President, Society for Simulation in Healthcare,
Executive Director and CEO of University of South Florida (USF) Health’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation
 

Dr. Okuda is the Executive Director and CEO of USF Health’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS), Health Professions Conferencing Corporation (HPCC). In this role, he has oversight of an 8300 m2 state of the art, advanced training facility, with the mission of creating and providing experiential learning that improves clinical skills and patient care in the community and around the globe. In addition to this role, Dr. Okuda also serves as USF Health’s Associate Vice President of the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice focused on creating interprofessional learning opportunities from early healthcare training to clinical practice. He is Professor at the Morsani College of Medicine and practices clinically in the emergency department at Tampa General Hospital. 
Previously, Dr. Okuda was the national medical director for the Simulation Learning Education and Research Network (SimLEARN) where he established national strategy and business plans for simulation-based programs at more than 150 U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs’ medical facilities. He was also the director of the Institute for Medical Simulation and Advanced Learning for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the largest public health system in the United States. 
Dr. Okuda received his Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience from Brown University, his medical degree from New York Medical College, and his certificate in Healthcare Modeling and Simulation from the Naval Postgraduate School in California. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he served as their chief resident, and then completed a clinical quality fellowship from the Greater New York Hospital Association.  He is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and an inaugural fellow of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare Academy. He has also served as a chair or member of several medical and simulation committees; and most recently serves as President for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. 

Past President of SESAM (Society for Simulation in Europe)

Director Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor Medical Simulation Center

Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences

Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, UAE

Ralf Krage is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) and Consultant Anesthesiologist at Mediclinic in Dubai, UAE. He is also the director of the KHMSC simulation center
in Dubai. From 2007 until 2019 he was a Consultant Anesthesiologist and Residency Program Director at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Between 2019 – 2021 he served as Head of Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine in Neuburg, Germany.
His special interests focus on advancing medical education through simulation-based learning, Human Factor issues and airway management training. He has a record of numerous invited presentations on international conferences on Human Factors, patient safety, simulation-based learning and airway management. Since the early 2000's he is promoting simulation-based learning, serving as director of two major simulation centers in Germany and the Netherlands.
He is Past President of SESAM (Society for Simulation in Europe) after serving as president between 2013-2015 (EC member 2011-2017) and was vice-president of
the DSSH 2011-2016 (Dutch society for Simulation in Healthcare). For the GNSH association (Global network for Simulation in Healthcare) he served as a board member from 2015-2019.
He is the initiator of the scientific journal ‘Advances in Simulation’ and serves on the international Advisory Board. Ralf is an international partner and board member (2017-2020) of the EUSIM group since 2007 and served on numerous instructor courses (inter)nationally as faculty and course director. Also he is an examiner for the European Diploma of Anesthesiology and Intensive care (EDAIC) of the European Anesthesia Society (ESAIC).

Associate Professor at the Duke University School of Nursing 

Benjamin Smallheer is an Associate Professor at the Duke University School of Nursing where he serves as the Lead Faculty of the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program. In addition to his academic appointment, he is an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) and Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and maintains an active clinical practice in critical care medicine at Duke University.
Dr. Smallheer’s research is dedicated to improving the educational experience of nursing students.  He is internationally recognized for his use of simulation and alternative teaching strategies that create learning environments that allow students to transition from the role of a bedside nurse to one of an advanced practice providers.  
Dr. Smallheer received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Florida State University and his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Science from Vanderbilt University. He completed a Post-masters Certificate in Family Practice Nursing from Tennessee State University.  He is board certified as an ACNP and FNP through the American Nurses Credentialing Center and also holds certifications as a Certified Nurse Educator and Critical Care Certified Registered Nurse.   
 

