Melanie Barlow is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s in Intensive Care Nursing and is currently completing postgraduate qualifications in Education, Leadership and Management. She is currently the Education Programs Manager at Mater Education, with 10 years’ experience in the delivery of interprofessional simulation education. Melanie is currently an Executive Committee member for the Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare (ASSH) and a member of the Queensland Simulation Advisory Committee.

Stephanie is the Acting Director of Simulation at Mater Education, Brisbane, Australia.  Stephanie is both a Registered Nurse and Registered Midwife.  She has a combined passion for critical care nursing and simulation-based education. Stephanie has spent the last 3 years implementing an organisational wide in-situ simulation program and spent the beginning of 2018 leading the educational development of the Speaking With Good Judgement Program.

Stephanie completed a six month fellowship with the Center for Medical Simulation in 2017 and is further developing her expertise in simulation undertaking research at Bond University looking at methods to better implement in situ simulation and its impacts upon the healthcare consumer.

Dr. Blum is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital. He attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine followed by an internship in Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine/Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center and by fellowships in Pediatric Cardiac and General Pediatric Anesthesia at Tufts-New England Medical Center/Boston Floating Hospital for Infants & Children and Adult & Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Blum is the Principal Investigator of a research study, Assessing the Performance of First Year Anesthesia Residents to Ensure Basic Competence, which has been funded by a grant from the Harvard School of Medicine’s Department of Anesthesia, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation and The Cathedral Fund. The long-term goal of this project is to have an effective, objective, credible, ongoing process for evaluation of anesthesia residents’ clinical competencies, ensuring that no resident graduates from any program not meeting the levels of performance that are sufficient to ensure an acceptable level of patient safety.

The research team is utilizing medical simulation to evaluate residents on performance; the program will attempt to identify anesthesia residents in need of remediation early in their training programs. They have created a set of standards and criteria to test the competency of Harvard-affiliated anesthesia residents and teach them to practice safer medicine, reducing medical mistakes as well as patient complication and death. They foresee developing standards and criteria that can be adapted to each medical specialty to enhance patient safety on a large scale; they believe this education will increase overall patient safety among anesthesia residents nationwide.

Dr. Brenner currently sees patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital Pain Center, where he is the Director of the MGH Pain Medicine Fellowship. He is an Assistant Professor in Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He also conducts neuroscience research that investigates mechanisms of pain hypersensitivity. He has authored more than 30 articles, reviews, chapters and abstracts on the pathophysiology of pain, basic pain mechanisms and immune function, and clinical approaches to chronic pain. Dr. Brenner currently has several national leadership positions related to pain medicine education/training.

Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD, is the founder and Executive Director emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, which is dedicated to the use of simulation in healthcare as a means to improve the process of education and training and to avoid risk to patients. He is also Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering and MS in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University in 1968 and 1970 respectively and completed a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Missouri in 1972.

Starting soon thereafter with the Bioengineering Unit in the Department of Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), he led the team that conducted seminal studies of critical incidents and human error in anesthesia. During the same time, he was leading a team that developed one of the first microprocessor-based medical technologies, the Boston Anesthesia System, aimed at integrating functions for the ultimate purpose of reducing human and system errors. Both of these efforts have catalyzed changes in anesthesia practice in the ensuing years.

In April, 2009, Dr. Cooper retired as Director of Biomedical Engineering for the Partners HealthCare System Inc., a technology development and service department that he organized and led for 15 years. Dr. Cooper was a lead member of the group that created the first safety-related standards for anesthesia, equivalent versions of which have since been adopted in the U.S. and throughout the world. He is a co-founder of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), serving continuously on its Executive Committee and for 13 years as Chairman of its Committee on Scientific Evaluation.

