Skip Rizzo

Director, Medical Virtual Reality – Institute for Creative Technologies

Research Professor – Dept. of Psychiatry and School of Gerontology
University of Southern California

Bio:

Albert “Skip” Rizzo is a clinical psychologist and Director of Medical Virtual Reality at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies.

He is also a Research Professor with the USC Dept. of Psychiatry and at the USC Davis School of Gerontology.

His career began as a clinician providing rehabilitative services for persons with traumatic brain injuries and stroke.

Over the last 25 years, Skip has conducted research on the design, development and evaluation of Virtual Reality systems targeting the areas of clinical assessment, treatment and rehabilitation across the domains of psychological, cognitive and motor functioning in both healthy and clinical populations.

This work has focused on PTSD, TBI, Autism, ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and other clinical conditions.

In spite of the diversity of these clinical R&D areas, the common thread that drives all of his work with digital technologies involves the study of how interactive and immersive Virtual Reality simulations can be usefully applied to address human healthcare needs beyond what is possible with traditional 20th Century tools and methods.

To view some videos of this work, please visit this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/AlbertSkipRizzo/videos

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