The ACS-AEI would like to thank our faculty this year for presenting their phenomenal content, affording us with opportunities to reflect on how to move the needle within the surgical simulation-based education, research, and training community. Your contributions are essential for making this annual forum a success.
2023 Annual Surgical Simulation Summit Faculty
Mark Aeder MD, MS, FACS, FAST, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, OH
James P. Bagian, MD, PE, FAsMA, Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering, Department of Anesthesiology, and the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Susan Carter, MD, FACOG, FACS, 2023 ACS-AEI Program Committee, Rocky Vista University, Englewood, CO
Aaron M. Cheng, MD, FACS, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
Lou Clark, PhD, MFA, Executive Director, M Simulation; Minneapolis, MN
Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Medical Simulation, Boston
Shannon DiMarco, MSHS, CHSOS, doctoral student, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, FACS, Washington University School of Medicine, The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, and ACS Board of Regents, St. Louis, MO
Brenton R. Franklin, MD, MHPE, FACS, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
Fanny Gabrysz-Forget, MD, MSc, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC
Jenny Garnett, CST, MFA, University of Washington WWAMI Institute for Simulation in Healthcare, Seattle, WA
Jesika S. Gavilanes, MATESOL, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Simulation – Office of the Provost, Portland
Julie A. Hartman, DC, MS, CCRP, CHSE, Center for Procedural Skills and Simulation, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City
Nehal Khamis, MD, PhD, MHPE, MAMSE (affil.), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA and KSU Clinical Skills and Simulation Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Samuel Kim, MD, FACS, general and cardiothoracic surgery, Northwestern School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Melinda Klar, RN, University of Tennessee Center for Advanced Medical Simulation, Knoxville
Leonard Lamsen, MD, University of Tennessee Center for Advanced Medical Simulation, UT Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville
James N. Lau, MD, MHPE, FACS, Department of Surgery, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL
Gyusung Isaiah Lee, PhD, ACS Simulation-Based Surgical Education and Training, Chicago, IL
Luis Llerena, MD, FACS, University of South Florida Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, Tampa
Amy Lu, MD MPH, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Tonya Martino, RN, BSN, ND, University of Washington Medicine - WWAMI Institute for Simulation in Healthcare (WISH), Seattle
Marilee McBoyle, MD, FACS, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita
Angela L. Mitchell, MBA, Director, Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Education (MITIE), TX
Dmitry Nepomnayshy MD, MSc, FACS, Lahey Hospital Center for Simulation and Professional Development, Burlington, MA
Ngan Nguyen, PhD, CHSE, CRP, Department of Foundational Medical Studies; Department of Surgery (secondary), Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and Applebaum Simulation Learning Institute, Three Oaks, MI
Tamara L. Owens, PhD, MEd, CHSE, Clinical Skills and Simulation Centers, Howard University Health Sciences Clinical Skills Center, Washington, DC
John T. Paige, MD, FACS, Louisiana State University Health New Orleans School of Medicine, New Orleans
Alexander Perez, MD, MSHCT, FACS, University of Texas Medical Branch and ACS-AEI Program Committee, Galveston
May Pian-Smith, MD, MS, Harvard Medical School and Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Carla M. Pugh, MD, PhD, FACS, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA
Robert V. Rege, MD, FACS, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Craig A. Reickert, MD MBA, FACS, FASCRS, Henry Ford Hospital Center for Simulation, Education and Research, Detroit, MI
Richard K. Reznick, MD, FACS, FRCSC, Queen’s University and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Kingston, ON
Homero Rivas, MD, MBA, FACS, FASMBS, DABOM, The Future, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Victoria Roach, PhD, Division of Healthcare Simulation Science, University of Washington, Seattle
Judy Roark, CST, University of Tennessee Center for Advanced Medical Simulation, Knoxville, TN
David A. Rogers, MD, MHPE, MA, FACS, FAAP, Pediatrics and Medical Education, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Heersink School of Medicine
Deborah M. Rooney, PhD, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor
Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FACS, FRCSC, FSACME, MAMSE, ACS Division of Education, and ACS Program for Accreditation of Education Institutes, Chicago, IL
Jorge Salazar, EMT-B, Center for Procedural Skills and Simulation, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City
Mary Catherine Santos, MD, FACS, Penn State Simulation Center, Hershey, PA
Lisa Satterthwaite, RPN, ORT, University of Toronto Surgical Skills Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON
Megan Sherman, MAEdHD, University of Washington, WWAMI Institute for Simulation in Healthcare (WISH), Seattle
Douglas P. Slakey, MD, MPH, FACS, MAMSE, DP Surgical, LLC, Lombard, IL
H. Steadman, MD, MS, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Houston Methodist Hospital, TX
Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS, FSSH, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis
Benjamin Stobbe, MBA, RN, University of Nebraska Medical Center iEXCEL, Omaha
Robert M. Sweet, MD, FACS, MAMSE, Surgery and Bioengineering (adj), University of Washington, Seattle
Dawn Swiderski, MSN, RN, CHSE, FSSH, Carolinas Simulation Center, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC
Areti Tillou, MD, MDEd, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS, ACS, Chicago, IL
Joseph Vitelli, PM, Center for Procedural Skills and Simulation, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City
Kevin Weiss, MD, MPH, Sponsoring Institutions and Clinical Learning Environments, American Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, IL
James Wu, MD, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Boris Zevin, MD, PhD, FACS, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
