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Greg Vis is the founder/CEO of Sim/VS and he shares his entrepreneurial journey into Simulation. As a pioneer in the industry, he shares his triumphs and struggles. Greg's passion for simulation stemmed from the famous rescue on the Hudson River. Lean in and listen as Jerrod, Deb, and Greg have a conversation about simulation and the industry.  

This episode is Proudly sponsored by William "Billy" Martin and The Think Tank Project. Unlock Human Potential... 

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Kathy Sokol is a dedicated nursing educator and expert in medical simulation who has made significant contributions to the field of healthcare education. She is committed to promoting excellence in nursing education and providing her students with the knowledge and skill they need to succeed. 

Kathy has extensive experience in healthcare education and medical simulation. 

She has worked in various healthcare settings, including hospitals, clinics, and educational institutions, and has a passion for teaching and mentoring nursing students. 

Kathy is an expert in medical simulation and has written extensively on this topic, sharing her knowledge and insight with other educators and healthcare professionals. 

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Jason Sautel spent much of his early adulthood as a firefighter in some of the busiest firehouses in the country and today shares Christ-centered stories and lessons from his time there through his writings, podcast, and speaking engagements. He loves his wife of twenty-one years, Kristie, his four two-legged children, and his two four-legged children, and appreciates God's gifts of donuts, surfing, and Maui.


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Kristyn Gadlage the Director of Accreditation and Betsy Holzwarth part of the accreditation leadership team, sit down and share their perspectives regarding the process of becoming accredited as well as the available support from the society. They discuss the differences between provisional and full accreditation and the pursuit of excellence.  We talk about the quality of the accreditation process and the value of the prestige of the acknowledgment of receiving this esteemed designation.

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Dr. Jamie M. Robertson is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Direction of Innovation in Surgical Innovation in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She drives efforts within the surgery department to develop curricula and assessments to support medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty. Additionally, she serves on the leadership of multiple teaching and clinical research courses within the Harvard Medical School’s Postgraduate Medical Education portfolio. Nationally, she is an Associate Editor for the Healthcare Simulation Dictionary and a lader in simulation design and implementation She is one of the first fifty individuals to earn the designation of Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator-Advanced.  Dr. Robertson’s funded research involves studying teamwork and communication between members of medical teams in both terrestrial and deep space environments. Dr. Robertson completed her undergraduate education at Seattle University before earning her MPH in Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. 

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MARY ELIZABETH MANCINI, RN, PhD, NE-BC, FAHA, ANEF, FSSH, FAAN

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Dr. Beth Mancini is Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Arlington's College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Before retiring in 2019, Dr. Mancini served as the Senior Associate Dean for Education Innovation and held the Baylor Health Care System Professorship for Healthcare Research. From 2004 to 2017, she also served as Chair for the Undergraduate Nursing Programs.

Prior to moving to an academic role in 2004, Dr. Mancini served as Senior Vice President for Nursing Administration and Chief Nursing Officer at Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, Texas, a position she held for 18 years. She is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a nurse executive.

Dr. Mancini received an Associate Degree in Nursing from the Community College of Rhode Island, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Rhode Island College, a Master of Science in Nursing Administration from The University of Rhode Island and a PhD in Public and Urban Affairs from The University of Texas at Arlington. She completed a Johnson & Johnson Wharton Nurse Executive Fellowship at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania and a National Association of Public Hospitals Management Fellowship program through the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.

Dr. Mancini is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking work in high quality, high volume, accelerated online education (distance education). Her work in this area resulted in UTA's College of Nursing becoming the country's largest college of nursing in a public university and led to the College of Nursing receiving the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's prestigious Star Award in 2012.

In recognition for her many contributions to the fields, Dr. Mancini was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, a Fellow in the National League for Nursing's Academy of Nurse Educators, a Fellow of the American Heart Association, and as a Fellow of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. In 2013, Dr. Mancini was recognized with a Regent's Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Texas System and was appointed a Visiting Scholar in Innovation and Simulation at The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. In 2014, she was reappointed as a Visiting Scholar in Simulation and Curriculum.

Dr. Mancini is an active volunteer with numerous professional organizations. She has served as Vice Chair of the Basic Life Support Task Force for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation and Chair of AHA’s Education Science and Programs committee. She currently serves as a member of the National Academies of Science Global Task Force on Innovations in Health Professions Education, and member of AHA’s Get with The Guidelines - Resuscitation's Clinical Work Group, and Science and Clinical Education and Lifelong Learning committee. She has served as President of the international Society for Simulation in Healthcare as well as a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada's Simulation Task Force and the World Health Organization's Initiative on Training, Simulation and Patient Safety.

Dr. Mancini's research interests include innovations in education, interprofessional collaborative practice, and the development of high performing healthcare teams through the use of simulation. She has received over $6.5 million in competitive grants, has more than 100 publications to her credit, and is a sought-after speaker at local, national and international conferences on topics such as innovations in online education.

