Keynotes

Chad Epps 

Chad Epps is an Associate Professor and Director of Simulation. Dr. Epps has extensive experience working in human simulation and the development of simulation curricula for education and assessment of a variety of healthcare professionals. Dr. Epps received his B.S. in Biology from Augusta College and M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the University of Florida before moving to New York City to continue his training in Anesthesiology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. After residency, Dr. Epps served as a fellow in Human Simulation at Mount Sinai’s Human Emulation Education and Evaluation Lab for Patient Safety and Professionalism (HELPS) Center.

He is the recent elected president of Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH).

Antoine Tesniere

Antoine Tesniere is an Associate Professor at Paris Descartes University. Although he has been extensively working on the role played by the immune system in anticancer therapies, his main focus now is the impact of simulation and gaming on the learning process, especially for healthcare professionals. He is the Director of iLumens, the simulation center of University Paris Descartes, and he is also the Co-director of the «Frontières du Vivant» PhD program at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Paris with Francois Taddei.

He is the current secretary of the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM).

Invited speakers

Ebbe Thinggard

Ebbe Thinggaard  is working with simulation in laparoscopy using both low tech, low cost simulation and high tech virtual reality simulation. Currently he is undertaking a PHD study on off-site simulation in laparoscopic surgery. Ebbe is employed at the dept. of surgery at Roskilde and Koege Hospital and is a courser organizer and teacher at the Simulationcentre Rigshospitalet, Center for Clinical Skills, Capital Region, Denmark.