The HELPS Center's faculty represents the strength and uniqueness of the program. The Program Director has 20 years of simulator-based teaching experience and has been recognized for his expertise through local and national education awards. He has helped launch several simulator programs through personal on-sight visits and hosting visits to the HELPS Center for programs looking to get started in simulation. He has also served as mentor to several simulator elective and fellowship graduates who have gone on to develop their own simulator-based programs. The director has also served as assistant medical director of METI and consultant to Immersion Medical.
Adam I. Levine |
Dr. Levine is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Otolaryngology and Structural and Chemical Biology, is a Master Educator of the Institute of Medical Education and serves as Vice Chair for Education for the Department of Anesthesiology. He graduated the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 1989 and has been the Program Director for The Department of Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai since 1996. Dr. Levine was named Director of Simulation in 1994 when the department acquired the first beta test version of the Gainesville Anesthesia Simulator commercialized by Loral, now manufactured as the METI CAE HPS. Dr. Levine served as associate medical director of METI from 2000-2002.
Clinically Dr. Levine’s is an expert in anesthesia for otolaryngologic surgery and is senior editor of the reference textbook “Anesthesiology and Otolaryngology. Recognized as an expert in Simulation, Dr. Levine has developed innovative programs of Simulation-Based Education and Assessment. His team’s CARE (Clinical Anesthesia ReEntry) program is perhaps the most notable and has provided simulation-based assessment and retraining for anesthesiologists seeking clinical reentry or independent institutions and state licensing boards seeking physician competency assessment. In 2005 Dr. Levine was a member of the ASA workgroup on simulation and is currently an editor of the ASA Editorial Board on Simulation Education that oversees the ASA simulation endorsement program. Dr. Levine is also a site visitor for the Society in Simulation Healthcare accreditation program. Since 2010, Dr. Levine has been the program director of the ASA endorsed HELPS (Human Emulation, Education, and Evaluation Lab for Patient Safety and Professional Study) Center Program and has been conducting courses to satisfy MOCA ® Part IV requirements for ABA re-certification. In 2013 Dr. Levine served as the senior editor of “The Comprehensive Textbook of Healthcare Simulation”, a 50 chapter, multidisciplinary, international work authored by a who’s who in healthcare simulation and serves as definitive reference on healthcare simulation published by Springer.
Dr. Levine has been the recipient of numerous departmental, institutional and internal teaching awards. He was named outstanding Anesthesiology Attending Teacher three times, has received the award for “Excellence in Teaching” for all four years of medical school from the student body, received the first annual “Excellence in Teaching” award by the newly formed Institute for Medical Education, was named alumni member of AOA, named “Honorary Attending of the Year” by the Emergency Medicine Department, was named “honorable mention” by the International Anesthesia Research Society teaching Recognition Award in 2006 and received the IARS teaching recognition award in 2009.
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Samuel DeMaria, Jr. |
Dr. DeMaria is Director of Research in the HELPS Center and an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology in the Division of Liver Transplantation. He earned his degree from UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2006 where he was inducted into both the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies and received the UMDNJ Academic Achievement award for excellence in all courses and disciplines. After completing his internship at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, where he was named Transitional Intern of the Year, he started his anesthesiology residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Since arriving at Mount Sinai, Dr. DeMaria has had the distinction of being named the first Eliasberg Research Scholar, Resident Researcher of the Year and the Institute of Medical Education's Resident Educator of the Year. He was most also named Junior Faculty Educator of the year and Faculty Mentor of the year in the anesthesiology department. Dr. DeMaria develops and leads most of the group’s research endeavors. Many of his ongoing research projects involve novel approaches to medical education, the influence of stress on learning and the use of simulation to detect and prevent medical errors. He is also collaborating with engineers at Arizona State University to build virtual worlds and serious gaming simulators as well as doing work with colleagues at Vanderbilt University validating the Heartworks TEE simulator. Dr. DeMaria also participates as volunteer faculty for the medical student physiology course problem-based learning discussions as well as the anesthesiology clerkship, for which he holds regular simulation sessions. He has developed and participated in simulation-based courses at both Mount Sinai and at national (ASA annual meeting) and international (World Congress) conferences.
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Yury Khelemsky |
Dr. Khelemsky is an Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System where he maintains a practice as both an anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist.
Dr. Khelemsky received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Following an internship in internal medicine at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, Dr. Khelemsky completed his training in Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. After residency he pursued a fellowship in interventional pain medicine at NY Presbyterian Hospital Center/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Hospital for Special Surgery.
