Medical Simulation Center

Simulation Center Co-Directors

Leo Kobayashi, MD, FACEP, co-director of the simulation center, graduated from Brown Medical School and completed his emergency medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital in 2002. He is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Alpert Medical School and an active educator in Alpert Medical School and its Postgraduate Training Program in Emergency Medicine. His research and publications focus on advanced medical simulation, its validation as an educational methodology and application to medical education/training (e.g., multiple patient simulations for emergency care and disaster response preparation).

Adult Simulation

Marc Shapiro, MD, founder of the Rhode Island Hospital Medical Simulation Center, graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1989 and completed his emergency medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in 1993. He is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and attending physician in emergency medicine at Rhode Island Hospital. His areas of research include emergency department utilization, geriatric trauma, simulator-based teamwork training (MedTeams™) and patient safety. He is an original editorial board member of the newly established peer-reviewed journal Simulation in Healthcare and serves as a consultant on medical simulation.

Gregory Jay, MD, PhD is an associate professor of medicine and engineering at Brown University and a faculty member in the Center for Bioengineering. He is an attending physician in emergency medicine, Associate Chair of Research in the department of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School and is co-founder of the Rhode Island Hospital Medical Simulation Center. He has published widely on topics in applied biomedical engineering and was a co-principal investigator of the MedTeams™ Project. He has served on the Patient Safety Task Force for both the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians. He was formerly a flight surgeon in the Air National Guard, where he both developed and participated in crew resource management and weapons of mass destruction training.

John Foggle, MD is clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at Alpert Medical School and residency simulation curriculum director. He received his medical degree from the University of Rochester and was chief resident in the emergency medicine residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. His research interest is in using simulation to assess medical school and postgraduate learners’ clinical competence.

Ilse Jenouri, MD is lead instructor for airway management training at the Medical Simulation Center. She received her medical degree at SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse. She is a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and an attending emergency physician at The Miriam Hospital.

David Lindquist, MD is a lead teamwork training instructor for the Medical Simulation Center. He received a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Amherst College in 1990, his medical degree from the University of Vermont in 1999, and completed his emergency medicine residency at Rhode Island Hospital in 2003. He is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and an attending emergency physician at The Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital. His areas of interest include teamwork training, patient safety and simulator-based medical education.

Andrew Nathanson, MD, FACEP is a lead teamwork training instructor for the Medical Simulation Center. He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at the LAC-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and an attending emergency physician at The Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital. His areas of interest include teamwork training and water sports injuries.

Jessica Smith, MD is a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Medicine and completed her residency training in emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center. She is currently an attending physician at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital. Her simulation interest focuses on medical student and graduate medical learner education.

Francis Sullivan, MD is clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He completed residency training in internal medicine and a critical care medicine fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is an attending physician at Rhode Island Hospital in the department of emergency medicine, with a strong interest in pre-hospital medical training.

Selim Suner, MD, FACEP is the commander of the Rhode Island Disaster Medical Assistance Team, a disaster response asset of the Department of Health and Human Services. Suner received his medical degree from Brown Medical School and completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Rhode Island Hospital after receiving a master of science degree in biomedical engineering from Brown University. He is currently an attending physician at Rhode Island Hospital in the department of emergency medicine. He also chairs the emergency preparedness committee at Rhode Island Hospital and is involved with disaster preparedness on multiple committees nationally. He teaches emergency preparedness at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and has lectured worldwide on topics related to disaster medicine. He has published broadly on disaster preparedness related topics. He also conducts research at Brown University related to neuroscience and biomedical engineering.

Elizabeth Sutton, MD is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where she serves as the emergency medicine director for medical student education. She is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed her residency training in emergency medicine at Baystate Medical Center. She is a member of the Rhode Island Disaster Medical Assistance Team. She has special interests in postgraduate education, disaster medicine and wilderness medicine. She is currently doing research in high-fidelity simulation in medical education, in simulation-based teamwork training and in excellence in women's health education.

Pediatric Simulation

Angela Anderson, MD, FAAP is an associate professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and an attending physician in the emergency department at Hasbro Children's Hospital. She received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio in 1985 and completed her residency in pediatrics at Yale Medical School in 1988. She completed fellowships in both pediatric emergency medicine and clinical toxicology and pharmacology at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital in Boston in 1990. She is triple-boarded in pediatrics, pediatric emergency medicine and clinical toxicology. She lectures throughout the country on clinical toxicology and pediatric emergencies.

Linda Brown, MD is a member of the faculty at the Rhode Island Hospital Medical Simulation Center. She received a bachelor of arts degree in biology from Colby College and a medical degree from Pennsylvania State College of Medicine. She completed a pediatric residency at Hasbro Children’s Hospital and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. During her fellowship, she also received a master of science degree in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her current research interests include improving medical education through high-fidelity simulation, and the use of simulation to educate pre-hospital providers and community practitioners.

Susan Duffy, MD is an attending physician in the emergency department at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. She received her medical degree from Brown Medical School and completed her pediatric residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. She earned her master’s in public health at Columbia University before returning to Providence, where she completed a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine. She is an associate professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is the director of fast track and nurse practitioner programs at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Her fields of interest include medical education, child maltreatment and domestic violence.

Aris Garro, MD is an assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University Medical School and completed a residency in categorical pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He subsequently trained as a fellow in pediatric emergency medicine at Hasbro Children's Hospital and completed a master’s of public health at Brown University with a focus on asthma. His current research interests include primary prevention of pediatric asthma in the emergency department and Lyme meningitis.

Gregory Lockhart, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, leads the pediatric emergency medicine elective, and co-directs the emergency medicine elective for medical students. He was a pediatric resident at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics and completed a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Rhode Island Hospital, and has been a pediatric emergency medicine attending for 14 years. His current academic interests include sports injuries and Lyme disease.

Nursing Simulation

Simulation Specialists

Mark Jones is a veteran audiovisual specialist with over twenty years’ experience working in corporate and medical settings. He supports the Rhode Island Hospital Medical Simulation Center’s operations with his AV expertise and multimedia editing/ production skills.

Scott Marcotte, EMT-P is a firefighter and paramedic with over a decade of scene response and critical care transport experience. His medical background supports the Medical Simulation Center’s training operations.

Administrative Support