President of the Pan Asia Simulation Society in Healthcare 
Director, Medical Simulation Centre and Professor of Surgery at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute

Dr Dinker Pai is a general surgeon by training. He has been active in simulation-based healthcare education for the last 15 years. At present he is Professor of Surgery and Director of the Simulation Centre at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry, India. He obtained the Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) certification from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, USA in 2016. He is a certified TeamSTEPPS master trainer for team training for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), USA. He is certified by NHET-SIM certification course at Monash University, Australia and has completed the Bristol Boston Masterclass for Simulation. He is the President of the Pan Asia Simulation Society in Healthcare and Founder-secretary and life member of the Singapore Society for Healthcare simulation. He is a life member of the Malaysian Society for Simulation in Healthcare and Board member for PediSTARS simulation society, India. He is a Senior Editor for the International Journal of Healthcare Simulation-Advances in Theory and Practice. He has been the Chairperson of the technical and advisory committees for simulation of the Kerala University of Health Sciences and is a Visiting Consultant for Simulation at many medical colleges in India and abroad. This year he was elected as a Fellow of the prestigious Academy of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and is the only one in South Asia to have this honour. He has written several chapters and has published more than 50 articles on simulation education and surgery in journals and textbooks. 
 

President of (Gathering of Healthcare Simulation Technology Specialists) SimGHOSTS
Simulation Technology Specialist at Faculty of Medicine University of British Columbia, Canada
 

Ferooz Sekandarpoor MSc-IT
President of (Gathering of Healthcare Simulation Technology Specialists) SimGHOSTS
And
Simulation Technology Specialist at Faculty of Medicine University of British Columbia, Canada
Ferooz Sekandarpoor is the Simulation Technology Specialist at the Faculty of the Medicine University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is also the simulation subject matter expert for the faculty of medicine for the province of British Columbia. 
He is an integral member of the Digital Solutions and EdTech team for the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. His position provides simulation technology leadership and expertise for the health professions education programs within the faculty. He also supports the development and operational transition of the Faculty of Medicine's simulation centers throughout British Columbia. 
Ferooz is also the President of The Gathering of Healthcare Simulation Technology Specialists (SimGHOSTS), an international non-profit organization based in the USA. This innovative organization has been developed to provide annual hands-on training events to those operating simulation-based technology. His responsibilities will include leadership as a board member with the primary focus on engaging with the medical simulation-based community and expanding the services of SimGHOSTS globally. 
He was one of the founders and chair of the BC Simulation Network in the province. The BC Simulation Network currently acts as a provincial community of practice to aid British Columbia-based simulation centers with a forum to discuss and advance ideas in the intersection of health professions simulation and technology. 
The Centre of Excellence for Simulation Education and Innovation, where Ferooz Sekandarpoor previously worked, is one of the very first centers to be accredited by the American College of Surgeons USA and the first center to be accredited by the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.
He has over 18 years of experience as an IT professional, Simulation Technology Specialist, and AV Specialist in the Healthcare and Academic Environment. 
To know more about Ferooz, find him on his LinkedIn page or his email Ferooz@SimGHOTS.org
 

Past President, Association of SP Educators (ASPE),Director of Simulation Education,University of California San Diego School of Medicine

Robert MacAulay is a Canadian-American citizen living in San Diego, California where he has worked for the past 18 years at the University of California San Diego, School of Medicine as a standardized patient, a standardized patient educator and now as the Director of Simulation Education. He has been active in simulation education at the local level with the California Consortium for the Assessment of Clinical Competency (CCACC) as a member and former Chair of the Trainers’ Committee and on the national/international scene as a proud member of the Association of SP Educators (ASPE), the global network for human simulation education in healthcare, where he serves as immediate Past-President.

