Prof Guillaume Alinier, PhD, MPhys, PgCert, NTF, SFHEA
Guillaume is Director of Research at Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Ambulance Service (Doha, Qatar), Adjunct Professor of Education in Medicine at Weill Cornell Qatar, Professor of Simulation in Healthcare Education at the University of Hertfordshire (Hatfield, UK), where he used to head up its large multi-professional clinical simulation center and now supervises PhD students. He is also Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne.
He is a long-standing Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM) figure having served on its Executive Committee from 2005 to 2009 and chaired the conference in 2008, and now is one of its Associate Senior Members. He is also very active with the USA-based Society for Simulation in Healthcare, the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, and the UK-based Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare in relation to best practice standards settings, accreditation of simulation programmes, and certification of educators. Guillaume has contributed to many simulation-related, clinical, and engineering peer reviewed publications, book chapters, and two books on debriefing (
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4255-4450,
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9SMHCwEAAAAJ&hl=en).
He has senior editorial board responsibilities with several journals (Including Simulation in Healthcare BMC Advances in Simulation, Simulation in Healthcare, BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning, Clinical Simulation in Nursing, Journal of Paramedic Practice, International Paramedic Practice, and the Mediterranean Journal of Emergency Medicine) and received several awards from his employers and the Higher Education Academy (UK) such as a National Teaching Fellowship for his work in relation to learning and teaching.
He is involved in several simulation-based initiatives and quality improvement projects at HMC. Some of his recent simulation-related activities, sometimes in collaboration with Qatar University, pertain to Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) team-training and technology development, preparing and running large scale major incident simulations for emergency services and hospitals, and the use of virtual reality simulation to test ambulance configurations. He has taken part in the planning and running of several simulated aviation accident exercises which involved multi-agency response. Throughout his career, Guillaume has used nearly all simulation modalities (patient simulator, simulated patients/actors, mental modelling, screen-based applications, table tops…), but having supported teams in various parts of the world over the last decade, he has developed a particular interest in low-cost simulation methods when it comes to initial training and continuing professional development as a key stepping stone prior to using more technology enhanced simulation education approaches.
