Bio

Dr. Michelle Aebersold, PhD, RN, CHSE, FAAN is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in health care simulation science. She applies a variety of methods (live, hybrid, virtual, augmented and mixed reality) to improve learner and clinical outcomes. She completed her BSN and MSBA at Madonna University before obtaining her PhD at the University of Michigan. The focus of her MSBA culminated in a thesis titled The Effects of Managed Care on Length of Stay, Nursing Job Satisfaction, while her PhD dissertation was titled Capacity to Rescue: Nurse Behaviors that Rescue Patients and Quality of Patient Care.

She currently serves as Vice-President of Operations for the International Nursing Associate for Clinical Simulation and Learning Board of Directors. Additionally, she is an active member of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) serving as the Chair of the Technology Committee and a member of the Knowledge MapTask Force.

Dr. Aebersold is a certified simulation health care educator, fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the associate editor for Clinical Simulation in Nursing. She was awarded the Excellence in Research award at INACSL in 2019 and the Excellence in Research, Midwest Nursing Research Society Systems Research Interest Group. She has also completed an Interprofessional leader fellow training at the Center for Interprofessional Education within University of Michigan.

She also helps as a consultant, collaborating with major publishers of educational resources, as well as designing and training educators in use of selected virtual learning products for health professionals (e.g., The Neighborhood, an on-line virtual community; and virtual simulations). In this position, she also helps to review textbooks, write test bank questions, design case studies, and provide curriculum mapping to various educational products.

Currently, Dr. Aebersold practices in the area of Simulation based education. For more information, visit the University of Michigan School of Nursing's clinical learning site here.

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