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PROFESSOR JEAN KER
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
Jean founded the Scottish Clinical Skills Network in 2000. As part of the Scottish Clinical Skills Strategy, launched by the health minister, she was appointed in 2007 as National Clinical Lead in the development of the Scottish Clinical Skills and Simulation Managed Educational Network which has developed national evidence-based on line skills resources, a mobile skills facility which has trained over 5000 healthcare practitioners in remote and rural Scotland and provided seed-corn funding for over 30 R and D projects. Jean has had the opportunity to work in medical education and primary care development in Kazakhstan, Oman, Kuwait, Bangladesh, Moldova and Latvia on behalf of the World Health Organisation, British Council and University. She has over 100 peer reviewed publications book chapters and online resources and is on the national and international editorial boards for peer reviewed journals on simulation and medical education. She was appointed to the GMC Advisory Board for Assessment in 2015. She developed a medical education PhD programme and introduced a Masters in Simulation Based Education for Safe Clinical Practice as part of faculty development in 2014. Jean has been an invited speaker at over 35 national and international conferences and has raised over £8M in R&D in the last 12 years. This has involved collaborative projects with European and other UK Higher Education Institutes. She has been recognised at both UK and University level with awards for her teaching and scholarship. Jean received an ASME Travelling Fellowship to the USA in 2012 and was awarded the prestigious Chancellor’s Award for Contribution to Teaching at the University of Dundee in 2014.
DR TRACI WOLBRINK
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
Dr. Traci Wolbrink is the Associate Program Director of OPENPediatrics (www.openpediatrics.org), an online knowledge-sharing platform designed to provide education and social collaboration tools for health care providers caring for sick children around the world. It is currently in use in 137 countries by over 2000 hospitals, and contains videos, structured learning curricula, virtual simulations, protocols, workshops, and live video conferencing. She is also an Associate in Critical Care Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor in Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School . Dr. Wolbrink’s academic interests include the application of innovative medical education technologies globally.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JENNIFER WELLER
UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND
Associate Professor Jennifer Weller is Head of the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education at the University of Auckland, and a specialist anaesthetist at Auckland City Hospital.
She established the Masters program in Clinical Education. She has published widely in the field of workplace assessment simulation-based education, teamwork and patient safety. Dr Weller leads a national, insurer funded program aimed at establishing simulation-based training in teamwork in New Zealand operating theatres.
A/Prof Weller is on the Editorial Board for the British Journal of Anaesthesia and an inaugural editorial board member for the new journal BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning.
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