Bo Latham, MBA, NREMT, CHSOS is the current Sr. Product Manager for the Resuscitation Portfolio with HealthStream. Prior to joining HealthStream, he held many roles in healthcare sales and leadership ranging from clinical diagnostics, anesthesia sales and support to continual renal replacement for critical care patients. Bo later found his passion in medical modeling and simulation education training working with leading companies in this space, helping hospitals, simulation centers and education institutions use simulation to deliver safe, risk free and repetitive education. In 2016, Bo became an Emergency Medical Technician as a NRENT-B and is licensed and actively working in South Carolina; having the opportunity to work side by side with clinicians and further understand current state of training education delivery and uses for simulation in the market, while empathizing with the clinical needs. In 2017 he worked with the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSIH) to further his knowledge of simulation uses within healthcare education by obtaining a Certified Simulation Operations Specialist (CHSOS). Bo joined HealthStream in 2018 with the Continuum Simulation team after working with a partner company while building the Resuscitation Suite™. In 2019 he became the Product Manager for Healthstream Resuscitation products and has since aided adoption within healthcare organizations across the country in using The American Red Cross Training Service’s and HealthStream’s.

Since 2003 Dr. Ross has held the rank of full professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. In 2005, was named by the dean of the University of Washington School of Medicine to serve as the first Executive Director of the Institute for Simulation and Interprofessional Simulation, now known as the WWAMI Institute for Simulation in Healthcare (WISH).

In 1975, he received his Ph.D. in physiology/pharmacology from the University of North Dakota and went on to complete postdoctoral research in the area of respiratory disease at the University of Washington. He received his M.D. in 1983 from the University of Washington School of Medicine, and in 1986, completed a fellowship in Obstetrical Anesthesia from the University of California at San Francisco, before returning to the University of Washington to complete a residency in anesthesiology. As a faculty member, over his career has served as the director of Regional Anesthesia, director of Obstetrical Anesthesia, and most notably served 16 years as the program director for the Department of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Ross opened the first formal simulation center at the University of Washington for the Department of Anesthesiology and then went on to develop a formal simulation curriculum for the department. Since that time, he has been responsible for the development of simulation education for team and interprofessional training for over 30 departments at the University of Washington.