Specialty	Emergency Medicine
Clinical Interests	Airway Disorder
	Emergency Medicine
Gender	Male
E-mail	yasuharu.okuda@mssm.edu
Education and Training	MD, New York Medical College
	B.S., Brown University
	M.D., New York Medical College
	Internship, New York Hospital Queens, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
	Chief Resident, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
	Residency, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
	Internship, Internal Medicine, New York Hospital of Queens
	Residency, Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Awards	2007 EMRA Certification of Appreciation Emergency Medicine Residents Association
	2007 Excellence in Teaching Award Institute for Medical Education, MSSM
	2007 Blue Ribbon Award Educational Research Day Institute for Medical Education, MSSM
	2006 Customer Service Award of the Month, August Department of Emergency Medicine, MSSM
	2006 Red Carpet Team Award Department of Emergency Medicine, MSSM
	2005 Infinite Appreciation Award Emergency Medicine Residency, MSSM
	2005 Attending Most Valuable Physician Award Emergency Medicine Residency, MSSM
	2003 Outstanding Achievement as Chief Resident Department of Emergency Medicine, MSSM
	2000 Intern of the Year Department of Internal Medicine, NYHQ, Weil Medical College

Dr. Okuda received his medical degree from New York Medical College and completed his emergency medicine residency at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine as Chief Resident. He is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education and Director of Simulation for the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Nationally, he serves as Co-Chair of the Emergency Medicine Special Interest Group for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and involved as a reviewer for MedEdPortal, Academic Emergency Medicine, and the International Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Okuda has been actively involved with medical education at Mount Sinai with curricular innovations such as the Emergency Anatomy series for the Gross Anatomy course as well as incorporating High Fidelity Patient Simulation into the Surgical and Emergency Medicine clerkships. His research interests include the use of simulation in medical errors and assessment and is published in areas related to the use of simulation in education. Dr. Okuda was recognized for his teaching nationally by the Emergency Medicine Residents Association and received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Institute of Medical Education in 2007.

Education and Training	MD, New York Medical College
	B.S., Brown University
	M.D., New York Medical College
	Internship, New York Hospital Queens, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
	Chief Resident, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
	Residency, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
	Internship, Internal Medicine, New York Hospital of Queens
	Residency, Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Board Certification	Emergency Medicine

Specialty	Emergency Medicine
Clinical Interests	Airway Disorder
	Emergency Medicine
Board Certification	Emergency Medicine

Research
Dr. Okuda's research interests include the use of simulation for medical student and resident assessment as well as for patient safety and reduction of errors. His current projects includes: The use of high fidelity simulation for training of fourth year medical students in ACLS algorithms, Deliberate practice to improve ACLS training and critical care, Simulation for training alarm recognition, Part task simulator for procedural training, Simulation in training acute geriatric emergencies, and Using simulation for teamwork training for medical students.

Okuda Y, Bond W, Bonfante G, McLaughlin S, Spillane L, Wang E, Vozenilek J, Gordon J. National Growth in Simulation Training within Emergency Medicine Residency Programs, 2003-2008. Acad Emerg Med 2008;.

Okuda Y, Quinones J. The use of simulation in the education of emergency care providers for cardiac emergencies. Int J Emerg Med 2008;.

McLaughlin S, Fitch TM, