Speaker Introduction

Sebastian Uijtdehaage is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Director of the Instructional Design and Technology Unit at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.  He is co-chair of the UCLA Medical Education Fellowship program. 

He received his Master’s degree from the Free University of Amsterdam in Psychophysiology and his PhD in Experimental Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University.  From 1991-1998, he conducted research at UCLA in areas of cardiovascular physiology and electrophysiology.  In 1993 he pioneered in the use of web-based technology to enhance teaching.  He has given numerous presentation and workshops in the US, Europe and Asia on the use of web-based technologies in medical education.

Having a strong interest multimedia and database technologies, Dr. Uijtdehaage spearheaded in 1999 the creation of the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL), a national multimedia library for medical education.  HEAL has received a total of $2 million in funding from the National Library of Medicine and the National Science Foundation and is receiving strong support from the Association of American Medical Colleges.  Currently, Dr. Uijtdehaage co-directs HEAL along with Chris Candler, MD (U of Oklahoma) and Sharon Dennis, MS (U of Utah).