teach future generations of surgeons how to be safe and effective.
I am especially interested in improving intraoperative video capture, remote surgical skill simulation, and developing computer vision algorithms to assess surgical skill.
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How to improve your Zoom setup to teach surgical skills
We can effectively teach medical students some of the most basic surgical skills over the internet. I break down the 7 key steps how to improve your Zoom setup for teaching surgical skills.
![How to improve your Zoom setup to teach surgical skills](/content/images/size/w1462/2021/04/remote-suturing-full-2.gif)
First-Person Immersive VR Video for the OR
I've built an immersive virtual reality camera system designed to capture the operating surgeon's perspective. But why? And how?
![First-Person Immersive VR Video for the OR](/content/images/size/w1462/2021/04/head-mounted-stabilized-camera.gif)
How to improve your Zoom setup to teach surgical skills
We can effectively teach medical students some of the most basic surgical skills over the internet. I break down the 7 key steps how to improve your Zoom setup for teaching surgical skills.
![How to improve your Zoom setup to teach surgical skills](/content/images/size/w1462/2021/04/remote-suturing-full-2.gif)
Hand tracking for surgical skills... with just a webcam
Motion capture systems are notoriously complex. I'm on a quest to try to achieve hand tracking with as minimalistic of a setup as possible; ideally, a single camera from the optimal vantage point – the surgeon's head. Here's my progress so far. For the uninitiated,
![Hand tracking for surgical skills... with just a webcam](/content/images/size/w1462/2021/04/hand-tracking-square-knot-iso.gif)
Enabling eye contact in telemedicine: building a low-cost medical interrotron
No longer just a device for documentarians, we've created an inexpensive Interrotron to demonstrate the impact of non-verbal communication during video telemedicine encounters.
![Enabling eye contact in telemedicine: building a low-cost medical interrotron](/content/images/size/w1462/2021/04/DJI_20210124_215554_200_video.2021-04-29-00_16_14.gif)
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