Nur-Ain Nadir MD
Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Kaiser Permanente Central Valley
Dr. Nadir is the founding program director for the inaugural Kaiser Permanente Northern California Emergency Medicine residency program in the Modesto, CA. She additionally serves as the TPMG Simulation Lead Physician for Kaiser Permanente Northern California in the TPMG department of Risk and Patient Safety where she oversees regional simulation and patient safety education initiatives. She also serves an oral simulation exam developers for the American Board of Emergency Medicine. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate/King’s County hospital, where she also went on to complete her fellowship in Healthcare Simulation. She subsequently completed a Masters in Education for Health Professions (MEdHP) from John’s Hopkins University. She was core faculty and Simulation Director at the University of Illinois Peoria where she established the first Simulation fellowship at the JUMP Simulation center, prior to coming to Kaiser Permanente. She has served as the Chair of the Simulation Community of Practice at the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD-EM) and is the Past-President of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine’s (SAEM) Simulation Academy. She has published on a wide variety of topics within academic medicine and simulation in healthcare. Her interests include DEI in medicine, professional development, remediation, real time debriefing and the use of simulation for quality improvement and patient safety initiatives and the use of artificial intelligence in medical education and simulation.
Nur-Ain Nadir