Mentice AB Announces the Appointment of Lars Lonn as Clinical Director f...( GOTHENBURG Sweden March 28 /- Men...)

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentice AB, a leading supplier of virtual reality based training applications within the field of medicine has recently appointed Lars Lonn as Clinical Director for Mentice.

Professor Lonn, an Interventional Radiologist, is also a leading European professor within the field of Endovascular Surgery and a faculty member of Rigshospital Health Sciences in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Professor Lonn recently completed a study with Max Berry, MD, Mikael Hellstrom, MD, Jan Gothlin, MD, and Richard Reznick, MD, MEd, FRCSC, which was featured in the Journal of Vascular Interventional Radiology entitled, "Endovascular Training with Animals versus Virtual Reality Systems: An Economic Analysis."

Goran Malmberg, CEO and President of Mentice said, "This is a monumental step forward for us. Professor Lonn will have a vital role with Mentice verifying the direction of our product development, while increasing the awareness and need for training solutions in healthcare. In the long run, we feel that Clinical Directors will play a vital role in driving medical training through the use of medical simulation."

About Mentice:

Mentice is a leader in medical simulation with approximately 600 installations worldwide, 100 validation studies and more than 30 issued and pending patents. Mentice's Family of Procedicus (TM) simulators focus on the area of minimally invasive surgery within the fields of endovascular intervention, core skills training, laparoscopy and arthroscopy training.

Website info: http://www.mentice.com

For more information contact: Goran Malmberg at +46 31 33 99 401 (Gothenburg office) or email, goran.malmberg@mentice.com.

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