Founder & CEO InPASS Institute for Patient Safety & Teamtraining

Dr. med. Marcus Rall is founder and CEO of InPASS, Institut for Patient Safety & Team Training in Reutlingen, Germany with a focus on Human Factors, teamwork and simulation team training, as well as train-the-trainer concepts. He worked for 17 years as a physician in anesthesiology and prehospital emergency medicine. He studied medicine in Germany, Harvard (Boston) and Ann Arbor (Michigan) and he worked as a fire-fighter and paramedic. 
He is founding president of the German Society for Simulation in Healthcare DGSiM  and was Co-Chair of the IMSH World Congress of Simulation 2008. He is associate editor of the international journal Simulation in Healthcare.
He set up an international and interdisciplinary research collaboration in the field of patient safety, incident reporting and simulator training using crew resource management (CRM). 
He and his team educated more than 3.250 CRM simulator training instructors internationally. 
He co-authored 2 chapters in Miller´s Anesthesia textbook with David Gaba about Patient Simulators and Human Performance & Patient Safety, several chapters in the book Clinical Simulation as well as several overviews in Journals.
He was editor and associate editor for “Simulation in Healthcare”. Reviewer for many journals. 
His main interest is the improvement of patient safety with human factors based team trainings (CRM) with and without simulation.
 

Senior Director Institute for Healthcare Improvement 

Minara is a healthcare professional with over 18 years of experience in leading transformation and quality improvement across healthcare delivery systems in the UK, Qatar and Bangladesh.  She has led multiple projects to improve both clinical and operational practices.  She is also an advocate for the use of simulation having introduced it as a part of her work with Hamad Medical Corporation to improve patient flow.   

Director – Virtual Medical Environments Laboratory at the National Capital Area Medical Simulation Center (SimCen) , Uniformed Services University (USUHS)

Dr. Liu is the Director of the Virtual Medical Environments Laboratory at the National Capital Area Medical Simulation Center (SimCen) of the Uniformed Services University (USUHS). He is involved in defining the SimCen's strategic research goals, and directing the development of the SimCen's computer-based medical training systems. Dr. Liu is the principal developer of the SimCen’s  pericardiocentesis and diagnostic peritoneal lavage simulators. They are the world's first computer-based trainers for these procedures. These simulators were used in the nation's first Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course conducted without animals or cadavers. Dr. Liu is also the principal architect for the SimCen's Wide Area Virtual Environment (WAVE), a 10,000 sq. ft. total immersion virtual environment for mass casualty training, with applications in military medical readiness, and homeland defense.

Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Simulation Program Director, National University Hospital  CenMED Associate at Centre for Medical Education (CenMED), National University of Singapore. 

Dr Ashokka Balakrishnan is a Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Simulation Program Director (anesthesia division) at National University Hospital and CenMED Associate at Centre for Medical Education (CenMED), National University of Singapore. He is the director of Masters in Health Professions Education (MHPE) program for the Maastricht-Singapore Collaboration at the Academy of Medicine, Singapore.
He started his career in Anaesthesia in 2002 and has 17 years of experience in high fidelity simulation based undergraduate, postgraduate medical and allied health acute care teaching. He has a Fellowship from the Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthesiologists (FANZCA) and a Master in Health professions education (MHPE) from Maastricht, Netherlands.  He holds the office of the treasurer for the Asia Oceanic Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine (AOSRA-PM) and board member of the Pan Asia Society of Simulation (PASSH).
His special interests are obstetric and regional anesthesia, postgraduate exam support, simulation based postgraduate and undergraduate education, Interprofessional education through acute care simulation and multidisciplinary team training. 
He has conducted international workshops in simulation, airway and crisis management for acute care practitioners, trauma teams, anaesthesiologists and nursing delegates and hosted medical education faculty development programs in the USA, Taiwan, Philippines, China, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia & India.
He is a reviewer of BMJ Open, the Advances in Health Sciences Education (AHSE), Advances In Simulation, Annals Of Medicine Singapore, The Asia Pacific Scholar (TAPS), Nurse Media and Singapore Medical journal. 
 

Chief Medical Officer
Assosciate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Pozner has 25 years of experience as an emergency physician and educator. He graduated from Tufts University Medical School and completed residencies in internal medicine at Harvard and emergency medicine at UCLA. Before joining EBSCO, he was an associate professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School where he founded the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Under his leadership, STRATUS became a world-renowned interprofessional simulation center. Among his many honors, Dr. Pozner has won numerous teaching awards and is an inaugural fellow of the Society of Simulation in Healthcare. He is an invited national and international speaker.

