Stephanie N. Stapleton, MD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Stephanie Stapleton, MD, currently serves as Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation at Boston Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She leads 450 annual contact hours of simulation for 50 attendings, 50 residents, >100 medical and PA students, and advises on advanced practice provider simulation.

She is Vice President of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy Research & Scholarship Subcommittee, a member of Society of Simulation in Healthcare and the International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education. She has published and presented nationally on simulation research and innovations, focusing on procedural training, pediatric resuscitation, and distance simulation. Her areas of interest are translational simulation, procedural model creation, innovations testing, and developing an adult emergency medicine simulation research community.

Publications

  • Published 4/29/2025

    Hughes MD, Chen TH, Schoen JC, Lamberta MA, Cassara M, Hock SM, Beattie LK, Stapleton S, Moss HC, Heiferman JR, Rice JC. Bridging the gap: Leveraging simulation expertise to improve active learning environments. AEM Educ Train. 2025 Apr; 9(Suppl 1):S51-S60. PMID: 40308867.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 11/11/2024

    Wegman K, Gorka C, Linden J, Bell S, Stapleton SN, Tancioco V, Welsh L. Manual Uterine Aspiration Simulation for Emergency Medicine Learners. MedEdPORTAL. 2024; 20:11469. PMID: 39530104.

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  • Published 10/1/2024

    Palaganas JC, Mosher C, Wawersik D, Eller S, Kirkpatrick AJ, Lazarovici M, Brown KM, Stapleton S, Hughes PG, Tarbet A, Morton A, Duff JP, Gross IT, Sanko J. In-Person Healthcare Simulation: An Umbrella Review of the Literature. Simul Healthc. 2024 Oct 01. PMID: 39353859.

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  • Published 5/19/2024

    Stapleton SN, Cassara M, Roth B, Matulis C, Desmond C, Wong AH, Cardell A, Moadel T, Lei C, Munzer BW, Moss H, Nadir NA. The MIDAS touch: Frameworks for procedural model innovation and validation. AEM Educ Train. 2024 May; 8(Suppl 1):S24-S35. PMID: 38774824.

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  • Published 11/17/2023

    Elkin R, Duff JP, LaForest ML, Stapleton S, Ramachandra G, Palaganas JC, Gross IT. Distance simulation in the health professions: a scoping review. Adv Simul (Lond). 2023 Nov 17; 8(1):27. PMID: 37978416.

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Education

  • Boston University School of Medicine, MD
  • Boston University School of Medicine, MA
  • Michigan Technological University, BS

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