DDC video services assistant Christine Toland shelves videos within the department s teaching laboratory.
Many videos document previous gastroenterological procedures conducted by the staff.
Director Dr. Peter B. Cotton often leads teaching seminars and endoscopy conferences through DDC's new video conference room. Toland observes and records a live procedure inside the department's professional editing suite. More than a regional gastroenterological learning resource center, this video networking system allows the DDC to provide a high quality teaching environment to visiting delegates or colleagues linking electronically from around the world. Imagine physicians watching a gastroenterology or GI procedure in real time by television link. Next, imagine a camera panning to a conference room filled with GI specialists discussing procedures and sharing their thoughts and expertise with an audience over 2,000 miles away.