Dr. Mary Fey will be a keynote speaker and instructor at the Western Canada Health Sciences Educators Conference. The May 16th-18th event will take place at the Tigh-Na-Mara Resort in Parksville, British Columbia. Dr. Fey will kick off the event with a sold-out pre-conference workshop: Gateway to Debriefing With Good Judgment©, the CMS introductory debriefing course. She will then be delivering one of two keynote addresses that will undoubtedly have people “buzzing.” An avid beekeeper, Dr. Fey is excited to use nature’s ultimate team-players to lead a conversation about interprofessional collaboration, because “Great Minds Don’t Always Think Alike.”

Mary Fey, PhD, RN, CHSE-A is the Associate Director of the Institute for Medical Simulation, Simulation Educator Training Program at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, MA. Dr Fey serves on the Board of Directors of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL), where she holds the position of Vice President for Outreach. In her work with the National League for Nursing in Washington, DC, she co-authored the NLN Vision Statements: “A Vision for Teaching with Simulation” and “Debriefing Across the Curriculum”. She has published qualitative and quantitative studies on debriefing, and has co-authored several of the Standards of Best Practice, Simulation. She serves on the certification committee for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.