Instructor(s)

CAPE Director and Founder Louis Halamek, MD, FAAP

CAPE Senior Simulation Specialist (Ret.) Julie Arafeh, RN, MSN

CAPE Associate Director Nicole Yamada, MD, MS, FAAP

Nicole Yamada, MD, MS, is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University and an attending neonatologist in the level IV neonatal intensive care unit at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine, Dr. Yamada completed residency training in Pediatrics at the University of California at San Diego and fellowship training in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Stanford University. She also has a Master of Science in Human Factors and Ergonomics from San Jose State University. She is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in both general pediatric medicine and neonatal-perinatal medicine, and she is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Yamada has served as the Associate Director at CAPE since 2015. She has been involved in simulation-based training and research since 2012 and has conducted hundreds of training programs for practicing healthcare professionals from all over the United States and multiple foreign countries. She is an expert in debriefing for the purposes of simulation-based training as well as for real clinical events. In addition to training, Dr. Yamada conducts simulation-based research and is currently studying the effect of team training in standardized communication techniques on human performance during neonatal resuscitation.