Milestones

Lou Halamek, M.D. is awarded a 4-year multi-million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality to study human factors science, design thinking, and systems engineering to optimize neonatal resuscitation. CAPE serves as the primary research site.

CAPE launches monthly multidisciplinary simulation-based training in neonatal resuscitation training for the Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH). Members from all disciplines on the neonatal resuscitation teams at LPCH train together at CAPE to improve their abilities to resuscitate and stabilize newborn infants at LPCH.

Nicole Yamada, M.D. is awarded a four-year K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality. Lou Halamek, M.D. serves as her primary mentor and CAPE serves as the primary research site. 

CAPE launches TransportSim(R), a simulation-based training program in neonatal and pediatric transport medicine. 

CAPE continues to expand its international reach by traveling to Wan Chai, Hong Kong to deliver the Neonatal Emergency Transportation Simulation Program to physicians and nurses from local hospitals as they establish the first neonatal transport team in Hong Kong.

CAPE launches TransportSim(R), a simulation-based training program in neonatal and pediatric transport medicine

CAPE expands its international reach by traveling to Moscow, Russia to deliver CAPE's Simulation Instructor Program to obstetricians and pediatricians from Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University.

Nicole Yamada, M.D. joins CAPE as Associate Director.  

Henry Lee, M.D. and Lou Halamek, M.D. are awarded a four-year award of $4 million from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality to optimize the safety of mother and neonate in a mixed learning laboratory.  CAPE serves as the primary research site.

Director Lou Halamek authors "Mission: Control" in Children's Hospital Today, published by the Children's Hospital Association. On a quest to improve safety and efficiency, this article describes how Stanford Medicine is taking a cue from NASA’s Mission Control and developing a hospital operations center.

CAPE is enshrined with a granite plaque on the Stanford University School of Medicine History Walk.

CAPE continues its relationship with the AAP to co-develop the 2011 NRP Instructor DVD:  An Interactive Tool for Facilitation of Simulation-based Learning, the 2011 NRP Instructor Manual, and a Key Behavioral Skills Wall Chart for display in delivery rooms across the U.S.  

Dr. Halamek makes his initial visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, with the support of a grant from the Center for Aviation Safety Research, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology, St. Louis University.  This establishes an ongoing collaboration between his team at CAPE and the aerospace professionals at JSC, leading to an increasingly sophisticated approach to scenario design and debriefing.

CAPE is the originator of the Packard Circle of Safety, the process that defines how simulation is integrated into the daily activities of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital to improve patient safety.

Obstetric Life Support (OBLS), a combination of three existing life support programs, including Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS) and NRP, is launched. 

Dr. Halamek delivers the keynote address at the First International Pediatric Simulation Symposium and Workshops in Stockholm, Sweden:  “The Challenges and Opportunities in Pediatric and Obstetric Simulation”.

CAPE establishes a longstanding partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).  CAPE’s NeoSim® program serves as the basis for the new simulation-based version of the AAP’s Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), the national standard of care for newborns in the U.S.  CAPE and the AAP co-develop a number of novel training resources including the NRP Ethical Decision Making DVD, Cases in Neonatology DVD, and the NRP Textbook on DVD.

CAPE and Laerdal Medical, Inc., begin a long-term collaboration to develop and test a number of neonatal, infant, pediatric and obstetric patient simulators.

CAPE establishes ECMOSim as the world's first simulation-based training program in extracorporeal life support.

OB Sim®, a simulation-based training program in neonatal obstetric emergencies, is launched by Steve Lipman, M.D., Kay Daniels, M.D., and Maurice Druzin, M.D.

The inaugural CAPE Simulation Instructor Program is launched, setting the world’s standard for instructor training in pediatric and obstetric simulation.  A large number of pediatric and obstetric simulation leaders and instructors around the U.S. and the world have received instruction at CAPE and are now replicating CAPE programs at their home institutions.

CAPE is founded through a generous gift from an anonymous community donor.  

Dr. Halamek works with Advanced Medical Simulation to develop and field test new technologies for use in simulation-based learning.  These devices include an interface to control bedside monitor data streams (Patient Monitor Driver®) and a fetal monitor simulator (FetalSim®).

CAPE is granted a three-year award of $1.1 million from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality to develop and validate simulation-based methodologies.

The first peer-reviewed manuscript describing comprehensive pediatric simulation-based training, “Time for a new paradigm in pediatric medical education:  Teaching neonatal resuscitation in a simulated delivery room environment” is published in Pediatrics by Halamek et al.

Dr. Halamek is interviewed about the Simulated Delivery Room Training Program by Peter Jennings on the ABC Evening News.

David Kaegi, M.D., becomes the first CAPE Postdoctoral Research Fellow.  JoDee Anderson, M.D., Allison Murphy, M.D., Swati Agarwal, M.D., Anand Rajani, M.D., Ritu Chitkara, M.D., Katharine Brock, M.D., Nicole Yamada, M.D., and Janene Fuerch, M.D., eventually follow in Dr. Kaegi’s footsteps.

NeoSim®, a simulation-based training program in neonatal resuscitation, is launched.

Lou Halamek, M.D., begins working with David Gaba, M.D., Steve Howard, M.D., Brian Smith, M.D., and Yasser Sowb, Ph.D. at the Veteran’s Affairs Palo Alto to develop the world’s first comprehensive pediatric simulation-based training program.