Director of Emergency Medical Services
Director of Medical Simulation Fellowship,
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of California Irvine School of Medicine

Dr. C. Eric McCoy is a professor of emergency medicine at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine who serves in several roles, including director of the Emergency Medicine Simulation Fellowship, director of Emergency Medical Services for UC Irvine Medical Center, and instructor for the clinical epidemiology and biostatistics course for the school of medicine. Dr. McCoy also travels internationally to provide instruction on Evidence-Based Medicine to healthcare providers and researchers at the institution where Evidence-Based Medicine was born, McMaster University.  He graduated from UCSF with an area of concentration in medical education. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at UC Irvine and subsequently pursued fellowship training in Emergency Medical Services/Disaster medical sciences at UC Irvine while simultaneously pursuing a Master of Public Health degree in health policy and management at UCLA. His interests include curriculum design & development, implementing and studying simulation-based educational delivery methods in the context of deliberate practice and expert performance, Emergency Medical Services research related to trauma, triage, and public health, and creating and delivering content to assist healthcare providers and educators build their fund of knowledge and skill set in Evidence-Based Medicine.

Professor of Simulation Education in Healthcare, Monash University,  Professor of Surgical Education, Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Australia

Debra Nestel is Professor of Simulation Education in Healthcare, Monash University, and Professor of Surgical Education, Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Australia. Debra is Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Healthcare Simulation (www.ijohs.com).  
She is program lead for the Graduate Programs in Clinical Simulation (Monash University) and the Graduate Programs in Surgical Education (University of Melbourne). Debra leads a national faculty development program for simulation practitioners – NHET-Sim (www.nhet-sim.edu.au). In 2021, Debra received the award of Member of the Order of Australia for her service to healthcare simulation. She has received other national awards for her work in healthcare simulation and a Presidential Citation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Debra has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in health professions education and edited four books and a major reference work. 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Debra_Nestel 

Director of Education
STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation for training, research and education at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH).
 

Dr. Navedo is a health professions educator who is highly sought for her depth of educational expertise and engaging approach to learning.  She was the founding director of one of the first simulation focused graduate certificates as well as a masters degree program, which had over 100 graduates, who were mostly physicians.   She transitioned to her current role as Director of Education at the STRATUS Center at Mass General Brigham in 2019, and has authored chapters in three simulation texts since.  Dr. Navedo is committed to effective and efficient simulation-based learning innovations through better understanding of how learning works.

Senior Attending Psychologist Boston Children's Hospital, Faculty Member Center for Bioethics, Associate Professor of Psychology Harvard Medical School

Elaine C. Meyer is a nurse, clinical psychologist, and ethicist. She is a senior attending psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, faculty at the Center for Bioethics, and associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. She received her BSN and MSN from the University of Pennsylvania, PhD from University of Rhode Island, and MBE from Harvard Medical School. Her work emphasizes patient/family perspectives and priorities, end-of-life care, challenging conversations in healthcare, and simulation education. Ethics interests focus on everyday clinical ethical encounters, patient advocacy, serving vulnerable populations, and humanism in healthcare. She is a fellow of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and Associate Editor of Simulation in Healthcare. She delivered a TEDx Talk entitled, “On Being Present, Not Perfect,” presented nationally and internationally, and has published over 125 peer-reviewed articles. 

Emergency medicine consultant
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Designated Institutional Official at Oman Medical Specialty Board

Dr. Houd Al Abri, an emergency medicine consultant, has been the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Designated Institutional Official at Oman Medical Specialty Board since July 2020.
Dr. Al Abri obtained his MD from Sultan Qaboos University, College of Medicine and Health Sciences in 1997 and did his emergency medicine residency at OMSB and King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  He  obtained emergency medicine certification from both the Saudi Board and the Arab Board in 2007.

Dr. Al Abri became the chairman of the OMSB Emergency Medicine Education Committee from 2007 to 2016 and has been instrumental in the development of the OMBS Emergency Medicine training program.

