Melanie Barlow is a healthcare leader and simulation specialist who has a passion for using experiential education to help improve quality of care. With 18 years’ experience in education. As a Registered Nurse with a Master’s in Intensive Care Nursing and a postgraduate debree in Education, Leadership and Management, she understands the importance of different health professionals learning with, from and about each other. She is currently the Academic Lead: Specialist learning environments and simulation at Australian Catholic University in Brisbane, QLD Australia. Previously, she was the Education Programs Manager at Mater Education, with more than 10 years’ experience in the delivery of interprofessional simulation education. Melanie has also been an Executive Committee member for the Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare (ASSH) and a member of the Queensland Simulation Advisory Committee.

Melanie’s particular interest is in healthcare communication and studying how we receive messages and the impact receivership has on clinical communication behaviour. She is a highly-motivated person who has led interprofessional teams to use simulation in innovative ways; to help strengthen and enhance individuals, teams and whole health systems.

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.

Clément Buléon is anesthesiologist and intensive care doctor, senior and executive director of the simulation center Normandy Simulation in Healthcare (NorSimS) at the University Hospital of Caen, France. In 2009, he initiated the development of the simulation center of the University Hospital of Caen and, since then, he has been coordinating the initial and ongoing simulation training for anesthesiologists, intensivists, nurse anesthetists, and emergency teams. He participates in the development of simulation for other specialties and he is involved training of trainers in simulation in France, Europe and USA. Clément Buléon is a member of the Board of Directors of the French Speaking Simulation Society in Healthcare (SoFraSimS) for which he also chairs the Scientific and Research Committee. He has completed a one year International and Research Fellowship at Center for Medical Simulation in Boston (USA) in 2019. He is interested in research and innovation in simulation and involved in international research projects and collaborations. Clément Buléon will defend his PhD on the “Role of simulation in training and assessment in anaesthesia and intensive care” in 2021.

Dr. Albert Chan MBBS, FHKCA, FHKAM (Anaesthesiologist), FANZCA is Specialist in Anaesthesiology, Sub-specializing in Cardiac Anaesthesia, Associate Consultant, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Prince of Wales Hospital and Clinical Assistant Professor (Honorary), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and is currently a Masters of Health Professions Education (MHPE) student at University of Maastricht.

From the clinical end, he is focusing on Perioperative medicine, and have been actively engaging various specialties to jointly improve the patients’ Perioperative outcome. He is also working on a Smart Hospital project — Perioperative medicine application — that will hope to improve the patients’ Perioperative experience. On the simulation front, he is mostly involved in translational simulation in his department. The most recent project is in simulation to enhance staff capacity for management of COVID patients during high risk procedures. The next project will be testing out the new information system prior to implementation.

His MHPE focus is on how residents process feedback in the workplace, and to identify any barriers to feedback processing that can be resolved with educational programs. This is particularly important considering the cultural implications of implementing a feedback-based training program amongst residents. Another area of focus is using clinical events debriefing to enhance team competence and improve clinical processes.

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. Dohlman is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and an affiliate of the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. She is a member of the Harvard Academy and the adjunct faculty at Center for Medical Simulation (CMS).  She was an attending anesthesiologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) after residency training there in surgery and anesthesia. She joined the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as an attending anesthesiologist in 1999. In 2018 she retired from clinical medicine and is now focusing on improving anesthesia safety through education and positive change, both locally and internationally. Dr. Dohlman has a long-standing interest in regional anesthesia, global health and intercultural communication. She has lectured and written about these topics throughout her career. She has held leadership positions for several anesthesia organizations and received awards related to her educational work. These include the Nicholas M. Greene, MD Award for Outstanding Humanitarian Contribution from the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the MGH Global Health Service Award in Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring.

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 is a Senior Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Mater Mothers’ Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. Her interests include procedural simulation, interprofessional team based and in-situ simulation. She has completed a 6 month fellowship at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston and Supervised Mater’s Simulation Fellowship program as the Clinical Simulation Director. Sarah’s main research interest is leadership in healthcare emergency teams and her focus is on the application of evidence based teamwork practices to maternity emergency response teams. Sarah is Chair of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist’s Simulation Training Advisory Group and she enjoys developing and delivering simulation faculty development courses.

