The Global Network for Simulation in Healthcare Board if Directors is composed of the following Thought Leaders:
- Lennox Huang (Canada) – Co-Chair
- Pam Jeffries (USA) – Co-Chair & Secretary
- Cynthia Mosher (UAE) – Treasurer
- Kellie Dionne Bryant (USA) – Director at Large
- KT Waxman (USA) – Director at Large
- Lucas Huang (USA) – Director at Large
- Makani Purva (UK) – Director at Large
- Mark Lazarovici (Germany) – Director at Large
- Ralf Krage (UAE) – Director at Large
- Timothy Willet (Canada) – Director at Large
Lennox Huang, MD, FAAP, CPE, MBA
Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at the Hospital for Sick Children
Canada
Lennox Huang is the Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for Medical and Academic Affairs at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. He is a staff physician in the Pediatric Critical Care Unit at Sick Kids and holds the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto and Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at McMaster University. Dr. Huang’s past leadership roles include Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University and the Chief of Pediatrics at Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. Dr. Huang’s academic interests are largely in the areas of simulation, patient safety, and health professional education. Most recently he has focused on using Lean principles and in-situ simulation to guide the design and testing of clinical spaces and integrating simulation into organization wide safety behaviour training.
Pamela R. Jeffries, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF, FSSH
Dean and Valere Potter Professor, RWJF Nurse Executive Fellow Alumna, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
USA
Dean Jeffries is internationally known for her research and work in nursing and health care education. She is well regarded for her scholarly contributions to the development of innovative teaching strategies, experiential learning techniques, new pedagogies and the delivery of content using technology.
With the NLN, Dr. Jeffries developed the major contribution to simulation scholarship, the framework, and monograph now known as the NLN Jeffries Simulation Theory.
Editor of three books, “Simulations in Nursing Education: From Conceptualization to Evaluation (2nd edition), “Developing Simulation Centers Using the Consortium Model” and “Clinical Simulations in Nursing Education: Advanced Concepts, Trends, and Opportunities.”
Dr. Jeffries is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, an inductee of the prestigious Sigma Theta Tau Research Hall of Fame, an inaugural fellow of the Society for Simulation in Health Care Academy and the 2016 recipient of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Excellence Award. Her accomplishments and dedication to nursing have been recognized through prestigious teaching and research awards and honors from the NLN, Sigma Theta Tau International, the Midwest Nursing Research Society and the International Nursing Association of Clinical Simulations and Learning.
Cynthia Mosher, PhD, MSHS, MBBS
Assistant Professor, Health Professions Education, MGH Institute for Health Professions, Assistant Director, Department of Clinical Skills at Alfaisal University College of Medicine
UAE
Dr. Cynthia Mosher is a primary care physician with an avid passion for using simulation-based education to improve the knowledge and practice of healthcare students and professionals in various stages of their education and careers.
One of the first MGH IHP Health Professions Education PhD graduates, Dr. Mosher’s research work focuses on the unique topic of engagement in distance simulation and distance debriefing. Her body of work is serving to contribute to the development of international standards and best practice guidelines for distance simulation and distance debriefing. Her interest in this area of simulation-based education was fed by the coronavirus pandemic and the challenges educators and students faced with simulation and debriefing in the online setting.
Dr. Mosher also serves as an assistant director in the Department of Clinical Skills at Alfaisal University College of Medicine, delivering simulation-based education in clinical skills training for medical and pharmacy students. Her experience and work in the Middle East have provided her with a unique relationship and cultural diversity experience that serves her well as a faculty member in the Department of Health Professions Education in contributing to the development and launch of the MGH IHP Masters in Health Professions Education Simulation Track hybrid program at Alfaisal University, the first of its kind in the Middle East.
Kellie Bryant DNP, WHNP, CHSE, FSSH, FAAN
Director for the Center for Innovation in Education Excellence National League for Nursing
USA
KT Waxman DNP, MBA, RN, CNL, CHSE, CENP, FAONL, FSSH, FAAN
Professor and Director, DNP Program Co-Director, Leadership Institute UCSF School of Nursing Community Health Systems
USA
Dr. KT Waxman is a national nurse leader and executive with extensive experience in healthcare and corporate settings. She is a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing, and is the Director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. She is also the Director of the California Simulation Alliance (CSA). In addition to her work at UCSF and the CSA, she is the Editor-in-Chief for Nursing Administration Quarterly (NAQ). An internationally known speaker and author, Waxman is also a past president of the Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL) and past board member, serving as Treasurer, for the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL). She is a Past President of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), a 5,000+ member international, inter-professional organization.
