Associate Dean
Baylor College of Medicine and CHRISTUS Health
San Antonio, TX, United States
Dr. Deering is a board-certified Maternal-Fetal Medicine physician with the Baylor College of Medicine and CHRISTUS Health where he serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio (CHofSA) and the System Medical Director of the CHRISTUS Simulation Institute.
Dr. Deering is a national leader in medical simulation training and patient safety, focusing on practical implementation. The simulation efforts and organizations he has led have trained more than 600,000 medical providers during his career to date.
Dr. Deering has served as the Chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Simulation Working Group where he designed and implemented the Emergencies in Clinical Obstetrics (ECO) Course which is now nationally available from ACOG to allow simulation training for obstetric emergencies for all levels of providers. He was also instrumental in the creation of the Practicing For Patients (PFP) program which has been distributed through the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM). The program allows for any size hospital to run obstetric emergency in-situ drills and he led the PFP implementation training for over 120 hospitals in Texas.
He is currently working both locally and across the entire CHRISTUS system to organize and implement life-saving medical simulation training programs to help improve patient outcomes.
Dr. Deering has delivered babies in 10 different States and a combat zone, was awarded the Bronze Star, holds two patents for an obstetric birthing simulator system, has over 100 publications and two TED talks about obstetric simulation, has managed over 30 million dollars in grants and external funding and his simulation videos have over 20 million views on YouTube.
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