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. Motola is Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Associate Director of the Gordon Center for Simulation and Innovation in Medical Education and has served as its Director of the Prehospital and Emergency Training Division for the past 15 years.

Dr. Motola has a special interest in developing curricula for prehospital and hospital‐based healthcare professionals and the application of simulation and other technologies to emergency medical education. She has led quality improvement initiatives at the hospital level in response to emergencies by implementing rapid response team training and in‐situ simulation. She also has expertise in interprofessional education and team training. Dr. Motola has served as PI or Co‐PI on multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Florida Department of Health, and several foundations. Her research interests include effective use of simulation and technology for skills acquisition and retention, team training, interprofessional education, medical decision‐making in crisis situations, program evaluation, and assessment.

Dr. Motola received her undergraduate degree from Columbia University and received her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2000. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital) in 2004. She received an M.P.H. in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2005 as a Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow in Health Policy and Health Disparities.

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.

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

Cl Assoc Prof Suresh Pillai, MBBS (S’pore), 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 Centre 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.

Assoc Prof 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. Assoc Prof 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, the Medical Society Teacher’s Day Award in 2008 and voted one of the top ten 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 and 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 has been appointed Chairman of the Medical Services Subcommittee of the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Meetings in Singapore in 2008-2009 that is responsible for organizing medical support for local and foreign delegates including Ministers and Heads of State and Government during the APEC Conferences. He has also been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Medical Services Subcommittee for the inaugural 1st Youth Olympics in Singapore in 2010.

He also served as a committee member of the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine Committee on Education and Training in Disaster Medicine. Assoc Prof 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. 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.

Maria D. Davila Rudolph is an independent consultant in simulation-based medical education and research. She received her M.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Maryland. She brings her understanding of human behavior to the field of healthcare education to support both developing and established healthcare providers in acquiring the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that reduce errors and improve patient outcomes.

Dr. Rudolph’s research focuses on teamwork, psychological safety, and empathy, with a special interest in the theory and practice of effective individual and group feedback in order to achieve educational goals and behavioral change. She has worked as simulation research consultant at the UCLA Simulation Center and at the Center for Medical Simulation.

Dr. Rudolph received her A.B. in French Literature from Bryn Mawr College. She is fluent in French, Spanish, and English.

Dr. Rudolph is integral to supporting the CMS team with the MGHIHP Simulation Clerkship Program. Dr. Rudolph supported the translations of the Debriefing Assessment for Simulation in Healthcare© (DASH) into both Spanish and French. She was integral to the process of understanding the user experience as we developed our interprofessional virtual campus under a grant from the Josiah Macy Junior Foundation.

Tonya Schneidereith is an Associate Professor in the Debra L. Spunt Clinical Simulation Labs at University of Maryland, Baltimore and facilitates simulation-based education for prelicensure and advanced practice nursing students. She is also Chief Executive Officer of the simulation consulting company, SIMPL Simulation, LLC. She was appointed as a founding member of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Simulation Committee and Associate Editor for the Simulation guidelines and best practices for Nurse Practitioner programs. In 2021, she was Editor for the Annual Review of Nursing Research: Healthcare Simulation. She holds certifications as a Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (PPCNP-BC), Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (CPNP-AC), Certified Nurse Educator (CNE), and Advanced Simulation Healthcare Educator (CHSE-A). She is a Fellow in the Academy of Nursing Education (ANEF), Society for Simulation in Healthcare Academy (FSSH), and American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). Her research interests utilize simulated settings to investigate safe medication administration practices in prelicensure nursing students.

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Sasa Sopka, MD, MME is the Executive Director of the Aachener interdisciplinary Trainingcenter for medical Education and Patient Safety – AIXTRA and a Anesthesiology and ICU Physician at the University Hospital in Aachen, Germany. He trained at the University Hospital in Aachen and finished his specialization in Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine there. He is the founder of AIXTRA and head of the center for more than 12 years. Since 2008 Sasa is involved in many different projects concerning undergraduate and postgraduate education in Germany on the national level. He serves as the chair of the educational committee/ German national society of anesthesiologist, Chair – committee for Simulation and Emergency Medicine/German national society for medical education. Since 2012 he serves as visiting faculty at the Harvard Macy Institute, Boston, MA.

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.