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Games and Medicine in SoCal

by Ian Bogost December 4, 2004

categories: Health & Medicine Games

Gamespot announces the Videogame/Entertainment Industry Technology and Medicine Conference, to be held December 10-11 in Marina del Rey, CA. Oddly, they refer to this as the "first ever" Videogame/Entertainment Industry Technology and Medicine Conference. I guess they missed Games for Health back in September. Looks like a number of GFH alumns will be at this one, including Butch Rosser, Glucoboy, and Wild Divine. ~~I can't find a website or official announcement for the conference. Anybody?~~ (thanks Ben).

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Butch Rosser is organizing this. There are others from the Games for Health conference speaking as well. This is part of Butch's work in terms of organizing the Advanced Medical Technology Institute.

The agenda is packed with lots of 20 minute blasts by various groups from movies, tv, and videogames. I'll blog the event and send some items. I have an agenda but I'm not sure it's for public release. There is a Web site at:

http://gamenmed.com/

Ben Sawyer on December 4, 2004 1:27 PM

Thanks, Ben. I'll add the link to the post.

Ian Bogost on December 4, 2004 1:44 PM

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