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Marc Auerbach, MD, FAAP, MSc

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Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) and of Emergency Medicine
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Executive Team Member, Co-lead Knowledge Management, Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center

Director, Pediatric Simulation, Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation, Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation

Co-director of Education, Yale Site Lead, Pediatric Pandemic Network, https://pedspandemicnetwork.org/

About

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Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) and of Emergency Medicine

Executive Team Member, Co-lead Knowledge Management, Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center; Director, Pediatric Simulation, Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation, Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation

Positions outside Yale

Co-director of Education, Yale Site Lead, Pediatric Pandemic Network, https://pedspandemicnetwork.org/

Biography

Marc is a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Yale. He is the Director of Pediatric Simulation at the Yale Center for Medical Simulation and was the founding co-chair of INSPIRE, the world’s largest simulation-based research network.

His academic work focuses on the use of innovative techniques and technologies, such as simulation, to measure and improve the quality of pediatric emergency care. His overarching goal is to ensure that all children, no matter where they live, go to school or travel, receive the highest quality emergency medical care.

Marc serves in a national role with HRSA/EMSC on the EIIC executive committee and co-leading the EIIC Knowledge Management as well as serving as the education co-lead of the Pediatric Pandemic Network.

Prior to these roles he served as the CT EMSC State Partnership Grant Medical Director for seven years and as an investigator on four different EMSC targeted issues grants and the leader on the EIIC Prehospital Emergency Care Collaborative. His projects involve working closely with prehospital and hospital emergency care coordinators leading pediatric efforts in community EDs and community EMS agencies.

In addition Marc is actively working on multiple initiatives through other organizations (including SAEM, Pediatric Trauma Societies, American Heart Association, Emergency Nurses Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, NASEMSO). Marc serves as the PI of the ImPACTS study, a national effort to describe, measure and improve the quality of care provided to critically ill and injured pediatric patients in emergency departments using simulation.

Marc completed a K30 Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation with a focus in translational medicine at New York University and post-graduate course work on simulation at Harvard’s Center for Medical Simulation. He has substantial leadership experiences in trauma and simulation research as a board member of the International Pediatric Simulation Society, co-chair of the Pediatric Academic Society’s Special Interest Group on Simulation-Based Research and as a leader on the Pediatric Trauma Society’s Guideline Committee. He has served as the principal investigator on multiple funded trauma and simulation research projects to ensure the optimal care for ill and injured children. This includes a grant-funded project using simulation training for disaster preparedness, a regional trauma simulation program, a local office based preparedness program.

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Education & Training

Fellow
NYU/Bellevue Hospital Center (2009)
MSc
New York University, School of Medicine (2008)
Resident
Bellevue Hospital/New York University (2005)
MD
University of Buffalo (2002)

Research

Overview

My area of research scholarship involves using technology and innovative techniques to improve the quality and safety of care through work at the level of individual providers, teams of providers, and teams of providers working within complex systems. I currently serve as the co-director of INSPIRE (International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation Research and Education), the largest simulation-based research network in the world. Two major themes in my work are 1) the creation of effective simulation-based training interventions and 2) the use of simulation as an investigative methodology.

I have created, measured and iteratively adapted simulation-based training interventions to improve provider performance and patient outcomes. A series of my studies were framed around infant lumbar puncture procedural skills training. These interventions involved the application of established instructional design techniques as well as the development of innovative techniques that utilize simulation-based technologies. For example, my work has changed the culture surrounding this procedure by implementing a work-place based simulation initiative where interns are refreshing their skills and being tested immediately prior to performing on a real infant patient. This series of clinical translational research projects is involved: examining the impact of our interventions on provider’s knowledge, skills and attitudes (T1- simulation lab), examining how these providers simulation-based performance impacted their clinical performance and procedural success on real patients (T2 clinical environment), and most recently completing a 30 center multi-site study examining the impact of this work on population level patient outcomes (T3 health care systems). While this LP project focused on developing and retaining individual provider’s psychomotor procedural skills I have other projects exploring training for more complex processes of care (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), and for teams of providers caring for patients (trauma resuscitation, Team STEPPS).


My work utilizing simulation as the environment of research utilizes simulation to control for patient factors in order to examine provider and system factors. I have completed a number of studies examining the use of simulation to improve the quality and safety of pediatric trauma care. This past year I completed the first phase of a large collaborative project ImPACTS: Improving Pediatric Acute Care Through Simulation. ImPACTS aims to improve the quality of pediatric acute care whenever and wherever it is needed. In year one we described, measured and compared the quality of pediatric acute care in a spectrum of thirty emergency departments. We have a series of six manuscripts based on this work that have been submitted for publication. Most recently we have partnered with leaders at HRSA and EMSC on the next phase of creating interventions based on this initial needs assessment.

This work provided the experience and foundation for an AHRQ grant that was recently awarded to our team looking at transitions in care from community EDs to tertiary care hospitals. This grant will be supporting CHIRAL, the Center for Healthcare Innovation, Redesign, and Learning. Patients being transferred from one setting to another or one clinical team to another are at increased risk for a host of failures including identification errors, delayed or missed diagnoses, redundant testing, treatment delays or errors, medication errors, and unexpected clinical deterioration. Ensuring the safety of patients during transitions of care has long been one of the biggest challenges facing the healthcare system. This is Yale’s first center devoted to patient safety, quality improvement and is a joint venture of YNHH and YSM. It is trans-disciplinary and will involve students and faculty from a variety of existing schools (Management, Nursing, Public Health, Art, Medicine, Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering) in a dynamic research environment to improve patient safety and redesign this process. The initial year of this grant will involve a needs analysis and an iterative redesign to this process in the simulation lab. In future years this grant we will translate our findings to real patient care (T2) and population level outcomes (T3).

In the future I hope to continue to work with others at Yale and across the globe to understand how to safely, effectively and efficiently train and maintain providers skills as well as leverage simulation to understand how to improve quality and safety in complex systems of care.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Airway Management; Disaster Medicine; Disaster Planning; Education, Medical; Education, Medical, Continuing; Education, Medical, Graduate; Education, Medical, Undergraduate; Educational Technology; Emergency Medical Services; Emergency Medicine; High Fidelity Simulation Training; Hospitals, Pediatric; Implementation Science; Multiple Trauma; Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest; Pain Management; Pandemics; Patient Simulation; Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Pediatrics; Quality of Health Care; Shock; Simulation Training; Telemedicine

Research at a Glance

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Clinical Care

Overview

Marc Auerbach, MD, MSc, is an associate professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Yale. He is the director of Pediatric Simulation at the Yale Center for Medical Simulation and was the founding co-chair of INSPIRE, the world’s largest simulation-based research network.

“Emergency medicine is a complex system and our goal is to reduce death and disability in infants and children due to severe illness or injury,” he says. “At Yale, we take care of ill and injured children every day and we have world-class providers here to help.”

Dr. Auerbach’s research explores using technology and innovative techniques to improve the quality and safety of pediatric emergency care. He is involved in grants to develop a video-game simulation for pediatric disaster triage training of EMS providers, to create an international CPR competition for healthcare providers, and to develop the best practices of how to interact with parents during resuscitations.

Clinical Specialties

Pediatrics; Pediatric Emergency Medicine

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