He is now an APSF Executive Vice President. He serves on the Board of Governors of the National Patient Safety Foundation and founded its Research Program, which he chaired for seven years. Dr. Cooper is one of the pioneers in diffusion and innovation in healthcare simulation. He has led CMS to become one of the premier simulation programs in the world. Among the more innovative programs he has created or co-developed are the Institute for Medical Simulation, live, interactive simulation video-teleconferencing and the novel Healthcare Adventures (a program for training healthcare administrators and leaders in teamwork via realistic simulation). He has mentored the faculty of CMS since its inception and has stimulated, participated in and advised on various research projects.

Dr. Cooper has been awarded several honors for his work in patient safety, including the 2003 John M. Eisenberg Award for Lifetime Achievement in Patient Safety from the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Clinical Engineering. The Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care of the MGH recently established the Jeffrey B. Cooper Patient Safety award in his honor.

Ignacio del Moral is a specialist in Anesthesiology and has his doctorate from Cantabria University, Spain. He worked for 15 years at Valdecilla University Hospital in Santander in the Trauma area. In 1997 he began working in the simulation field designing programs for Crisis Resource Management. He is presently the Executive Director at Hospital virtual Valdecilla. He received a research fellowship in simulation (2009-2010) from the Institute for Medical Simulation and Harvard Medical School.

Founding President of the Spanish Society for Simulation in Healthcare, he is committed to improving patient safety and clinical education using simulation. To advance these goals, he advises simulation leaders in Spanish-speaking countries with strategic management, leadership development and institution building for their simulation programs.

Dr. David Feinstein received his BA in Biochemistry from Harvard University in 1979. In 1983 he graduated from Tulane University with an MS in Biomedical Engineering. He then went on to Dartmouth Medical School where he graduated in 1987. He did his Preliminary Medicine Internship at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I., and from there entered the Anesthesia Residency Program at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

David was appointed Chief Resident for his final half year of residency. During that CA-3 year, his clinical work concentrated on cardiac anesthesia at the Beth Israel Hospital, and he conducted research in physiologic modeling at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In 1991, David joined the hospital as a Staff Anesthesiologist and as an Instructor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He is currently Director of Information Technology and Simulator Training in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and has special interests in simulation training, airway management, safety training and technology assessment.

Dr. Feinstein was an invited member of the original Harvard Simulation Task Force, which formed in 1991 to investigate the possibility of using human patient simulators for medical education at Harvard. He helped design both the first and the current simulation facilities and, through his 14-year involvement, has played a significant role in the development and implementation of simulator-based curriculum at the Center for Medical Simulation. He has contributed significantly in the creation and teaching of the Clinical Anesthesia first-year curriculum, Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management (ACRM) I, II and Faculty, ACRM Instructor Course, Anesthesia for Amateur Course and Tele-Simulation programs. He has also participated in many other CMS projects including those with Harvard Medical School and hospital-based Mock Codes.

One of David’s interests is the advancement of simulation realism and, from its inception, he has helped modify the patient mannequin and simulation environment to enhance the simulation experience. He also has an interest in employing simulation for medical technology development and training and has participated in a number of studies in this area. As Director of Information Technology in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical at BIDMC, Dr. Feinstein has led the development team for a data-driven department intranet site and various web applications that are currently used for sharing crucial department information among members. He also is the Anesthesia Department’s Project Manager for the new Anesthesia Information Management (AIM) system recently configured and deployed at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

As a Senior Rabkin Fellow at the Institute, Dr. Feinstein continued his work at the Center for Medical Simulation and designed a simulation-based research protocol to examine the competency of end users of the AIM system. Dr. Feinstein remains highly involved in simulation and medical technology at BIDMC and on a national level. He was recently appointed Co-Director of the Simulation and Skills Center of the BIDMC. He has been elected to the Board of Overseers and Board of Directors for the Society for Medical Simulation. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia. In addition, Dr. Feinstein remains active in advising and teaching residents and staff in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Dr. Ginsburg is an anesthesiologist in the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine.

