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Dr. Hamilton's research interests involve emerging technologies and methodologies that assist physicians, healthcare professionals, and healthcare delivery systems in eliminating preventable adverse medical events. His research focuses on quality assurance in human systems and performance as well as the development of informatics, artificial intelligence, “smart” artificial tissues, robotics, and “hard” versus “thick” data analysis. Dr. Hamilton is also involved in the development of new technologies to make surgery safer, innovative methods for training interprofessional healthcare teams, and new ways to create patient-specific anatomical models to provide surgeons with a better understanding of what a surgical procedure will require to produce the safest and most efficient outcomes. Dr. Hamilton's research goal is to create a healthcare system that is free of preventable errors through the use of a multi-disciplinary facility capable of simulating any healthcare environment or procedure and to ensure that the University of Arizona produces the best trained and most compassionate healthcare providers in the world. Dr. Hamilton is currently the PI or co-PI for research funding from the NIH, the NSF, and external bio-industrial sources. These research projects include developing and evaluating the next generation of laparoscopes, looking at self-guided robotics for surgery, and designing and developing prototype “smart” artificial tissues that are capable of bleeding and responding with changes in vascular supply, volume, and color that mimic tissue changes induced by ischemia, hypoxia, and direct mechanical trauma.

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Grants
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    Wearables Applied Research Center (Project 1: Simulator Study)

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2022

    $394.5K
    Active
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    SCH: INT: Collaborative Research: Computer Guided Laparoscopy Training

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2016

    $1.1M
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    Multi-Resolution Foveated Laparoscope for Safer Minimally Invasive Surgery

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2014

    $1.8M
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    Faculty Instruction in the ASTEC Simulation Lab for the College of Medicine

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2010

    $65.0K
Books
  • Lead With Your Heart

    2016

  • Zen Mind, Zen Horse

    2011

  • The Scalpel and the Soul

    2008

News
  • Five UA Faculty Members Named Regents' Professors

    2018

  • UA Receives $1.9M Award to Test Computer-Assisted Surgical Training

    2016

  • UA: The First and the Best in More Than Basketball

    2014

  • More than 100 UA Physicians Among 'Best Doctors in America'

    2013

  • Book Excerpt: 'The Scalpel and the Soul,' by the UA's Dr. Allan Hamilton

    2009

  • UA Neurosurgeon Examines Spiritual Side of Medicine

    2008

  • UA College of Medicine Celebrates New Arrival

    2006

  • New UA Simulation Lab to Help Train UA Medical Students, Residents

    2005

  • UA Surgeon Uses Horses to Help Children with Cancer

    2004

  • Concert to Benefit Kids with Cleft Lip, Palate

    2004

  • Annual Trauma Conference Oct. 2-3

    2003

  • Memorial Service for Dr. Charles Witte March 20

    2003

  • UA Doctors Help Put Rodeo Cowboys Back in the Saddle

    2003

  • UA Receives Approval to Train Neurosurgeons

    2003

  • UA Surgeon Studies Effects of Prayer on Healing

    2003

  • UA Department of Surgery Welcomes Two Women Surgeons

    2002

  • An Opportunity to Serve Community Kick Off

    2002

  • Two New Members Lead UA Surgery Trauma Team

    2002

  • Year in Review 2002: Health

    2002

  • Neurosurgery at UMC Continues to Receive National Recognition

    2002

  • Participants Sought for Study Using Viral Gene Therapy on Brain Tumors

    2002

  • Year in Review 2001: Arizona Health Sciences Center

    2001

  • Horse Whisperer Meets Brain Surgeon: Neurosurgeon Uses Horses to Teach Course on Bedside Manners

    2001

  • Year in Review 2001: University of Arizona Health Sciences Center

    2001

  • Putting Cowboys Back in the Saddle at Fiesta de los Vaqueros Rodeo

    2001

  • UMC to Test Device to Alleviate Depression

    2000

  • Year in Review 1999: Arizona Health Sciences Center Sees Major Advances in Research, Patient Care

    1999

Publications (90)
Recent
  • Neural Changes Following Equine-assisted Therapy for PTSD: A Longitudinal Multimodal Brain Imaging Study

    2021

  • Further Comparison of 4 Display Modes for a Multi-Resolution Foveated Laparoscope.

