Geoffrey Tobias Miller

Geoffrey Tobias Miller is the Associate Director of Research and Curriculum Development for the Division of Pre-hospital and Emergency Healthcare at the Michael S. Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education (GCRME), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
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Barbara Musgrave, MSN, RN, CPAN

Barbara is a nurse coordinator for the Professional Development Department at Kettering Medical Center.Over 30 years experience as an RN has provided Barbara Musgrave with the knowledge base for a variety of patient scenarios for the new simulation mannequin addition to the Professional Development Department at Kettering Medical Center.
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Stephen J. Nelson, CCEMTP

Steve is the Program Director for the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation within the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Brigham and Women‚ Hospital in Boston, MA. He is a nationally registered paramedic with over 30 years of experience in the pre-hospital arena and has a background in critical care, education, and EMS administration.
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Gretchen Matika

Gretchen Matika has been the Director of Operations at the Penn Medicine Clinical Simulation Center since 2008.

This 22,000 square foot simulation-based training facility provides instruction to physicians, students, and healthcare professionals from all across the University of Pennsylvania Health System, the Penn School of Medicine, as well as external institutions – all with the goal of improving patient safety.
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Julianne S. Perretta, MSEd, RRT-NPS

Julianne Perretta is the Simulation Educator for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center. Julianne completed her Baccalaureate Degree in Respiratory Therapy from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania/West Penn Hospital‚ School of Respiratory Care Services in 2001.

Julie Settles, MSN, ACNP, BC, CEN

Julie is an assistant clinical professor and program coordinator of the Acute Care NP program at Indiana University.

Julie was recently appointed as the Coordinator of Simulation Education for the IU School of Nursing at the 30,000 Square ft. Fairbanks Interdisciplinary Simulation Center.
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JoAnne Gatti-Petito

JoAnne Gatti-Petito is the Nursing Arts Laboratory Coordinator at Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing. She is responsible for teaching and coordinating skills labs, teaching edication calculation, and nursing informatics, as well as integrating simulation across the curriculum.
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Steve Donahue

Steve Donahue is the Director of the Hartford Hospital Simulation Center and has been utilizing simulation since 2001.

Steve is nationally registered respiratory therapist who has practiced for over 20 years.

As a Respiratory Therapist, Steve held many roles - most notably a flight therapist, as well as clinical specialist in cardiovascular service. He was a quality improvement coordinator for the Division of Cardiology.
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Chris Keenan RN, MSN, CCRN

Chris Keenan is the Senior Education Coordinator for SiTEL's Clinical Simulation Centers at MedStar Health.

Chris oversees and coordinates the integration of simulation into curricula for healthcare practitioners for MedStar Health and other simulation centers. Current research interests include competency based training, and improving safety through simulation.

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Alexis Battista

Alexis Battista is currently the Manager of the Clinical Simulation Center at the Washington Hospital Center, which manages 28 simulation programs and hosts over 5000 annual participants. She has concentrated the past 5 years on integrating medical simulation into existing education programs for pre-hospital, nursing and physician post-graduate education. Her interests include Obstetrical Simulation, Emergency Medicine Simulation & Simulation Center Operations Management.
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Sandra K. Voll

Sandra Voll is Director of the Clinical Learning & Simulation Center at Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Nursing's Clinical Learning Center in Richmond Virginia. The center is doing a vast array of different types of simulations, from high tech to low tech, highly complex for the last 3 and a half years. Simulations have branched out to multi-disciplinary events including the university medical center, School of Medicine, Physical Therapy, School of Social Work, School of Pharmacy and more. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Ohio State and her Master of Science degree from VCU, Medical College of Virginia. Sandra is a Certified Nurse Midwife, Family Nurse Practitioner and Women‚ Health Nurse Practitioner.

Pamela Leonard, RN, BSN, CCRN

Pamela received a BSN from The Catholic University of America and is completing her MS in Health Services Leadership and Management from the University of Maryland.

She brings over 15 years experience in critical care nursing and management. She now enjoys the challenge of integrating simulation training to all healthcare disciplines to improve individual and team performance and ultimately improving patient safety.

Pam established the first simulation training center for MedStar Health and now oversees the operations of several clinical simulation centers. Her professional interest includes advocacy for medical simulation training through AIMS (Advanced Initiatives in Medical Simulation) and integration simulation training and education programs throughout healthcare organizations.

Cindy Cunningham

Cindy is Director of Radford University Clinical Simulation Centers. The regional centers service six nursing schools in Southwest Virginia..

Tom Dongilli

Tom has over 15 years of experience in the Healthcare Simulation field. He has run thousands of simulation sessions amnd has a strong background in Simulation curriculum development, scenario programming and sim center operations. Tom also has designed or assisted in the design of hundreds of simulation centers and nursing labs in the US and around the world.

Angela Iorianni-Cimbak, MSN, RN

In her role as Director of the nursing simulation center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Angela assumes a host of diverse and unique responsibilities. Primarily, she has oversight of curricular development related to required simulation exercise for all undergraduate nursing students enrolled in clinical nursing courses. These activities include simulation exercises using high fidelity patient simulators, as well as static mannequins, for all patients across the life span.
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Laura Mosesso

Consulting: Direction to create and operate new or expanded simulation training centers.

Training: Operations and professional instructor guidance.

Curriculum: Developed by leading experts to address clinician training and patient safety concerns using simulation.

Simulation Information Management System: Framework which addresses facility management, curricula delivery and data.

Elizabeth H. (Penny) Marcum, RN

She is an Advanced Practice Clinical Nurse Specialist at Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. She was initially a LPN that returned to school her
for RN. She continued her education at Old Dominion University with final degree of Master of Science in Nursing. She has experience in med-surg, pediatrics, home health, education as well as management. She has implemented simulation at the hospital and will have an article published in the May/June issue of Medical-Surgical Clinical Matters on "Use of simulation in validating head to toe assessment skills."
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Aimee Smith

Aimee has been involved with simulation for over five years. She works with content experts to develop courses that are taught at WISER and other simulation centers across the country. She also helps to develop simulation courses to be sold commercially.