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Dr. Çalık Kuş serves as an Assistant Professor in the Nursing Department at Süleyman Demirel University. Her research focuses on technology-enhanced learning, gamification, and game-based learning approaches in nursing education.

Dr. Çalık Kuş has commercialized her academic work based on her doctoral research under the umbrella of WEFI GAMES in 2024, combining it with her identity as a game developer. In this context, she leads the development of gamified applications for education and healthcare, VR/AR-based simulations, and artificial intelligence-supported learning systems. Additionally, she plays an active role in technology and education ecosystems as the Gamfed Turkey Coordinator and Google Women Techmakers Ambassador.

Dr. Tekian is a Professor of Medical Education at UIC-COM and the Associate Dean responsible for the Office of International Education. He teaches in both masters and doctoral programs in the field of Vocational Education. Dr. Tekian has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles; presented over 160 peer-reviewed papers; and conducted over 325 invited workshops and courses in more than 45 countries, along with 275 invited presentations. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the ASME Gold Medal, the AERA Section I Distinguished Career Award, and the highly esteemed Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Dr. Tekian is also the Chief Editor of the Innovation and Change in Professional Education (ICPE) book series published by Springer.

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Bob Kiser, Illinois Chicago Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi bünyesindeki Simülasyon ve Bütünleşik Öğrenme (SAIL) Enstitüsü’nün Geçici İcra Direktörü olarak görev yapmaktadır. 28.000 fit karelik bu simülasyon merkezi, hem insan temelli hem de teknoloji temelli simülasyon programlarını bünyesinde barındırmaktadır. Çalışmalarında, sağlık meslekleri eğitiminde iletişim, profesyonellik ve liderlik eğitimini geliştirmek amacıyla standartlaştırılmış hastaları, koçluk çerçevelerini ve deneyimsel öğrenme tasarımını bir araya getirmektedir. Disiplinler arası simülasyon girişimleri, öğretim üyesi gelişimi ve yenilikçi müfredat tasarımı alanlarında iş birlikleri yapmakta; ayrıca Standartlaştırılmış Hasta Eğiticileri Derneği’nin (ASPE) Müfredat Geliştirme ve İlerletme Komitesi’nde görev almaktadır. Bunun yanı sıra Kiser Training, Coaching, and Consulting’in kurucusudur.

Prof. Chang is a professor at the Faculty of Medical Informatics at Chung Shan Medical University and the Department of Information Management at Ming Chuan University. He also serves as president of the Society for Asia Medical Decision Science (SAMDS) and the Taiwan Medical Decision Science Association.

Prof. Chang has served on the International Advisory Boards of Karadeniz Technical University, Ming Chuan University, Isparta University of Applied Sciences, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, and Süleyman Demirel University to support the internationalization efforts of these universities. In addition, he has played a significant role in developing international cooperation in education and research programs by spearheading the signing of Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) agreements between these universities and various research institutions around the world.

His research contributions focus on clinical studies targeting specific diseases, such as predicting cancer recurrence and second primary cancer, and diagnosing glaucoma and early-stage chronic kidney disease. In the field of clinical psychology, he focuses on analyzing post-traumatic growth and health behaviors. In the field of application, his team uses various innovative information technologies and carries out interdisciplinary and international collaborations worldwide.

Prof. Chang is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed articles published in prestigious international journals and conferences. He co-founded three international conferences, two artificial intelligence forums, and the Taiwan Medical Decision Science Association. These include the 2017 International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI) [1], the 2018 International Conference on Health Services Management (ICHSM) [2], the 2017 Health Big Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence Forum (HBAAI) [3], the 2018 Taiwan Joint Executive Board of Medical Informatics (JEBMI) [4], the 2022 Taiwan Medical Decision Science Association (MDSAT) [5], 2023 International Symposium on Medical Decision Science (ISMDS) [6], Mongolian Decision Science Association (MDSAM) [7], and Asian Decision Science Association (SAMDS) [8].

Prof. Chang is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Decision Science in Medicine. He also serves as an editor for numerous journals published in interdisciplinary fields such as medicine, computer science, and management science. These include the International Journal of Medical Sciences, Open Medicine, Therapeutics & Clinical Risk Management, Diagnostics, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Frontiers in Genetics, Journal of Universal Computer Science, International Journal of Computers and Applications, Journal of Quality, Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, International Journal of Business and Systems Research, ACM, International Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, and Journal of Electronic Science and Technology.

