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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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AEI Consortium

Administration and Management Committee

Vision

The Administration and Management Committee of the Consortium of ACS-accredited Education Institutes will support the credo of the ACS-accredited Education Institutes by offering guidance, education, support, and knowledge transfer between global members of the assembly to enhance growth and development of management and administration of surgical simulation centers.

Mission

Development and dissemination of operational strategies to the assembly for establishing or established AEI Centers to:

  • Discuss best practice values
  • Discuss and develop fundraising approaches
  • Review legal and liability issues
  • Discuss human resource guidelines and other business development practices

Co-Chairs

Jesika Gavilanes, MATESOL
Operations Director, OHSU Mark Richardson Interprofessional Simulation Center
and Associate Operations Director, OHSU Simulation
Julie Hartman, DC, MS, CHSE
Operations Manager, Center for Procedural Skills and Simulation University of Iowa

Vice-Chair

Cristina Alvarado, RN, MBA
University of Toledo

Members

Melissa Cappaert, MA
Staff Director, Simulation Center, The University of Chicago Medicine
and Biological Sciences Division
Susan Carter, MD, FACOG, FACS
Chair, Clinical Medicine and Surgery and Director, Rocky Vista University
Eugene Floersch, MPH, CHSE, CHSOS
Assistant Director of M Simulation-University of Minnesota
Kimberly M. Gilmore, MS, RLAT
Manager, Simulation and Patient Safety, Temple University, William Maul Measey Institute for Clinical Simulation and Patient Safety
Susan Haynes, M.Ed, MSW
Inova Medical Center
Tamara L. Owens, PhD, MEd, CHSE
Founding Director, Clinical Skills and Simulation Centers
Megan Sherman, MAEdHD
Associate Director, Operations, WWAMI Institute for Simulation in Healthcare (WISH)
Benjamin Stobbe, RN, MBA, MPH, CHSE
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Staff

Kathleen A. Johnson, EdM