and Corina Kesler, a facilitator
with IGR and a researcher with
the University’s International
Institute, led the dialogue.
Vanderbeck said he intended
the conversation to be in
keeping with the Valentine’s
season, in relation to love, but
also to provoke reflection on
the subject of open discussions
about important issues.
“When
you’re
with
loved ones, people you care
about, how do you go about
having
these
contentious
conversations?” he said.
He said the dialogue was a
part of IGR’s ongoing efforts
to
encourage
openness
in
relationships.
“A lot of what IGR is about is
learning how to dialogue, and
at IGR we talk about dialogue
being this third way between
open discussion and debate,”
he said. “Dialogue is a focused
way of having a conversation.”
Attendees broke out into
smaller
groups
based
on
which category of loved ones
they found having dialogues
about identity most difficult.
The
choices
were
family,
classmates/coworkers,
significant others and friends.
The talk also allowed the entire
group to come together and
share their ideas.
Education graduate student
Chelsea Noble said she liked
how they could break into
groups and get to know other
participants.
“I really appreciated that
they kept us moving between
circles so you got to hear from
different folks, but there was
also some big group debrief,”
Noble said. “It felt dynamic,
it felt like you could get your
voice heard in a small group
but also hear from the big
group.”
While
in
these
smaller
groups, Vanderbeck and Kesler
asked participants to discuss
why they felt dialogue was
challenging with this type
of loved one and also offered
suggestions for possibly easing
this difficulty. They brought
up different topics of dialogue
such as gender, race and sexual
identity and allowed people
to switch groups with every
change of topic.
Kesler said the willingness
of various people to share
experiences and thoughts made
this discussion possible.
“I think the presence of so
many participants interested
in learning made our role much
easier,” she said. “If this was a
success, it had very little to do
with us, to be sure.”
Education graduate student
LaQwana Dockery, a graduate
intern with IGR, said she really
appreciated the camaraderie
she felt with other audience
members.
“It was nice to be around
people who share the same
feelings about certain issues
and topics when it comes to
important people in our lives
and when we want to talk
about different issues that are
important to us,” she said. “But
also we don’t want to damage
the relationships we have with
certain people that we really
care about,”
Dockery said the dialogue
helped her see that there were
different ways to express her
opinions on social justice.
“There’s a lot of different
ways that you can intervene
and
that
necessarily
doesn’t have to be directly
confronting someone,” she
said. “I think people who are
really involved and passionate
about social justice put the
weight on their shoulders that
we need to tackle every single
issue at that moment, but
that might not necessarily be
the case sometimes. It might
be important to change the
subject or pull someone aside
and talk to them the next
day.”
2-News
Seven
alleged
ISIS
members were detained
in
Yekaterinburg,
Russia, and charged for a
bombing massacre in Moscow,
St.
Petersburg,
according
to CNN. This has been
anticipated since November,
when
ISIS
threatened
to
attack Russia. “very soon.”
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appointment through your
Handshake account for a
one-on-one consultation
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what it would be like
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industries. Meet with
University alumni who
work within this indus-
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Apple is fighting a
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Urquiola, an architect
and designer, speak
about her work, which
is unconventional and
experimental, combining
humanist sensibilities and
technical expertise.
WHO: Patricia Urquiola
WHEN: 5:10 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
Theater
EIHS Lecture
WHAT: Listen to
Gabrielle Foreman of the
University of Delaware
speak about white uses of
Black bodies in a lecture
entitled “Northern
Slavery, the Art of
Dissection and a Doctor’s
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WHO: Gabrielle Foreman
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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The African
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WHAT: A screening of
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“The African Disaspora:
Bound Together,”
followed by a community
dialogue.
WHO: Multi-Ethnic
Student Affairs
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: William
Monroe Trotter
Department
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WHAT: Listen to Michigan
alum Randall Hicks from
the U.S. Department of
Labor’s Bureau of Interna-
tional Affairs speak about
his work with human rights
and labor and how his career
developed. He will speak
about working for the federal
government and job oppor-
tunities in Washington, D.C.
