The Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) is pleased to announce that Kate Morse, PhD will be joining CMS full time this fall as the the Assistant Director of the CMS Affiliate Program. Dr. Morse has been an adjunct faculty member at CMS for the past two years helping to teach its simulation instructor courses.  She will continue to do some teaching at CMS in both the clinical and instructor courses, but her primary focus will be on enhancing and extending the Affiliate Program.

 Dr. Morse, who will be departing from a joint appointment at the Drexel University College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Professions, has extensive experience with development of programs in the areas of interprofessional education, simulation-based education, faculty development, faculty mentorship and nursing graduate programs. While maintaining an active part time clinical practice, she has held academic positions in diverse clinical and simulation-based education areas as Director of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Track, Director of Interprofessional Simulation and Clinical Education and as the Associate Chair of the Nurse Practitioner’s Program.   

Dr. Morse received her BSN at the University of Calgary, her MSN as a Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist from San Diego State University, a Post-Masters Certificate as an Adult and Acute Care Nurse Practitioner from California State University, Long Beach, and her PhD from Villanova University. Dr. Morse has 30 years of clinical experience as a critical care nurse and an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. 

Dr. Morse’s research interests are in designing transformative interprofessional simulation-based educational experiences, student-centered learning and reflective practice. Her doctoral dissertation was in line with these interests:  The Effect of a Structured Model of Debriefing on Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Student’s Reflective Ability and Perspective Transformation and has been presented at local and national venues. She has published a number of other articles in Clinical Simulation in Nursing, Gender Medicine, Journal of Nursing Education and MedEdPortal Publications.

Welcome to the CMS Team, Dr. Morse – Kate!