Collaborations

Our team at CAPE collaborates with colleagues across multiple industries to advance simulation-based training and research.


Drs. Halamek and Yamada have established a collaborative relationship with the professionals at the FAA in Washington, DC, in an effort to develop a lexicon for communication during neonatal resuscitation that will facilitate an accurate exchange of critical data and timely conversion of that data into actionable information.

In his role as Co-Chair of the NRP's National Steering Committee, Dr. Halamek facilitated the transition of the NRP from a textbook and skills-based training program into a simulation-based experience where trainees are immersed in highly realistic re-creations of challenging clinical events. This collaboration has resulted in the extension of the work conducted within CAPE’s walls to children and pregnant women around the world.


Dr. Halamek and the team at CAPE collaborated with the professionals at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, to improve their approach to simulation-based training, debriefing, safety and, most recently, development of a concept for a hospital operations center modeled after NASA’s Mission Control.

In order to meet the need for sophisticated fetal, neonatal, pediatric and obstetric simulation, Dr. Halamek and the CAPE team worked with the staff at Laerdal Medical to assist with the design and testing of a series of new patient simulators that span the spectrum from relatively low-complexity, easy-to-use, inexpensive task trainers and manikins to computer-driven, full-body patient simulators that respond to trainee interventions in a highly realistic manner and exhibit multiple visual and auditory cues. The team continues to utilize our connection with Laerdal for multiple manikin needs for our training programs and ongoing research.