He is also the founder of the OMSB Medical Simulation Center where he served as the Director from March 2009 to 2020.  He was actively involved in planning, establishing, and advancing the center.  He attended various simulation-related conferences and workshops, and in collaboration with the program Simulation Subcommittees, facilitated the development of various program-related simulation activities.

In 2020, he was appointed as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Designated Institutional Official (DIO).  He is responsible for overseeing all training programs to ensure the delivery of high-quality postgraduate medical education.  This includes adherence to the set OMSB standards and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education International (ACGME-I) requirements.  He has also been an active participant of international graduate medical education conferences such as the International Conference on Residency Education hosted by the Royal College and Physicians of Surgeons of Canada, the ACGME Annual Educational Conference, and the Association for Medical Education in Europe.

Dr. Al Abri is involved in faculty development workshops such as train the training, etc.  He is also involved in the Surgical Foundation Program (SFP) and provides lectures to surgical residents.

In 2020, Dr. Al Abri received the ACGME International Physician Educator award for his contribution to graduate medical education in Oman.
 

Principal Lecturer in medical simulation in the department of post graduate medical education at the University of Hertfordshire

Ken Spearpoint worked in healthcare for more than 33 years. Ken is an intensive care trained nurse who worked in critical care in the NHS for 29 years. In the last 12 years of his NHS career he was Consultant Nurse in Resuscitation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and had a proven track record in delivering a high-quality resuscitation service with a focus on patient safety. Ken has an MSc in Advanced Practice in Critical Care and an MPhil in Health Research. Ken has an established research and publication portfolio and has been involved in a number of regional, national and international research initiatives in the field of resuscitation. He has been using simulation based medical education since 1989. Ken is a principal lecturer in medical simulation in the department of post graduate medical education at the University of Hertfordshire and since 2010 he has been the programme director of the MSc in Health & Medical Simulation. He first came to the University of Hertfordshire in 2010 on a long-term secondment, and he was appointed full time in 2016. Ken is an honorary life member of the Resuscitation Council UK and currently a member of the Resuscitation Council UK research and development committee.

Senior Consultant Emergency Physician
Vice President, Pan Asian Simulation Society in Healthcare (PASSH)
Chairman of Malaysia Society for Simulation in Healthcare (MaSSH)

Ismail Mohd Saiboon, senior Emergency Physician consultant and a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) with the Emergency Department,  Faculty of Medicine Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He was the first Professor in Emergency Medicine (EM) in Malaysia and first Malaysian who obtained CHSE certification from SSH USA. Founder of the Malaysian College of Emergency Physicians and Malaysian Society for Simulation in Healthcare (MaSSH). 

He has developed and initiated academic programs such  the as post-graduate EM training program (Dr. Em.Med UKM) and BSc.E.Med (paramedic) In medical education and healthcare simulation he has developed the Fellowship in Clinical Simulation program, simulation educator courses series, the Sim@UKM initiatives, professional certificate in Healthcare Education through Active Learning (HEAL) course, and also one of the modules in the Sijil Professional Pengajaran Pendidikan Tinggi (SPPPT) for UKM. 
Key research areas are cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), pre-hospital care, healthcare simulation and healthcare technology innovation. Currently he has published more than 70 journal papers, 4 books, 4 chapters-in-a-book and has won several innovation awards both locally and internationally , including holding several patents. Among the innovation awards were the national ITEX, MTE, KNovasi, AKRI 2018 and MyRA Outstanding Investigator awards.  
Currently , he is a UKM Senate member, Chairman of the National Subspecialty Education Committee (SSC-EDU) Emergency Medicine (MMC), AHA’s Training-Center-Coordinator, ATLS instructor, Chairman Malaysian Society for Simulation in Healthcare (MaSSH), Vice-President Pan-Asian Simulation Society Healthcare (PASSH) and working taskforce for Healthcare Simulation Ethic group SSH. At leisure, he likes to innovate, cycle, swim and travel.
 

