Carrie Gigray is a dedicated healthcare simulationist with a strong background in emergency medical services (EMS), critical care and education and simulation-based training. She holds a Master of Science in Healthcare Simulation and a Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Quality & Safety from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dual-certified as a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) and Certified Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialist (CHSOS). Carrie combines her operational expertise and instructional skills to deliver impactful, high-quality simulation education.

Katherine Kat A. Kreis MSN, RN, CHSE is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington’s College of Nursing and Health Innovation (UTA CONHI). Originally from New Orleans she earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Louisiana State University Health Science Center in 2002. She later obtained a Master of Science in Nursing from Grand Canyon University in 2010 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Nursing Science at UTA. With over two decades of experience in nursing care and healthcare leadership Ms. Kreis joined UTA in 2017 as a clinical educator and trained as a simulation facilitator. In 2021she became part of the CONHI Smart Hospital team as a Simulation Nurse Faculty and shortly thereafter earned certification as a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE). Ms. Kreis is the founder and principal investigator of the Research to Empower Learning and Enhance Aptitude via Simulated Experience (RELEASE) Lab at UTA. There she leads projects aimed at enhancing medication safety among student nurses through the development of a standardized tool for assessing student performance in simulation-based experiences. Her personal mission is to raise awareness of the need to integrate modern clinical technology into healthcare simulations to improve medication safety worldwide. Ms. Kreis’s contributions have been recognized through scholarships from the National League for Nursing (NLN) and Sigma. She is an active member of several professional organizations including INACSL, ASPE, SSH and Sigma International – the Honor Society of Nursing. She serves as the incoming President-Elect for Delta Theta chapter 102 of Sigma. Her hobbies include gaming and technology as well as international travel.

Beth Rogers is an Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University whose research explores how cognitive load and simulation design influence nursing students’ clinical judgment. She uses biometric tools, including eye-tracking and physiological measures, to study learner experiences during simulation-based education. Dr. Rogers also serves as Associate Editor for Clinical Simulation in Nursing and co-chairs the INACSL Research Special Interest Group.

Jason is the Director of Clinical Skills and Simulation Center at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and is a member of the Fellows Academy for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. His prior simulation work was with the New York Simulation Center for the Health Sciences at the New York University School of Medicine and then at DeSales University where he helped design and implement simulation education experiences for all levels of healthcare provider. His educational passion involves interprofessional education, simulation-based assessment best practices, and simulation related research. Jason has over 25 years of experience in Emergency Medical Services and wrote the National Registry Paramedic Exam review book for Kaplan Test Prep. Until recently, Jason continued to work clinically as a paramedic in Eastern Pennsylvania. He has a BS in Chemistry and a secondary education certificate in Chemistry from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. He completed his M.Ed. at DeSales University

Dr. Maria Bajwa is a physician, a seasoned simulation educator, and a researcher with significant experience in professional development for artificial intelligence, as well as distance and virtual simulation, both nationally and internationally. She researched various aspects of distance and virtual simulation and developed the distance simulation educator guidelines with Dr. Rami Ahmed and the team. Currently, she is teaching at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, Nova Southeastern University, and SUNY Upstate Medical University. Dr. Bajwa is extensively involved in research on AI in healthcare education, including simulation-based education. She is the Lead Faculty Researcher for AI-related initiatives at the Center of Excellence in Healthcare Simulation Research at MGH IHP and its REBEL lab, a co-founding member of the AI-Simulation Collaborative, and co-founding editor for the AI and simulation channel in the Cureus Journal of Computer Science.

Shannon Bailey, Ph.D., is a Sr. Human Factors Scientist at the University of South Florida’s (USF) Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, as well as an Assistant Professor in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine’s Department of Medical Education. She specializes in human factors and extended reality technologies, leading research efforts to investigate educational best practices and cutting-edge simulation technologies for clinical training. Her work on advancing education through emerging technology has been featured on local news reports, was published in multiple high-impact medical education journals, and has won awards at international conferences. She collaborates with technology and small business partners on educational technology research, securing over $2 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and the Florida High Tech Corridor.