Linda Brown

Dr. Linda Brown will serve as the site investigator at Brown University. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and a pediatric emergency medicine attending. She completed a Master’s of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania, and for the past five years, through her work at the Rhode Island Hospital Medical Simulation Center (RIHMSC), she has developed significant experience in the use of in situ high fidelity simulation as a tool to educate clinicians and test new systems and environments. She is the director of pediatric portable simulation, as well as the director of PALS education, for the RIHMSC. Dr. Brown has extensive experience in the use of simulation for medical education, and she has directed multiple workshops on the use of simulation for systems probing, teamwork and communication training and medical error disclosure at the national and international level. She is a co-investigator on several simulation-based grants, and she is currently the PI for a grant through the AHRQ entitled “Improving Pediatric Resuscitation: A Simulation Program for the Community ED” which endeavors to assess the preparedness of general emergency departments in Rhode Island to care for critically ill infants and children. Her current work in this field, and her pilot data on this topic, have only increased her certainty that further benchmarking and multicenter collaboration is needed to improve the quality of care delivered to children across all emergency department settings