Professor and attending neonatologist
Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University
Louis P. Halamek, M.D., is a Professor in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and is an attending neonatologist at Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford where he is the Director of Neonatal Resuscitation and works in the level IV neonatal intensive care unit. Dr. Halamek is the founding Director of the Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education (CAPE, http://cape.stanford.edu), the world's first center dedicated to fetal, neonatal, pediatric and obstetric simulation-based training and research. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Pediatric Simulation Society (IPSS), the inaugural Board of Directors of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), and the inaugural Editorial Board of Simulation in Healthcare. His career in simulation-based training and research began in 1995; over the past two decades he has refined a method of debriefing based on his collaboration with colleagues in aerospace, aviation and the military. This objective, professional approach to debriefing has been adopted as the standard for the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), its 25,000 instructors and 3.3 million trainees.
Tuesday, May 21
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Wednesday, May 22
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM