Interventional cardiology case in Cardio Ex game.
Interventional cardiology case in Cardio Ex game.
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Level Ex levels up management for virtual surgery games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Level Ex has built a loyal following of medical professionals among its users for its virtual surgery games, where players slice and dice bodies as if they were performing real surgery.

In fact, more than 350,000 medical professionals, including lots of surgeons in the U.S., are playing Level Ex’s games because they’re such realistic simulations. And now Level Ex is leveling up its management team, hiring former Atari executive Todd Shallbetter as head of partnerships and former game entrepreneur Jason Rubinstein as chief operating officer.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.