    2021

  • Simulation-based surgical training systems in laparoscopic surgery: a current review

    2021

  • MP47-11 DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW-COST, HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATOR FOR ULTRASOUND-GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY (PCNL) TRAINING

    2020

  • Equine-Assisted Therapy for Veterans with PTSD: Manual Development and Preliminary Findings

    2020

  • Further Comparison of 4 Display Modes for a Multi-Resolution Foveated Laparoscope

    2020

  • Single shot state detection in simulation-based laparoscopy training.

    2019

  • The Use of Remote and Traditional Faciliation to Evaluate Telesimulation to Support Interprofessional Education and Processing in Healthcare Simulation Training

    2019

  • WHEN HOLLYWOOD INSPIRES MEDICINE: NEW CONCEPTS IN THE DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE OF MEDICAL SIMULATION FACILITIES TO SUPPORT MULTI-DISCIPLINARY AND INTER-PROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE EDUCATION AND TRAINING

    2019

  • Evaluation of Learning Curve and Peripheral Awareness Using a Novel Multiresolution Foveated Laparoscope

    2019

  • Comparison of six display modes for a multi-resolution foveated laparoscope

    2019

  • When Hollywood Inspires Medicine: New Concepts in the Design and Architecture of Medical Simulation Facilities to Support Inter-Professional Healthcare Education and Training

    2019

  • Simulation-Based Surgical Training Systems in Laparoscopic Surgery

    2019

  • ENHANCED SUTURE TRAINING USING COMPUTER VISION (CV) AND AUGMENTED REALITY (AR)

    2019

  • Single Shot State Detection in Simulation-Based Laparoscopy Training

    2019

  • Evaluation of an Innovative Bleeding Cricothyroidotomy Model

    2018

  • Comparison of Six Display Modes for a Multi-Resolution Foveated Laparscope

    2018

  • A Simulation-Based Assessment System for Computer-Assisted Surgical Training

    2017

  • A simulation-based assessment system for computer assisted surgical trainer

    2017

  • Development of An Ultrasound Pericardiocentesis Model for Simulation Training

    2016

  • Feasibility of Air Transport Simulation Training: A Case Series

    2016

  • Telepresent intubation supervision is as effective as in-person supervision of procedurally naive operators

    2015

  • Simulation trainer for practicing emergent open thoracotomy procedures

    2015

  • A Novel and Inexpensive Ballistic Gelatin Phantom for Ultrasound Training

    2015

  • Construction of a reusable, high-fidelity model to enhance extracorporeal membrane oxygenation training through simulation

    2014

  • Video-guided versus direct laryngoscopy: considerations for using simulation to teach inexperienced medical students

    2014

  • The comparison of high definition versus stereoscopic display on standardized fundamental laparoscopic skill procedures

    2014

  • A predictive analytics toolbox for medical applications

    2014

  • An optimal motion planning method for computer-assisted surgical training

    2014

  • The computer assisted surgical trainer: design, models, and implementation

    2014

  • Board 234 - Program Innovations Abstract A Seven Year Collaboration Between Three Colleges to Learn Interprofessional Skills During a CPR Team Behavior Simulation (Submission #1037)

    2013

  • Board 533 - Technology Innovations Abstract Developing a Novel Drain Loop Skin Abscess Model for Training Intern ED Students (Submission #1439)

    2013

  • Board 342 - Research Abstract Telepresent Intubation Instruction Is As Effective As In-Person When Instructing Naive Intubators (Submission #185)

    2013

  • Knowledge elicitation for performance assessment in a computerized surgical training system

    2011

  • A computerized assessment to compare the impact of standard, stereoscopic, and high-definition laparoscopic monitor displays on surgical technique

    2010

  • The effect of age on acquiring laparoscopic skills

    2010

  • Assessing radiology resident preparedness to manage IV contrast media reactions using simulation technology

    2009

  • Defining Spatial Regions in Computer-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgical Training

    2009

  • Fuzzy Logic-Based Performance Assessment in the Virtual, Assistive Surgical Trainer (VAST)

    2008

  • A phase I trial of Ad.hIFN-beta gene therapy for glioma

    2008

  • A Hybrid View in a Laparoscopic Surgery Training System

    2007

  • Motion Planning System for Minimally Invasive Surgery

    2007

  • Effects of high altitude and water deprivation on arginine vasopressin release in men.

