Stanford Chariot Program
Stanford Chariot Program
Shaping the Future of Healthcare Today
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The Stanford Chariot Program is a clinical and research program that applies technology to improve medical education and patient care
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“When the Child Life specialist helped my son put on the VR headset, it was beyond his imagination. For the first time, I saw him smile and look so relaxed.”
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- Haija, M., Barsanti, N., Cotter, E., Zuniga-Hernandez, M., Titzler, J., Jackson, C., & Caruso, T. (2025). Virtual Reality as a Dietary Education Adjunct for Pediatric Patients With Obesity: A Pragmatic, Randomised Pilot Study. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 38(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/jhn.70054
- Marks, A., Weser, V., Caruso, T., Persky, S., Homer, A., Gold, J., Williamson, E., & Hieftje, K. (2025). AMXRA Guidelines on Extended Reality and Children: Considerations and Recommendations for Application Development and Use. Journal of Medical Extended Reality, 2(1), 104–113. https://doi.org/10.1089/JMedXR.2024.0054
- Jimenez, R., Zuniga-Hernandez, M., Suen, M. Y., Feng, R., Pinedo, K., Arshad, F., Collins, F., Ganesan, A., Jackson, C., Wang, E., Rodriguez, S., & Caruso, T. (2025). Culturally Sensitive Treatment of Caregiver Anxiety With Virtual Reality: A Prospective, Pragmatic, Randomized Study. Journal of Patient Experience, 12, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/2374373525132
- McDaniel, S., Pines, R., He, E., Collins, F., Arshad, F., Menendez, M., Prabhu, V., & Caruso, T. (2025). Virtual Reality Therapeutic Art for Adult Hospitalized Patients and Caregivers: A Mixed-Methods Project. Journal of Patient Experience, 12, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1177/23743735251330467
- Rodriguez, S., Jimenez, R., Wang, E., Zuniga-Hernandez, M., Titzler, J., Jackson, C., Suen, M. Y., Yamaguchi, C., Ko, B., Kong, J.-T., & Caruso, T. (2025). Virtual reality improves pain threshold and recall in healthy adults: A randomized, crossover study. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinane.2025.111816
