KEYNOTE
Komal Bajaj

Dr. Komal Bajaj is an agency-building healthcare leader, catalyzing transformation across all facets of healthcare delivery. Dr. Bajaj’s work sits at the nexus of quality, technology, and environmental sustainability.
She serves as chief quality officer of NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi/North Central Bronx and Medical Director for Sustainability for NYC Health + Hospitals. Dr. Bajaj is an advisor to a variety of public and private entities including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality – she was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the National Advisory Council in 2022.
Dr. Bajaj is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and was named as one of Becker’s Hospital Review Top Patient Safety Experts in 2024. She was an inaugural National Academy of Medicine Diagnostic Excellence Scholar. Dr. Bajaj’s work is regularly featured in media outlets such as New York Times, NPR, Modern Healthcare, Becker's Hospital Review as well as the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA Health Forum. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.
Pam Jefferies

Pamela R. Jeffries, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF, FSSH, is Dean of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and holds the Valere Potter Distinguished Chair in Nursing.
Dr. Jeffries is internationally known for her research and work in nursing, simulation, and health care. Throughout the academic community, she is recognized for her scholarly contributions to executive leadership, the development of innovative teaching strategies, experiential learning techniques, new pedagogies, and the delivery of content using technology.
As Principal Investigator on grants funded by federal and state agencies and numerous national organizations, including the National League for Nursing (NLN) and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Dr. Jeffries has provided leadership and mentorship on ground-breaking projects impacting both nursing practice and education. With the NLN, Dr. Jeffries developed the major contribution to simulation scholarship, the framework and monograph now known as the NLN Jeffries Simulation Theory.
She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (FSSH), and the Academy of Nurse Educators (ANEF) and an alumna of the Robert Wood Johns Foundation Nurse Executive Fellows program. She has been inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Research Hall of Fame and received the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Excellence Award. Dr. Jeffries is active in a variety of professional organizations and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Nursing and the Global Network of Simulations in Healthcare (GNSH).
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