James A. Gordon, MD, MPA, is Director of the Gilbert Program in Medical Simulation at Harvard Medical School, where he is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a Scholar in the Academy of medical educators. He is Chief of the Division of Medical Simulation in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he also leads the hospital-wide Learning Laboratory initiative. Dr. Gordon co-founded the Institute for Medical Simulation at the Center for Medical Simulation in Cambridge, Mass.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in intellectual history at Princeton, Dr. Gordon attended medical school at the University of Virginia and completed his training in emergency medicine at the University of Michigan. Following residency he completed a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, also receiving a master’s degree in public administration.

Dr. Gordon served as principal investigator and national co-chair of the first federally funded research consensus conference on simulation in healthcare. He was a founding board member of the international Society for Simulation in Healthcare, and sits on the editorial board of the inaugural journal in the field, Simulation in Healthcare. Dr. Gordon has received both Investigator and Special Contribution Awards from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and served as a Morgan-Zinsser Teaching Fellow at Harvard Medical School. His work has been featured in The New Yorker magazine and highlighted as medical news in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Maureen Hemingway has more than 30 years of experience in perioperative nursing. She is currently the Clinical Nurse Specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She received her BS in Nursing from University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and her Master’s in Health Administration from St. Joseph’s College in Maine. She has experience caring for surgical patients and has held leadership positions within perioperative nursing. She has been working in collaboration with the Center for Medical Simulation for several years.

Dr Sarah Janssens studied medicine at the University of Queensland and began working at Mater after completing specialty training in 2012. Since then she has developed her skills as a simulation educator through courses including NHET-sim and the Center for Medical Simulation’s Simulation as a Teaching Tool and Advanced Debriefing courses. She recently completed a 6 month fellowship at CMS and is a PhD candidate at Monash University.

Suzie Kardong-Edgren is an internationally known speaker and educational researcher. She served as a consultant on the landmark NCSBN National Simulation Study and assisted with writing the simulation guidelines that followed. She was most recently the Director of the Regional Research and Innovation in Simulation Education Center (RISE) and Professor at the Robert Morris University, School of Nursing and Health Sciences in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, past Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Simulation in Nursing, past VP of Research for the INACSL, and past chair of the Research Committee for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). She is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the new SSH CHSE and CHSOS certification review book. She holds a PhD in Health Studies from Texas Woman’s University and has a nursing background in Labor and Delivery. She also teaches for the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Maestre received his Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cantabria, Spain. He is an Attending Physician in the Division of OB/GYN and Pediatric Anesthesia at Valdecilla University Hospital. He serves as Education Director at Valdecilla virtual Hospital, a simulation center in Santander, Spain. He is a Harvard Macy Scholar and Director of the Spanish Simulation Instructor Courses at the Center for Medical Simulation.

He is member of the Faculty Development Committee of the Consortium of American College of Surgeons’ Accredited Education Institutes and member of the Clinical Simulation Working Party of the Anesthesia and Critical Care Spanish Society. He is especially interested in faculty development and simulation as a tool to facilitate organizational change.

Christine Mai is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is an Assistant Professor in Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She is the Program Director of the Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship and the Director of Education in the Pediatric Anesthesia Division at MGH. A native of Boston, she completed her medical school education at Boston University School of Medicine and her anesthesia residency training at Boston Medical Center. She is fellowship trained in pediatric anesthesia at Johns Hopkins University and after a year on faculty at Hopkins, she joined the Pediatric Anesthesia Division at MGH. Dr. Mai has a Masters degree in Health Professions Education from the MGH Institute of Health Professions with a concentration in simulation education.  She is a faculty for the Harvard Macy Institute HCE 2.0 technology course and the Post-Graduate Trainee course, as well as faculty in the Pediatric Anesthesia MOCA simulation course at the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia.  Her scholarly interests are in simulation education, curriculum development, medical education research, history in anesthesia, and health and wellness initiatives.

Brad Morrison is an Associate Professor at Brandeis International Business School, and a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management’s Engineering Systems Division. He is currently a faculty member at the Center for Medical Simulation.

