Mary Patterson - Florida Simulation Projects in Health

Mary Patterson MD, MEd is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and the Associate Dean of Experiential Learning and the Lou Oberndorf Professor of Healthcare Technology at the University of Florida where she has directed the Center for Experiential Learning and Simulation since 2018.  She is past- president of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and has served on the BOD for the Society of Simulation in Healthcare and the International Pediatric Simulation Society. In addition, she is the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Resilient Healthcare Society. 

She was the founding medical director of the Cincinnati Children’s Center for Simulation, Education and Research.  In addition, she was the Associate Vice Chair Medical Education and Executive Director of Simulation at Children’s National Medical Center. 

Mary has served as the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida since 2021. 

Mary has been a federally funded investigator in simulation, team performance and patient safety and publishes in the areas of patient safety, team performance, human factors and Resilience Engineering.  She is a past chair of the Healthcare Safety and Quality Improvement Research Study Section of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.  She was inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of the Society of Simulation in Healthcare in 2018

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