Prof. Dr. Cüneyt Ardıç is a Professor of Family Medicine and Head of the Department of Family Medicine at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Türkiye. He also serves as the Director of the University Simulation Center, where he leads curriculum development and faculty training in simulation-based medical education.

He completed his medical degree at Istanbul University and specialized in Family Medicine. His academic and research interests include medical education, simulation-based learning, public health, geriatrics, childhood obesity, and hypertension management.

Prof. Ardıç has been actively involved in national guideline development and represents the Turkish Association of Family Physicians (TAHUD) in collaborative scientific initiatives. He has organized and delivered numerous training programs for primary care physicians, with a special focus on integrating simulation into competency-based residency education.

His current work focuses on strengthening primary care training through innovative simulation methodologies and interprofessional education models.

Dr. Çiğdem Yücel Özçırpan, an associate professor at Hacettepe University School of Nursing, received a postdoctoral research fellowship in 2014 from the International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She conducted research at the University of Queensland in Australia and participated in obstetric team training at simulation centers in Brisbane and Nambour. Melbourne, and Nambour. Özçırpan, who holds the CHSE (Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator) certificate awarded by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSIH), has been continuing her work at the Department of Simulation in Health Sciences at Hacettepe University Institute of Health Sciences since 2018. She also serves as the Deputy Director of the Hacettepe University Interprofessional Collaboration and Simulation Education Application and Research Center (HÜMİSAM). Her areas of expertise include developing simulation-based education programs, interprofessional collaboration, and patient safety.

Born in 1971, Prof. Dr. Fatih Keskin began his education at Hamburg Gymnasium Alstertal in Germany, then graduated from Kabataş Boys High School in Turkey. Keskin completed his bachelors degree at Ankara Universitys Faculty of Communication, then pursued his masters degree, first in Political Science at METU and later in Public Administration and Political Science at Ankara Universitys Institute of Social Sciences. He also completed his doctorate in the same department. He conducted research at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Koblenz-Landau with a TÜBA scholarship.

Focusing on the sociological, psychological, and technical dimensions of politics in his academic work, Keskin problematized the issues of propaganda and ideology at the masters level. At the doctoral level, he conducted an in-depth analysis of the role of professional political consulting agencies and think tanks in decision-making mechanisms within the framework of the definition of political class. His current work focuses on political communication, the effects of artificial intelligence technologies on the digital public sphere, and the relationship between humans and technology.

Currently serving as Dean of the Faculty of Communication at Ankara University, Prof. Dr. Keskin has also authored numerous scientific publications at the national and international levels.

She graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Dentistry and completed her doctoral education in the Department of Prosthetic Dentistry at the same faculty in 2004. As a specialist dentist, she worked at Tepebaşı Training and Research Hospital affiliated with the Ministry of Health and at the Medical Device Clinical Research Unit of the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency. Since 2020, he has been serving as a faculty member in the Department of Prosthodontics at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Dentistry. He is married and has one child.

G. Ulufer SIVRIKAYA, MD, graduated from Cukurova University’s School of Medicine in 1992. She completed her residency in Anesthesiology and Reanimation in 1997. She has associated degrees in “Management of Health Institutions” and “Emergency and Disaster Management”.

She started to work in Medical Simulation field at Istanbul Health Directorate’s Medical Simulation Center; SIMMERK in 2008. She has taken duties in different official simulation projects and administrations. She is now working at Rahmi M. Koç Academy of Interventional Medicine, Education and Simulation (RMK AIMES) in Istanbul, Turkiye.

She has served in Executive Committee of Society for Simulation in Europe (SESAM) for four years and is now board member of SESAM’s Prehospital Community of Practice (PH-COP).

Prof. Dr. Gizem İrem Kınıklı, a faculty member at Hacettepe Universitys Faculty of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, is a senior academic internationally recognized in the field of musculoskeletal physical therapy and rehabilitation. Her work primarily focuses on post-operative rehabilitation, orthopedic and rheumatological outcomes, and the biopsychosocial dimensions of recovery. With extensive experience in innovation and digitalization in education, Kınıklı plays an active role in Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) programs conducted in partnership with Xavier University in the USA, modernizing global education methodologies. Prof. Dr. Kınıklı teaches in the “Simulation in Health Sciences” graduate program at Hacettepe Universitys Institute of Health Sciences and also serves as Deputy Director of Hacettepe Universitys Interprofessional Collaboration and Simulation Education Application and Research Center (HÜMİSAM). With his work focusing on the transformative power of simulation-based education in the competency development of health professionals and his administrative leadership, he continues to shape the future of both clinical practice and educational protocols.

