Shirley Sonesh

Shirley Sonesh, Ph.D. is a member of the advisory board of Meditel360. Dr. Sonesh obtained her doctorate in organizational behavior at A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. While at Tulane, Dr. Sonesh’s research focused on expatriate knowledge transfer in multi-national organizations. Currently, she works as a research scientist at the Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) at the University of Central Florida (UCF). At IST, Dr. Sonesh leads a team of researchers to investigate the effects of telemedicine on teamwork in emergency management situations, the positive effects of teamwork training, among other healthcare related initiatives. Shirley also consults organizations on how to improve teamwork in interprofessional medical teams to improve patient safety. Dr. Sonesh has co-authored a number of published articles in the fields of medical team training, training evaluation, and simulation in healthcare. She has been invited to a number of conferences to present research related to these fields. Shirley is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Academy of Management (AOM), Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), and the American Telehealth Association (ATA).