Senior Simulation Specialist
Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education
Hollister, California, United States
Julie Arafeh received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Evansville in Indiana and a master’s degree in perinatal nursing from Indiana University in Indianapolis. In the more than 40 years Ms. Arafeh has been in Obstetrical nursing, she has worked in a wide range of settings caring for low risk to high-risk women including working as an advanced practice nurse in an OB-ICU in both in-patient and out-patient settings. In 2005 Ms. Arafeh began her role as a Simulation Specialist at the Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education (CAPE) at Stanford. In her role at CAPE she has participated in numerous neonatal resuscitations and has been a faculty member for the CAPE Simulation Instructor Program.
Ms. Arafeh has been a national speaker on a variety of topics since 1989. The topics of her publications include sepsis, cardiac disease in pregnancy, maternal cardiac arrest and simulation-based training. Ms. Arafeh was a member of the multidisciplinary obstetric simulation team at Packard Children’s Hospital on the Stanford University campus for over 15 years and has served as a simulation expert for the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative. She is a member of the expert panel for Obstetric Life Support (OBLS), a national certification course under development on maternal cardiac arrest.
Ms. Arafeh is currently Simulation Director for Clinical Concepts in Obstetrics and is a Simulation Specialist at the Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education at Stanford University.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022
1:35 PM – 2:35 PM PDT