Heather Epp is the Simulation Education Lead for the School of Health Sciences at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Canada. She has been a simulation educator in both clinical and academic settings, and now primarily focuses her attention on simulation faculty development. Heather would describe herself as a life-long learner and is currently a Health Professions Education PhD student at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, with a focus in simulation education. Heather is passionate about debriefing, mentorship, peer coaching, and using emotional intelligence to enhance learning in simulation.

Bobbie Ann “BA” Adair White, EdD, MA is an educator coach and author

teaching in the following content areas: emotional intelligence in teams conflict management

Leadership and health professions education. BA’s serves as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow and Associate Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) Institute of Health Professions in the Department of Health Professions Education in Boston, MA. She has published extensively. Two texts of note are Cultivating Leadership In Medicine and Leading Self and Others with Emotional Intelligence. Additionally, she serves as a leadership coach and faculty member in the Department of Surgery at Baylor Scott and White where leading with emotional intelligence is a key topic for coaching.

Suzan (Suzie) Kardong-Edgren PhD, RN, ANEF, FSSH, FAAN is an award-winning, internationally known speaker and educational researcher with over 140 publications. Dr. Edgren was a consultant on the landmark National Council of State Boards of Nursing National Simulation Study that determined that up to 50% of traditional clinical could be replaced with high-quality simulation. She served as the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Simulation in Nursing for 10 years. She has been awarded the Deborah Spunt Lectureship from the US National League for Nursing and the Michael Gordon Lectureship in Simulation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Dr. Edgren served as chair of the Research Committee for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and as Vice President of Research and President of the International Nursing Association of Clinical Simulation in Nursing (INACSL). She is a Fellow in the Society of Simulation in Healthcare, the Academy of Nursing Education Fellows, and the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Edgren is an Associate Professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston where she happily supervises the next generation of health professional MS and PhD researchers in simulation.

Matthew Charnetski is the Director of Simulation-Based Education and Research at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. Matthew is also a term lecturer in the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions Masters in Health Professions Education Program in the Simulation Operations Track. Matthew’s simulation career has been largely academically focused primarily in medical education prior to arriving at DHMC in 2019. Matthew is involved extensively with The Society for Simulation in Healthcare and The International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning.