Course Directors

Colin Bucks, MD, FAAEM
Colin Bucks, M.D. is an emergency medicine physician at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Bucks’s extensive career focuses on disaster preparedness and response. Prior to his contributions at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Bucks worked at the Stanford University School of Medicine as the Marc & Laura Andreessen Medical Director for Disaster Preparedness and the Director of the Stanford Emergency Medicine Program for Emergency Response (SEMPER). Dr. Bucks served as Medical Team Manager with FEMA Urban Search & Rescue with Pennsylvania Task Force 1 and California Task Force 3. He participated in humanitarian responses including the earthquakes in Haiti and Ecuador, the Typhoons Haiyan and Irma, the Rohingya genocide, and provided direct care for patients with Ebola in Liberia. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Bucks served as a frontline physician in addition to staffing Mayo Clinic’s incident command center. 

Al’ai Alvarez, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Al'ai Alvarez, MD (@alvarezzzy) is a national leader and educator on Wellness and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. He is a clinical assistant professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) and the Director of Well-Being at Stanford Emergency Medicine. He co-leads the Human Potential Team and serves as the Fellowship Director of the Stanford EM Physician Wellness, and Co-Chair of the Stanford WellMD's Physician Wellness Forum. His work focuses on humanizing physician roles as individuals and teams through the harnessing of our individual human potential in the context of high-performance teams. This includes optimizing the interconnectedness between Process Improvement (Quality and Clinical Operations), Recruitment (Diversity), and Well-being (Inclusion). Currently, he is one of the 2021-2022 Faculty Fellows at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign.

Mayo Clinic Faculty

Daniel Cabrera, MD
Dr. Daniel Cabrera is the Associate Dean for Continuous Professional Development and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, as well as the previous Chair of Education and Associate Program Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine. He has been at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, since 2005. A native of Chile, he obtained his medical degree from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile where he was also part of an experimental training program in EM.  He then completed an Emergency Medicine residency at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. After his residency he enrolled in the ACEP/EMF Teaching Fellowship, and he has served as faculty in the same program for several years. He was the editor-in-chief for the Mayo Clinic EM Blog and is the co-director of Mayo Hootsuite Healthcare in Social Media course. He serves in the advisory board of numerous national and international educational societies.  

Dr. Cabrera has developed numerous technology innovations including automatic resource allocation systems, artificial intelligence algorithms for management optimization, network analysis of knowledge management and distributed testing. He is the current director of the Emergency Medicine Platform for Knowledge Solutions which is an idea incubator focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, digital health, and knowledge creation. His academic interests include artificial intelligence, wicked problems, knowledge management, clinical decision-making, health professions education and the interaction between humans and non-human agents. 

Kubwimana Mhayamaguru, MD
Dr. Kubwimana Moses Mhayamaguru is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. He is also the Education Medical Director for Mayo Clinic Ambulance Service. In addition, Moses is a medical officer with U.S. Air Force Reserve, where he is a Critical Care Transport Team (CCATT) Physician and a Flight Surgeon. His interests are in Air Medical Transport and Tactical EMS. 


Guest Faculty

Victoria Brazil, M.D., MBA
Dr. Victoria Brazil is an emergency physician and educator. She is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Simulation at the Gold Coast Health Service, and leads the Bond University Translational Simulation Collaborative. Victoria’s main interests are in connecting education with patient care - through translational simulation for healthcare, and in developing high performing teams.
Victoria is an enthusiast in the social media and #FOAMed world (@SocraticEM). She is co-producer of Simulcast and she hosts the Harvard Macy Institute podcast. She also serves as a faculty member with the Harvard Macy Institute. drvictoriabrazil.com

Preston B. Cline, EdD
Dr. Preston B. Cline is the Co-founder of the Mission Critical Team Institute, which is an applied research institute focused on the development of an international collaborative inquiry community of Instructor Cadres within Military Special Operations, Emergency Medicine, Tactical Law Enforcement, Aerospace and Urban and Wilderness Fire Fighting Organizations within Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States to improve our ability to manage emergent and critical events. The institute was launched in 2016 at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and incubated there for several years before becoming independent in 2018.  Preston began his career in the late 1980’s leading 60-day remote wilderness trips with adjudicated youth out of New Jersey he has since been cold wet tired and hungry on all seven continents leading both terrestrial and ocean expeditions. 

Preston has received a Bachelor’s of Science from Rutgers University, a Masters of Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. 

Preston continues to contribute to the University of Pennsylvania as both a Senior Fellow, Center for Leadership and Change Management and a Visiting Scholar in the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative (WiN). When he is not working with Cadre, he resides in Annapolis with his extraordinary spouse Amy.

Dan Dworkis, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Dan Dworkis is an emergency physician, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, and the founder of The Emergency Mind Project. His work focuses on human performance under pressure, especially in times of emergency and crisis. Dan is the author of The Emergency Mind: Wiring Your Brain for Performance Under Pressure.

