Annual Report

The 2018 Year in Review Report is available on our home page as both a PDF and Flash file.

New Simulation Education and Research Fellow

We would like to welcome Rafaella Fadel Friedlaender, MD, to our Fellowship program. She is a pediatric critical care medicine physician from Brazil. She joins Drs. Alexander Answine, Daniel Bauza, Benjamin Semakuba, and Nataliya Bilger in our fellowship program.

Education Calendar

The Events calendar has been updated with several courses, conferences, and webinars. Be sure to look at upcoming events including a regional Laerdal SUN meeting, our Simulation Instructor Course, MOCA, Journal club webinars, and major conferences.

New Equipment

A new Olympus EVIS bronchoscopy system with adult and pediatric scopes is now in use in the Skills Room.

Coming Soon – A new preterm neonatal simulator has been ordered thanks to a philanthropic gifts to the NICU. You can see this highly realistic simulator at his web site – http://simcharacters.com/.

IMSH 2019

The Clinical Simulation Center was well represented at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare held in San Antonio, Texas. Center staff and faculty had eight presentations and one poster presented at the meeting.

Presentations –

Eisenhauer R, Murray WB. Increasing Confidence Levels and CPR Effectiveness of Nurses during the First Four Minutes of Cardiac Arrest: A Pilot Project Using In Situ Simulation at a Veterans Administration Medical Center. January 30, 2019. San Antonio, TX.

Escudero E, Sinz EH, Crudi N, Vergara K, Ayrad N. Developing an International Program for Simulation Instructors, a Networking Experience. Presentation at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. Januray 30, 2019. San Antonio, TX.

Groom J, Patterson M, Dongilli T, Stefanidis D, Levy R, Decker S, Pozner C, Kelly M, Calhoun A, Gaba D, McGaghie W, Sinz EH, Muret-Wagstaff S, Kardong-Edgren S, Dong Y, Okuda H. SSH Academy Fellows Present: Research Speed Mentoring Event. Presentation at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. January 27, 2019. San Antonio, TX.

Higbee D, Sinz EH, Freeman K, Struijk J, Gonzalez L, Park C, Thomas K, Dreifuerst K, Gephardt G, Bajaj K, Beroz S, Waxman KT, Fulmer V,  Dixon M, Bowersmith J. Women in Leadership: Handling Critical Conversations. Presentation at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. January 27, 2019. San Antonio, TX.

Murray WB, Dong Y, Orledge J, Lerant A, Herrington A, Hester R. Mathematical Modeling of Physiology: Enrich Healthcare Educational Simulation Sessions. Presentation at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. January 29, 2019. San Antonio, TX.

Murray WB, Rockhold R, Orledge J, Lerant A, Shelby J, Herrington A. Instructional System Design (ISD) to Develop Better Simulation Sessions using ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation). Presentation at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. January 28, 2019. San Antonio, TX.

Rodgers DL. Feedback and Coaching for Skills Acquisition. Presentation at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. January 29, 2019, San Antonio, TX.

Wessner T, Woodson R, Nejman G, Yoder J, Murray WB. First Four Minutes of Cardiopulmonary Arrest (“Code Blue”) in a Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center. Presentation at International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. January 27, 2019, San Antonio, TX.

Poster –

Glass M, Mackley L, Rodgers DL. Mobilizing CAE LearningSpace with a Smartphone Camera and Video Conferencing Software. Poster presentation at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare. January 26-30, 2019, San Antonio, TX.

Staffing Changes

RSTC Administrative Secretary Wendy Giulivo is moving on to anther role outside of our departments. During her time here she made several improvements to our operations, creating more efficient processes. We wish Wendy well in her new role.