Department Name

Juan C. Cendan M.D.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Dr. Cendan's current research interest is in the use of virtual reality technologies for the surgical education of medical students and residents. He is interested in enhancing the understanding of the mechanisms by which students and residents learn the practice of surgery and in particular, how the evolving field of virtual surgery will facilitate that endeavor. Dr. Cendan has been working closely with Mr. Sergei Kurenov, an expert in simulation who also works for the Department of Surgery, as well as with Drs. Jorg Peters and Ben Lok of the Department of Computer Science Engineering. Together this research group has received an NIH-R21 grant for the development of a novel surgical simulation recording and teaching device, and has developed an R-03 grant for the evaluation of a human patient simulator to be used for student education.

Dr. Cendan's clinical interests are in minimally invasive and breast surgery. A brief listing of publications are listed below:

Last 3 years of publications in press or accepted:

1.      Exploiting Graphics Hardware for Haptic Authoring. Kim M, Punak S, Cendán JC, Kurenov S, Peters J. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality, 14^th Session (MMVR14). Long Beach, California, January 25-27, 2006.

2.      The Use of Virtual Patients to Teach Medical Students History taking and Communication Skills. Stevens A, Hernandez J, Johnsen K, Dickerson R, Raij A, Jackson J, Shin M, Cendán JC, Watson. Oral presentation at the AAMC-Southern Group on Education Affairs, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2006.

3.       Multimedia Environment for Customized Teaching of Surgical Procedures. Cendán JC, Kurenov S, Punak S, Kim M, Peters J. Presented at the SAGES 2006 Emerging Technologies Poster Session, Dallas, Texas, April 29,2006.

4.      Intestinal Dendritic Cells and CCR7 are Centrally Involved in the Gastrointestinal Field Effect. Koscielny A, Engel D, Wehner S, Kurts C, Kalff J. Discussant for the American College of Surgeons, Surgical Forum, Chicago, Illinois, October 10, 2006.

5.      Reducing Disparities in Surgical Care. Cendán JC, Birkmeyer J. Co-Moderators: Five national figures presented. American College of Surgeons Annual Congress. Chicago, Illinois, October 12, 2006.

6.      A Haptic-enabled Toolkit for Illustration of Procedures in Surgery. M. Kim, T. Ni, Cendán JC, Kurenov S, Peters J. Oral presentation at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 15 Conference. Long Beach, California, February 6, 2007.

7.      Development of Computer Models for Surgical thread and Knot Tying Simulators for Students and residents. Kurenov S, Punak S, Cendán JC. Poster presentation at the University of Florida Research Celebration, Gainesville, Florida, March 20, 2007.

8.      Screened Health Assessment and Pacer Evaluation (SHAPE): The University of Florida experience of a Multicenter Clinical Trial. Montes C, Cendán JC, Gold MS. Poster presentation at The University of Florida College of Medicine Research Day, Gainesville, Florida, March 30, 2007.

9.      Meal Test and Adrenal Venous Sampling During Combined Dexamethasone suppression and CRH Stimulation to Elucidate the Cause of Cushing’s Syndrome in a Challenging Patient. Kennedy L, Peters K, Cendán JC. Abstract accepted for poster presentation at The Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, June 2-5, 2007.

10.  Fatty Tissue in a Haptic Environment. Punak S, Kim M, Myles A, Cendán JC, Kurenov S, Peters S. Oral presentation at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality XVI, Los Angeles, CA January 2008.

11.  Patients with Cushing’s Syndrome are Care-Intensive Even in the Era of Laparoscopic Surgery. Kissane NA, Cendán JC. Oral presentation at Southeastern Surgical Congress in Birmingham, AL, February 9-12, 2008.

12.  Transplant Recipients Respond Well to Gastric Stimulation for the Management of Gastroparesis. Filichia L, Cendán JC. Oral presentation at Academic Surgical Congress in Huntington Beach, CA, February 13, 2008. 

13.  State of the Art Virtual Reality Simulator Research and Development. Cendán JC, Kurenov S, Yeo Y-I, Punak S, Kim M, Peters J. Oral presentation as part of expert symposium on “The Changing Face of Surgical Education: Simulation as the New Paradigm” at the Academic Surgical Congress, Huntington Beach, CA, February 14, 2008.