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• Walter Eppich
• Tanja Manser
• Jason Stein
• KT Waxman
• Amitai Ziv

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• Scott Frazier

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• Peter Brooks

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Keynote Speakers

Walter Eppich, MD, MEd
Assistant Professor of Paediatrics and Medical Education
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, USA

Walter Eppich is a paediatric emergency medicine physician at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, where he helps direct the kidSTAR Medical Education Program. He is Core Faculty at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Simulation responsible for designing and implementing a university-wide faculty development program on improving medical faculty feedback skills. He has been a co-investigator on simulation-related research grants related to curriculum development in pediatric emergency medicine, risk-informed in situ simulations and the effect of scripted debriefing on learning outcomes.

Nationally and internationally, he has taught on many basic and advanced simulation instructor courses as an international partner of EuSim, a European Simulation Collaborative led by Dr. Peter Dieckmann, and through strong collaborations with the Harvard-affiliated Center for Medical Simulation, as well as PAEDSIM, a German-speaking Paediatric Simulation Working Group.

He served as Co-Chair of the 2010 International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, the annual meeting of the Society of Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). Currently he is an At-Large-Member of the Board of Directors for the SSH as well as the Chair of the Affiliations Committee.

Tanja Manser, PhD
Associate Professor for Industrial Psychology and Human Factors,
University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Tanja Manser holds a Professorship funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation at University of Fribourg, Switzerland where she leads a team of psychologists conducting research on human performance and patient safety. Her work is focused on studying safety relevant behaviours such as teamwork in operating theatres and communication during postoperative handover in clinical and simulation environments.

In collaboration with her co-workers she has published on a variety of topics related to safety in healthcare including safety climate, clinical risk management, teamwork and coordination, and the use of simulation to train individuals and teams.

Tanja Manser serves as a member on the Patient Safety Committee of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and on the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Commission. She is currently also President of the Swiss Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

She received a MSc in psychology from the University of Freiburg (Germany), a PhD in psychology from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and a Habilitation in psychology from ETH Zurich (Switzerland). She has worked as a Post-Doc at the Department of Anesthesia, Stanford School of Medicine, and the Patient Simulation Center of Innovation, VA Palo Alto, with David Gaba (2003-2005) and as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Industrial Psychology Research Centre, University of Aberdeen (2009-2010) with Rhona Flin.

Jason Stein MD, SFHM
Associate Vice Chair for Quality,
Department of Medicine, and the
Director for Quality & Research, Division of Hospital Medicine,
Emory University, USA

Jason is the Associate Vice Chair for Quality in the Department of Medicine and the Director for Quality & Research for the Division of Hospital Medicine at Emory University.

Jason completed Internal Medicine residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis and the Advanced Training Program in Health Care Delivery Improvement at Intermountain Health Care. He is a former Web Editor for the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and Assistant Editor for the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Jason directed the Society of Hospital Medicine Quality Course for 4 years and is co-creator of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s national VTE Prevention Collaborative, a program which has provided distance and on-site mentoring to dozens of medical centers. Jason is currently a co-investigator and mentor for an AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants focused on Medication Reconciliation.

Jason has co-developed hospital care improvement strategies which have been incorporated into position papers published by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality and the National Health Service in the United Kingdom.

Through a longstanding effort to embed quality, reliability, and patient-centeredness into hospital care, Jason and his team at Emory have re-designed traditional medical wards into Accountable Care Units, each featuring unit-based physician teams, Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (SIBR), unit-level performance data, and unit-level management between nurse and physician co-directors. The ACU model has been implemented in multiple hospitals in the United States and in 2012 was formally selected for inclusion in the project portfolio of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center.

KT Waxman, DNP, MBA, RN, CNL
Assistant Professor,
University of San Francisco School of Nursing and Health Professions
Chair, DNP Department Director, California Simulation Alliance
California Institute for Nursing & Health Care, USA

Dr. KT Waxman is a nurse leader with nearly 30 years of experience in healthcare and corporate settings. She is the Program Director for the Bay Area Simulation Collaborative (BASC) and the California Simulation Alliance (CSA) at the California Institute for Nursing & Health Care (CINHC) in the San Francisco Bay Area, holding this position since 2005.

An internationally known speaker and author, Waxman is also the Co-Chairperson of the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, and a member of the International Association of Clinical Simulation and Learning. She is also a member of the International Committee for the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and a past-president of the Association for California Nurse Leaders (ACNL). 

Dr. Waxman's work has been published extensively and can be found in Simulation in Healthcare, Clinical Simulation for Nursing, Journal of Nursing Education, Nurse Leader and Creative Nursing journals, among others. In 2008, Dr. Waxman received her doctorate degree in nursing practice (DNP) from the University of San Francisco (USF), with an emphasis on health systems leadership and a concentration in clinical simulation. Her doctoral work includes simulation and human factors specifically in leadership development. She is a tenure-earning assistant professor at USF and holds a certification as a clinical nurse leader (CNL).

