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Amish Aghera, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, CHSE

Director, Center for Clinical Simulation and Safety

Director, Emergency Medicine Simulation Division

Co-Director, Simulation Fellowship

Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine

Internship: Boston University Medical Center

Residency: Jacobi/Montefiore - Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Professional Interests: Faculty Development, Education Research, Patient Safety, Team Training

Dr. Amish Aghera is the Director of the Center for Clinical Simulation and Safety as well as the Simulation Fellowship at Maimonides. His interests include leveraging experiential learning modalities to improve patient safety through skills training and systems integration. He is passionate about fostering clinical environments that emphasize teamwork, just culture, and high quality reliable healthcare

Selected Scholarly Activity:

Janairo, M. P., Cardell, A. M., Lamberta, M., Elahi, N., & Aghera, A. (2021). The power of an active shooter simulation: changing ethical beliefs. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 22(3), 510.

Tyler, S. P., Dixon, J., Parkosewich, J., Mullan, P. C., Aghera, A., & Orange, E. H. (2021). Development, validation, and implementation of a guideline to improve clinical event debriefing at a level-I adult and level-II pediatric trauma center. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 47(5), 707-720.

Gillett, B., Saloum, D., Aghera, A., & Marshall, J. P. (2019). Skill proficiency is predicted by intubation frequency of emergency medicine attending physicians. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 20(4), 601.

Aghera, A., Emery, M., Bounds, R., Bush, C., Stansfield, R. B., Gillett, B., & Santen, S. A. (2018). A randomized trial of SMART goal enhanced debriefing after simulation to promote educational actions. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 19(1), 112.

Frallicciardi, A., Vora, S., Bentley, S., Nadir, N. A., Cassara, M., Hart, D., Aghera, A.,... & Dobiesz, V. (2016). Development of an emergency medicine simulation fellowship consensus curriculum: initiative of the society for academic emergency medicine simulation academy. Academic Emergency Medicine, 23(9), 1054-1060.

Bounds, R., Bush, C., Aghera, A., Rodriguez, N., Stansfield, R. B., Santen, S. A., & MERC at CORD Feedback Study Group. (2013). Emergency medicine residents’ self‐assessments play a critical role when receiving feedback. Academic Emergency Medicine, 20(10), 1055-1061.

Friedman, B. W., Esses, D., Solorzano, C., Dua, N., Greenwald, P., Radulescu, R., Aghera, A., ... & Gallagher, E. J. (2008). A randomized controlled trial of prochlorperazine versus metoclopramide for treatment of acute migraine. Annals of emergency medicine, 52(4), 399-406.