Director – Training and Educational Center for Healthcare Simulation (TECHS)
Associate Professor Department of Emergency Medicine Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso
 

 Dr. Crawford is Director of the Training and Educational Center for Healthcare Simulation (TECHS) at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) El Paso. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at TTUHSC El Paso. In addition to his faculty position he also serves as the educational technology consultant for the Southwest Center for Pediatric Environmental Health, and is a board member for SimGHOSTS, a non-profit group dedicated to providing technology education and innovation to simulation centers worldwide. He has presented both in the US and internationally on topics related to audio/video design, information technology, simulation operations, task trainer design, and procedural training. He has served as a reviewer and author for standards of best practice and conference presentation topics related to simulation and technology supported  education. He is also Editor of the textbook Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Operations, Technology, and Innovative Practice.

Dr. Crawford completed his emergency medicine residency and served as Chief Resident of research and technology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso in 2012. Dr. Crawford earned his M.D. from Rush University in Chicago in 2009 and a bachelor’s degree in physics from The Colorado College in 2004. He continues to search for economical and innovative design ideas to enhance the world of healthcare education by bringing a more engaging and educational experience to all learners.
 

Chief of Emergency Medicine and EMS , Kuwait Hospital

Selma Alqattan is Chief of Emergency Medicine and EMS at Kuwait Hospital, Kuwait. She has established the first ED faculty development program in Kuwait, a 33 week Interprofessional educational collaborative which allows staff in the emergency department stay with updated practice and enhance their leadership skills. Selma is a master instructor in point of care ultrasound with the Canadian point of care ultrasound society, which led to the establishing a center of excellence for teaching point of care ultrasound in Kuwait and accredited by the society. Selma was the deputy program director and co-founder of the Kuwaiti residency for Emergency Medicine. Selma became very integrated with medical education, making her obtain a masters in healthcare education from MGH IHP and is currently a PhD candidate in medical education focusing on integrating Interprofessional education in to postgraduate medical education. Selma is also the chief editor of medical education for the Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine. Selma finished a residency in Emergency medicine from Saudi Arabia and a fellowship in emergency medicine and trauma from University of Toronto and a diploma in healthcare administration and quality management from Gates, Canada

 Senior Consultant in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at King Fahad Medical City (KFMC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Sanford Health in Fargo, ND, USA

Dr. Lababidi is a Senior Consultant in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at King Fahad Medical City (KFMC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Sanford Health in Fargo, ND, USA. He is an American Board certified in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Lababidi has special expertise in simulation-based education. He established and directed The Center for Research, Education and Simulation Enhanced Training (CRESENT) at KFMC. He is the co-founder and vice-president of the Saudi Society for Simulation in Healthcare, and a member of the Accreditation Committee at the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH).
Dr. Lababidi is on the editorial board and/or reviewer of many scientific journals. He is completing his Ph.D. in Health Professions Education at MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston. His research interests include: severe asthma, simulation skills acquisition and maintenance, and high-stakes simulation assessment. Dr. Lababidi has written three book chapters on simulation, has more than 50 publications in peer review journals, and more than 500 presentations at national, regional and international conferences. 
 

Founder & CEO of the World's Leading Healthcare Simulation Resource Website;HealthySimulation.com

Lance Baily, BA, EMT-B, is the Founder & CEO of HealthySimulation.com, the world's leading healthcare simulation resource website. While serving as the Director of the Nevada System of Higher Education’s multi-institutional multi-disciplinary Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas from 2009 to 2012, Lance started this independent resource website to better support the international Healthcare Simulation community. The website, newsletter, youtube, and social media accounts help thousands of unique visitors a month with the latest medical simulation-related news, CE/CME webinars and course content, job postings, conference listings, expert interviews, helpful guides, product demonstrations, and more. He is also the Founder of the 501(c)3 non-profit organization SimGHOSTS, co-editor of “Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Operations, Technology, and Innovative Practice", and a proud new father of two wonderful daughters with his wife in Las Vegas, NV.

