Dr. Barbara Walsh is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Clinical Director of Pediatrics | Solomont Simulation Center, and Director of In Situ and Mobile Outreach Simulation at BMC, Boston University School of Medicine. She created and launched COMET - community outreach mobile education training, which was a segue into being a founding member of the ImPACTS group. She has been to numerous sites in Massachusetts, providing team training with the impacts curriculum as well as working with EMS providers using the same model. She has published this work with the ImPACTS group as well as directed and facilitated multiple national and international workshops in mobile outreach programming.

 

Dr. Walsh plans to create ongoing simulation programming at community sites, creating lasting partnerships to collaborate in pediatric acute care with regular simulation training. She is also engaging community health centers to partake in this training and will design programming to meet their needs using their current resources. Finally, she is working on other cases to meet the needs of the inner city patient population of Boston Medical Center, focusing on sickle cell care and acute presentations at community sites.