Professor Guillaume Alinier, PhD, has over 25 years of academic experience and has a particular interest in simulation-based education in the field of health. His work in this field earned him the UK National Teaching Fellowship award from the Higher Education Academy in 2006. He has been involved in numerous projects, including the design and implementation of simulation facilities and programs, the organization of major incident exercises, and the delivery of short courses for simulation instructors.

He currently serves as Research Director at the Hamad Medical Corporation Ambulance Service in Doha, Qatar. In addition, he holds visiting professorships at the University of Hertfordshire and Northumbria University in the United Kingdom, and is an Adjunct Professor in Medical Education at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar.

Prof. Alinier, who is passionate about simulation-based education, has contributed to important publications and initiatives run by leading international healthcare simulation associations such as the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine, the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare, and the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. He has published two books on debriefing (feedback/evaluation) and authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.

He also serves on the editorial boards of various paramedic, emergency medicine, and simulation journals. He currently serves as guest editor for a special collection titled “Simulation for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response” in the BMC Advances in Simulation journal and another collection titled “Simulation Serving the Advancement of Emergency Medicine” in the Panorama of Emergency Medicine journal.

Dr. Gülsüm Zekiye TUNCER is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatric Nursing at the Faculty of Nursing, Dokuz Eylül University. She completed her undergraduate education at the Department of Nursing, Ege University, and her masters and doctoral degrees in the Psychiatric Nursing program at the Institute of Health Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University. Her research areas include psychiatric nursing, nursing education, eating behaviors, and digital health applications. Dr. Tuncers work focuses on productive artificial intelligence applications in nursing and the use of large language models in academic and clinical processes, attitudes towards artificial intelligence, and AI-supported methodological evaluations. Dr. Tuncer has published numerous studies in internationally indexed journals and conducts research focused on the use of artificial intelligence in nursing.

In 2009, she completed her bachelors degree at the School of Nursing at Dokuz Eylül University. In 2014, she completed her masters degree in the Department of Nursing Education at the Institute of Health Sciences at Ege University. In 2019, she completed her doctorate in the Department of Medical Education. In 2019, she was awarded the title of Assistant Professor. In 2024, she was awarded the title of Associate Professor in the field of Nursing Education. Between 2009 and 2010, she worked as a nurse at the Private Ege Health Hospital, and between 2010 and 2019, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Nursing Education at Ege University Faculty of Nursing. Since 2019, she has been continuing her duties as a faculty member in the Department of Nursing Education at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Izmir Bakırçay University.

Prof. Hossam Hamdy is a distinguished surgeon, medical educator, and academic leader with over 40 years of experience in higher education in the Middle East and internationally. He has held senior management positions at Suez Canal University, Arabian Gulf University, Sharjah University, and Gulf Medical University, where he served as Chancellor. Prof. Hamdy has made extensive contributions to innovations, research, and policy development in medical education; he has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) and an evaluator for the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME). His outstanding contributions have been recognized with numerous international awards, including the Knight of the Order of Academic Palms and the 2023 Emirati Doctor Award.

Dr. İlknur Buçan Kırkbir, a faculty member at the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Karadeniz Technical University (KTÜ), conducts research in the fields of health informatics and nursing. Her research focuses on integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence methods into nursing processes to increase efficiency in clinical practice. Buçan Kırkbir, who conducts research in the fields of nursing informatics and data-driven patient care, continues to make academic contributions to the integration of digital technologies into nursing education and clinical practice.

Jabeen Fayyaz, MD, FCPS, MCPS, DCH, CHSE, MHPE, PhD (Simulation), is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician, simulation expert, and global medical education leader. She is based at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, where she serves as the Medical Director of the SimKIDS Simulation Program and the Teaching Scholars Program within the Learning Institute, and as Co-Director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine International Clinical Fellowship Program. He is also a Staff Physician in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Fayyazs academic work focuses on simulation-based education, faculty development, patient safety, and improving healthcare systems, with an emphasis on equity, human-centered design, and capacity building, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Internationally, he serves as Vice President (President-Elect) of the International Pediatric Simulation Society (IPSS-INSPIRE), Co-Chair of the IPSS-INSPIRE Pediatric Simulation Fellowship Program, and Board Member of the International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education. He is also actively involved in global education, research, and visiting faculty roles in South Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, contributing to emergency care education through his academic work in the field of simulation worldwide.

