Stephanie Cohen, DO

My name is Stephanie Cohen and I completed my residency training at the University at Buffalo and served as chief resident in 2021. I went on to complete simulation fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville Florida in 2022. I am currently a core faculty member, simulation director, and simulation fellowship director and the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. I have been a member of SAEM since I began fellowship and have become very involved over the past few years. Before serving on the executive committee in 2022, I helped on numerous subcommittees and helped to write and judge SimWars cases. I quickly realized how beneficial the Simulation Academy can be to its members and really strived to get involved as much as possible. I have been the VP of membership the past two years; in this time I have begun to accomplish many endeavors such as increasing membership and funding, starting a mentorship program, creating a quarterly engagement award and beginning a gamification initiative in order to help recruit members and recognize members for all of the amazing things they are doing. If elected to continue for a second term, I would like to continue these endeavors and add even more in order to make our members feel like this academy is beneficial to them and their careers, no matter what level of training they are in from medical student to senior faculty.