Christopher Reisig, MD, MA

I am presently a simulation and medical education fellow at Weill Cornell Medical Center, where I also practice as an EM attending physician. I am a graduate of Harvard (BA in Philosophy), NYU (MA in Literature), and I spent close to a decade prior to medicine working as a tenured high school English teacher. I received my medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College in 2017, and I completed my residency training at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia/Cornell, where I served as the educational chief resident. Since then, I have completed the ACEP Residency Teaching Fellowship, am presently enrolled in the 2022-2023 SAEM ARMED MedED Program, and was the SAEM Simulation Academy’s Scholarship recipient for the same. I have been a member of SAEM since 2014.

I am applying for the fellowship position on the Simulation Academy Executive Committee. As my prior career experience would suggest, I am an educator first and foremost, and I was drawn to Simulation because of its power as a pedagogical modality. Through my fellowship, however, I have further realized the critical importance of Simulation to all facets of healthcare. In joining the Committee, my hope is that I can advocate for (in particular) simulation trainees new to the field, at the same time as I learn from experienced Simulation leaders how to advance the discipline in the years ahead.