Nicole has conducted numerous education sessions nationally and internationally on the pedagogy of simulation.  Her simulation research work has been funded by local and national funding bodies, most recently on using simulation to develop resiliency and coping skills in undergraduate nursing students, and virtual reality simulation in undergraduate nursing curricula.  She has authored many papers and book chapters on the use of simulation in nursing education, mainly around non-technical skills development.  

Dr. Harder is the Editor-in-Chief for the peer reviewed journal Clinical Simulation in Nursing, and is a former board member with the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, and a currently board member with the Réseau Simulation Canada Network.  She is also an educator for the Canadian Association for Schools of Nursing in the Simulation Nurse Educator certification program. 

Debra Nestel is Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Healthcare Simulation (www.ijohs.com). 

She is program lead for the Graduate Programs in Clinical Simulation (Monash University) and the Graduate Programs in Surgical Education (University of Melbourne). Debra leads a national faculty development program for simulation practitioners – NHET-Sim (www.nhet-sim.edu.au). In 2021, Debra received the award of Member of the Order of Australia for her service to healthcare simulation. She has received other national awards for her work in healthcare simulation and a Presidential Citation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Debra has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and edited books on healthcare simulation, simulated patient methodology, surgical education and research methods. She has jointly edited a major reference work on clinical education and in 2023 will publish a jointly edited book on older adults as simulated patients."

Gabriel Reedy is a Professor of Clinical Education in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London, where he is programme director for the Masters in Clinical Education programme. He holds a PhD in Cognitive and Educational Psychology and a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Washington, in Seattle (USA). He is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His research focuses on how healthcare professionals and emergency responders learn, and how to support and train them more effectively. In particular, he studies how simulated environments can be used to help individuals learn and develop, as well as how simulations can help train teams, departments, organisations, and inter-agency systems to be prepared to respond to unusual events. He serves on the Research Committee of the international Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), and the Scientific Committee of the Society in Europe for Simulation as Applied to Medicine (SESAM). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Simulation, the academic journal of SESAM.

With a background in pediatric emergency medicine, Prof Eppich used qualitative and mixed methods approaches to study topics related to interprofessional collaborative practice, team reflection, healthcare debriefing, and team adaptation. He earned a PhD in Medical Education from Maastricht University. He has co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He collaborates with team and organizational psychologists to study team processes both in and outside of healthcare. In 2018, he traveled to Antarctica to perform ethnographic field observations and in-depth qualitative interviews to investigate how Antarctic research teams adapt to ever-changing conditions in extreme environments. His research program seeks to delineate the contribution of workplace talk and team interactions to learning and performance.

Leizl Joy Nayahangan's main research centers on simulation-based education and curriculum development. Leizl has led national and international needs assessment processes to identify content for simulation-based curricula. She is interested in assessment of learning and is now focusing on Implementation Science in simulation-based education. Leizl is a registered nurse, with a Master’s degree in healthcare management and Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE) from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is currently working towards a PhD at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Leizl is the co-chair of the AMEE Simulation Committee and serves as an Editorial board member of Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and Shanghai Chest. 

Leizl advocates for the wide implementation of evidence-based simulation-based education as an integral part of the medical and surgical curricula.   

Lars Konge is a certified cardio-thoracic surgeon and the head of research at the Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark. He has a Ph.D. in assessment and his main research areas are simulation-based training and certification of technical skills. Professor Konge is one of the world’s most active researchers in medical education and has published more than 300 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He has been the supervisor on 24 Ph.D.-dissertations and is currently supervising 16 Ph.D.-students regarding projects including simulation. 

Dr Michaela Kolbe leads the Simulation Center of the University Hospital Zurich. She is Privatdozentin at ETH Zurich, a lecturer for various team, safety and method-​​related topics at several universities, and a simulation educator for clinicians. Her current research interests include the dynamics and promotion of “speaking up”, after-​​action reviews in the clinical setting, and advanced debriefing techniques for simulated-​​based team trainings. Michaela also works as a systemic family therapist and holds a Ph.D. in psychology.

