Elaine C. Meyer, PhD, RN is the Co-Founder and Director of the Institute
for Professionalism and Ethical Practice at Boston Children's Hospital
and Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. With
over twenty years experience in neonatal and pediatric critical care,
Dr. Meyer's clinical and research interests include the perspectives and
priorities of patients and their families, difficult healthcare
conversations, models of psychosocial care, end of life care in the
critical care setting, and humanism in health care. She has been
instrumental in developing and teaching the innovative interprofessional
simulation-based Program to Enhance Relational and Communication Skills
(PERCS) workshops. She delivered a widely acclaimed TED Talk entitled,
On Being Present, Not Perfect that has been widely incorporated into
medical and nursing school curricula. She is an Associate Editor at
Simulation in Healthcare and serves in leadership capacities at the
Society for Simulation in Healthcare. She is the author of nearly 100
peer-reviewed articles and presents widely nationally and
internationally.