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23-2024 Board of Directors

Selected by the SSH Membership, Board Members have the opportunity to share their talent and knowledge to help shape SSH and the future of simulation in healthcare. Please contact Taylor Jessup or see the SSH Bylaws if you have any questions about the SSH Board.

 

CURRENT (2024-2025) BOARD  

 

* - SSH Accredited Program

President

Barry Issenberg, MD, FSSH

Gordon Center for Simulation and Innovation

Miami, FL

Barry Issenberg

President-Elect

Jared Kutzin, DNP, MS, MPH, RN, CHSOS, FSSH, FAAN
The Mount Sinai Hospital, Emergency Medicine & Medical Education *
New York, NY

 

Immediate Past-President

Jayne Smitten, PhD, MEd, RN, CHSE-A, FSSH
Hawai’i Pacific University College of Health & Society
Honolulu, Hawai'i

 

Jayne Smitten

Treasurer

Michael Spooner, MD, MBA, FSSH
Mercy One North Iowa Heart Center
Mason City, IA

 

Secretary

Matthew Charnetski, MSMS, CHSE, CHSOS, FSSH
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center *
Lebanon, NH

 

Janice Palaganas

Board Liaison on Executive Committee

Connie M. Lopez, MSN, CNS, CPHRM, CHSE-A, FSSH
Kaiser Permanente Northern California Region Risk Management & Patient Safety
Oakland, CA

 

Connie Lopez

 

 

AT LARGE MEMBERS

 

 

Kristen Brown, DNP, CRNP, CPNP-AC, CHSE-A, FAAN
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Baltimore, MD

 

 

 

Kristen Brown

 

Aaron Calhoun, MD, FAAP, FSSH
University of Louisville, Pediatric Critical Care
Louisville, KY

 

 

Aaron Calhoun

 

Marie Gilbert, DNP, RN, CHSE-A
Central California Center for Excellence in Nursing, California State University, Fresno  
Fresno, CA

 

 

Marie Gilbert

Wendy LaGrange
Wallcur, LLC
San Diego, CA

 

Wendy LeGrange

 

Kim Leighton, PhD, RN, CHSE-A, CHSOS, ANEF, FSSH, FAAN
ITQAN Clinical Simulation & Innovation Center, Hamad Medical Corp. *
Doha, Qatar

 

Kim Leighton

 

Keith Littlewood, MD, FASA, FSSH University of Virginia, Schools of Medicine and Nursing Simulation
Charlottesville, VA

 

Keith Littlewood

 

John M. O’Donnell RN, MSN, CRNA, DrPH, FSSH
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and WISER
Pittsburgh, PA

 

 

Dawn Schocken, MPH, PhD, FSSH
USF Health Morsani College of Medicine *
Tampa, FL

 

 

Dawn Schocken

 

Jarrod Young, MBA, BSE, CHSOS-A Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation @ UTHSC *
Memphis, TN

 

 

Jarrod Young

Executive Director

 
Jennifer Manos, RN, MSN, MBA
Executive Director
Cincinnati, OH
 
Jennifer Manos