Healthcare Performance Under Stress:
What If Failure Is Not An Option?

Allan Hamilton started his working life as janitor. He went on to become a Harvard-trained brain surgeon. He is a decorated Army veteran who served in Operation Desert Storm. He holds four professorships at the University of Arizona in Neurosurgery, Radiation Oncology, Psychology, and Electrical & Computer Engineering He has been selected by his peers as “One of America’s Best Doctors” for more than twenty-three consecutive years. Dr. Hamilton has authored five non-fiction works that have won numerous literary awards and have translated into several languages. He is a world renown horse whisperer and trainer.

Dr. Hamilton heads up a 35,000 square-foot facility to carry out simulation training for the Arizona Health Sciences Center. He has been selected as “One of the Leading Intellects of the Twenty-First Century” and been called “the prototype of the modern Renaissance man.” He has been recognized with the Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. In 2019, he was awarded the highest academic accolade given by the state of Arizona and was bestowed the title of Regents Professor, given to less than 1% of all eligible faculty members in the state’s university system.

100As an undergraduate, Allan studied creative writing under Rod Serling, the creator of The Twilight Zone. Dr. Hamilton has worked for over 17 years as the senior medical script consultant for the hit TV medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy. He is currently at work on his sixth book that will focus on the human brain and

Lance W. Baily, BA, EMT-B is the Founder / CEO of HealthySimulation.com, the world’s leading medical simulation resource website which supports thousands healthcare simulation professionals a month. As an experienced entrepreneur, digital media producer and administrative professional, Lance has the background and the experience necessary to help guide the healthcare simulation industry to greater levels of adoption.

Lance Baily is also the Founder of SimGHOSTS.org, the leading 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to supporting healthcare professionals operating clinical simulation technologies which has organized a multitude of hands-on training conferences around the globe since 2011. His new co-edited Book: *Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Operations, Technology, and Innovative Practice provides 400 pages of in-depth articles supporting the technical integration of healthcare simulation in any sized program.^{*Affiliate link.}

Formerly he served as Director of the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas, Simulation Technician for the LA Community College District, and volunteer Fire-Fighter, after receiving his BA in Film and Digital Media Production and working on Hollywood production sets. He currently lives with his wife in Las Vegas with their two young daughters and two crazy dachshunds.