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The Serious Games Initiative founded Games for Health to develop a community and best practices platform for the numerous games being built for health care applications. To date the project has brought together researchers, medical professionals, and game developers to share information about the impact games and game technologies can have on health care and policy.


Games for Health Day :: May 9, 2006 :: E3 Expo Week - Los Angeles, California

Posted by Ben Sawyer on 06-04-07

Games for Health Day
May 9, 2006 :: E3 Expo Week :: Los Angeles, California

Davidson Executive Conference Center
3415 South Figueroa Street :: Los Angeles, California 90089

The Games for Health Project, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, TATRC, and USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Institute for Creative Technologies invite you to join us on May 9 for a full-day event devoted to the use of games and game technologies in health and healthcare, including an evening reception.

This one-day event, just before the opening of the Electronic Entertainment Expo will bring together researchers, game developers, and health & healthcare professionals for a series of talks devoted to how games and game technologies are addressing critical health & healthcare issues.

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Talks will focus on:

• Health messaging using games
• Combat & emergency medicine
• Psychotherapy and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Pain Distraction & Anxiety
• Cancer treatment
• Disease management
• Coping with family ailments
• Cognitive health
• Off-the-Shelf consumer health & exergaming titles

How to Attend
A limited number of public tickets are available for $99.00. To attend, please register online at: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=107672

The event is free for USC faculty & students. RSVP with your credentials to rsvp@seriousgames.org
Researchers who have TATRC-sponsored or partnered projects may attend this event for free. Please RSVP with your project name and TATRC program officer to rsvp@seriousgames.org

Grantees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation may attend this event for free. Please RSVP with your program name and program officer contact to rsvp@seriousgames.org

Media are welcome to attend this event. Register for a media pass with Beth Bryant (bbryant@dmill.com)