Bram Welch-Horan (@DrBramPedsER; [email protected]) is Director of Simulation for the Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, TX, USA. He is an attending physician in the Emergency Center at Texas Children’s Hospital, where his clinical and teaching activities cut across three hospital campuses, including a quaternary children’s hospital, as well as two free-standing community children’s hospital sites. After attending medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York, he completed a residency in pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia University Medical Center, and subsequently a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Texas Children’s. He has received additional simulation training through the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, MA, USA, and has been selected as a faculty member for upcoming courses in clinical event debriefing provided by The Debriefing Academy in Calgary, AB, Canada. His interests include deliberate practice as a foundation for expertise, team-based simulation for teaching resuscitation, and clinical event debriefing as a driver of quality improvement and education. Since 2020, he has been the leader and co-creator of a hospital-wide clinical debriefing initiative at Texas Children’s; he is also involved with other efforts relating to CPR quality, training of simulation instructors, and use of simulation for onboarding of clinical faculty.

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