Louis P. Halamek, M.D., is a Professor in the Medical Center Professoriate in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He is a graduate of the Creighton University School of Medicine and completed residency and chief residency in Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center followed by fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Stanford University. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He has a clinical appointment at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford where he works in the level IV neonatal intensive care unit and is the Director of Neonatal Resuscitation.Through collaboration with colleagues at NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA Ames Research Center, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Aviation at St. Louis University, Dr. Halamek has learned the benefits of a cross-industries approach to risk assessment, safety and human/system performance. His current work focuses on the development of hospital operations centers linked with sophisticated simulation capabilities, optimization of human performance during high-risk activities such as resuscitation, and analysis of human and system error. Dr. Halamek is the founding Director of the Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perinatal Education (CAPE, http://cape.stanford.edu), the world's first center dedicated to fetal, neonatal, pediatric and obstetric simulation-based training and research. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Pediatric Simulation Society. He is a former Co-Chair and current Special Consultant to the U.S. Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) of the AAP and is also a member of the Neonatal Delegation to the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR).