Simulation Workshop in Facilitation and Teaching: Empower Learners With Effective Debriefing and Feedback (Simulation Academy and Education Committee Sponsored)

Dr. Rice is the Director of Simulation Education and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Affiliate Faculty with the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety. They graduated from New York Medical College (2011) and completed their Emergency Medicine training at the Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine Residency Program (2015). Dr. Rice is a graduate of the American College of Physicians Teaching Fellowship (2015), the Comprehensive Instructor Course at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston (2016) and has completed a Masters in Medical and Healthcare Simulation Education at Drexel University. She currently works at the Johns Hopkins Hospital as a clinician and simulation-based educator with a focus on collaborative practice, safety culture, and professionalism.

Tina Chen is the Associate Dean of Simulation and Clinical Skills for Saint Louis University School of Medicine, as well as the Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation for the Saint Louis University Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She completed Medical Simulation fellowship at the Center for Education, Simulation, and Innovation at Hartford Hospital.

In addition to his clinical duties in the Emergency Department at Maimonides Health In Brooklyn, Dr Lamberta supports utilization and operations of the weekly activities at the Center for Clinical Simulation & Safety at Maimonides. He supports the operational, scheduling, and resource management in the simulation center for inter-professional education, graduate medical educations (GME) programs and continuing professional development for EM faculty. He is also Assistant Clinical Professor at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and facilitates small groups for pre-clinical students and facilitates periodic summative assessments. As a graduate of the simulation fellowship program, he is co-director for the fellowship in clinical simulation & safety. Interests include patient safety, technical skills training, and inter-professional educations.

I completed my residency training in Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN (2014), then completed fellowship training in Medical Simulation at the Lifespan Medical Simulation Center of Brown University, Providence RI (2015). I currently work in academic Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN and in community Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic Health System Southeast Minnesota region. I am the Director of the Mayo Clinic Health System Emergency Medicine Community Simulation Program, which provides team-training and education for our nurses and providers through the health system via on-site in situ multidisciplinary simulations. This program also facilitates patient safety, quality of care, and process improvement throughout the Mayo Clinic Health System.

I am a Fellow member of the Mayo Clinic Academy of Educational Excellence (2021) and received the SAEM Simulation Academy's Young Educator of the Year Award (2020).

My areas of interest include Systems Integration, Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, and Obstetric Emergencies.

Dr. Jeffrey Heiferman is the residency simulation director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC). He also serves as core faculty of the LUMC Emergency Medicine Simulation Fellowship. Dr. Heiferman is an emergency medicine physician at LUMC, where he holds a primary academic appointment in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a secondary academic appointment in the Department of Medical Education. Dr. Heiferman completed both his emergency medicine residency and simulation fellowship at LUMC.

Lars K. Beattie M.S., M.D., FACEP is the Residency Program Director at the the University of Florida Health Science Center Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) in Gainesville, Florida. He is a nationally recognized speaker and leader in EM education and has been a board-certified EM physician for the last 20 years. In 2005, he co-founded the Libertas Center for Human Rights at Elmhurst Hospital, Queens, New York. Since graduating residency, he has spent 19 years immersed in EM resident and student education. His role as a clinician and resident educator involves identifying evidence-based clinical practices, translating them into teaching strategies for learners, who ultimately bring that to patient care.

Through the construct of the Mt Sinai EM and the University of Florida Department EM Journal Club, he has coached residents and faculty in the principles of evidence-based medicine and its application in the assessment of the current medical literature. He has served on national, state, and local medical education committees including the society of Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy. He has given over 25 international and national presentations and is an experienced simulation educator. He has developed over 14 cases presented in international and national conferences for the Emergency Medicine Residency Association SIMWars. He is an editor of 4 books and has authored 12 education related publications. He has been awarded 2 grants including a Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement Grant for direct services to survivors of torture at Elmhurst Hospital Libertas Center Survivors of Torture Services Project.

Dr. Aga De Castro is an Emergency Medicine Physician at Hartford Hospital - a University of Connecticut School of Medicine Level 1 Trauma Center affiliate. He graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Connecticut. He finished his Medical Simulation Fellowship at Hartford Hospital. He subsequently stayed on as faculty at Hartford Hospital where he is now the Assistant Fellowship Director of the Medical Simulation Fellowship Program. He also holds an academic appointment as Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

Dr. Chopra is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. She was previously a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM), where she served as the assistant Director of Simulation Education. She is originally from New Jersey, where she completed both her undergraduate and medical education at Rutgers University. She completed her emergency medicine residency at JHUSOM. As part of her PGY4 Focused Advanced Specialized Training (FAST) fellowship, she developed her interests in resident medical education and simulation education under the guidance of Dr. Linda Regan and Dr. Julie Rice. She was the inaugural recipient of the department’s Chaz N. Schoenfeld, M.D. Educational Scholars Award for her FAST program. She has also completed the Academic College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Teaching Fellowship and the Healthcare Simulation Essentials course through the Center for Medical Simulation.

Dr. Moadel is the Director for Simulation at North Shore University Hospital, Northwell Health and serves as the Director of the Healthcare Simulation Fellowship within the Emergency Medicine Service Line at Northwell Health. She is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Prior her current roles, Dr. Moadel completed a Medical Simulation Fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine and continued for two years as the Director for Medical Student Simulation at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Center for Medical Simulation. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy’s Young Educator Award. She currently serves on the Simulation Academy Executive Board as Treasurer and serves as the lead for the Research Consultation Service as well as a liaison to the CORD Simulation Community of Practice on their joint Simulation Consult Service. Dr. Moadel's research interests include a grant-funded project utilizing simulation for microaggressions training, and utilizing simulation for novel applications in medical education.