Joseph M. Rosen, M.D. Bio Joseph M. Rosen, M.D. is Adjunct Associate Professor and Lecturer at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, where he teaches a class on Healthcare Technology in the 21st Century, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School. He is also staff surgeon and director of the Plastic Surgery Residency Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. His research interests include microsurgery and transplantation of limbs, nerve repair, computer-aided surgery and virtual reality simulators and methods of education. In addition to his clinical and research activities, he has served as an adviser on public policy involving medical technology, particularly virtual reality. Rosen received his B.A. in biology from Cornell University in 1974 and his M.D. degree from Stanford University School of Medicine 1978. Rosen has helped develop a computer-based and scenario-based training system for combat casualty care for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and has written white papers for the Navy outlining recommendations for education and training related to virtual reality in medicine and military operations. He was a senior fellow to the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth from 1997-1998, where he worked on development of a telemedicine system for the Lakes Regional Area in New Hampshire. He served on an Academy of Sciences committee on the role of Virtual Reality Technology, which published its report in 1995, and on a National Research Council committee for the Navy on Emerging Technology Threats 2000-2035, which published its report in 1997. He was also on an advisory panel for NASA in 1999 on Medical Care for the Mission to Mars in 2018.