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Sidney received his A.A.S in Criminal Justice at Onondaga Community College located in Syracuse, NY. Before joining the NYSIM team, he previously worked for the Board Of Education in Long island City, serving as a liaison between Bus Vendors & charter Schools to ensure the best quality service for special needs children. When Sidney’s not working he enjoys going to concerts and playing tennis for recreation. His future endeavors include going back to school to purse a degree in Sports medicine and starting his own tennis clinic for under privileged youth.
Rebecca Pertab, B.A. has a diverse background with experience in clinical office procedures, office administration, and research. She began her career at NYULMC Department of OBGYN supporting the faculty group practice (FGP) as well as the director of the Division of Diagnostic Ultrasound. She has also supported several clinical trials in the Department of OBGYN, Family Planning Division. Rebecca is currently a first year MPH student at NYU with a con-centration in Community and International Health. She joined the Simulation Center in March 2017 as a Simulation Operations Specialist.
Sierra Cutler received her B.S. in Human Physiology at University of Oregon. Shortly after, she moved to New York to complete a year of service with AmeriCorps at Ryan Communi-ty Health Center, where she was involved in community outreach and health education. Sierra also worked as a care coordinator before joining the NYSIM team. When she is not working, Sierra participates on a club women’s rugby team and hopes to apply to nursing school in the coming years.
Virginia (Ginny) Drda, NYSIM Program Coordinator, became first time faculty at IMSH 2017 successfully co-presenting a course at the Grand Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Florida on January 30th. More than 65 international participants attended the workshop, “Managing Unprofessional Behaviors in Standardized Patents (SPs)” and learned strategizes to develop the highest caliber of SP teams.
The course was co-designed by Ms. Drda and fellow leaders (pictured below from left to right) - Tony Errichetti (NBOME), Elizabeth Kachur (Med Ed Global), and Anna Lank (C3NY) (not pictured: Karen Adamo-Henry, CUNY).
Amy Imossi, MSN, BSN, RN, IBCLC, has 15 years of experience in obstetrical nursing. She has worked as a mother/baby and L&D staff nurse, ob nurse educator, and Baby-Friendly designa-tion coordinator at NYU Langone Medical Center. She is also a facilitator of inter-professional obstetrical emergency in-situ simulations and a hospital based neonatal resuscitation pro-gram instructor. At NYSIM she will serve as the nursing fellow for 2017-18.
Maria Olivero, B.S. (IONA College) has 15+ years of administrative experience. She began her career at NYULMC Department of Radiology where she supported 3 Vice Chairs. She worked in the Office of the Dean and CEO supporting the Chief of Staff, the Vice President for Policy and Administration and covering for the Dean and CEO. She joined the Simulation Center in Decem-ber 2016 as the Executive Assistant to Dr. Thomas Riles and continues to establish herself as a devoted and dedicated employee.Ginny Drda, NYSIM Program Coordinator, co-authored an abstract accepted at IMSH 2017! The course “Managing Unprofessional Behaviors in Standardized Patients” will be presented with New York colleagues Elizabeth Kachur, Tony Errichetti, Anna Lank, and Karen Adamo-Henry. This interactive workshop helps identify and strategize how to develop a professional SP team, and will be presented on January 30th at the Hyatt Regency, Orlando.
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