Dr Kim Leighton is the Executive Director of the new Itqan Clinical Simulation and Innovation Center at Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar. The Center serves a multidisciplinary practitioner community from across the country and aims to expand services to the region and beyond. Kim has spent the past 16 years facilitating learning with mannequin-based simulation in undergraduate and graduate nursing, medicine, and allied health programs as well as for practicing clinicians in both the public and private sectors. While president of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, she led development of the Standards of Best Practice: SimulationSM, endorsed by 20 interprofessional organizations and now in its third edition.
Dr. Leighton’s research focuses on development and psychometric analysis of evaluation tools for simulation education, which have been disseminated through her website to simulation educators in 54 countries. Dr Leighton is co-editor of the award-winning book Simulation Champions: Fostering Courage, Caring, and Connection and an assistant editor for Clinical Simulation in Nursing.
