Matt Cottam Biography

It's probably not often that Cottam CEO of Providence's Tellart design studio and an adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design is mentioned in the same breath with actors whose painstaking research and total immersion in character produced some of the most memorable performances in American film history. But a few years ago working on a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) project to develop robots used in training army medics Cottam borrowed a page from the Method Actors' handbook. As he and his RISD students were designing lungs for the robots Cottam realized that the only way to truly understand what features would be most effective for training medics was to become a medic himself. So Cottam enrolled in an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course eventually becoming an EMT-Cardiac and an Advanced Life Support (ALS) Medic for the National Ski Patrol. Cottam says the mannequins he and his class developed (with fellow RISD Alum Ryan Bardsley from the Sim Group at MGH) are extremely lifelike have exceedingly realistic simulated injuries and reactions to treatments and are rugged to boot

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