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THE FUTURE OF MEDICAL LEARNING
HOW XR IS TRANSFORMING MEDICAL EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION AND PATIENT CARE PANEL DISCUSSION

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Wed November 11, 2026 02:00 pm CET

What happens when medical knowledge is no longer confined to textbooks, screens and lecture halls, but becomes something we can step inside, explore and experience?

XR is opening up new ways to understand, teach and communicate medicine, from exploring the human body and microscopic worlds from within to immersive training and new forms of medical communication. Complex knowledge can become spatial, tangible and interactive rather than something we simply read or watch.

Dr. Jane Harrington, Burkhardt Roeper and Alexander Kals, moderated by Ines Heitkamp, bring together perspectives from medical education, immersive experience design and healthcare communication to explore where this transformation could lead.

How will healthcare professionals learn in the future? How can XR make complex medical topics easier to understand? And how might immersive media ultimately change the way medical knowledge reaches professionals and patients alike?

Format

Panel

App

Foretell Reality

Location

Future World

Duration

45 min

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Presenter

Jane Harrington
CEO/Co-Founder at MedMicroMaps Inc.
Alex Kals
Head of Extended Reality at DocCheck AG

Alex Kals has spent over 12 years at DocCheck, where he built the company’s Extended Reality division from the ground up. Since 2022, he has led DocCheck’s interdisciplinary XR team, crafting immersive solutions for the medical market and for medical education and training.

For Alex, XR’s biggest promise in medical education is turning complex knowledge into something you can actually experience and get hands-on with, rather than just read about. That belief drives Corpus, DocCheck’s own XR solution for anatomy education on Meta Quest 3/3S, with which his team has spent the past two years redefining what digital anatomy teaching can look like.

Burkhardt Röper
Product Developer/ Consultant at 6REAL

Burkhardt is a Product Developer and IT Consultant specializing in Spatial Computing, Mixed Reality and Data Science. He works at the intersection of technology, digital health, and innovation, combining technical expertise with a strong background in journalism and science communication. Previously, Burkhardt served as a Senior Innovation Officer at Wort & Bild Verlag (health and medicine publishing house). Before moving into technology, he spent more than a decade as an editor and senior editor for publications including FOCUS and Apotheken Umschau. Burkhardt studied Molecular Biology at the Universities of Frankfurt, Mainz, and Barcelona and graduated from the Burda School of Journalism.

Moderator

Ines Heitkamp
Product Manager Healthcare Metaverse Solutions at MedTriX Group

Ines Heitkamp is the product manager for the Healthcare Metaverse Solutions at the MedTriX Group. Since 2022, she has been combining her passion for new media with product management, exploring how immersive technologies and virtual spaces can create new solutions for communication, learning and training in the healthcare sector. What fascinates her about XR is its potential to make knowledge more accessible while creating engaging and memorable experiences at the intersection of technology, content, and human interaction.

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