Education Design & Innovation
At MD Anderson, we believe that education drives success. Our TIPS Education Center is a full-service education core that specializes in designing, implementing and evaluating education products to meet your unique education and training needs. Our team develops customized, innovative education solutions to bridge knowledge gaps, improve patient care, minimize patient harm and mitigate risk. Our education products are designed as quality interventions to improve outcomes, processes, flow and teaming.
Our team includes nationally recognized leaders in education, instructional designers, clinical educators, graphics designers, simulation operations technologists, and videographers, and we specialize in:
- Interprofessional education
- eLearning/virtual learning products
- Instructional design
- Multimedia design
- Instructional design
- Simulation-based education
- Curriculum development
- Cognitive and job aids development
- Graphics design
- Video recording/editing
- Soft skills training (Breaking Bad News, Patient Experience)
- Procedural boot camps
Our Services
Interprofessional Education & Collaborative Practice
Interprofessional Education (IPE) occurs when two or more professions learn with, from, and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care.
Team-based care is a critical component of safe, quality oncology care. Evidence supports IPE and team training improves healthcare professionals’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, individual and team performance, and patient outcomes. Evidence also supports the opposite: poor team performance leads to poor patient outcomes. Over the past decade, there have been increasing pressure from national medical education organizations and accreditation bodies for interprofessional education that leads to competencies towards collaborative practice or team-based care. IPE helps us to teach and learn as a team.
Education Design & Instruction
The education design and instruction office provides world-class instructional design services, educational products, and education technology resources that support online, flipped, blended, and classroom learning modalities. Our education engineers successfully bridge the space between clinician, scientist and master educator through services and resources that support the dissemination of academic achievements and best practices using the best education science and evidence.
Clinical Emergency Management/Life Support Training
The Clinical Emergency Management office delivers quality improvement tools, assessment, and interventions to improve clinical medical emergency responses across all MD Anderson facilities. Our team customizes each training session to meet the unique needs of each clinical environment and uses an innovative, interactive and interprofessional approach to prepare every employee for action.
Clinical Emergency Management also collaborates with the American Heart Association (AHA) to provide basic and advanced life support courses. We offer the following courses:
- Basic Life Support – Healthcare Provider
- Basic Life Support – Heartsaver
- Basic Life Support and First Aid (by request)
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support Course
Simulation Services
The TIPS Education Center is able to provide immersive simulation education and training just about anywhere. We strive to be the international model of excellence in health care simulation for cancer care. We are recognized by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare for our quality educational programs, which feature research-based, innovative and state-of-the-art education and training, as well as competency validation tools. We can help create, plan and conduct education events in the original environment or at our state-of-the-art Simulation Center.
The Simulation Center is a 15,000 square foot simulated clinical environment. We offer different simulation and education technologies to achieve a wide range of learning objectives. We are able to design fully immersive settings, such as hospital rooms and even airplane cabins, or provide a classroom environment. Here's a brief look at our services and facility's features:
Lecture Hall
This room seats up to 50 learners and can be used as a conference room or classroom.
High-Tech Hospital Simulation Rooms
The center has four hospital simulation rooms that can mimic the various clinical settings across MD Anderson. These rooms can be used to simulate surgeries, patient interactions, and hone teaming skills.
Simulation for Training Classrooms
These four classrooms allow instructors and learners to focus on developing specific skills, such as central line insertion, lumbar puncture and para/thoracentesis using partial task trainers with phantom technology.
Special Procedure and Skill-based Classrooms
The center offers space for learners to develop a variety of airway-, vascular-, lumbar- and catheter-related skills.
Surgical and Clinical Skills/Techniques Support
The simulation staff works directly with front-line educators in conducting (scheduling, supplying and supporting) discipline specific animate and inanimate techniques labs. We partner with internal institutional resources and most Texas Medical Center institutions to fully operationalize and support MD Anderson’s advanced clinical and surgical education events across the medical center.
Audio/Video Capture Capabilities
Most of these rooms feature SimCapture, a program that records and stores education events for subsequent review.
