Simulation Education Services

HPP Grant Guidance Analysis and SES solutions matrix

New Exercise Scenarios

Mass Fatality Events

JCAHO 96 Hour Rule

Louisiana Awards State-Wide Contract
SES to conduct specialized training
and exercises

Michael Garvin

Michael Garvin is a co-founder of Simulation Education Services. He is the former safety engineer for the 900-bed University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Prior to accepting that position, he served as the safety and hazard control officer at the University of Wisconsin's Clinical Science Center, which includes a 540-bed hospital and more than 200 research laboratories. He holds a Masters of Hospital Administration degree from St. Louis University. At both medical centers, Mr. Garvin has been responsible for developing, implement and monitoring the safety and emergency management compliance programs. Mike has written for a number of trade journals. His research in such areas as emergency management, waste management, medical product development and health care safety often is included in major conferences and industry publications.

Mr. Garvin has over 25 years of emergency management development and evaluation experience. He was involved in such disaster responses as the Kansas City, Missouri Hyatt Tea Dance atrium walkway collapse of 1979, the Barneveld, Wisconsin tornado disaster of 1984 and the 1990 automatic rifle assault on at the University of Iowa. His approach to emergency management communications systems development and assessment is based on common sense and is especially well received by small to mid-sized hospitals that do not have the human and financial resource to implement a full complement of positions indicated by the Hospital Emergency Incident Command program. Over his twenty 25 years career, he or his programs have trained over 100,000 health care staff in over 100 topics reaching every state in the country. His performance evaluations have consistently scored over a 90% satisfaction rating.

For 17 years, Mr. Garvin served as program manager for the University of Wisconsin's Educational Teleconference Network. He specializes in developing and conducting distance conferences. In 1984, he launched Garvin Consulting Services, a specialty conferencing company targeted to the needs of health care regulatory managers. From 1994 to 1998, he served as the Technology Transfer Director of the University of Iowa Medical Center. In 1998, he helped designed the first fully functional. low bandwidth Internet-enhanced audio conferencing technology known as AudioNet. AudioNet International, designed and manages state and national health care information and conferencing networks serving nearly 6000 hospitals and reaching hundreds of thousands of health care managers and clinicians. He led the development team that created the first audio and Internet facilitated tabletop drills in 2003.