JOHN VOZENILEK, MD

John Vozenilek, MD is currently an associate professor of Emergency Medicine, Medical Education and Healthcare Studies at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University and an attending physician in the emergency department at Northwestern Memorlal Hospital.   Dr Vozenilek is the Director of the Northwestern McGaw Simulation Network which serves to formalize existing collaborations between the several clinical simulation facilities at the McGaw member institutions, and allow a forum for jointly planning the future of simulation at Northwestern.

Dr. Vozenilek has substantial experience in medical education with both standardized patients and high-fidelity human patient simulation.    He is a leader in the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine' Simulation Academy and the designer and editor of that society’s case library for simulation.   

He is the Medical Advisor for the Chicago testing center for Part 2 CS of the United States Medical Licensure Exam (USMLE).  In this capacity, he is responsible for the implementation and refinement of standardized patient (SP)-based evaluation cases for high-stakes evaluation as well as the selection, training, and validation of the numerous SPs who work in this center.  

He has been appointed as an Oral Board examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine, another high- stakes, simulation-based examination, and has served ABEM's advisory panel on Initial Certification..

In 2008, Dr Vozenilek co-chaired the AHRQ Consensus Conference entitled: Simulation in Healthcare, Defining and Developing Expertise.   The products of this conference were published in Academic Emergency Medicine, and describe the use of simulation for individual, procedural, team, and systems improvement.

He has been the principle investigator on the AHRQ funded project: “Simulation-Based Training Program to Augment Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Based Hand-off Tool.”   That project reduced communication errors during patient hand-offs in the emergency department by implementing a patient-specific checklist based on an electronic medical record, and tested the effect of companion simulation-based training.

He was co-investigator in the Emergency Medical Services Children’s Targeted [EMSCT] Issues Grant, “Development and Validation of a Simulator-Based Emergency Medicine Curriculum for Emergency Care Providers.”  Dr Vozenilek is well-published in clinical simulation and medical informatics and is the former Chair and current Councilor for the American College of Emergency Physician’s Informatics section.  He was a founding Associate Editor for the  AAMC’s MEDEDPORTAL Simulation collection.