Interactive Technologies
Most of our simulation technologies are inherently immersive and enable realistic training utilizing the same equipment employed throughout the institute without danger to the patient population. This level of realism and interactivity empowers our participants with directly relevant knowledge.
Some of the programs and capabilities we offer include:
- Laerdal Simulators: 3G w/ASL 5000, Essential, Junior, Baby)
- Anatomage Table- 3D: Anatomy and Physiology
- FLS Laproscopic: Surgery Trainers
- Ultrasound (GE and SonoSite)
- VitalsBridge: Monitor Technology
- LLEAP Software: Patient Simulation
- Q-CPR
Meet Our Team
James Cavalier, Jr., Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the TIPS Education Center. In his role, he coordinates the development of both long- and short-term strategic business plans for the TIPS Education Center and its 10,000 stakeholders to effectively influence hospital-wide quality and safety initiatives.
Dr. Cavalier has more than 25 years experience providing professional health care education. He has extensive expertise on how education, when used as quality interventions, impacts behaviors at the bedside. Additionally, he has senior-level management experience where he has maintained responsibility for nursing, rehabilitation services, dietary, infection control, laboratory, employee education, and employee health departments.
Dr. Cavalier also is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE).
Mark Blaylock is the Associate Director for the Simulation Center. He oversees and
supports education for faculty, staff and trainees both within the Simulation Center at our Mid Campus 1 Building and in situ across all of MD Anderson. He also oversees the implementation and operation of national and international surgical and clinical skills and techniques labs, and supports the Division of Surgery’s Research and Education labs with technical and instrumentation consultation across multiple RO1 and SPORE projects.
Mark has an Associate and Bachelors of Science Degrees with a focus on Biotechnology/Molecular Biology. He has extensive technical experience in operationalizing research, clinical and educational technologies in industry as well as academic environments.
Mark believes that input and insight from the boots on the ground are one of the most valuable keys to successful and effective solutions. He values competency, innovation and active participation.
Jasmin Berrios, Ed.D., is Director, Teaching, Inter-Professional, and Simulation (TIPS) Education Center. In her current role, Jasmin oversees the Education Design and Instruction and the Clinical Emergency Management team. Her expertise lies in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of educational products that span multiple educational modalities such as online/virtual, hybrid/blended, instructor-led, simulation, virtual reality and train-the-trainer courses.
Jasmin holds a Bachelor of Science in Health from Prairie View
A&M University, a Master of Public Health from Texas A&M
University, and a Doctor of Education from Morehead State
University.
Kevina Othieno, M.B.A., is the Administrative Director of TIPS Education Center, Continuing Professional Education, and Academic Development (Education Engine). She provides the primary oversight, direction, and management of the financial activities and initiatives for the three departments.
Additionally, she serves as the administrator and business officer responsible for fiscal and budgetary affairs and oversight of human resource management, departmental policies, and departmental facilities for the three departments.
Kevina holds bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration and an M.B.A.
Karol Arreaga, M.B.A.
Program Manager
Clinical Emergency Management
Charles Barrier, B.S., B.A., M.Div., EMT-LP
Educator, Life Support Training
Clinical Emergency Management
Eric Cano
Simulation Education
Education Design & Instruction
Preston Cooke
Simulation Technician
Simulation Center
Daryl Anildes Gumban, M.S.N., R.N., CRRN-K
Simulation Education
Education Design & Instruction
Daniel Gonzalez, Jr.
Senior Instructional Designer
Simulation Center
Todd Juneau, M.Ed.
Instructional Designer
Education Design & Instruction
Ki'jana Magee
Receptionist
Simulation Center
Vanessa Ortiz
Simulation Supervisor
Simulation Center
Francisco Vergaray
Sr. Education Specialist
Simulation Center
Bradley White, M.F.A.
Sr. Education Specialist
Simulation Center
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
1 Mid Campus Building
7007 Bertner Avenue, Suite 2.1062
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 713-792-8546
Fax: 713-745-4593
Email: TIPS@mdanderson.org