Michael “MJ” Johnson is a Boeing 777 Captain, simulator instructor, and line check airman for FedEx Express in Memphis, TN. MJ is also a retired Lieutenant Colonel who was an aircraft commander and instructor pilot in the United States Air Force.

Dr. Keith Littlewood, MD FASA FSSH, is the Assistant Dean of Clinical Skills Education, Vice Chair of the Anesthesiology Department, Medical Director of the School of Medicine Simulation Center, and Director of the Clinical Performance Education Center at the University of Virginia Health Sciences System

Dr. Dinesh Palipana, OAM, is an Australian doctor, lawyer, scientist and disability advocate. Dr. Palipana works in the emergency department at the Gold Coast University Hospital. He is a senior lecturer at the Griffith University and adjunct research fellow at the Menzies Health Institute of Queensland. He is a research fellow at the Jamieson Trauma Institute. Dr. Palipana is a researcher in spinal cord injury and doctor for the Gold Coast Titans physical disability rugby team. He is a senior advisor to the Disability Royal Commission and ambassador to the Human Rights Commission’s Include Ability program. Dr. Palipana was a 2021 International Day of People with Disability ambassador and 2021 Queensland Australian of the Year.

Gayle Gliva-McConvey, one of the pioneers of Standardized Patient (SP) work, has integrated SP methodology into clinical skills assessments and trainings for over 46 years. Ms. Gliva-McConvey owns Gliva-McConvey & Associates.

Jennifer Arnold, MD, MSc, FAAP is the Program Director at Boston Children's Hospital Simulator Program (SimPeds) and Attending Neonatologist in the Maternal Fetal Care Program

Sabrina Koh is the Campus Director at the Sengkang General Hospital (SKH), SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Medical Simulation

Ricky Harris is an SP at the University of Illinois Chicago's SAIL. He is also a composer, performer, and music director throughout the city of Chicago. 

In this episode, recorded live for the 2021 Healthcare Simulation Week,  we speak with Dr. Juli Maxworthy, an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Profession at the University of San Francisco and the 2021 President of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. 

Dr. Dinker Pai is a general surgeon by training, who has been active in the Simulation Based Healthcare Education (SBHE) for the last 10 years. At present, he is Professor of Surgery and Director of the Simulation Centre at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry, India.  

Kati Maxkenzie is the Simulation Center Manager at Alameda Health System.

Dr. Edgar Herrera is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Anahuac University and President of the Mexican Society for Simulation and Health Sciences (Sociedad Mexicana de Simulacion en Ciencias de la Salud) Our interpreter for this episode was Maria Gabriela Valle Coto, a 3rd year medical student at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. 

Dr. Samreen Vora is the Medical Director of Simulation and an Emergency Medicine Physician at Children's Minnesota Hospital. 

Dr. Julie Cary DVM, MS, DACVS-LA is the Director of the Clinical Communication Program and the Clinical Simulation Center at Washington State University, College of Veterinary Medicine.

Jamie Pitt is the Assistant Director of Education for Standardized and Simulated Patients at The University of Tennessee's Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation (CHIPS)

Dr. Shawn Galin, Associate Professor of Medicine, is the Director of the Office of Standardized Patient Education (OSPE) at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also the President-Elect for the Association of Standardized Patient Educators

Adam Cheng MD, FRCPC is the Director of Research and Development of the KidSIM Simulation Program at Alberta Children’s Hospital and is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Canada.

Jesika S. Gavilanes is the Operations Director at theMark Richardson Interprofessional Simulation Center (MRISC).

Dr. Tamara Owens is the Founding Director of the Clinical Skills and Simulation Centers at Howard University Health Sciences in Washington, DC. 

Dr. Grant is on the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Bristol Medical School. He is the Simulation & Inter-Professional Learning Lead and Co-Lead of WOW helical Theme. In the Translational Health Sciences, he is the Director of the Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Improvement program and Co-Director in the Masters in Healthcare Management program.

Dr. Bryant is the Executive Director of Simulation and Assistant Professor at the Columbia University School of Nursing