A scholar in organizational theory and system dynamics, he studies problems that are rooted in the interactions between human behavior and the “physics” of the systems in which we work, such as operating rooms, emergency departments and factory shop floors. He holds a PhD in Management (System Dynamics and Organization Studies) from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and an MBA (Finance) from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Morse is the Assistant Dean, Experiential Learning and Innovation, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, USA. She is faculty in the Institute for Medical Simulation courses. Her clinical background includes critical care and she has practiced as an Adult Geriatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in a variety of settings. She has held various academic positions in the past, including Assistant Director Educational Leadership and International Programs at the Center for Medical Simulation; the Associate Chair of Nurse Practitioner Programs, Associate Clinical Professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University, Associate Professor at the Drexel University College of Medicine and Director of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program at Drexel University. Her research interests continue to focus on simulation, faculty development, speaking up and clinical feedback.

Sacha Muller-Botti MD is a specialist in Anesthesiology, originally from Chile. Currently he is a Staff Specialist and Supervisor of Training in Anaesthesiology at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia. He is a conjoint lecturer for the Faculty of Medicine, University of Newcastle, and he is an instructor and part of the faculty of Hunter New England Simulation Centre, Newcastle, Australia. He is also on the faculty of the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston.

Dr. Navedo is a Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital.  He is an Instructor in Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and is on the faculty of the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston.

Grace Ng, PhD, CNM, RN is the Nursing and Health Professions Director at the New York Simulation Center for the Health Sciences (NYSIM), a large simulation center affiliated with both NYU Langone Health and The City University of New York. She developed a passion for simulation since 2008, when she started using simulation for obstetrics interprofessional team training. Since then, she expanded her work to using simulation to transform culture in healthcare through experiential learning, debriefing, and reflective practice. Her current teaching focus is faculty development for simulation educators. She has taught extensively in simulation instructor courses in the US and overseas, and serves as faculty at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, Massachusetts. Grace has authored multiple articles on teamwork and simulation. Currently, her research interests are focused on psychological safety in nursing clinical practice, as well as debriefing approaches of novice debriefers.

Grace has been a nurse for 20 years. Prior to devoting her work full time to simulation, she served as a professional development nurse educator at NYU Langone Health. She obtained her Nursing and Nurse-Midwifery degrees from Columbia University, her Post-Master’s Advanced Certificate in Nursing Education from Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing at The City University of New York. In 2019, she completed her PhD in Nursing from the Graduate Center at The City University of New York.

Guillermo Ortiz, MD, is a Physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Director of the program for Internal and Pulmonary Medicine at Bosque University, Bogotá, Colombia. He is also the Director of the Critical Care Department at Santa Clara Hospital in Bogotá, Colombia, as well as the Executive Director of INSIMED (Instituto de Simulacion Clinica). Dr. Ortiz is one of the world’s leading experts in the identification and management of sepsis. He completed a year-long Simulation Fellowship at the Center for Medical Simulation. He is on the faculty of the Center for Medical Simulation.

John Pawlowski is the clinical director of Thoracic Anesthesia at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He directs the anesthetic care of approximately 1,500 cases per year by the Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology. He has used medical simulation in the teaching of medical students, residents and faculty since 1993. Since 2010, Dr. Pawlowski has been co-director of the Shapiro Simulation and Skills Center at BIDMC.

He is a co-director of the Pharmacology course at Harvard Medical School. He has published and presented at local and national meetings, conducted workshops and participated in numerous telesimulations. John sits on the Education Committee and the MOCA Endorsed Center Committee of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. He is a Past President of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia.

Dr. Pian-Smith’s clinical specialty is obstetric anesthesia. Much of her clinical work and investigation centers on improving the healthcare of women, but within that realm projects have spanned a wide spectrum from studying markers of endothelial dysfunction in pre-eclamptics to the role of alternative therapies for the management of menopausal symptoms.

