Dr. Desiree A. Díaz, PhD, FNP-BC, CNE, CHSE-A, ANEF, FSSH, FAAN is the Endowed Enfermería Faculty Scholar, Undergraduate Simulation Coordinator and a Professor at the University of Central Florida. She completed a Post Doc from Johns Hopkins with Dr.Pamela Jeffries which focused on simulation pedagogy. Dr. Diaz creates tests and disseminates research on cutting-edge technologies such as holograms within the simulation community. Her strategies within simulation research pedagogy over the last decade have promoted health equity and brought awareness to healthcare disparities. She was a National Coalition Ethnic Minority Nurse Scholar and Health Leadership Fellow. She serves as Immediate Past President of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation. Her current grant funding focuses on educating and exploring ways to eliminate healthcare disparities while educating the workforce. As co-PI to a 2.7 million dollar HRSA grant “ENFERMERIA” which looks to empower and enhance linguistic services and culturally congruent care within the Hispanic community while encouraging advancement to graduate degrees of diverse post-baccalaureate student populations and as PI on approximately $500k grant that utilizes simulation to examine healthcare disparities and the role of public health nursing, Dr.Diaz engages multiple means to reduce healthcare inequity and encourage healthcare equity advocates.

Dr. Peggy P. Hill is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) with ten years-experience in simulation. She researches and designs simulation-based education (SBE) to facilitate safe management of challenging healthcare situations. She focuses on methods of improving the cognitive aspects of learning to help students acquire knowledge and skills that promote focus during chaotic events. As a member of a larger simulation team at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Hill has researched pre-simulation training using SBE to teach interruption management community-based disaster simulations virtual simulation subject matter expertise requirements and the use of holograms for interprofessional learning. Dr. Hill has presented her research nationally and internationally. Dr. Hill has served as a CHSE exam evaluator with the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (2024) and on the Regulatory subcommittee for the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL). Additionally Dr. Hill serves as a reviewer for Clinical Simulation in Nursing, BMC, and Simulation & Gaming journals. Her simulation facilitation experience includes both undergraduate and graduate nursing simulations including interprofessional. virtual. and face-to-face modalities.