Stephanie N. Stapleton, MD

Stephanie Stapleton, MD, is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician at Boston Medical Center, where she also serves as Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation. She is also Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Stapleton graduated from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, then completed her emergency medicine residency at the University of Connecticut and a Medical Simulation Fellowship at Hartford Hospital under the direction of Drs. Thomas Nowicki and Alise Frallicciardi.

Dr. Stapleton has expanded the Emergency Medicine simulation program at BMC to advance trainee skill development and practice, decisionmaking, teamwork, and multidisciplinary patient care. She leads the EM resident simulations, which include monthly group multistation sessions and independent sessions, PGY 1 & 2 orientations, and senior exit sessions. She also leads the medical student sims, which occur once per block, and the EM bound bootcamp. She leads 450 annual contact hours of simulation for 50 attendings, 50 residents, and more than 100 medical and PA students, and advises on advanced practice provider simulation.

Dr. Stapleton is Vice President of the Research Subcommittee of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s Simulation Academy and a member of the Society of Simulation in Healthcare and the International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education (INSPIRE). She has published and presented nationally on simulation research and innovations, focusing on procedural training, pediatric resuscitation, and distance simulation. Her areas of interest are translational simulation, procedural model creation, innovations testing, and developing an adult emergency medicine simulation research community.