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Jennie helps people find their voice. Whether in a corporate or studio setting, customized group workshops, or one-to-one coaching sessions, she empowers her clients to discover, create, and deliver magnetic messages. She has worked with professionals across a wide range of industries, from executives and their safety teams at a steel manufacturer in the Midwest to global nonprofits working to tell the stories and change the lives of those they serve to technologists leading innovation in Silicon Valley.

She uses her years of experience as a professional actor and coach to identify clients' core strengths, teach vital communication skills, refine essential content, and utilize all to enable conversations that unite speakers and listeners. She is a graduate of the 2021 Applied Compassion Training, part of the CCARE program at Stanford, and is certified as a Print coach and Crucial Conversations trainer, valuable resources which influence her work. Jennie works with global leaders and teams both virtually and in face-to-face sessions.

Representative clients include SAP, Mercedes Benz Research and Development North America, Steel Dynamics Inc., Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG), JLL, Heartland Alliance, Gads Hill Chicago, Women in Bio, Public Communications Inc. (PCI), Dominican University, speakers for TEDx, and the School, Institute of Design at Stanford.

As an actor, Jennie has worked extensively on stage, film, and television. In New York, she acted at Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, and Minetta Lane. In Chicago, she has performed at Steppenwolf, the Goodman Theatre, and Victory Gardens. She has done numerous commercials, episodic television shows (Law and Order, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, and Chicago Med), and independent films. She has taught actors at Acting Studio Chicago, Victory Gardens Theatre, and Act One Studios.


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In this episode of The Sim Cafe, Deb Tauber and Jerrod Jefferies interview Dr. Andrew Spain. Andrew shares his story as he started his career as a paramedic and how he worked his way up and currently is a leader within The Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Andrew shares his contributions to the Code of Ethics, certifications, The Healthcare Simulation Dictionary, and The Diamond Ball. He shares lessons learned and the value of networking.

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Dr. Jennifer Arnold has been involved in simulation education, patient safety, and research for 20+ years. She has served as  NIH postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Safar Center for Resuscitative Medicine. Dr. Arnold's simulation educational research has been funded by organizations such as the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine, Cullen Trust for Healthcare, Texas Children's Hospital Educational Grants & MD Anderson Foundation. She has authored 20+ peer-reviewed articles and numerous book chapters on medical simulation.

As the founding director for Texas Children's and Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospitals, Dr. Arnold led pediatric healthcare simulation programs. Currently, she serves as Program Director of Immersive Design Systems (formerly SIMPeds) at Boston Children's Hospital, a Harvard Teaching Hospital.

Dr. Arnold's interests in simulation include utilizing it to assess new clinical spaces, provide team training, enhance quality and patient safety, improve home care and skills for primary caregivers of medically complex children, and develop educational curricula for various departments throughout the hospital.

Dr. Jennifer Arnold has received multiple awards throughout her career, including the Ray E. Helfer Award for Innovation in Pediatric Education from the Academic Pediatric Association, Compassionate Doctor Recognition, and Patients' Choice Award from Vitals.com, Norton, Rose, Fulbright Excellence in Education from Baylor College of Medicine, and Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Society for Simulation in Healthcare, and International Pediatric Simulation Society. Dr. Arnold serves on the executive boards for the Center for Medical Simulation, INSPIRE (International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, & Education), OpHeart, and is a founding Board Member of Ready.Sim.Go. She is a national ambassador for Speak Now for Kids through the Children's Hospital Association.

Dr. Jennifer Arnold has given national and international presentations on topics related to healthcare simulation, overcoming obstacles, DEI in the workplace, cancer survivorship, and work-life balance for professional women. She has spoken at the Texas Conference for Women, SHRM, No Place for Hate, Shiners Hospital, Sloan Kettering, Pfizer, March of Dimes, as well as many colleges, universities, school districts, and corporations worldwide.

Dr. Jennifer Arnold takes great pride in her advocacy work and empowering individuals to become better advocates for their own healthcare. She has a unique perspective, having personal experience as a lifelong patient, a cancer survivor, a devoted mother of two young children with physical, medical, and social-emotional needs, a medical expert with two decades of experience caring for at-risk infants at top-tier institutions, and an experienced medical educator, including the use of advanced technologies such as medical simulation, 3D printing, and virtual reality.

Dr. Jennifer Arnold and her husband Bill have written two books. Purchase an autographed copy. "Life Is Short (No Pun Intended)," [https://bit.ly/booklifeisshort] is a memoir about Dr. Arnold's life as a little person and her experiences as a physician, cancer survivor, and mother. "Think Big: Overcoming Obstacles with Optimism," [https://bit.ly/buythinkbigbook] offers insights and advice on how to overcome obstacles in life with a positive attitude. 

Dr. Arnold's public persona and platform enable her to reach millions of people globally, and she uses her personal and professional experiences to connect with her audience and inspire them to become their own advocates in their healthcare journeys. For information on Dr. Arnold's speaking topics and how to connect with her - https://jenarnoldmd.com/

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