Kaan Orhan, MD, is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Director of the Emergency Medicine Simulation Center at Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey. He is a graduate of Hacettepe University School of Medicine and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Hacettepe University Hospital. He is also a graduate of the Hacettepe University Institute of Health Sciences, where he earned a Master of Science degree in Medical Education and a PhD in Medical Education. He is a certified simulation educator and has extensive experience in developing and implementing simulation-based education programs for undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students. He is also actively involved in research, with a focus on simulation-based education, interprofessional education, and evidence-based practice. Dr. Orhan has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and has presented his work at international conferences. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Association for Medical Education in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (AMEEMR) and the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH).

Mehmet Ali Kılıçarslan was born in Trabzon in 1968. He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Dentistry in 1990 and received his Doctor of Dental Science degree in Prosthetic Dentistry in 1997. He also obtained a master's degree in health law in 2024. Kılıçarslan graduated from the Political Science and Public Administration undergraduate program in 2024. Kılıçarslan, who became a professor in 2013, currently teaches at Ankara University Faculty of Dentistry. Kılıçarslan is a member of the Turkish Medical Specialization Board (TUK), the Ankara Chamber of Dentists, the Turkish Prosthodontics and Implantology Association, and the European Prosthodontic Association, and is also the 2025 term president. He is married and has one child.

Dr. Mevlüt Okan Aydın is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at Bursa Uludağ Universitys Faculty of Medicine. He also serves as the sole coordinator and director of the universitys Good Medical Practice and Simulation Center (USİM).

He completed his medical degree and his specialization in Emergency Medicine at Bursa Uludağ University. Driven by a vision to advance healthcare training, he earned his Ph.D. in Medical Education from Marmara University , where his thesis focused on developing a simulation-based curriculum for emergency medicine residency programs.

Dr. Aydıns academic and practical research aligns directly with the integration of innovative technologies in medical education. He conducts extensive research on clinical competency, including multi-patient simulation-based training programs and cross-sectional studies comparing artificial intelligence models with clinical expertise to enhance emergency triage accuracy. Furthermore, he has led TÜBİTAK-supported science and education initiatives, such as the "Uludağ Medical Simulation Wars," which promote experiential learning. He also holds a registered patent for a Central Venous Catheterization (CVC) Simulator designed specifically for medical and nursing education.

Beyond his academic and clinical roles, Dr. Aydın takes an active leadership role in civil society, currently serving as the Chairman of the Board for the Paylaşımcı Toplum Derneği (Sharing Community Association)

Professor Dr. Muhammed Kılınç, Associate Dean and Faculty Member at Hacettepe University's Faculty of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, is a senior academic renowned for his work on the integration of advanced technology with neurological rehabilitation. Kılınç, who began his career at Hacettepe University in 2001 and was appointed professor in 2022, focuses particularly on rehabilitation processes following Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), and stroke. Leading pioneering projects to modernize traditional physical therapy methodologies with artificial intelligence, virtual reality (VR), and simulation systems, Kılınç specializes in technological designs that enable patients to develop their motor skills in safe digital environments. His work, which focuses on incorporating wearable technologies and biofeedback systems into rehabilitation protocols, embodies the transformative power of simulation in the education of healthcare professionals. With numerous publications internationally, Prof. Dr. Kılınç continues his academic and administrative leadership in the field of digital health transformation and rehabilitation technologies. He received the Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Award in 2017, the 2nd place award in the Hacettepe University Bigg Hamle Competition in 2019, and the Turkish Patent Institute Gold Medal award in 2019.

Dr. N. Özgül ÜNLÜER, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Gülhane Health Sciences University, and Head of the Department of Neurological Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, conducts research primarily in the areas of Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Stroke, and neurogenic swallowing disorders. In addition to current neurological rehabilitation studies, she contributes to the literature with augmented reality-based telerehabilitation applications. She served as an advisor in the "Virtual Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Application" project supported under the TÜBİTAK 1512 call and in the TÜBİTAK 1507 R&D start-up support program. He is also the project leader for the TUSEB Group B R&D Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Education Technology (PC-Based Patient Measurement and Assessment Simulation) project and is among the academics leading the digital transformation of the rehabilitation field in Turkey.

