Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education (CAPE) at Stanford Medicine - Online

Louis P. Halamek is a Professor in the University Medical Line Professoriate in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and has a clinical appointment at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford where he works in the level IV neonatal intensive care unit and is the Director of Neonatal Resuscitation. His current work focuses on optimization of human performance during high-risk activities such as resuscitation, the analysis of human and system error, and the development of hospital operations centers linked with sophisticated simulation capabilities. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Pediatric Simulation Society and the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, former Co-Chair and current Special Consultant to the U.S. Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and a Content Expert for the Neonatal Delegation to the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR).

Julie Arafeh received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Evansville in Indiana and a master’s degree in perinatal nursing from Indiana University in Indianapolis. In the more than 40 years Ms. Arafeh has been in Obstetrical nursing, she has worked in a wide range of settings caring for low risk to high-risk women including working as an advanced practice nurse in an OB-ICU in both in-patient and out-patient settings. Ms. Arafeh has been a national speaker on a variety of obstetrical topics since 1989. The topics of her publications include sepsis, cardiac disease in pregnancy, maternal cardiac arrest and simulation-based training. She was a Simulation Specialist in Obstetrics at the Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education and a member of the multidisciplinary obstetric simulation team at Packard Children’s Hospital on the Stanford University campus for over 15 years and has served as a simulation expert for the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative. Ms. Arafeh is currently Simulation Director for Clinical Concepts in Obstetrics.

Nicole Yamada is a Clinical Professor in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University and has been an attending neonatologist in the Level IV neonatal intensive care unit at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford for over a decade. Dr. Yamada has a Master of Science degree in Human Factors and Ergonomics, and her research career is focused on using simulation-based research to improve human and team performance during neonatal resuscitation. She has studied the types of errors made by healthcare professionals during neonatal resuscitation, the effects of standardized communication techniques on mediating those errors, and the ergonomics of healthcare professionals as they perform invasive procedures during resuscitation. Through the use of simulation-based research and training, she is committed to improving the care provided to patients of all ages by optimizing the performance of the healthcare professionals who care for them.