Dr. Khelemsky has been involved in simulation based-education since 2007. As a resident, he planned and executed simulation based curricula for medical students rotating in anesthesiology and those completing their physiology coursework. He has been a member of the core HELPS center faculty since 2010 and has been involved in MOCA, MOCA-R, and HIC (FOJP) courses since their inception. Dr. Khelemsky's work on simulation has been presented at national meetings and his chapter "Simulation in Medical Education: Pain and Palliative Care" was recently published in The Comprehensive Textbook of Healthcare Simulation, the decisive text on this topic.
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Andrew D. Schwartz |
Dr. Andrew D. Schwartz is an instructor of Anesthesiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He practices general Anesthesiology at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center as well as the Mount Sinai main campus. He earned his medical degree from The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. After completing an Internal Medicine internship at Cabrini Medical Center, he returned to Mount Sinai for residency training in Anesthesiology. During his training, Dr. Schwartz completed a one-year embedded fellowship in simulation education at the Mount Sinai HELPS Center.
Dr. Schwartz is a principle educator in the seven-week Introduction to Anesthesiology curriculum for incoming Clinical Anesthesia Year-1 residents. As the HELPS Center's Education Director, he is actively involved in simulation course development for medical students, residents and fellows. Dr. Schwartz is the Center's resident expert on the simulation of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), using novel and advanced technology as an educational tool for various levels of training, including pre-clinical medical students.
Dr. Schwartz's research has focused on simulation scenario development and the use of human patient simulators for physician competency assessment. He has been a key instructor in simulation-based courses at Mount Sinai and international conferences.
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Alan J. Sim |
Dr. Alan J. Sim is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Dr. Sim received his medical degree from The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2007, and he was awarded the Joseph P. Jagust Award for Excellence in Anesthesiology due to his work in education and simulation during his clerkship years. Following his internship in Internal Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital, where he was named Intern of the Year, he returned to Mount Sinai Medical Center and completed his residency training in anesthesiology.
Dr. Sim was one of the first residents to be part of the Clinical Educator Track at Mount Sinai Medical Center, a program focused on training residents to be superior educators in academic medicine. His roles included being a principle educator in the 7-week Introduction to Anesthesiology curriculum for incoming Clinical Anesthesia Year-1 residents, coordinating the medical school's 3rd year Anesthesiology Clerkship and 4th year electives, and as volunteer faculty for the medical school's physiology course for 1st year medical students. As part of the HELPS Center's educational team, he is actively involved in simulation curricula development for medical students, residents and fellows.
Dr. Sim's research interests focus on the application of video games and simulation to create novel learning tools. He has been a key instructor in simulation-based courses at Mount Sinai and nationally and internationally held conferences.
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Francine Yudkowitz |
Dr. Yudkowitz is Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of Pediatric Anesthesia at The Mount Sinai Hospital. After receiving her medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, she completed a residency in Pediatrics at the Cohen Children's Hospital, a pediatric critical care fellowship at New York Hospital Cornell, and an anesthesia residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital after which she joined the faculty as a subspecialist in pediatric anesthesia. She is board certified in pediatrics, anesthesiology, and pediatric anesthesiology.
Dr. Yudkowitz has a long history of involvement in education at the medical school, residency, and physician level. In the medical school, she moderated small group sessions for second year medical students. In the operating room, she mentors anesthesia residents with particular interest in pediatric anesthesia, emergency department residents during their pediatric airway management rotation, and pediatric residents during their pediatric anesthesia electives. She received the Outstanding Senior Faculty Teaching of the Year Award voted on by anesthesia residents and Best Teacher Award given by the graduating anesthesia residents. She is also a PALS instructor.
As Director of Education for the Institute for Corporate Education, a program sponsored by the Department of Anesthesiology, Dr. Yudkowitz created innovative educational opportunities for health related corporations of which simulation sessions played a significant role.
Dr. Yudkowitz is involved in Continuing Medical Education (CME) as a Course Director of a 5-day Anesthesiology Review Course where simulation sessions are incorporated into the curriculum, as faculty for national and international CME meetings, and as a surveyor for the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). She is on the Advisory Board of the CME Department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and is Chair of the Committee on Continuing Medical Education of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists.
Dr. Yudkowitz joined the HELPS Center faculty providing expertise in pediatric simulation. Since joining she is involved in simulation based teaching of critical care nurses, residents and attendings in the New York Metropolitan area, and at CME courses regionally.
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Daniel Katz |
Dr. Katz is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the Icahn School of Medicine and a clinical educator at the HELPS Center. He earned his degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2009 where he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society and received the Joseph P. Jagust Award for Excellence in Anesthesiology due to his work in education and simulation during his clerkship years. After completing his intern year at the Atlantic Health System, Dr. Katz continued his training in anesthesiology at Mount Sinai, where he was an Eliasberg Research Scholar and a chief resident. Upon completion of the clinical educator and research track Dr. Katz stayed on as faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine.
