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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.Show Less
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Grants
- Wearables Applied Research Center (Project 1: Simulator Study)
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$394.5K
Active - The Impact of Navigation Grid on the Focusing of Instruments During Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery Tasks
Key Personnel (KP)
2018
$46.0K
- SCH: INT: Collaborative Research: Computer Guided Laparoscopy Training
Co-Investigator (COI)
2016
$1.1M
- Multi-Resolution Foveated Laparoscope for Safer Minimally Invasive Surgery
Co-Investigator (COI)
2014
$1.8M
- 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
- Evaluation of a navigation grid to increase the efficacy of instrument movement during laparoscopic surgery
2014
- Surgical navigation pointer facilitates identification of targets in a simulated environment
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
- The importance of memory in informed consent for surgical risk.
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
- Causal links between plasma and CSF endorphin levels in stress: vector-ARMA analysis.
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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