Dr. Waxman’s work has been published extensively and can be found in journals such as the Journal for Simulation in Healthcare, Clinical Simulation for Nursing, JONA, Journal of Nursing Education, NAQ, Nurse Leader and Creative Nursing journals. She has authored 3 books on Finance and Budgeting and the 3rd edition of “Financial and Business Management for the DNP”, published by Springer was just launched. Her second textbook, as co-editor, “Economics and Financial Management for Nurses and Nurse Leaders”, 4th edition, was just released. Waxman is also co-editor of “Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Nursing” which will be released this Summer. She has authored several chapters in simulation and leadership textbooks.
Dr. Waxman received her DNP from the University of San Francisco, with an emphasis on health systems leadership and a concentration in clinical simulation. She holds certifications as Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL), Certification in Executive Nursing Practice (CENP), Certification as a Simulation Healthcare Educator (CHSE) and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (FAONL), and the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (FSSH).
Lucas Huang, BSEE, BSAE
Laerdal Medical, Laerdal Labs DC
USA
Lucas Huang is the Co-Founder of B-Line Medical, LLC, located in Washington, DC. B-Line Medical became part of Laerdal Medical in 2019 and Lucas is currently a part of Laerdal’s executive leadership. Lucas received his BS in Electrical Engineering and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from North Carolina State University. He was a systems engineer, test engineer, and software developer who eventually head up the team that redesigned the control center for the Hubble Space Telescope, creating one of the first fully web based satellite control centers. Prior to B-Line Medical, Lucas founded a consulting company specializing in web based data aggregation and mining, did work for Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the National Education Association. Lucas is actively involved in initiatives focused on simplification and advancement of simulation, initiatives that directly impact patient care, and advocates for recording all delivered care to dramatically improve outcomes.
Makani Purva, MBBS, DA, MBA, FFARCSI
Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Consultant Anaesthetist at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
UK
Dr Makani Purva is the founder director of simulation at the Hull Institute of Learning and Simulation, president of the Association of Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH), and is the chair of the Standards for Simulation based education committee.
Dr Purva is the founder director of simulation at the Hull Institute of Learning and Simulation which won the 2015 best national Public Sector training award, and was elected as president of the Association of Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) in January 2017. She is the chair of the Standards for Simulation based education committee and led the development of the first national simulation standards for health care professionals in the UK.
Marc Lazarovici, MD
Head of Human Simulation Centre, Institute of Emergency Medicine, Medical Centre of the Munich Ludwig-Maximilians University
Germany
Marc Lazarovici is a medical doctor (internal medicine), human factor trainer and computer scientist. He graduated from the Munich Medical School (LMU) in 2002 and studied computer sciences (part time) at the University Hagen between 2000 and 2011. Since 2003 he is a human factor and CRM trainer in the medical field. Currently, he is leading the Human Simulation Center at the Institute for Emergency Medicine, Medical Center of the Munich Ludwig-Maximilians-University, and working as trainer in different medical simulation trainings and as visiting professor at the UMFST University in Romania. He is member of the SSiH, SESAM and cofounding member of the DGSiM (german simulation society). He has been a member of the SESAM board (Executive Committee, EC) between 2016 and 2023, having served as Treasurer and SESAM President. He is cofounding member and active auditor in the SESAM Accreditation Group. Currently he is a board member of the Global Network for Simulation in Healthcare GNSH. His research interests and activities focus mainly on further developing learning opportunities through simulation, be it by developing new extended reality simulators or by researching the implications of the increasing use of AR/VR technology to the healthcare environment, especially on the teamwork. Usability of medical devices is also a field of interest and research in his work.
Ralf Krage, MD
Associate Professor – Anesthesiology, Director Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor Medical Simulation Center – MBRU
UAE
Ralf Krage 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 the 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. 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 the 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).
Timothy Willett, MD, MMEd
President & CEO | Simulation Canada
Canada