Jared Kutzin
will serve a one-year term as President until January 2026. Aaron
Calhoun will assume the presidency in January 2026.
HARRISON, Ohio, Jan. 15,
2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Society for Simulation
in Healthcare (SSH) has announced that Jared Kutzin, DNP, MS, MPH, RN, CHSOS, FSSH,
FAAN, has become the 20th President of the Society.
His term began at the completion of the 25th annual
International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH), which
took place January 10-14, 2025, in
Orlando, Florida.
Kutzin, Associate Professor in the Departments of Emergency
Medicine and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at
Mount Sinai and Senior Director of the Simulation Teaching and
Research (STAR) Center at The Mount Sinai Hospital, will serve a
one-year term, succeeding Barry
Issenberg, MD, FSSH, Director of the Gordon Center for
Simulation and Innovation in Medical Education at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Issenberg will continue to serve on the board as Immediate
Past-President.
Aaron Calhoun, MD, FAAP, FSSH,
was named President-Elect. Calhoun is a Professor in the Department
of Pediatrics at the University of
Louisville and an attending physician in the Pediatric
Critical Care Unit at Norton Children's Hospital. He has been an
active member of SSH for nearly two decades, serving in various
leadership roles, including on the Board of Directors and as an
Associate Editor-in-Chief for Simulation in Healthcare,
the Society's primary journal.
About the Society for Simulation in Healthcare
The Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) seeks to improve
performance and reduce errors in healthcare through the use of
simulation. The purpose of SSH is to serve a global community of
practice enhancing the quality of healthcare.
SSH (www.ssih.org) is a 501(c)(3) organization with more than
5,400 members from nearly 70 countries. The mission of SSH is to
serve its members by fostering education, professional development,
and the advancement of research and innovation; promote the
profession of healthcare simulation through standards and ethics;
and champion healthcare simulation through advocating, sharing,
facilitating, and collaborating. SSH was established in 2004.
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