October 17, 2022
Faculty from Boston Children's Hospital, including Gena Heidary, MD, PhD, Eric Gaier, MD, PhD, and David Hunter, MD, PhD, are working with their clinical trainees and the hospital's Applied Engineering team to develop a 3-D printed surgical eye simulator. Know as the "Strabismus Trainer," the device can be mass-produced at a low cost and given to individual trainees for hands-on practice of the key steps of strabismus surgery. The team is working with medical student Grace Baldwin to create teaching videos to accompany the device.