Board of Directors 2023
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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 BOARD  

President

Yasuharu (Haru) Okuda, MD, FACEP
Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
Haru Okuda

President-Elect

Jayne Smitten, PhD, MEd, RN, CHSE-A
Associate Dean, Professor, Director Experiential Clinical Simulation Center (ECSC)
Hawai’i Pacific University College of Health & Society
Honolulu, Hawai'i

Jayne Smitten

Immediate Past-President

Juli Maxworthy, DNP, PhD (c), MSN, MBA, RN, CNL, CPHQ, CPPS, CHSE, FNAP, FSSH
University of San Francisco
Orinda, CA
OMC9491-0149

Treasurer

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

 

Secretary

Janice Palaganas, PhD, RN, NP, FSSH, ANEF
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Janice Palaganas

Board Liaison to Executive Committee

Aaron William Calhoun, MD
University of Louisville, Pediatric Critical Care

Louisville, KY

 

 

 

 

AT LARGE MEMBERS

 

Jennifer Calzada, MA, MPH
Tulane Simulation Center
New Orleans, LA

 

 

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

 

Yue Dong, MD
Mayo Clinic Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Rochester, MN

 

 

Yue Dong

Jared Kutzin, DNP, MS, MPH, RN, CPPS, CPHQ, CHSOS, NEA-BC
The Mount Sinai Hospital, Emergency Medicine
New York, NY

 

Jared Kutzin

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

 

Kim Leighton

Geoff Miller, MS, EMT-P
Sentara Center for Simulation and Immersive Learning
Elkridge, MD

 

Geoff Miller

Ryan Ribeira, MD, MPH
Stanford University School of Medicine
SimX VR
Mountain View, CA

 

 

Ryan Ribeira

Dawn Schocken, MPH, PhD
University of South Florida
Tampa Bay, FL

 

 

Dawn Schocken

Michael Spooner, MD, MBA
Mason City Clinic
Louisville, KY

Executive Director

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