Serious gaming expert, Bill Kapralos, Ph.D., is exploring the technology behind virtual reality to create advanced training and education experiences for healthcare professionals. Intrigued by the dynamic nature of his work, the relatively new field of serious gaming is exploding across many sectors as a way to engage and motivate students to learn. Dr. Kapralos is an associate professor in the Faculty of Business and Information Technology in the Game Development and Entrepreneurship Program at Ontario Tech University. He joined Ontario Tech University as an assistant professor in 2006, and serves as an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at York University in Toronto, Ontario. He turned his childhood hobby into an established teaching and research career. Long before gaming became popular; he would write and program his own video games, which naturally led him to study computer science. Dr. Kapralos pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at York University in Toronto, Ontario, completing a Bachelor of Science (Honours and 1st Class Distinction), in Computer Science in 1999. He began his career as a teaching assistant in the same department and held the position throughout his graduate studies. During his graduate studies, Dr. Kapralos became immersed in the technical aspects of gaming and virtual reality worlds, and sought to understand the science and technology behind their development. He focused on rendering these worlds to make them realistic and earned a Master of Science in Computer Science in 2001; and received his Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Science in 2006. At Ontario Tech University, he saw a need for applying gaming and virtual reality technologies to health profession training. Passing on his knowledge and expertise in this burgeoning field to his students has its share of rewards; Dr. Kapralos is thrilled to be able to guide their research and academic achievement, and see their success upon graduation. For his work, he has been honoured with the 2010 Google Faculty Research Award as a co-recipient; and he received the 2009 IBM Center for Advanced Studies Faculty Award. In May 2014, Dr. Kapralos was awarded an NSERC-JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Fellowship.