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DR. MICHELLE AEBERSOLD is a Clinical Professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing and a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Information. She is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She has a Bachelor’s degree in nursing, a Master of Science in Business Administration and a PhD in Nursing. She is the Assistant Editor for Clinical Simulation in Nursing, a former Board member of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, and Chairs the Technology Committee for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. She is also a member of the Nursing Board of CRNA’s Research Committee and Simulation Committee.

Dr. Aebersold’s leadership experience includes roles in the practice environments, including oversight of nursing intensive care units, acute care units and outpatient specialty clinics. She assisted with the development and opening of Michigan Medicine’s Stroke Unit in the 1990’s and the first certification for ASA Get With the Guidelines-Stroke as well as the TJC Certification as a Stroke Center. Dr. Aebersold also developed the simulation program for the UM School of Nursing and oversaw the development of the 13,000 square foot simulation center, which opened in 2015.

Dr. Aebersold has been teaching since 2006. She teaches in the area of leadership, analytics, quality and safety in the graduate and doctoral nursing courses. She often oversees doctoral students for their scholarly projects and participates on dissertation committees.

Dr. Aebersold has extensive experience in using a variety of simulation learning methods including Extended Realities to improve the care of patients through caregiver education and training. She is currently working on a grant-funded project from the National Cancer Institute to use simulation to improve the safe delivery of chemotherapy by nurses and pharmacists. Her other grant work includes using immersive virtual reality to improve teamwork and communication in pediatric cardiac arrest situations and Improving Pediatric Acute Care through Simulation Training.

Dr. Aebersold has numerous publications, presents on a variety of topics and is often an invited speaker at international, regional and local conferences. She consults with nursing schools around improving their simulation programs, developing virtual educational assets and other projects.

Please click on the relevant links to review Dr. Aebersold's professional biography, collaborations, publications, as well as information regarding her research.

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Current Research Grants and Programs

Currently, Dr. Aebersold is involved with following different projects:

• Academic Community Partnership

• MOSST Chemotherapy Safety - See the news here

• We Heart VR - view the latest news here

• Augmented Reality to Improve Stroke Care

• Improving Nursing Students' Resilience to Bullying Behavior

  • IMPACTS-Improving Pediatric Acute Care through Simulation Training

For more information regarding each of the projects, feel free to follow the respective hyperlinks.

In the News

XR Podcast-Under the Skin Project

Her interests include:

• Simulation

• Virtual reality

• Augmented reality

• Serious games

• Innovative education methods

• Patient safety

To access her official faculty page at the University of Michigan School of Nursing click here.