Dr. Katz is very interested in research involving serious games as teaching tools, and has been involved in the development of several serious games, of which two are currently undergoing study protocols. Dr. Katz also participates as volunteer faculty for the medical student physiology course PBLD as well as the anesthesiology clerkship. He has participated in simulation based courses for the past six years at national and international conferences. In addition to being an instructor at the HELPS Center, Dr. Katz is also chair of the Medical Education and Simulation track at the IEEE CBMS conference.
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Jaime Hyman |
Dr. Hyman is an Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honors society and graduated with distinction in immunology research. She then completed internship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where she was named Intern of the Year. Dr. Hyman then joined the department of anesthesiology at Mount Sinai for residency, serving as chief resident during her final year, during which she was also named resident of the Year. After residency Dr. Hyman joined the faculty at Mount Sinai with a particular clinical focus in anesthesia for otolaryngology procedures, ambulatory pediatric procedures, and labor and delivery. In 2013 she was named Junior Faculty Educator of the year in the anesthesiology department.
Dr. Hyman is very interested in resident education, continuing education, and performance improvement. In addition to simulation instruction in the HELPS center, she serves as co-chair of the Mount Sinai anesthesiology residency clinical competency committee, and is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiology’s Practice Performance Assessment and Improvement board.
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Andrew Goldberg |
Dr. Goldberg is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Anesthesiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is a full-time faculty member for the department's human simulation lab (HELPS Center) where he has been working to teach learners ranging from middle school students through attending physicians. Dr. Goldberg has participated in simulation since 2008 and has won multiple awards within the department, medical school, and hospital including the Medical Student and Resident Excellence in Teaching Award. Most recently he won the Nathan R. Kase Innovations in Education Award from the Mount Sinai Medical System for his work utilizing simulation to train the entire system on how to deal with the Ebola crisis.
Dr. Goldberg also participates in extensive research investigating the use of death as a learning tool, ethical considerations for simulation learning, and improving the use of part-task simulators. He has won the departmental researcher of the year three times and has multiple national and international publications demonstrating his work.
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Jeron Zerillo |
Dr. Zerillo is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology in the Division of Liver Transplantation. He earned his degree from the New York University School of Medicine in 2009. After completing an internship in Internal Medicine at Winthrop University Hospital, he joined the residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he was named Resident of the Year. After residency, Dr. Zerillo pursued a fellowship in Liver Transplant anesthesia at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Zerillo then joined the faculty at Mount Sinai where he was named Junior Faculty Educator of the year in 2015 in the department of Anesthesiology.
Dr. Zerillo is extremely interested in resident education and performance improvement. He has developed a liver transplant simulation that has now been incorporated into the curriculum for the resident liver transplant rotation. Dr. Zerillo has also worked with Dr. Katz to build a simulation based liver transplant mobile application designed to improve practitioner performance. This application is currently being validated and studied among residents within the department. Dr. Zerillo is also interested in Echocardiographic simulation and has participated in the medical school’s cardiac physiology course for 1st year medical students for several years.
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Bryan Mahoney |
Bryan Mahoney, MD, received his undergraduate education at the University of Florida and undergraduate medical education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. During his residency training in Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai Hospital, he acquired expertise in simulation education through the clinical education residency track in the Human Emulation, Education, and Evaluation Lab for Patient Safety and Professional Study (HELPS) Center. He went on to complete fellowship training in Obstetric Anesthesiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston during which he created a prospective randomized control trial investigating the effects of simulated critical events in obstetric anesthesia on learning and retention of obstetric anesthesia knowledge (presented at the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (2012).
As a faculty member at the Wexner Medical Center at the Ohio State University Department of Anesthesiology Division of Obstetric Anesthesiology, Dr. Mahoney established a simulation-based introduction to anesthesia boot camp and helped expand the resident simulation curriculum. For this and other work he was recognized as “Teacher of the Year.” As part of an institutional mission to expand the simulation program, Dr. Mahoney oversaw a roll out of a simulation-based cardiac and pulmonary physiology curriculum for first-year medical students. To pilot the course he conducted a cohort study to look at the effects of the course on final exam performance. In addition to finding a positive correlation with exposure, the course was the most highly rated that year and formally integrated into the core curriculum. This work was presented at the International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (2014 & 2015). Prior to his departure, as a core faculty member at the Ohio State University Clinical Skills and Assessment Center, he helped lead the effort to establish the first ASA endorsed simulation center in the state of Ohio.
Dr. Mahoney currently serves as the Residency Program Director at the Mount Sinai St. Lukes & Roosevelt Hospitals Department of Anesthesiology in addition to being a faculty member in the Division of Obstetric Anesthesiology and a faculty member of the HELPS Center at the Mount Sinai Hospital Icahn School of Medicine.
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Nishant Gandhi |
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