Nuran Aydın, RN, MSN, PhD, is a nursing informatics leader with over 30 years of clinical, academic, and administrative experience in nursing, health informatics, and artificial intelligence. Aydın, the first nurse in Turkey to receive the "IT-Friendly Nurse" award, is a pioneer in clinical decision support systems, digital health, and artificial intelligence-supported care models in nursing. She has pursued her academic career at Koç University and Istanbul Medipol University, developing a strong expertise ranging from pediatric nursing to health information systems.

Aydın is also the founding president of the Nursing Informatics Association, a member of the HIMSS Turkey Board of Directors, and a healthcare analysis manager who has worked on digital transformation projects in the healthcare sector. With a hybrid career combining academia, clinical practice, and the private sector, she advocates for the ethical, safe, and human-centered use of artificial intelligence in nursing. She continues her professional life as a freelance consultant, aiming to shape the digital future of the nursing profession on national and international platforms.

Dr. Karaçay completed her doctoral education in simulation at the Department of Nursing Fundamentals, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul University. During her doctoral education, she was an exchange student at the Decker School of Nursing, State University of New York at Binghamton.

His first professional experience with simulation was in 2011 at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, where he had the opportunity to observe simulation practices at many schools in the United States and the United Kingdom and work with faculty members there. She played an active role in establishing the simulation laboratory at Koç University School of Nursing, writing clinical scenarios, and integrating this educational strategy into the curriculum. She initiated the first "simulation educator training program" in the field of nursing in Turkey and continues to teach this course at the Semahat Arsel Nursing Education, Application, and Research Center (SANERC). She has conducted numerous national and international studies on nursing education, simulation-based learning, and artificial intelligence. She has received training in interprofessional education and conducted the first interprofessional education workshop at SANERC. Dr. Karaçay continues to serve as a member of the SANERC Board of Directors, Chair of the Vehbi Koç Foundation Nursing Fund, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Education and Research in Nursing (JERN), and Director of SANERC. Additionally, Dr. Karaçay was elected as the official education chair of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare this year.

The lecture explores how learning technologies and especially simulation form and are formed as social practice. It supplements considerations on how to do good simulations with an analysis of what we could use simulation for. Which simulations we run in what way is a conceptual, and technical question but also a moral one. I would like to explore such different angles.

Bio: Peter Dieckmann, PhD, is work and organisational psychologist, working as associate professor for work- and organisational psychology with the Danish Technical University (DTU). For the last 25 years he worked with simulation and other experienced-based methods to analyse and improve the interplay between human beings, technolgies, and organisations – in the interest of patients, their relatives, healthcare professionals, and the healthcare system. He is past president of the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM). He published more than 100 peer reviewed journal articles and 50 book chapters. His conference talks are known to be inspiring reflections.

S. Ayhan ÇALIŞKAN, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Medical Education at İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Medicine and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Education at United Arab Emirates University. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in medical education across undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing professional development programs. His expertise spans assessment and evaluation, curriculum design, clinical skills education, simulation-based learning, faculty development, and educational leadership.

Dr. Çalışkan has played a key role in the development and management of national and international high-stakes examinations, serving as an assessment consultant, reviewer, and examiner for several specialty boards in pediatrics, neurology, orthopedics, and microbiology. He has led projects on web-based item banks and digital assessment management systems and has contributed extensively to faculty development initiatives. His scholarly work focuses on assessment in medical education, digital transformation, and the integration of artificial intelligence into health professions education.

FRCS (Glasgow) (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow),
FAIM (Fellow of the Academy of Islamic Medicine),
Masters MedEd (Master's Degree in Medical Education),
FEBS (Hon.) (Fellow of the European Board of Surgical Specialties – Honorary Membership)

Prof. Salman Guraya is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Gulf Medical University in the United Arab Emirates. He is a surgeon and medical educator who leads in the areas of interdisciplinary collaboration, clinical education, and simulation.

Prof. Guraya serves as a member of the WHO Academy Lifelong Learning Advisory Group, a member of the MedBiquitous Executive Board, an Institutional Representative at AAMC, and a Fellow at the American College of AI and Medicine.

Prof. Guraya has been awarded the Stanford/Elsevier "Top 2% Scientist in the World" International Research Award five times and received the TAGHEER Award in the United Arab Emirates for strategic performance.

He serves as a senior editor for BMC Medical Education, Frontiers in Surgical Oncology, and Annals of Thoracic Medicine. He is also the director of advanced surgical simulation courses on behalf of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of the United Kingdom.

