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In this interview, Jarrod Jefferies and Deb Tauber interview Dr. Haru Okuda and Dr. Okuda discusses the strategic priorities for the Society of Simulation and Healthcare (SSH).  In the show's second part, we highlight the accomplishments of New York City Health and Hospitals. We talk to Dr. Michael Merguerdician, Dana Trottier, and Kimberly Campbell-Taylor.  They share their accreditation journey from SSH.  

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Andrew Brown was born on 30 March 1976 in Portland, ME. He is married and has 5 children.

Andrew Brown enlisted in the US Air Force and became a Medical Service Technician (4N0X1) in 1994.  Mr. Brown spent time all over the world during his service ranging from Anchorage Alaska as a first duty station to Landsthul Germany and ending up in Baltimore MD.  Mr. Brown retired after 20 years in the US Air Force as a Master Sargent and was stationed at R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center located in Baltimore, Maryland as the Noncommissioned Officer in Charge of the Air Forces CSTARS training program.  As an Independent Duty Medical Technician (IDMT) MSgt Brown had multiple deployments with Special Operations Forces as well as with conventional Air Force units.  Mr. Brown hold a Bachelors Degree of Science in Public Health with a homeland security concentration.  In addition, Mr. Brown is near completion (9 credits) from a Masters Degree in Education and 16 credits remaining in a Masters of Science degree in Entomology.  He has served as a nationally registered EMT since 1993 and a nationally registered paramedic since 2012 as well as a certified Remote Medical Practitioner (RMP) since 2010.  Mr. Brown has taught various adult learning topics in medicine since 1996.  Mr. Brown was employed with the U.S. State Department in the Operational Medicine Unit from Dec of 2014 until July of 2019 including teaching at multiple embassies and coverage from Mobile Security Deployment (MSD) activities. Mr. Brown is an active and current National Association of Emergency Medical Technician (NAEMT) affiliate faculty responsible for certifying training sites and instructors in Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support and Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC)/Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC). As the Chief of Operations for the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Mr. Brown oversees six civilians and four military members as well as the daily operations of a simulation center with multiple accreditations.   

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Bill Martin has had simultaneous careers in the Electric Utility Industry and in Medicine. 

Electrical utility Experience:

CUSP certified with T&D endorsement, 20 years experience in distribution and transmission as a Lineman/ Line Foreman. 9 years as an area Line Supervisor responsible for distribution and transmission projects Saranac Lake region. Lead for storm restoration for 9 years, 100-mile territory 17 substations. 2-3 years experience as a project manager, managing distribution cable make-ready projects and Live Line Bare Hand and Hot Stick Transmission Projects, Safety Director. 

His experience and education in medicine include being; Registered Nurse, Nationally Registered Paramedic, 22 years flying as a Flight Paramedic now Flight Nurse /Paramedic, Diploma in Mountain Medicine, Expedition Medicine, Crevasse Rescue Training on Mt Rainier, high angle and low angle medical rescue, Instructor Trainer for National Ski Patrol, currently a Ski Area gondola evacuation team member, PSIA Level 3 Instructor. Expeditions to Mt Kenya, Kilimanjaro, and Everest Base Camp. Ice Climber, Back Country Skier, Fixed Wing Pilot, Speaker, Trainer, Writer. Bill managed multiple different jobs and volunteer responsibilities, simultaneously. Bill has been an ACLS and PALS Instructor and has 20+ years as a Paramedic CIC (course instructor coordinator). He is trained in avalanche rescue and in Crevasse Rescue for Glacier travel. Currently promoting the 3Ps. Practice Primes Proficiency.

Core Belief: “When we are helping others become the best version of themselves, we are being the best version of ourselves.”

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In this episode, Deb has the opportunity to meet with the IMSH planning committee for 2023 and find out what to expect this year at IMSH. The planning committee team; Jarrod Young, Linda Wilson, and Sean Cavanaugh meet and discuss the process and the anticipation of the event. 

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Professor Melih Elcin, MD, MS, CHSE-A

Professor of Medical Education

Department of Medical Education & Informatics

Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine

Department of Simulation in Health Sciences

Hacettepe University Graduate School of Health Sciences

Melih Elcin is currently the head of the Department of Medical Education & Informatics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, and the founding head of the Department of Simulation in Health Sciences, Hacettepe University Graduate School of Health Sciences. He is the program director of MS and PhD of Medical Education, and MS and online MS of Simulation in Health Sciences. He is the president of Turkish Association for Medical Education. He is an active member of ASPE, SSH and SESAM. He is the chair of SP SIG at Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine. He is a certified healthcare simulation educator - advanced (CHSE-A). He is the recipient of 2019 ASPE Outstanding SP Educator Award. His areas of interest are program development, evaluation, clinical & communication skills training, standardized patients, interprofessional education, patient and healthcare worker safety, and medical humanities. He has over 50 peer-reviewed papers in those fields

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Mr. Vallejo is a Military Analyst Simulation SME (Contractor) working with the Medical Simulation and Training Program Management Office (MST PMO), Program Executive Office Medical Systems (PEO MS) Defense Health Agency (DHA) in Orlando Florida where he brings his applicable experience in both clinical and Combat environments to help advise, educate and promote, the use of medical simulation devices and systems.

Gilberto Vallejo or “Gil” as his friends call him, is a retired US Army First Sergeant/ Combat Medic with over 35 years’ experience as a results driven leader and trainer in Emergency Health Care, specializing in Combat Trauma Simulation and Academic Based Simulation Training. Mr. Vallejo has held several management positions as a Site Lead, Director and Program Manager overseeing multiple Medical training facilities worldwide. 