Jenny Rudolph, PhD is a life-long athlete and behavioral scientist who brings the joy of mastery learning to communication and reflective practice in healthcare.  Dr. Rudolph is the Senior Director of Innovation at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston.  She is a Professor of Health Professions Education at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions, and a Lecturer in Surgery at Harvard Medical School.  Her work on psychological safety and debriefing is informed by 20 years of research in the contexts of healthcare, sports, nuclear power, and chemical processing. Dr. Rudolph is a Fellow of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, has doctorate in organizational behavior from Boston College, was a National Science Foundation Fellow, and received her B.A. in sociology from Harvard College.  

Professor Cristina Diaz-Navarro is a Consultant Anaesthetist with an interest in neuro-anaesthesia and the Academic Head of the Perioperative Care Department at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. She is an Associate Dean for Simulation and Clinical Skills at Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW), an Honorary Professor at the School of Medicine at Cardiff University and an Associate Professor for the School of Medicine and Healthcare Sciences at the University of Barcelona. 
 
She is an Executive Committee Member at the Association for Simulation in Healthcare Practice (ASPiH) and Simulation Lead for Wales at the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
She has been involved in simulation-based education and debriefing since 2006. Her academic work has focussed on human factors training and simulation faculty development since 2011. She is also the lead author in the creation of the TALK approach to clinical debriefing (www.talkdebrief.org) and chairs the Board of Trustees of the TALK Foundation.
 
She enjoys developing innovative simulation-based projects that encourage new perspectives for reflection on everyday elements of healthcare. 

Gethin is a Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine in Wales.  He is also the lead for the Royal College of Anaesthetists Quality Network in Wales.

Peter Dieckmann’s research on simulation addresses the theoretical foundations and practice of using simulation to create, recognize and use learning opportunities for simulation learners and faculty members in different context. Peters research with simulation focuses to explore simulation’s possibilities to optimize worksystems. Beyond simulation, Peter investigates issues of the practice of patient safety work, psychological safety, medication safety, and visual research methods.

Dr Arun Gupta trained as an Undergraduate in medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, University of London and undertook his Anaesthesia and Intensive Care training in the East Midlands and East of England.  He was appointed Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiology at the Medical College of Virginia, USA, before being appointed as a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Neuro-Intensive Care at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in 1996.
He is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge.
Dr Gupta was Director of Postgraduate Education for the  Academic Health Science Centre, Cambridge University Health Partners from 2012-2022, and Director of Postgraduate Medical Education at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 2005-2022. He is currently leading the development of the Cambridge Digital Health and Surgical Training Centre to be opened in 2023. 

His particular field of research interest is in the effects of injury on brain tissue oxygenation and metabolism, for which he was awarded the Macintosh Professorship by the Royal College of Anaesthetists. More recently his research is focussed on the inflammation after traumatic brain injury. Dr Gupta is also supporting a programme of research in Medical Education and Simulation in which he is co- investigating the application of mixed reality technologies in clinical training

Pier Luigi is currently Secretary of SESAM. He leads the Simulation Centre in Health Science at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, conducts research and teaches in the field of simulation-based learning. He has lectured at many national and international scientific congresses and authored more than 45 research articles published in peer review journals. Pier Luigi’s career began in Italian NHS hospitals as a resident in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care and then developed an interest in Emergency Medicine and Disaster response. He is the co-founder of the Research Centre in Emergency and Disaster Medicine at the Università del Piemonte Orientale. He also served the Regional Office for Europe of World Health Organization as technical officer in emergency medical systems. Pier Luigi was Secretary and President of the EMDM Alumni Association 2005-2009 and is an active member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of medical simulation (SIMMED). 

Dr Michaela Kolbe leads the Simulation Center of the University Hospital Zurich. She is Privatdozentin at ETH Zurich, a lecturer for various team, safety and method-​​related topics at several universities, and a simulation educator for clinicians. Her current research interests include the dynamics and promotion of “speaking up”, after-​​action reviews in the clinical setting, and advanced debriefing techniques for simulated-​​based team trainings. Michaela also works as a systemic family therapist and holds a Ph.D. in psychology.