Amitai Ziv MD, MHA
Director, Risk Management Quality Assurance, and Medical Education Director, Israel Center for Medical Simulation

Founder and Director of MSR Israel Medical Simulation Centre Amitai Ziv MD, MHA, is Deputy Director of the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, Israel responsible for Risk Management, Quality Assurance and Medical Education; he is also founder and Director of MSR – the Israel Center for Medical Simulation.

Dr Ziv is a world renowned expert in the field of medical simulation and has been invited to give keynote talks at multiple medical conferences worldwide, as well as Grand Rounds at leading medical institutions including Mayo Clinic, McGill University, Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto, Foundation for Medical Education in Japan, Medical Council of Canada and Albert Einstein Medical Center in Sao Paolo Brazil.

He is responsible for Risk Management, Quality Assurance and Medical Education. He was a veteran combat pilot and instructor in the Israeli Air-Force. He graduated medical school and trained as a pediatrician in Israel (Hebrew University- Hadassah Medical Center) with sub-specialties in Adolescent Medicine (University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Medical Management (Sheba Medical Center). He also holds a Master's Degree (Tel-Aviv University) in Health Administration. Dr. Ziv is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. He is past chair of the Credentialing, Accreditation, Technology and Standards (CATS) Committee. He serves as a member of the WHO Patient Safety Alliance Expert Working Groups on Medical School Patient Safety Curriculum and on Patient Safety Technology. Dr. Ziv is a clinical senior lecturer at the Department of Medical Education of the Tel Aviv University Medical School. He also holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (Medical Education) and at the Case Western Reserve University (Pediatrics).

Invited Speakers

LtCol Scott Frazier
Consultant Anaesthesia in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and
Royal Centre for Defence Medicine / Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

Lt Col Scott Frazer is a Consultant Anaesthesia in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He is currently posted to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine which is aligned to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham which is Defence's R4 hospital and injured Military service personnel are transferred there from Deployed Operations for treatment.

Lt Col Frazer was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1959. He was qualified in Medicine from the University of Liverpool in 1982. His Anaesthetic training was undertaken in the Merseyside area for the most part. During his initial years as a consultant he was involved in Intensive Care Medicine, the Acute Pain Service and Paediatric Anaesthesia. He also established a Critical Care Outreach Service and was an instructor in ILS, ALS, ALERT and BATLS.

His Military work has included Field Hospital posts; in 2007 he was fortunate to be able to deploy with 34 Field Hospital and spent 3 months as the Clinical Director in Iraq. He was also posted for 2 years to HQ 2nd Medical Brigade as SO1 Clinical. The Bde HQ manages 3 Regular and 10 Reserve Field Hospitals as well as the training for these units on deployed Operations. His own Operational experience includes 3 tours of Iraq and 2 to Afghanistan. He has considerable experience in preparing clinical teams for deployment having worked closely with the Army Medical Services Training Centre over the last 6 years and he has developed simulation based military anaesthetic courses, including the flagship Military Operational Surgical Training (MOST) course, which is mandatory pre-deployment training for anaesthetists and surgeons. He is the current Defence Anaesthesia Lead for Education and Training and has published on simulation and team working. He is a section editor for a joint UK/US military anaesthesia text book due to be printed in 2012, focussing on resuscitation and management in the first 24hours after injury.

Lt Col Frazer has clinical interests in trauma anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia and acute pain management.

Panellists

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Convenor

Professor Peter Brooks
Director of the Australian Health Workforce Institute

Professor Brooks graduated from Monash University in 1967, returned to Tasmania for post-medical training then went to Scotland in 1972 as a researcher at the University of Glasgow. He returned to Hobart in 1976 to lecture in medicine before moving to Flinders University in 1978 as senior lecturer in medicine.

In 1982 he became Foundation Professor of Rheumatology, Sydney University, based at Royal North Shore Hospital. In 1991 he moved to St Vincent's Hospital as Professor of Medicine and Head of the Medical Professorial Unit, a post he held until he joined the University of Queensland in 1998. He was previously Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Queensland.

Professor Brooks has a long-standing interest in the future health workforce and while at the University of Queensland has overseen the development of inter-professional learning as a faculty-wide initiative, a new School of Nursing with nurse practitioner and midwifery streams and the development of physician assistant programs. Professor Brooks has been a strong advocate for exploring in an evidence-based fashion new models of health care and developing an approach to health care funding which provides better incentives for health promotion and disease prevention and an emphasis upon reducing long-term ‘load’ on the acute health system.