Joseph Samosky

  • (2012) First Place Award, Technology Innovation, 12th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH 2012).
  • (2011) Top Research Poster Presentation, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR).
  • (2004) Partners in Excellence Award for Leadership and Innovation, Partners HealthCare System/Massachusetts General Hospital.
  • (1994) Merck Research Scholarship, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
  • (1990) Poitras Fellowship, MIT Whitaker College of the Health Sciences.
  • (1989) McLean Hospital Summer Research Fellowship, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
  • (1987) NIH Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship.
  • (1985) Outstanding Senior Award in Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh.
  • (1981) Chancellor's Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh.

  • PhD Medical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
  • MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993
  • Preclinical and Clinical Training, Harvard University, 1987 - 1989
  • BS Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, 1986
  • BSE Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1985

  • Foronda, C.L., Alfes, C.M., Dev, P., Kleinheksel, A.J., Nelson, D.A., OʼDonnell, J.M., & Samosky, J.T. (2017). Virtually Nursing: Emerging Technologies in Nursing Education. Nurse Educ, 42(1), 14-17.Wolters Kluwer. doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000295.
  • Samosky, J.T., Thornburg, A., Karkhanis, T., Petraglia, F., Strickler, E., Nelson, D.A., Weaver, R.A., & Robinson, E. (2013). Enhancing medical device training with hybrid physical-virtual simulators: smart peripherals for virtual devices. Stud Health Technol Inform, 184, 377-379.IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-209-7-377.
  • Leeson, C.E., Weaver, R.A., Bissell, T., Hoyer, R., McClain, C., Nelson, D.A., & Samosky, J.T. (2012). PleurAlert: an augmented chest drainage system with electronic sensing, automated alerts and internet connectivity. Stud Health Technol Inform, 173, 257-259.IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-022-2-257.
  • Samosky, J.T. (2012). Simulation director envisions greater use for training tool. Biomed Instrum Technol, 46(4), 283-288.Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). doi: 10.2345/0899-8205-46.4.283.
  • Samosky, J.T., Mikulis, B., Bregman, R., & Nelson, D.A. (2012). A novel automated drug simulant recognition system for naturalistic real-time medical simulation. Stud Health Technol Inform, 173, 430-432.IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-022-2-430.
  • Nelson, D.A., & Samosky, J.T. (2011). The tool positioning tutor: a target-pose tracking and display system for learning correct placement of a medical device. Stud Health Technol Inform, 163, 400-402.IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-706-2-400.
  • Samosky, J.T., Allen, P., Boronyak, S., Branstetter, B., Hein, S., Juhas, M., Nelson, D.A., Orebaugh, S., Pinto, R., Smelko, A., Thompson, M., & Weaver, R.A. (2011). Toward a comprehensive hybrid physical-virtual reality simulator of peripheral anesthesia with ultrasound and neurostimulator guidance. Stud Health Technol Inform, 163, 552-554.IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-706-2-552.
  • Fero, L.J., O'Donnell, J.M., Zullo, T.G., Dabbs, A.D., Kitutu, J., Samosky, J.T., & Hoffman, L.A. (2010). Critical thinking skills in nursing students: comparison of simulation-based performance with metrics. J Adv Nurs, 66(10), 2182-2193.Wiley. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05385.x.
  • Ford, D.G., Seybert, A.L., Smithburger, P.L., Kobulinsky, L.R., Samosky, J.T., & Kane-Gill, S.L. (2010). Impact of simulation-based learning on medication error rates in critically ill patients. Intensive Care Med, 36(9), 1526-1531.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/s00134-010-1860-2.
  • Samosky, J.T., Burstein, D., Eric Grimson, W., Howe, R., Martin, S., & Gray, M.L. (2005). Spatially-localized correlation of dGEMRIC-measured GAG distribution and mechanical stiffness in the human tibial plateau. J Orthop Res, 23(1), 93-101.Wiley. doi: 10.1016/j.orthres.2004.05.008.
  • Gibson, S., Fyock, C., Grimson, E., Kanade, T., Kikinis, R., Lauer, H., McKenzie, N., Mor, A., Nakajima, S., Ohkami, H., Osborne, R., Samosky, J., & Sawada, A. (1998). Volumetric object modeling for surgical simulation. Med Image Anal, 2(2), 121-132.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/s1361-8415(98)80007-8.

  • Nguyen, M.L., Samosky, J.T., Hirschman, A., & Corbelli, J. (2018). BLUEPRINT TO BEDSIDE: BRIDGING MEDICAL RESIDENTS AND ENGINEERING STUDENTS. In JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE, 33, (p. S682).
  • Samosky, J.T., Nelson, D.A., Wang, B., Bregman, R., Hosmer, A., Mikulis, B., & Weaver, R. (2012). BodyExplorerAR. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, (pp. 263-270).Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi: 10.1145/2148131.2148187.
  • Samosky, J.T., Wang, B., Nelson, D.A., Bregman, R., Hosmer, A., & Weaver, R.A. (2012). BodyWindows: enhancing a mannequin with projective augmented reality for exploring anatomy, physiology and medical procedures. In Stud Health Technol Inform, 173, (pp. 433-439).IOS Press.Netherlands. doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-022-2-433.
  • Samosky, J.T., Baillargeon, E., Bregman, R., Brown, A., Chaya, A., Enders, L., Nelson, D.A., Robinson, E., Sukits, A.L., & Weaver, R.A. (2011). Real-time "x-ray vision" for healthcare simulation: an interactive projective overlay system to enhance intubation training and other procedural training. In Stud Health Technol Inform, 163, (pp. 549-551).IOS Press.Netherlands. doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-706-2-549.
  • Gibson, S., Samosky, J., Mor, A., Fyock, C., Grimson, E., Kanade, T., Kikinis, R., Lauer, H., McKenzie, N., Nakajima, S., Ohkami, H., Osborne, R., & Sawada, A. (1997). Simulating arthroscopic knee surgery using volumetric object representations, real-time volume rendering and haptic feedback. In CVRMED-MRCAS'97, 1205, (pp. 369-378).Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi: 10.1007/bfb0029258.
  • Sclabassi, R.J., Samosky, J., Krieger, D.N., Solomon, J., Levitan, S., & Berger, T.W. (1989). Modeling of neuronal networks through decomposition. (pp. 773-780).
Research Interests
Health services and systems Applied computing Human-centred computing Clinical sciences Biomedical engineering Graphics, augmented reality and games
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Associate Professor - Emeritus
jts35@pitt.edu
Work: 412-624-7351
Bioengineering Department