Emergency Medicine Consultant 
Family Medicine Physician 
Associate Program Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program 
Competition Sites Medical Training Manager at the Supreme Committee for Delivery 
and Legacy 
FIFA World CupTM Albaty stadium Medical Venue manager

Consultant in the Department of emergency medicine and she also joined Itqan simulation center helping to introduce simulation to different departments across the HMC. Dr Muna is dedicated to working with both physicians and nurses to improve quality and safety of medical services in the Emergency Department through training with focus on simulation as a modality. 
Dr. AL-Musleh is also heavily involved in big sports events. She has been seconded to the Supreme committee of delivery and legacy (SC) and works with the SC Medical Affairs team.Her main role is to provide training to the FIFA World Cup 2022 (FWC22) medical workforce, in order to prepare them for their duties during the event. The goal of this training is to ensure the health care provided in Qatar during FWC22 to be recognized as the Gold Standard of medical care at a FIFA World CupTM. Dr AL-Musleh has worked as the venue medical manager for many sports events such as the Arab cup, CAF and the Turkish super cup. She has been assigned as the venue medical manager for Albayt Stadium, the second largest FWC22 stadium and where the opening ceremony will be held. Dr AL-Mulseh has led the many measures taken to prevent heat-related illnesses in athletes in the summer of 2021 to enable the country to host many sports events, notably football tournaments during the hot summers. This included the establishment of prehospital heat clinics; to rapidly treat heat-related illnesses in football venues and the development of evidence based prehospital treatment algorithms to help guide management. She has also led the training of the medical staff working in these clinics using simulation and was involved in the Ministry of Public Health national wide educational campaigns to prevent heat related illnesses in general.

Associate Professor in Musculoskeletal Imaging and Head of 
Medical Imaging and Head of the Department of Health and Care 
Professions, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of 
Exeter.

Karen Knapp is an Associate Professor in Musculoskeletal Imaging and Head of the Department of Health and Care Professions at the University of Exeter.  Karen’s primary research interest is in bone health, osteoporosis and associated pathologies, along with developing and testing Artificial Intelligence (AI) software.  Karen is a DXA reporting radiographer and still undertakes clinical practice in this specialist area. Combining a passion for research and education with her clinical background, Karen utilises research-led teaching to inspire students.  With a background in teaching undergraduate and post-graduate students from master’s through to professional doctorates and supervising  PhD students, Karen is keen to engage at all levels of higher education.  Karen is chair of the Bone Densitometry Training and Accreditation Panel at the Royal Osteoporosis Society and chair of the European Federation of Radiographer Societies Research Committee. 

 Director of Medical Education, Clinical Skills Coordinator, School of Medicine, Taylor’s University, Malaysia.  

Dr Narendiran, an UN Consultant for “Simulation Training Centers”, is a Director of Medical Education, Clinical Skills Coordinator, School of Medicine, Taylor’s University, Malaysia.  He is a medical doctor with Master’s in Medical Education (University of Dundee) and MBA (Hospital Administration). 

He works as a full-time staff in the Human Patient Simulation centre, facilitating simulation training to undergraduate medical students for the past 18 years. Since 2010, he is involved in infrastructure development, enhancing pedagogy of healthcare simulation while strengthening the connections across the basic sciences and clinical disciplines, and management leadership in healthcare simulation in and around Malaysia. 

His interests are in Simulation-Based Education Curriculum Development, Designing educational strategies for better first-year experience.

Assistant Professor at the Center for Medical Education and Career Development, Fukushima Medical University, Japan

Dr. Sayaka Oikawa is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Medical Education and Career Development, Fukushima Medical University, Japan, and the Adjunct Assistant Professor of the SimTiki Medical Education Simulation Center at the John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. She is a certified Emergency Medicine physician, and holds a Master of Science degree in Health Professions Education from the Maastricht University. She has garnered research awards from Pan Asia Simulation Society in Healthcare (PASSH), and the Japan Society for Medical Education (JSME). As a member of the JSMEInternationalization Committee, and a research secretary of the PASSH, she has contributed to the activation of simulation-based education and related medical educationresearch in the Asia-Pacific region, and engaged in international collaboration and development in the field of medical education. Her current research interests includefaculty development, cultural awareness and simulation-based education.