I am an Emergency Medicine physician, Assistant Professor and Director of Emergency Medicine simulation at Boston Medical Center/ Boston University School of Medicine. I completed my simulation fellowship at Hartford Hospital and residency at University of Connecticut. My areas of interest are novel model creation, evaluation tools, latent safety threat mitigation, digital education

I have always loved making things I wish existed! I have created a number of medical procedure models for simulation based practice. I am fostering innovation curricula and design in our medical school. When CoVID reared its ugly head, I jumped at the chance to co-lead our medical innovations focused in improving safety of front line worker and patients. I love testing out designs (none are too early!) in our sim lab to see how we really use them and what might be improved.

Before medicine, I studied ecology at Michigan Tech in the far northern reaches of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

In my free time, I love to get outside and kayak in our fabulous lakes, rivers, and estuaries. Bonus points if the trip includes ripe berries for the picking!

snstaple@bu.edu Pronouns: She/her