Prof. Guraya pioneered an innovative 3D-printed laparoscopic box simulator developed under student leadership; this simulator has been patented and published by the NIH (USA).

Prof. Guraya serves on the examination board for the MRCS exams and the European Board of Surgery and is a faculty member in the field of Colorectal and Transanal Surgery at IRCAD France.

Prof. Guraya serves as an accreditation surveyor for the UAE National Institute of Health Sciences and has developed various framework models on medical professionalism and the use of technology in medical education.

His research areas include: colorectal surgery, transanal and transoral scarless (scar-free) surgery, medical professionalism, interdisciplinary collaboration, simulation in healthcare, and academic leadership.

Prof. Dr. Sema Kuğuoğlu is the Head of the Nursing Department and a faculty member at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Medipol University. Specializing in Pediatric Nursing, Kuğuoğlu has been conducting academic research on simulation-based learning approaches in nursing education for many years.

Her main areas of research include the integration of high-fidelity simulation applications into nursing education, simulation scenario development, debriefing methods, and the effects of simulation on clinical competence and patient safety. As one of the academics contributing to the spread of simulation-based nursing education in Turkey, Kuğuoğlu has played an active role in numerous scientific publications, educational programs, and academic events in this field.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şenay Sarmasoğlu Kılıkçıer obtained her master's degree in Nursing Fundamentals in 2009 and her doctorate in 2014. She continued her academic career at Hacettepe University Faculty of Nursing between 2009 and 2023; during this period, she participated as an instructor in simulation instructor training courses organized at various universities across Turkey. Dr. Sarmasoğlu Kılıkçıer conducted research on simulation and interprofessional education at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden in 2013. In 2017, she enriched her experience in Denmark in the areas of simulation, non-technical skills, and interprofessional education. In 2019, she became a science expert in Medical Education at Hacettepe University. Between 2019 and 2023, she was among the founders of the Department of Simulation in Health Sciences at the Hacettepe University Institute of Health Sciences and served as a faculty member in the thesis-based master's program. During the same years, she was among the founding members of HUMİSAM (Hacettepe University Interprofessional Collaboration and Simulation Education Application and Research Center) and served as the center's assistant director. Dr. Sarmasoğlu Kılıkçıer, who has been working at the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Mudanya University since 2023, continues to contribute to simulation educator training.

📌 Areas of interest:
simulation, game-based learning, interprofessional education and collaboration, non-technical skills, patient safety, articulation, analysis, innovation

Prof. Dr. Tamer TÜZÜNER was born on August 23, 1979, in Trabzon. He began his education at Gazi University Faculty of Dentistry in 1997 and completed it in 2002. In the same year, he began his doctoral/specialization education at the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at Gazi University Faculty of Dentistry, which he completed in 2008. In 2009, he began working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Dentistry. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013 and Professor in 2019. He continues to serve as a member of the Faculty Management Board of the Faculty of Dentistry at Karadeniz Technical University, Chairman of the Scientific Research Ethics Committee, and Head of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry. Prof. Dr. Tüzüner also serves as a member of the University Senate. Prof. Dr. Tamer Tüzüner is a member of the Turkish Pedodontics Association, the Turkish Dental Association, and the European Society of Pediatric Dentistry. He has experience in ERASMUS faculty mobility and has published around 100 articles and nearly 100 papers in national and international journals. He has national-level TÜBİTAK, TÜSEB, KOSGEB, DOKA, and BAP research projects, a national patent, and a commercialized product. His Web of Science H-index is 16. His areas of particular interest include preventive dentistry, biomimetic dentistry, glass ionomer cements and antibacterial materials, atraumatic restorative treatment and minimally invasive dentistry, behavior management, digital dentistry, and artificial intelligence and biostatistics applications. Prof. Dr. Tamer Tüzüner, who has a good command of English, is married and the father of twin sons.

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Pediatric Intensive Care Consultant | Assistant Professor | Simulation Trainer | Professional Educator
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital
Email: tarekhazwani@gmail.com
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

ABOUT ME:

Dr. Tarek Hazwani is a Pediatric Intensive Care Consultant, Assistant Professor, and certified Professional Educator. He has extensive experience in intensive care and a proven track record in driving quality improvements in healthcare. Dr. Hazwani is recognized for his expertise in simulation training, focusing on soft skills, communication, and leadership training to enhance team performance and patient outcomes.

