Medical simulation expert to lecture Sept. 18, 20
Dr. Ann Willemsen-Dunlap, UI assistant professor of anesthesia and co-director of the UI Simulation Center, showed BabySim, a state-of-the-art medical simulator, to some of Iowa’s future health care providers at the Iowa State Fair. The UI’s current medical professionals will also get a chance to learn more about medical simulation later this month, when Dr. David Gaba, a pioneer in the field, lectures at the UI Sept. 18 and 20.
Dr. David M. Gaba, a pioneer in the use of simulation in medical education to improve patient safety and health care practice, will deliver two public lectures as an Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Sept. 18 and 20.
At 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, Gaba will present “What Is Culture of Safety, Why Do I Care, and What Does it Have to Do with Patient Safetyand Simulation?” in the Prem Sahai Auditorium (Room 1110A) in the Medical Education and Research Building (MERF).
At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in the Levitt Center for University Advancement, he will discuss “Drivers and Implementers: Public Policy Aspects of the Evolution of Simulation Applied to Healthcare.”
In addition to his public events, Gaba also will present a joint Grand Rounds session to the Departments of Anesthesia and Surgery and meet with trainees and faculty from those departments to discuss the use of simulation in postgraduate, graduate and undergraduate medical education. Gaba also will visit the National Advanced Driving Simulator, meeting with faculty and staff from the UI Public Policy Center, and will discuss simulation-based performance assessment with faculty from the CCOM and the UI College of Nursing.
Gaba is the inventor of the modern, full-body patient simulator and an expert on how simulation training can improve public policy and public safety. He is professor of anesthesia and associate dean for immersive and simulation-based learning at Stanford University School of Medicine, and he directs both the Center for Immersive and Simulation-Based Learning (CISL) at Stanford and the Patient Simulation Center of Innovation at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System.
More information about Gaba’s visit is provided here.