Jenny Rudolph, PhD is a life-long athlete and behavioral scientist who brings the joy of mastery learning to communication and reflective practice in healthcare.  Dr. Rudolph is the Senior Director of Innovation at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston.  She is a Professor of Health Professions Education at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions, and a Lecturer in Surgery at Harvard Medical School.  Her work on psychological safety and debriefing is informed by 20 years of research in the contexts of healthcare, sports, nuclear power, and chemical processing. Dr. Rudolph is a Fellow of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, has doctorate in organizational behavior from Boston College, was a National Science Foundation Fellow, and received her B.A. in sociology from Harvard College.  

Rebecca Szabo is an Obstetrician/Gynaecologist and Medical Educator currently based in Melbourne, Australia. She is a senior lecturer with The University of Melbourne Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Medical Education and an honorary Senior Lecturer and PhD student in the Department of Critical Care. Her PhD research is exploring how to normalise simulation for quality improvement in teaching hospitals. Rebecca is Lead of The Gandel Simulation Service in Partnership with University of Melbourne which conducts simulation-based education and translational simulation as a tool for quality improvement at The Women’s, Parkville Precinct and beyond. She is also the lead of Simulation for Melbourne Medical School. Rebecca has been an invited speaker on simulation as a tool for quality improvement and implementation in Australia, Spain, France and Norway. She is the Chair of the Board of AMaRE - Advanced Maternal and Reproductive Education Australia (ALSO Asia-Pacific) and Chair of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Simulation Training and Advisory Group (STAG).

With a background in nuclear medicine, medical education, social research, and research based on diagnostic tests, Soledad has been involved in undergraduate education in Medicine and Health professions, and also in competency assessment using simulation since 2001.

Over the years, her research has been focused on OSCE, Clinical Reasoning and centered patient communication, characteristics of simulation in Latin America, and social determinants that influence academic success and students' well-being.

Anabela Possidónio has a corporate career of more than 25 years, gathering leadership positions in several sectors (Health - CUF; Education - The Lisbon MBA; Retail - Jerónimo Martins and Energy – BP), in different countries (England, Mexico, Spain and Portugal) and in companies of different sizes. She was Executive Director of The Lisbon MBA in Católica-Nova from 2013 to 2018, before joining CUF to assume the leadership of CUF Academic Center. With an MBA from Católica School of Business and Economics and a degree in Management from ISEG, she’s also a Professional Coach (PCC) by the ICF. 

Possidónio is currently General Director at Operação Nariz Vermelho, an ONG that works with children in hospitals, through the art of Clown Doctors. Joining the team last year, she aims to help boast its mission: bring joy to hospitalized children, their families and the health professionals. Besides her role at ONV, Anabela Possidónio is also the founder and General Director at Shape Your Future, whose mission is to help young people and adults make the best academic and professional decisions and boost their careers. 

Dr Arun Gupta trained as an Undergraduate in medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, University of London and undertook his Anaesthesia and Intensive Care training in the East Midlands and East of England.  He was appointed Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiology at the Medical College of Virginia, USA, before being appointed as a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Neuro-Intensive Care at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in 1996.
He is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge.
Dr Gupta was Director of Postgraduate Education for the  Academic Health Science Centre, Cambridge University Health Partners from 2012-2022, and Director of Postgraduate Medical Education at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 2005-2022. He is currently leading the development of the Cambridge Digital Health and Surgical Training Centre to be opened in 2023. 

His particular field of research interest is in the effects of injury on brain tissue oxygenation and metabolism, for which he was awarded the Macintosh Professorship by the Royal College of Anaesthetists. More recently his research is focussed on the inflammation after traumatic brain injury. Dr Gupta is also supporting a programme of research in Medical Education and Simulation in which he is co- investigating the application of mixed reality technologies in clinical training