As an Assistant Professor at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Dr. Hazwani integrates effective educational strategies into clinical practice and mentors healthcare professionals to succeed in high-pressure environments. She is also a certified trainer for the "Training-of-Trainers (ToT) on the go" program, which equips clinician educators with advanced teaching and assessment methods, further expanding her commitment to faculty development.

Dr. Hazwani currently serves as the Head of Simulation Programs at the Riyadh Clinical Simulation Center (RCSC) and as the Head of the Pediatric Simulation Training Program (PediSTEP) at King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital. He also serves as the course director for the Pediatric Residency Simulation Course (PedSim Training) and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Boot Camp Course at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences.

Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University Faculty of Health Sciences

She graduated from Istanbul University Florence Nightingale School of Nursing in 1992. She worked as a nurse in the General Surgery Department at Istanbul University Istanbul Medical Faculty Hospital. She began her academic work in 1994 and completed her doctorate at the Department of Nursing, Institute of Health Sciences, Istanbul University in 2004. She received the title of Associate Professor in the field of Nursing Science in 2012. After completing the necessary academic work, she received the title of Professor in 2018. She worked as a research assistant and then as a faculty member in the Department of Nursing Fundamentals at Marmara University School of Nursing until 2010. She currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Nursing at Acıbadem University Faculty of Health Sciences.

Her research focuses on nursing education, simulation, the nursing process, comfort theory, and evidence-based care practices.

Dr. Park is the Chair of the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the Ilene B. Harris Endowed Professor. Dr. Park is a data scientist with experience in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and learning analytics methods in health professions education. His work has contributed to the development of large-scale data infrastructure to examine assessment methods, simulation approaches, and the translational impact of learning on outcomes.

Dr. Park has served as Vice President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Chair of Research in Medical Education for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

Prof. Dr. Yurdanur Dikmen completed her undergraduate education at the Nursing Department of Sakarya University and her master's and doctoral education at the Institute of Health Sciences at Ege University. Throughout her academic career, she has conducted research on nursing fundamentals, digital health technologies, evidence-based nursing, simulation-based education, and the integration of technological applications into nursing care and health education. Her primary research interests include the adaptation of artificial intelligence, digital health, and innovative educational technologies to clinical applications and educational processes. She has been awarded the "Excellence in Education Award" for her institutional contributions to improving the quality of nursing education at the institutions where she has worked, and the "Academic Achievement Award" for her leadership in externally funded projects. She has served as a project leader and researcher in numerous projects supported by TÜBİTAK and the European Union. With a scholarship from the Council of Higher Education (YÖK), she conducted research on simulation and health technologies at the University of Illinois in the USA. She currently serves as the Scientific Research Coordinator and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Kocaeli Health and Technology University.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zahide Tunçbilek worked as a post-graduate emergency nurse and has been serving in the Department of Surgical Nursing at Hacettepe University Faculty of Nursing since 2007. Dr. Tunçbilek received her bachelor's degree in 2000, her master's degree in 2005, and her doctorate in 2012. In 2008, while serving as an observer researcher in the United States, she conducted observations in the field of simulation in nursing education. With the experience she gained there, she participated in an EU-funded project with the idea of establishing a high-fidelity simulation laboratory at the HU Faculty of Nursing. As part of this project, she received high-fidelity simulation training from Prof. Dr. Guillaume Alinier at the University of Hertfordshire. Ms. Tunçbilek also received training in Visually Enhanced Mental Simulation (VEMS), which is low-fidelity, from Prof. Dr. Alinier in Qatar. Since its establishment in 2018, she has advised on numerous master's theses at the Department of Simulation in Health Sciences at the Hacettepe University Institute of Health Sciences. Mrs. Tunçbilek has also been a member of the board of directors at the Hacettepe University Interprofessional Collaboration and Simulation Education Application and Research Center since 2023. Thanks to his role as an educator in the field of simulation, Mrs. Tunçbilek has been involved in training educators for simulation laboratories established at many universities across Turkey. Mrs. Tunçbilek has also been a member of the board of directors at the HÜ Interprofessional Collaboration and Simulation Education Application and Research Center since 2023. Thanks to his role as an instructor in the field of simulation, Mrs. Tunçbilek has been involved in training programs for simulation laboratories established at many universities across Turkey. He continues his work in the areas of interprofessional collaboration, high-fidelity simulation, VEMS, virtual reality, and gamification.