Rami Ahmed

Dr. Ahmed is Professor of Emergency Medicine and former Simulation Division Chief, Medical Simulation Fellowship Director, and Director of Simulation in the Interprofessional Practice and Education Center at the Indiana University School of Medicine.   Dr. Ahmed is a former US Army Medic and SWAT Team physician for the Akron, OH Police Department. He is currently serving as a staff physician at the Roudebush VA Emergency Department providing care to our country’s veterans. 

He started the first medical simulation fellowships in the state of Ohio and the state of Indiana. He developed two nationally recognized simulation programs, graduated 20 simulation fellows, served as a consultant for NASA on simulation related projects, co-developed a novel transvenous pacemaker simulator, and has published over 100 peer-reviewed simulation-based research studies. 

Dr. Ahmed was the recipient of the Donald O’Hara teaching award at Harvard Medical School in 2009 serving as a Harvard Macy Scholar. He is a recipient of the Emergency Medicine residency faculty of the year award for the Akron City Emergency Medicine residency program in 2010 and 2012. He has been recognized at the national level as the recipient of the 2017 ACEP National Faculty Teaching Award, the SAEM Simulation Academy "Distinguished Educator" award in 2020 and most recently recognized as the SAEM 2023 National Simulation Research Award winner.  Dr. Ahmed is passionate about training emergency medicine residents into highly effective team leaders. 

• B.S., John Carroll University
• D.O., Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Residency, Summa Akron City Hospital
• MHPE, University of Illinois at Chicago