Additionally, Mr. Vallejo has assisted in the development, design and operations of over 30+ Medical Simulation Training facilities, Combat Training Lanes, Medevac Helicopter Simulators and environments incorporating multiple systems and Artificial Stressors along with multiple levels of medical and Tactical Combat Casualty Care Curriculum for the most realistic training in both civilian and tactical environments.

Mr. Vallejo’s career path has allowed him to conduct business with Industry, Government and Academia in multiple countries such as South Korea, Colombia, Australia, Dubai, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Belgium, and across the United States.

Mr. Vallejo enjoys playing the sax, listening to Latin jazz, going to car shows with his family and teaching his grandkids to fish. Gil is married to his high school sweetheart whom he met while in elementary school and together they have 3 beautiful daughters Aarial, Ileetza, and Anais. 

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Elizabeth is a very proud transplanted Canadian and former hockey mom. She is a graduate of Queen’s University (Arts ’89) and McMaster University (BScN ’93). She began her healthcare career as an Operating Room Nurse then transitioned to nursing education in 2003. In 2005 she was the lead on overseeing a half-million dollar grant from the province of Ontario to develop and implement a clinical simulation program in an undergraduate nursing program. In April of 2017 she was recruited to the position of Director of Simulation at The Brooklyn Hospital Center. She has transformed a forgotten simulation lab and random pieces of equipment in to a robust and thriving space in a community hospital. Her role runs the gamut from implementing deliberate practice modules for residents and medical students to incorporating simulation in staff education to enhance the patient experience to developing simulation activities for nursing education.

Elizabeth has pursued many advanced training opportunities in simulation including the Comprehensive Simulation Instructor Workshop at the Center for Medical Simulation at Harvard (2015), The Mastery Learning Course at Northwestern University (2017) and The Master Debriefer Course from The Debriefing Academy (2020). In 2016 she was in the first graduating class from the Master of Science in Medical and Healthcare Simulation at Drexel University. She is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) and facilitates on-line and in-person readiness review courses for this designation. She is currently serving her second term as Vice-Chair of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare Hospital-Based Section. Elizabeth was a member of the writing teams for two of the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice - Prebriefing and Simulation Design. She has an adjunct role with the University of St. Augustine where she facilitates simulation faculty development courses across their five campuses.

She is a self-admitted “hoarder of simulation resources” and her passion is helping novices learn best practices for developing and implementing their own simulation programs.

Elizabeth currently splits her time between Brooklyn and her family home on the Niagara Escarpment in Vineland, Ontario.
 
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Clark Aldrich is the world's most experienced designer of educational simulations.  
 
 His sims are patent and award winning, and his clients range from the United Nations, Center for Army Leadership, Department of State, Gates Foundation, and NSA to Moody's, Visa, and Sony.
 
 Aldrich has been featured on multiple 'top in the profession' lists; quoted by Obama; called a 'guru' by Fortune Magazine, 'maverick' by CNN, and top influencer by Charles Koch; and appeared in sources including ABC, CBS, ESPN, and The New York Times.  His is also the author of six books and has a degree from Brown University in Cognitive Science. While at Gartner he founded their e-Learning coverage and served as director of research, and has been a monthly columnist for multiple industry magazines.
 
 His new Short Sim pedagogy is allowing his clients to adopt a 'sim-first' approach to curricula development, creating a better foundation and blueprint for a sustainable revolution in all education-delivering organizations.  

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Dr. Kerner has an extensive background in emergency care, both as an emergency nurse and paramedic. In his capacity as a registered nurse, he has held positions in busy emergency departments as staff nurse, educator and manager. In 2006, he collaborated with the Patient Safety Institute to develop the first emergency department nurse fellowship while serving as full time faculty at the Adelphi University School of Nursing. He joined PSI’s faculty as a Clinical Education Specialist in 2007 and now serves as Assistant Vice President. Dr. Kerner is particularly interested in simulation as a teaching tool to reduce preventable errors and the use of technology in the classroom. He has produced several educational videos for the Patient Safety Institute, has contributed to simulation texts and published in peer reviewed journals. He holds a Bachelors degree in nursing from Adelphi University, the Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School and the Doctor of Education degree from Teacher’s College, Columbia University. He is an Assistant Professor of Science Education at the Zucker School of Medicine,  an Assistant Professor at the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Brian Levine is an innovative and accomplished Business and Technology Leader with extensive experience and global perspective in commercial and government contracting and acquisition in simulation, training and gaming with a focus on medical simulation and public safety. He holds three degrees from Stetson University – a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting, and a Master’s in Business Administration.

Mr. Levine has been a contributing member and leader in the local simulation community for the past 15 years while working at SAIC, Presagis, CAE USA, and CAE Healthcare. Although he has had a prominent focus on medical simulation with the goal of improving healthcare and patient safety, Mr. Levine has a broader simulation experience in Land, Air, and Sea.

As a contributing member and leader in the simulation community, Mr. Levine has served a variety of leadership roles in such events and initiatives as the NTSA MS&T Congressional Caucus Committee on Patient Safety, Florida Simulation Summit, I/ITSEC Healthcare Track Planning Committee, Co-chair of the MODSIM Healthcare Track, Co-Founder of the Florida Alliance for Simulation in Healthcare, and speaker at such conferences as the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, I/ITSEC, MODSIM, Florida Simulation Summit, and TSIS.

Mr. Levine has recently joined DLH Corporation as a Director of Business Development in Modeling, Simulation, and Training. He will be helping lead the organization as DLH establishes greater presence in the Modeling, Simulation, and Training community and a greater local presence in Orlando.

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