• In addition to enjoying the fruits of direct patient care, her work at Harvard Medical School has provided wonderful opportunities to help shape the future of our specialty through innovations in education, including:\
• Developing techniques to engage the adult learner
• Promoting deliberate practice and personal reflection in medical training
• Using simulation to create controlled and experiential learning opportunities
• Promotion of patient safety practices through improved communication and interdisciplinary collaboration
• A leadership role in the recruitment of our trainees, with the goal of enhancing an extraordinary, talented and diverse community
• Tangible ways to contribute to the support, development and retention of talented and diverse faculty in the Harvard Medical
• School community at large

Advisor Disaster Site Medical Command Cl Assoc Prof Suresh Pillai, MBBS (Singapore), FRCS Ed (A&E), PBM, is a Senior Consultant in the Emergency Medicine Department of National University Hospital. After his basic MBBS qualifications from the National University of Singapore, he obtained his Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Accident & Emergency Medicine. He was awarded a Health Manpower Development Plan Award from MOH for a Fellowship in Toxicology at the San Francisco Poison Control Center in 1999. He was also awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM) at the 2005 National Day Awards for his efforts in organizing and spearheading humanitarian medical relief missions to Indonesia and Sri Lanka during the catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

Associate Professor Suresh’s passion and strengths lie in teaching medical students at the undergraduate level, medical trainees at the post-graduate Basic Specialist Trainee (BST) and the Advanced Specialist (AST) levels, and nursing students at the Basic and Advance Diploma Level. Suresh is also actively involved in preparing local and overseas candidates for the MRCS / MMed (A&E) and now the MCEM exams, for which he also serves as an examiner and core faculty. He is also an examiner for the Emergency Medicine Exit Examinations for Advanced Specialist Trainees.

His teaching abilities have garnered him several awards, including the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2007 and the Medical Society Teacher’s Day Award in 2008; he was also voted one of the top 10 tutors in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2009. He was the Departmental Director in Undergraduate Emergency Medical Education and was responsible for organizing the widely popular undergraduate curriculum in Emergency Medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Under his stewardship, the Emergency Medicine Posting has consistently emerged as one of the top three undergraduate disciplines as voted by medical students. He is currently actively involved in the review of the medical undergraduate curriculum and simulation training at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

He is also involved actively in Life Support Training both at NUH and NUS and is the Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Course Director for both institutions. He is also an instructor for the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLC) Courses. His other areas of active involvement include Disaster Preparation and Readiness both at the hospital, national and international levels. He is the Disaster Coordinator for the Emergency Department at NUH and has also served several terms as Deputy Commander of the Disaster Site Medical Command HQ of MOH that is responsible for coordinating medical teams at the site of any civil emergency or disaster in Singapore. He is a lecturer and trainer at the HazMat Medical Life Support Course conducted by MOH at the Institute of Medical Simulation and Education.

He has also coordinated the development of the NUHS Humanitarian Medical Relief Volunteer Programme. He has also been seconded to the Ministry of Health as Project Consultant and has developed national medical response plans for radiation emergencies in Singapore. He served as Chairman of the Medical Services Subcommittee of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Meetings in Singapore in 2008-2009, helping to organize medical support for local and foreign delegates including ministers and heads of state during the APEC Conferences.

He has also been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Medical Services Subcommittee for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010. He also served as a committee member of the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine’s Committee on Education and Training in Disaster Medicine. Associate Professor Suresh has also co-authored several chapters in the “Guide to Essentials in Medicine” (McGraw Hill Publishers).

Dan Raemer has developed a special expertise in teamwork and crisis management over the past 20 years at the Center for Medical Simulation. He is particularly interested in the art of debriefing and is frequently called upon to facilitate multidisciplinary teamwork sessions in a variety of specialty areas such as operating rooms, intensive care, emergency, endoscopy, and labor and delivery suites.

