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Casey Glass, MD
cglass@wakehealth.edu
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Glass is a board-certified emergency medicine physician at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. After completing a post-graduate fellowship in emergency ultrasound applications, he became closely involved with the development and implementation of a clinical and education program centered around teaching clinical applications of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in emergency medicine. He has vast experience as the course director for a variety of ultrasound electives and courses and as member of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Ultrasound Section Subcommittee on Community Ultrasound. As the director of ultrasound education, Dr. Glass guides CEAL’s ultrasound training efforts and coordinates CME, GME and UGME educational programs. He shares responsibility for ultrasound equipment purchases in CEAL’s two teaching labs as well as associated ultrasound simulators and phantoms. In addition, Dr. Glass coordinates and develops teaching programs for the clinical enterprise including collaborations with critical care and neonatal critical care, pediatrics, internal medicine, family medicine, anesthesia, emergency medicine, surgery, nursing and with our community hospitals.
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James Johnson, PhD
jejohn@wakehealth.edu
Associate Professor, General Surgery
Dr. James (Jim) Johnson is responsible for medical center industry collaborations required to enhance professional education, resident and hospital staff applied learning programs and initiatives designed to improve patient care outcomes. Dr. Johnson was the founding Director of the Center for Applied Learning which was the predecessor of the Center for Experiential and Applied Learning (CEAL). He also founded the Operational Medicine Program which serves to enhance special operations medicine for the U.S. SOCOM (Special Operations Command) and NATO allies. This program improves patient care outcomes during TCCC (Trauma Combat Casualty Care). Dr. Johnson also formed an applications and design company with expertise in hybrid materials fabrication technologies in order to simulate human tissue properties in novel prototypes required for procedure training. He has been the recipient of many awards for medical education, research, simulator innovation and medical device development. As Associate Professor of Surgery, he designs specialized surgery simulators and develops capabilities for innovative surgical education required by faculty, fellows and residents. He works across all surgery subspecialties. Dr. Johnson also developed table top medical procedure simulators for prehospital trauma patient management, burn surgery, hydrocele surgical repair and eyelid surgery to prevent blindness. Some of these simulators are now routinely used in Africa and adopted by the WHO (World Health Organization) as a standard of global surgery education.
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Lauren McCormack, MD, MPH
lmccorma@wakehealth.edu
Assistant Professor, Minimally Invasive Surgery
Dr. Lauren McCormack is a board-certified general surgeon, specializing in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery. Dr. McCormack’s practice includes Bariatric procedures, hernia repair, biliary disease and foregut disorders with a focus on laparoscopic and robotic surgery. She is originally from Washington state and attended college at Creighton University in Nebraska. At Tulane University, she completed her MD and Masters of Public Health Degrees. Her residency was completed at Hahnemann University Hospital, Drexel College of Medicine and fellowship at Wake Forest Baptist Health. During her career, Dr. McCormack has always been involved with graduate medical education and knows simulation is a vital component of training today. Dr. McCormack is an Assistant Professor of Surgery, Co-Clerkship Director of the third year Surgical Clerkship and incoming Surgical Education Director for CEAL.
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Thomas Perrault, Jr., PhD
tperraul@wakehealth.edu
Assistant Professor, General Surgery
Thomas J. Perrault Jr. PhD, received his PhD in Neurobiology and Anatomy in 2003 from Wake Forest University where his research focused on Multisensory Processing in the Superior Colliculus. He was awarded a faculty position at Penn State following graduation and returned to Wake Forest in 2007 and now serves in the Department of General Surgery. He is currently the Anatomical Director for Medical Education within the School of Medicine and currently serves as the Course Director for a number of Anatomy based courses throughout the institution. Dr. Perrault’s overarching responsibility to CEAL is focused on the Whole Body Donation Program. He is tasked to ensure that the program continually meets its mission of supporting Wake Forest Baptist Health’s mission to improve health care outcomes through the utilization of Human Tissue. In partnership with the CEAL Executive Director, Dr. Perrault manages all personnel associated with the whole body donation program to ensure proper management of the program. In conjunction with the Lead Anatomical Specialist, he determines the best use of human tissue to achieve the program’s mission prioritization of which is determined by the Center of Experiential and Applied Learning Steering Committee. Dr. Perrault develops all policies and procedures to ensure accurate tracking of all donors associated with the whole body donation program and the proper use and care for all institutional facilities dedicated for whole body donation program use. He serves as a voting member on the NC Commission of Anatomy, an agency mandated by the state within the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) to generate the rules and guidelines used by the state to manage anatomical gifts statewide. Dr. Perrault’s research interests include: Pedagogy in Medical Education, Behavioral and Systems Neurobiology, Development and Plasticity and Sensory Neurobiology.
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Justin Traunero, MD, FASA
jtrauner@wakehealth.edu
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Dr. Traunero attended the Wake Forest School of Medicine before completing his residency at Wake Forest Baptist Health (WFBH) where he achieved mastery of anesthesia equipment including anesthesia delivery devices/ventilators and patient monitoring equipment. During his tenure with WFBH, he also acquired expertise in emergence-based anesthetic planning and opioid-based anesthetic techniques, with a special expertise in advanced airway management techniques including awake fiber optic intubation and other advanced alternative airway tools. As the residency program director for the Department of Anesthesiology, Dr. Traunero believes skills training should be developed in a stepwise fashion: manikin work, elective opportunities and cadaveric instruction—all with heavy repetition. This is the proven method for procedural mastery. Dr. Traunero leverages CEAL’s well-developed, high fidelity Mock OR Simulation Lab as an integral part of the residency education curriculum in order to guide residents on the path to adapting to and becoming more comfortable in any clinical scenario. As the medical director of simulation for CEAL and master simulation educator, Dr. Traunero is responsible for the implementation of multidisciplinary simulation activities (OR CRM & Birth Center CRM), the Part IV Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology simulation program and development of new strategic simulation initiatives. An experienced educator, Dr. Traunero acts as a role model for participants as they learn. His facilitation and debriefing of simulation events is learner-centered, structured in an easy-to-understand format and relatable.
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