Simulation Director
Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Stapleton is an Emergency Medicine Physician at Boston Medical Center. She graduated from Boston University School of Medicine and completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at University of Connecticut. She finished her Medical Simulation Fellowship Hartford Hospital under the direction of Drs. Thomas Nowicki and Alise Frallicciardi.
Dr. Stapleton has expanded the Emergency Medicine simulation program to advance trainee skill development and practice, decision making, teamwork, and multiple disciplinary patient care. She leads the EM resident sims which include monthly group multi-station sessions and independent sessions, PGY 1 & 2 orientations, and senior exit sessions. She also leads the medical student sim which occur once per block and the EM bound bootcamp.
Dr Stapleton is Chair of the SAEM Sim Academy research committee, a member of Society of Simulation in Healthcare and the International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education. She has presented nationally at IMSH, SAEM, and CORD on simulation studies, innovations, interventions, and instruction.
Her areas of interest are latent safety threat mitigation, process improvements, novel model creation, innovations testing, and building an adult EM simulation based research community. Her current projects include multiple in situ simulations to evaluation for new technology use, patient care, and safety threat identification; multiple novel models for procedural learning and improving mentoring for adult EM sim research.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.