WHO: Randall Hicks
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: School of
Social Work - 2609
Wake Up
WHAT: Join an open and
honest discussion about
sexual health, hosted by
Wellness Advocacy Keen-
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Undergraduate Programs
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BrightMatter
devices will allow
higher microscopic
detail for doctors
By SOPHIE SHERRY
For the Daily
The University of Michigan
Health System has recently
acquired Synaptive Medical’s
BrightMatter
technology,
a device that fuses high-
definition
intraoperative
visualization
and
surgical
guidance to transform the
way surgeons operate.
Currently, when surgeons
want
to
view
something
in high detail they use a
microscopic
eyepiece.
The
field of view provided by
this microscope is incredibly
small
and
requires
the
surgeon to frequently move
around while working. The
surgeon is able to project
two-dimensional images onto
a screen for others in the
operating room to see, but
the surgeon her or himself
cannot see that image. UMHS
neurosurgeon Oren Sagher
said the new device aims to
change that.
“The BrightMatter device
parts from that,” Sagher said.
“The surgeon is now seeing
the same high detail over a
larger area and is able to see
it on a large screen in front of
them rather than having to
look into a microscope.”
The device also allows
all those in the operating
room to see exactly what the
surgeon is seeing. Sagher said
he believes this will greatly
improve communication and
teaching capabilities in the
operating room.
“Now
everybody
knows
exactly what the surgeon
is seeing and doing and the
scrub can anticipate what
the surgeon needs and (this)
really greatly improves the
workflow in the operating
room,” he said.
What sets this device apart
from
current
technology
is that it combines more
advanced
visualization
technology
with
surgical
guidance,
Sagher
added.
Currently,
surgeons
take
digital images of a patient’s
brain,
for
example,
and
reconstruct them into three-
dimensions. A computer in
the
operating
room
then
guides the surgeon’s hand
where to go according to this
three-dimensional
model.
This technology has existed
for more than 20 years but
lives completely separately
from the microscope used
previously — this new device
will combine them.
“If a surgeon was operating
under a microscope, they
cannot
use
the
guidance
system very easily, in fact
sometimes not at all,” Sagher
said. “With the Synaptive
device,
BrightMatter,
not
only can you do that, but it
actually is integrated into
the device. They are actually
able to guide your view and
your path exactly the way
you have planned it based
on the patient’s preoperative
imaging.”
The device itself is a robot.
The
visualization
camera
hangs above the head of the
surgeon and slightly in front
of them in order to not get
in their way. The surgeon is
able to give the robot verbal
commands to change paths
and trajectories.
“It is just short of the ability
of the robot to actually do the
operation,” Sagher said. “It
essentially allows the surgeon
to just get to that limit where
the surgeon is operating but
being aided by the robot.”
The BrightMatter device
is currently being used at a
handful of hospitals across
the
country,
including
Henry
Ford
Hospital
in
Detroit.
Karin
Muraszko,
chair of neurosurgery at the
University, said while the
BrightMatter device is costly,
the University thinks it is a
worthwhile investment.
“It’s a significant outlay
of funds and a hospital has
to feel that they have got
the need for that kind of
technology,” Muraszko said.
“We view ourselves, and I
think appropriately so, as a
place that leads in cutting
edge technologies. I think
that, like everything, it is
going to require a learning
curve, but we have invested
a fair amount of effort and
time to access its feasible
and usefulness in our own
practice before we made the
commitment to bring this
system to Michigan.”
Both Sagher and Muraszko
said
they
believe
the
University
will
uniquely
implement of this technology
due
to
the
prominent
brain tumor program the
University has, as well as how
they will be able to integrate
the BrightMatter technology
with
a
visualization
instrument
that
another
UMHS neurosurgeon, Daniel
Orringer,
has
developed.
Orringer
has
created
a
visualization
instrument
called
stimulated
Raman
spectroscopy, which allows
for the visualization of actual
cells. This offers the potential
to be able to differentiate
between
tumor
cells
and
normal cells in the operating
room.
“We
can
take
a
real
breakthrough
and
make
it
a
truly
monumental
breakthrough,
leveraging
what our in-house talents are
here with Dr. Orringer’s SRS
microscope,” Sagher said.
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UMHS adopts new visual
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