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Stephen John Cico, MD, MEd

University of Central Florida College of Medicine

Dr. Stephen Cico was recruited to lead the UCF-HCA Healthcare GME Consortium as the ACGME Designated Institutional Official (DIO), Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics. Dr. Cico is a recognized leader in medical education and has published widely and presented both nationally and internationally on medical education topics, including effective didactic and clinical teaching strategies, publishing in the medical education literature, what it means to maintain knowledge and procedural competency throughout a physician’s career, and mentoring. Dr. Cico is the pediatric section editor of a textbook, Atlas of Clinical Emergency Medicine, as well as a contributing author to several other emergency medicine textbooks. He is a Founding Decision Editor for Academic Emergency Medicine Education & Training, the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine’s education journal and reviews for numerous other emergency medicine and medical education journals.

Jason Wagner, MD

Washington University School of Medicine

During his 20-plus years at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. wagner has been an innovator, continuously striving to enhance the experiences and education of those around him. He was the Director of Simulation for 10 years, coinciding with 10 years as a nocturnist before becoming a Residency APD for four years. This was followed by a decade as the Residency Program Director, ushering in an era of change for the program restructuring, not only the conference curriculum from top to bottom, but also the clinical rotations across all four years of residency. Dr. wagner continues to push the boundaries of education through the integration of Cognitive Load Theory, Behavioral Economics, and Story Telling as the Vice Chair for Education at Washington University in St. Louis.

Jaime Jordan, MD, MAEd

Oregon Health & Science University

Dr. Jaime Jordan completed an Education Scholarship Fellowship at Harbor-UCLA and is currently the Associate Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency at UCLA and Vice Chair of the Acute Care College at the David Geffen School of Medicine. She has lectured extensively at both CORD and SAEM on education and education research related topics. She is an established education researcher with a successful track record and her interests include barriers educators face in performing scholarship, graduate and undergraduate medical education, curriculum design, and faculty development. Additionally, she is a decision editor for AEM Education and Training and a reviewer for multiple education research journals.

Stephanie Stapleton, MD

Boston Medical Center / Boston University

Stephanie Stapleton, MD, currently serves as Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation at Boston Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She leads 450 annual contact hours of simulation for 50 attendings, 50 residents, >100 medical and PA students, and advises on advanced practice provider simulation.
She is Vice President of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy Research & Scholarship Subcommittee, a member of Society of Simulation in Healthcare and the International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education. She has published and presented nationally on simulation research and innovations, focusing on procedural training, pediatric resuscitation, and distance simulation. Her areas of interest are translational simulation, procedural model creation, innovations testing, and developing an adult emergency medicine simulation research community.