Donna McDermott, Ph.D., RN, C.H.S.E, associate professor of clinical and associate dean of simulation at University of Miami is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). She is an active member of SSH where she serves as an accreditation site reviewer and in the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) where she is an invited member of the INACSL Standards of Best Practice: SimulationSM committee working on revisions and development of new standards. In addition, she served as the Nurse Planner and content development task force member for the Regional SSH-INACSL Simulation Workshops. She holds a B.S.N. from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S.N. from Robert Morris University, and a Ph.D. in nursing from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her simulation areas of expertise include prebriefing, simulation design and facilitation, accreditation, standards of best practice, and simulation operations/leadership.

Jocelyn Ludlow, Ph.D., RN, CNE, CHSE, CMSRN is the Director of Simulation for the University of Washington School of Nursing, in Seattle, WA. She has been a member of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) since 2009.  She has been a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and a Certified Nurse Educator since 2016. In 2021, she received her PhD in nursing from Washington State University where she studied the prebriefing practices of prelicensure nursing programs in the United States. Her expertise has influenced simulation at the national level as a member of the prebriefing and simulation design Healthcare Standards of Best PracticeTM subcommittees. Locally, she is vice president of the board for the Pacific Northwest Healthcare Simulation Collaborative.  She has presented at the local and national level at simulation, nursing science, and nursing education conferences on a variety of topics including prebriefing in simulation, in situ simulation programs, and innovations in nurse education.

Elizabeth Horsley began her nursing career as an Operating Room Nurse nearly 30 years ago.  Her involvement with simulation began in 2005 with the initial round of funding for simulation in nursing education from the province of Ontario. Over the past fifteen years, Elizabeth has focused her career on all facets of simulation from the theoretical basis to best practices of implementation and facilitation.  She has pursued numerous educational opportunities including a Master’s degree focusing on simulation, advanced debriefing and curriculum design courses and the Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) designation. In 2017 she was recruited to The Brooklyn Hospital Center to develop and implement a simulation program.   Elizabeth is very involved with the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and INACSL.   Most recently, she was a member of the writing teams for the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice focusing on prebriefing and simulation design. She is a self-admitted “hoarder of simulation resources” and her passion is helping novices learn best practices for developing and implementing their own simulation programs.

Colleen Meakim, is currently the Director, Second Degree BSN Track; and was the former Director, Simulation and Learning Resource Center at Villanova University for 18 years. She has participated in the development of simulation scenarios and programs for Villanova University’s Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, the National League for Nursing, and Assessment Technologies, Inc. She has served as a board member for the International Association for Clinical Simulation in Healthcare (INACSL) and a committee member for the development and revision of Healthcare Standards of Best Practice: SimulationTM for INACSL; a member of various Certification committees for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). She has participated in research and publications regarding simulation and debriefing methodology, use of standardized participants, as well as TeamSTEPPS and multipatient simulation. She has taught a graduate level simulation course and mentored graduate students and other professionals in the use of simulation and AV systems in simulation and designing simulation centers.