CAYETANO HEREDIA AND UNIVERSIDAD CES OF COLOMBIA INAUGURATE THE SIMULATION LABORATORY IN FANTOMAS
In a significant ceremony that included the main authorities of Cayetano Heredia and Universidad CES of Colombia, on Monday, August 21, the Fantomas Simulation Laboratory was inaugurated in our Dental Teaching Center.
The event was attended by our Rector, Dr. Enrique Castañeda Saldaña; the academic Vice-rector, Dr. Yesenia Musayón Oblitas; the Vice-dean of the School of Stomatology, Dr. Jorge Beltrán Silva; and the Head of the professional degree program of Stomatology, Dr. Freddy Gutiérrez.
CES Colombia was represented by its Rector, Mag. Manuel Acevedo Jaramillo; the Head of the Office of Global Affairs, Dra. Dinah Roll Vélez; the Director of Extension, Dra. Claudia Arenas Pajón; the Dean of the School of Nursing, Dra. Dedsy Berbesi Fernández; the Dean of the School of Nutrition, Dra. Piedad Roldán; the Dean of the School of Dentistry, Dr. Luis Vélez Jaramillo; the Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, Dr. Jhon Didier Ruiz Buitrago; and the Dean of the School of Biomedical Engineering, Dr. Catalina Pineda Molina. They were also accompanied by Eng. David Calle, Director of MESH Medical Shapes.
The Simulation Laboratory in Fantomas was designed and implemented by Universidad CES, under the company MESH Medical Shapes, which is a startup of the Colombian institution. It was designed for multipurpose work, i.e., it allows dental laboratory practices as well as patient simulation practices. It has 27 workstations for students and one for teacher demonstration.
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank the entire institution (CES Colombia) because they helped us a lot during the pandemic. He got us through a complicated moment and from then on we started to work hand in hand. This laboratory was already in use, but we still wanted to wait for our friends in Colombia to inaugurate it,” said Dr. Jorge Beltran Silva. This new laboratory joins the Haptic Virtual Reality Simulation Center of the School of Stomatology and the Center for Simulation in Medicine, positioning Cayetano as a leading university in this practice.