In 2003, Dan received a unique award from the Harvard Department of Anesthesia for “excellence in teaching.” Using simulation as a research tool to investigate healthcare workers’ behaviors and thought processes has been his most enduring passion. Dan has published work in these areas and has given numerous keynote addresses for specialty societies and other healthcare organizations on simulation as it has blossomed in the last several years.

He has worked globally to establish the International Meeting on Medical Simulation, is the founding trustee and a Past President of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). In 2008, Dan received a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from SSH for his contributions to the field. He is also a Past President of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia.

Dan earned his doctorate in bioengineering from the University of Utah and he worked as a researcher for many years at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in the Anesthesia and Critical Care Departments. In addition to his publications related to simulation practice and research, he has written extensively on monitoring devices and has a number of patents for clinically useful devices and technologies.

Dr. Reedy is a Reader in Clinical Education at King’s College London and the Program Director for the Masters in Clinical Education program. He is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, as well as a member of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Reedy is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, where he is also on the Governing Council and is Chair of the Education Committee. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom.  Dr. Reedy is a member of the Research Committee of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and the Scientific Committee of the Society in Europe for Simulation as Applied to Medicine (SESAM). In addition, he is a member of the Simulation Committee for AMEE (Association for Medical Education in Europe) and he is on the Editorial Board for the journal, Advances in Simulation.

He completed his PhD in Cognition and  Educational Psychology and a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Washington.

Dr. Rock is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Rock received a BA from Carleton College and an MD from the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. She completed residency at Stanford University and a fellowship at Boston Medical Center.

Dr. Rock’s professional activities include attending in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, teaching and communication education research. As the Director of the Simulation Core Faculty in the Department of Medicine, she designs and teaches numerous courses for learners ranging from students to faculty, including: communication with family of critically ill patients, interprofessional code leadership and team training, “rapid response training,” individual training in clinical decision making and communication, central line insertion and pulmonary procedures.

She is a co-investigator and faculty director for a simulation-based course to teach residents leadership and communication skills for family meetings in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU). The course, and related research project, emphasizes strategies to improve empathic behaviors and a patient-centered approach. She was selected as the 2011-2012 Putnam Scholar, a scholarship of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare.

Dr. Rock is active in Harvard Medical School courses as a tutorial leader and preceptor as well as integrating simulation into preclinical pathophysiology courses. She received the Harvard Medical School Excellence in Tutoring Award in 2009, an honor granted by students’ evaluations. Other responsibilities include teaching medicine house staff and critical care fellows in the medical intensive care unit. Dr. Rock has several educational interests, including the use of high-fidelity simulation and providing feedback with an emphasis on curiosity and respect in the simulation and clinical setting. Dr. Rock’s clinical practice involves serving as the attending physician in the MICU. She is also a faculty member for the Center for Medical Simulation.

Dr. Rubio is an anesthesiologist from Mexico City. He is director of the simulation program of the anesthesia department at the American British Cowdray Medical Center. He is also simulation education director at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where he is responsible for faculty development, academic program development and establishing relations with other simulation centers around the world.

Rodrigo completed a simulation fellowship at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. Rodrigo has an interest in the role of realism in simulation and conducts research on this topic. As an accomplished magician, he uses insights and techniques from this area to help instructors create innovative simulation scenarios. He is a co-facilitator for the Center for Medical Simulation.

Dr. Setnik is the Medical Director of the Forrest D. McKerley Simulation and Education Center at Concord Hospital, a regional referral center about an hour north of Boston. His clinical duties include attending in the Emergency Department. In his work with simulation, he focuses on improving care for critically ill patients by working with people, teams, systems, and processes. He works with the NH Army National Guard, regional Paramedics, Family Medicine Residents, and hospital based teams including Obstetric, Trauma, Pediatric and Adult Code Blue, and Stroke. Most recently he has been involved in projects to improve the safety of teams performing intubation in COVID-19 suspected patients, and Central Venous Catheter insertion. As Immediate Past President of the Medical Staff he has contributed to a culture of safety, transparency and inclusiveness in organizational leadership. He also teaches part-time at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston.