    2004

  • Stereotaxis: Concepts, methods, and extracranial applications

    2003

  • THE EFFECTS OF HIGH ALTITUDE AND WATER DEPRIVATION ON ARGININE VASOPRESSIN RELEASE IN MAN

    2003

  • Efficacy of antimicrobial-impregnated external ventricular drain catheters: a prospective, randomized, controlled trial

    2003

  • 739 Minocycline- and Rifampin-impregnated Catheters and Ventriculitis: A Study of 252 Patients

    2001

  • 719 Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders: Lead Placement without Microelectrode Recording

    2001

  • Contents Vol. 73, 1999

    1999

  • Respiration induced target drift in spinal stereotactic radiosurgery: evaluation of skeletal fixation in a porcine model

    1999

  • Subject Index Vol. 73, 1999

    1999

  • Extracranial stereotactic radiosurgery: applications for the spine and beyond.

    1999

  • Frame based stereotactic spinal radiosurgery: experience from the first 19 patients treated

    1999

  • Stereotactic biopsy of intracranial brain lesions. High diagnostic yield without increased complications: 65 consecutive biopsies with early postoperative CT scans.

    1998

  • On “Radiosurgery for Tumors in the Body: Clinical Experience Using a New Method” (Blomgren et al., This Issue)

    1998

  • Efficacy of vancomycin/tri-iododecyclemethyl ammonium chloride-coated ventriculostomy catheters in reducing infection.

    1997

  • The use of stereotactic radiosurgical boost in the treatment of medulloblastomas.

    1997

  • Paclitaxel as a radiosensitizer combined with fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy in the treatment of recurrent medulloblastoma.

    1997

  • Subject Index Vol. 66, 1996

    1996

  • Intraoperative measurement of peritumoral regional cortical cerebral blood flow.

    1996

  • Unusual early recurrence of a cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma following complete surgical resection. Case report and review of the literature.

    1996

  • LINAC-based spinal stereotactic radiosurgery.

    1996

  • The endoscopic stylet: technical notes.

    1995

  • 123 Hypusine as a potential prognostic marker in glial derived brain tumors

    1995

  • Continuous regional cerebral cortical blood flow monitoring in head-injured patients.

    1995

  • The use of gold foil wrapping for radiation protection of the spinal cord for recurrent tumor therapy.

    1995

  • Preliminary clinical experience with linear accelerator-based spinal stereotactic radiosurgery.

    1995

  • Stereotactic radiosurgery as an adjunct to surgery and external beam radiotherapy in the treatment of patients with malignant gliomas.

    1995

  • A prototype device for linear accelerator-based extracranial radiosurgery.

    1995

  • A comparison of survival between radiosurgery and stereotactic implants for malignant astrocytomas.

    1994

  • Interstitial irradiation versus interstitial thermoradiotherapy for supratentorial malignant gliomas: a comparative survival analysis.

    1994

  • Inhibition of Staphylococci by vancomycin absorbed on triidodecylmethyl ammonium chloride-coated intravenous catheter

    1994

  • Postoperative Low-Dose Heparin Decreases Thromboembolic Complications in Neurosurgical Patients

    1993

  • Treatment of malignant gliomas with interstitial irradiation and hyperthermia.

    1992

  • Postoperative low-dose heparin decreases thromboembolic complications in neurosurgical patients.

    1992

  • Pseudopsammomatous meningioma with elevated serum carcinoembryonic antigen: a true secretory meningioma. Case report.

    1991

  • Hyperthermia of high-grade gliomas with ferromagnetic implants

    1991

  • Oxygen transport to exercising leg in chronic hypoxia.

    1988

  • High altitude cerebral edema.

    1986

  • Endotoxic shock elicits greater endorphin secretion than hemorrhage.

    1986

  • Neuropeptide investigations with an ovine surgical model.

    1986

  • Contrasting actions of naloxone in experimental spinal cord trauma and cerebral ischemia: a review.

    1985

  • Endotoxin-stimulated opioid peptide secretion: two secretory pools and feedback control in vivo.

    1982

  • Desensitization of the cholinergic receptor at the sinoatrial cell of the kitten.

    1980

  • Effects of current flow on pacemaker activity of the isolated kitten sinoatrial node.

    1980

  • Adrenocorticotropic hormone may be transported directly from the pituitary to the brain.

    1980

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