Oliver Finlay, Ph.D.
After 23 years as a performance director, performance coach and physiotherapist in various sports including soccer (English, Scottish, Thai Premier Leagues, national teams), basketball (Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi, Euro League), motorsport (Formula 1), athletics (Team GB), hockey (NHL), tennis (ATP, ITF) and rugby (Pro 14, national team), Oliver accepted a PhD position at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 

Oliver’s PhD research focused on identifying the objective markers of success and processes of change and performance management relating to high performance sports organisations around the world. Applying this knowledge to develop strategic plans for investors seeking to buy sports teams, Oliver refined the parameters for the assessment criteria used to establish current valuations and growth potential of professional sports organisations.

Oliver’s purpose is to support individuals, high performance sports organisations and communities in reaching their full potential and achieve sustained success, through the medium of sports, science, health and wellbeing. He is the CEO and Founder of Beautiful Game Group, consults for high performance teams in relation to the human and organisational elements of building performance teams and cultures, developing change management systems, strategic planning, and business development.

Shannon McNamara, MD
Dr. Shannon McNamara is a board-certified Emergency Physician from New York City. She completed a fellowship in simulation based medical education, then led multiple simulation programs focused on interprofessional resuscitation teams in the Emergency Department. She is passionate about applying a complex systems paradigm to both teamwork and patient safety.

Bill Miller
Mr. Bill Miller is Chief of Fire and Aviation Management on the 1.2 million-acre Lassen National Forest, which also encompasses the Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northeastern California. Mr. Miller also serves as an Incident Commander for California Interagency Incident Management Team 10, and Strategic Operational Planner and Operations Section Chief. He has been a leading member and Co-Chair for National Wildfire Coordinating Group Interagency Steering Committees for Advanced Leadership, Complex Incident Management and Advanced Fire Danger/Fire Environment courses. Mr. Miller’s strong relationship with Forest Service International Programs and Disaster Assistance and Support Programs has allowed him numerous opportunities to work extensively in southern Africa, Spain, Canada, and Ukraine. Currently, Mr. Miller is serving as a project leader in developing risk management protocols and firefighter and fire response capabilities in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.  

Clare Murphy
Clare Murphy is a Director of Story at Mission Critical Team Institute USA.  Dublin born, now based in Bristol UK, Clare has worked as an international storyteller since 2006.  She has been storyteller-in-residence for the National Health Service UK (SW Leadership Academy) in 2021 and 2022. Since 2006 Clare has performed in more than 20 countries and in two languages.  She has performed in a lot of unusual situations including at a dinner for the former President of Ireland, for 120 quantum physicists at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.

Clare also teaches, trains and consults all kinds of teams on story skills from veterans to actors, scientists, academics, lawyers and sports coaches. She has a BA International from National University of the Arts at Galway in English and Spanish. When not working, Clare is a wild gardener, book addict, and world traveller.

Kristen Ng, MD
Clinical Instructor, Emergency Medicine, Stanford

Ijeoma Okonkwo, NP
Ijeoma Okonkwo Pope, AGACNP-BC, CCt-CNS, MS. I graduated from Mcgill University in Montreal Canada with a BSN in 2007 and have spent my career in the Emergency Department. In 2017, I graduated from UCSF with MS as a clinical nurse specialist, then proceeded to complete a post-masters as a Nurse Practitioner. I currently worked as a Nurse Practitioner at Stanford Health Care Emergency Department. I have enjoyed working with multiple high performance resuscitation teams at level 1 trauma facilities nationally and volunteering internationally. Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my family, traveling, and developing new hobbies.

Holly Ridings
Chief Flight Director, NASA

Kelly Roszczynialski, MD
Dr. Roszczynialski completed her emergency medicine residency and simulation fellowship training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. A graduate of the Masters in Healthcare Simulation from the University of Alabama School of Health Professions she has an interest in simulation-based education and mastery learning, specifically utilizing healthcare simulation in medical learners, practicing clinicians, and hospital staff to improve the quality of patient care delivery across multiple disciplines. She is the current assistant program director for the Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency and directs the residency simulation curriculum. She has spoken nationally on debriefing skills, procedural simulation, and rapid cycle deliberate practice simulation. Dr. Roszczynialski has published on using simulation-based mastery learning for faculty development, rapid cycle deliberate practice to train new interprofessional teams, use of virtual reality master learning, and comprehensive simulation training curriculum. 

Kimberly Schertzer, MD
Dr. Kimberly Schertzer is the Simulation Fellowship Director and Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation at Stanford. Her area of expertise is interdisciplinary and interprofessional simulation. Her professional interests include mastery learning for skill acquisition and maintenance, clinical event debriefing, and in situ simulation. Dr. Schertzer’s research is focused on skill decay and the challenges of maintaining procedural competency among faculty.

Paddy Steinfort, MAPP, BPT
Paddy Steinfort is a performance coach to some of the world’s best across multiple industries. Initially rising to prominence in professional sport after Sports Illustrated labeled him “Master Mind” in a 2020 feature, he now also coaches finance executives and business leaders as well as entertainers and entrepreneurs. He’s worked for more than a decade across multiple teams in the NBA, NFL, MLB and Olympic squads, as well as consulting for the US Army and Stanford Emergency Medicine, helping them - as both teams and individuals - better handle the uncertain, undefined and unexpected stressors unique to their fields so they can excel in the moments that matter most.