Dr. Simon is an educator with more than 40 years’ experience. For nearly 25 of those years he has specialized in research, development and training for high-performance, high-stress teams in aviation and medicine. He was the Principal Investigator for the U.S. Army’s Aircrew Coordination Training Program, the U.S. Air Force’s Crew Resource Management Program and for the MedTeams program, a joint civilian and military program to transition lessons learned from aviation crew resource management to healthcare. Following successful validation of the MedTeams program, it was adopted by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and renamed TeamSTEPPS.

In 2002, he joined the Harvard Medical School faculty assigned to the Center for Medical Simulation as Education Director. In 2004, he established himself as the Director of the Center’s Institute for Medical Simulation, a program developed with the cooperation of the MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology and the Massachusetts General Hospital which is intended to foster high-quality, simulation-based healthcare education through training clinical educators to use simulation as a teaching tool.

In 2014, Dr. Simon became Director Emeritus of the Institute and assumed the CMS position of Senior Director, Educational Leadership & International Programs with the goal of helping CMS Affiliate institutions use simulation as a transformational tool. Dr. Simon is on the faculty of the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Institute of Health Professions, Harvard Medical School and the University of Cantabria.

After 18 years at CMS, Dr. Simon announced his “semi-retirement” in 2019, taking on the role of Principal Consultant. In this position, he works with several of the institutions who comprise the CMS Affiliate Program, continues as a mentor in the CMS International Scholars program, and continues teaching in CMS faculty development courses.

He received his baccalaureate from Washington University, master’s degrees from Smith College and the University of Massachusetts, and holds a doctorate in education with a concentration in Research & Evaluation from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Dr. Sundar is a cardiac anesthesiologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is the Director of the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship, an ACGME approved fellowship. Dr. Sundar completed her medical school training in Chennai, India. She subsequently trained and board certified as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist in the UK. Dr. Sundar joined BIDMC as an anesthesia resident in 2000 and completed a cardiac anesthesia fellowship. She was chief resident and earned the Medical Student Teacher of the Year Award.

Her interest in teaching and educating residents won her the Leonard Bushnell Award for Innovations in Teaching in her department. She has developed a simulator-based curriculum in cardiac anesthesia as part of the Rabkin Fellowship. Some of her research interests include genomic variations and their impact on the cardiac surgical patient, impact of low tidal volume ventilation in cardiac surgical patients, and impact of age of red cell in the cardiac surgical patient. Dr. Sundar also serves as the Resource Faculty for her department and is a core faculty member of the Simulation and Skills Center at BIDMC.

Julian Van Dijk has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Nursing) from RMIT University and is currently completing a Master’s in Health Professional Education at Monash University, Melbourne. He is the current Simulation Coordinator at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, and is responsible for operations, program and faculty development. Julian has extensive experience in using simulation across nursing, medicine and allied health disciplines.

His primary research interests are instructor teaching practices, debriefing and the integration of simulation into health education curriculum. Julian is the current scientific convener for SimHealth 2012 and is a current executive member of the Australian Society for Simulation.

Dr. Vassallo is a board certified anesthesiologist affiliated with Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts General Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Vassallo graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1985 and has been in practice for 30 years. She completed a residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Jay W. Vogt is an organizational and human development consultant with over 30 years of experience working with government, nonprofit organizations, corporations and small businesses. In 1982, he founded Peoplesworth, a private practice in consulting, training and counseling. He holds a master’s degree in counseling from Antioch University New England and a BA from Hampshire College.

Jay is an accomplished facilitator, mediator, trainer, management consultant and coach. He is a master at facilitating large groups, having led hundreds of events averaging one hundred or more participants. In 2014, Jay co-founded EssentialWorth with partner Judy Ozbun to help nonprofits better achieve their missions by using effective, engaging and affordable online technologies.