Maybelle Kou MD, MEd, is the Medical Director for Simulation Education for Graduate Medical Education at the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus leading communication and resuscitation leadership curricula using simulation and debriefing. From 2001-2019 she directed the Altieri Pediatric Emergency Fellowship at IFMC and collaborated nationally on fellowship training directives and pre-hospital pediatric responses. She is engaged in simulation and pediatric emergency research globally through her work on the EmergencySimBox.com, a low-technology solution for distance simulation training for pediatric resuscitation readiness. On the Inova Campus, she co-authored the Realizing Inclusion and Systemic Equity: Upstanding in the Medical Workplace (RISE UP) Curriculum, leveraging simulation and debriefing to facilitate anti-bias communication. She is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine.