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Please disseminate to your contacts: Games for Health UK Conference Thursday 21st July 2016 at Coventry University [circle logo.png] Coventry University's renowned Serious Games Institute (SGI) is hosting the second Games for Health UK conference on 21st July. The conference will be chaired by Pamela M. Kato, Professor of Serious Games. The SGI-organised event will feature leading names from the games industry, healthcare and academia. Speakers at the conference include: * Jamie King co-founder of Rockstar Games and owner of Jamie Inc of New York, who will talk about how great commercial games are created and the implications for making great serious games, especially in healthcare * Barbara Sahakian, Professor<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor> of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge> has developed and researched neuroscience-based games * Howard Rose, CEO of DeepStream Virtual Reality which is developing a system of drug free pain relieving systems, including SnowWorld, a game which research shows provides distracting pain relief during wound care for burn victims * Ernest Adams, founder of the International Game Developers Association and author of one of the best selling textbooks on game design * Andy Yeoman, founder of Focus Games which makes digital and non-digital board games used by patients and staff in the NHS * Jakob Rossner, digital designer and developer of a malaria game at University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Medicine * Ronald Dyer, Lecturer at the University of Liverpool Management School and holder of strategic ICT roles on Wall Street * Richard Brady, owner of researchactive.com, app developer and speciality registrar in general surgery in the NHS * Nathan Nagel, is a serial entrepreneur and has founded six companies. He specialises in serious games, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical software and management consulting. * Lucia Pannese, Owner and CEO of imaginary s.r.l. which has a focus on enabling digital interactive technologies in health Registration is now open. We have a limited number of discounted tickets so don't miss out on this opportunity and register here now<http://www.coventry.ac.uk/events/games-for-health-uk-conference-2016/> or visit www.coventry.ac.uk/g4huk.<http://www.coventry.ac.uk/g4huk.> You can also follow us on twitter @G4H_UK<https://twitter.com/G4H_UK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> for further updates. We look forward to seeing you there! Please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> if you would like to exhibit at this event. Best wishes, G4HUK team [G4HEB.png] Serious Games Institute, Coventry University Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics Coventry University Technology Park Puma Way Coventry CV1 2TT Telephone: +44 (0)24 7615 8205 Twitter: @SGIcoventry Facebook: The Serious Games Institute CUE Ltd Registered in England No 2409655 is a subsidiary of Coventry University Registered Office Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB