Skip Rizzo, PhD, Director
USC Institute for Creative Technologies for Medical Virtual Reality
Skip
Rizzo is a Clinical Psychologist, and directs of the University of Southern
California Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) Medical VR Lab. He is a research
professor in both the USC Dept. of Psychiatry and the School of Gerontology. Over
the last 30 years, he has conducted research on the design, development and
evaluation of VR systems across the domains of psychological, cognitive and
motor functioning in healthy and clinical populations. This work has focused on PTSD, TBI,
Autism, ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, psychedelic therapy, and Suicide
Prevention, and other clinical conditions. Perhaps
best known for his empirically validated use of VR in the treatment of combat
and sexual trauma related PTSD, he has a long history of working in an
interdisciplinary fashion with computer scientists, graphic artists, software
engineers, and medical/industry leaders & received the 2023 IEEE VR
Lifetime Achievement Award.