Scott Wiltz, MD, MPH, FAAFP
Medical Director, SimLEARN
Dr. Scott Wiltz is a family doctor serving as the medical director at SimLEARN. He is a graduate of
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) School of Medicine in New Orleans, the Eglin
Air Force Base Family Medicine Residency Program, and the Faculty Development Fellowship at the University
of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. He served in the Air Force for 12 years as a clinician and educator
including duties as a medical director and residency program director with multiple research publications
and national presentations. He has been with SimLEARN since May 2017.
He teaches in classes for
developing
clinical, leadership and educational skills and supervises development efforts to meet the educational
needs of SimLEARN’s clients and partners. He also serves as a primary contact point for SimLEARN with
national program offices, clinical subject matter experts and partners in VA, DOD and other government and
private sector groups.
Laura Kim, MD
Clinical Simulation Fellowship Coordinating Center Co-Director, SimLEARN
Laura Kim, MD has been a physician educator for SimLEARN since 2020. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine. She graduated from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Since joining the VA in 2007, she has served as a primary care physician and Compensation & Pension medical examiner until 2017 when she began the OAA Advanced Fellowship in Health Profession Education Evaluation and Research (HPEER) at SimLEARN. In addition to her work with the advanced fellowship program, she serves as Chief Medical Officer for SimLEARN’s Technology Integration team and serves as the Senior Simulation Consultant for VA Office of Women’s Health.
Nelson Wong, MD, MSHPEd
Clinical Simulation Fellowship Coordinating Center Co-Director,
SimLEARN
Emergency Physician, VA Palo Alto Medical Center
Dr. Nelson Wong is an emergency physician based in the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. He is a graduate of
the
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, the Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Residency
Program, and the Masters in Health Professional Education Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital
where he also completed a fellowship in health care simulation.
He has been with SimLEARN since 2015 with a focus on faculty development and the IAFCS fellowship. He also
instructs with Stanford University
School of Medicine and Emergency Department.
Mary E. Holtschneider, MEd, MPA, BSN, RN, NPDA-BC, NREMT-P, CPTD
Simulation Education Coordinator, Co-Director Interprofessional Advanced Fellowship in Clinical Simulation, VISN 6 Simulation Champion
Mary Holtschneider is an experienced healthcare simulation educator in both the hospital and academic settings whose nursing clinical background includes trauma, emergency, and critical care. She also serves as nursing program manager for Duke University Area Health Education Center where she brings outreach education to health care professionals throughout North Carolina. Ms. Holtschneider leads the national VA Association for Nurses in Professional Development (ANPD) affiliate group and regularly teaches certification preparation courses for those in this nursing specialty role. She serves as a VISN 6 Simulation Champion and is the 2014 recipient of the SimLEARN VA Under Secretary for Health's Excellence in Clinical Simulation Training, Education and Research Practice Award. Ms. Holtschneider also earned the 2019 ANPD Leader Award and was named one of the North Carolina Great 100 Nurses of 2019. In 2008, she was selected for the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award by the Accelerated Bachelor of Science Nursing students at Duke University School of Nursing where she directed the Simulation Program. Ms. Holtschneider is a past board member of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the AACN Certification Corporation, the North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA) and the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS). Ms. Holtschneider is actively involved with professional associations and writes and speaks regularly on topics related to leadership, simulation, mindfulness, interprofessional teamwork and more. Along with Dr. Chan Park, she co-edits the Interprofessional Learning Environments Column for the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development (JNPD) and serves on the editorial board.
Chan W. Park, M.D., FAAEM
Director, Simulation Education, Co-Director, Interprofessional Advanced Fellowship in Clinical Simulation
Chan Park is the director of simulation education and the co-director of the Interprofessional Advanced Fellowship in Clinical Simulation at the Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System (VAHCS). He also serves as a faculty member of the Duke Leadership Education And Development (LEAD) program, senior faculty advisor for the Feagin Leadership Program and holds a position of adjunct assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Park obtained his M.D. at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1999 and trained under the United States Health Professions Scholarship Program. Upon graduation, he served in the U.S. Navy between 1999-2009, during which time he also completed his residency training in emergency medicine at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, California. As a Naval Medical Officer, Dr. Park was deployed to the Persian Gulf and Ramadii, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. He has previously held assistant professor positions in emergency medicine at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Park is committed to advancing the interprofessional learning environment and innovative approaches to enhancing individual and team performance. Promoting concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation, Dr. Park firmly embraces the Kolb model for adult experiential learning. Dr. Park and his colleagues work in close collaboration with faculty from the nation’s leading Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, Duke University and University of North Carolina Health Care Systems, as well as leaders from the graduate medical education programs to identify and critically appraise competency domains that improve leadership, interprofessionalism and team performance.
Henry Park, M.D.
Medical Director of Clinical Simulation, Co-Director, Advanced Fellowship in Clinical Simulation at the James A Haley Veterans' Hospital
Dr. Park is enthusiastic about improving patient safety and medical resident education. In 2011, Dr. Park was selected by VA Tampa Healthcare System (Tampa VA) to join one of VA's first cohorts of Chief Residents in Quality and Patient Safety. The innovative patient safety curriculum developed by the Tampa VA team for USF medical students and residents was recognized by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) with a Cheers Award for their use of pharmacy and medication tracers to promote safer practices in inpatient medication administration. Since completing his quality and patient safety training, Dr. Park has served in hospital leadership roles at both the Tampa and Bay Pines VA. As part of his journey to play a role in increasing patient safety in health care, Dr. Park has also served as a physician surveyor for The Joint Commission. He continues to promote patient safety with internal medicine (IM) residents at his local facility through the introduction of a new VA-based simulation elective and use of deliberate practice and mastery learning strategies in simulation to increase IM resident code team leadership skills and knowledge.
Janet Sprehe, DNP, APRN, CVRN, RN-BC
Program Director, Simulations and Recusation Education and Innovation (REdI) Initiative, Director,
SimLEARN Innovation Center for Education (SLICE), VISN 8 Simulation Champion, Co-Director, Advanced
Fellowship in Clinical Simulation at the James A Haley Veterans' Hospital
Specialties: Cardiovascular, Medical-Surgical Nursing
Dr. Janet Sprehe has been a staff nurse, nurse manager, nurse educator, nurse practitioner, and consultant
for legal counsel in her professional career. She maintains certifications in medical surgical nursing,
cardiovascular nursing, and adult nurse practitioner. She also is an end-of-life nursing instructor,
trauma nurse core course instructor and advanced cardiovascular life support/basic life support
instructor. Dr. Sprehe works closely with SimLEARN in developing curriculums and teaching courses.
Dr. Sprehe is a professor at Ana G. Mendez University and adjunct faculty at University of Tampa and
University of South Florida. She is an Adult Nurse Practitioner with certification in medical-surgical and
cardiovascular nursing. She is an active presenter and resource in simulation using innovation in
education through simulation.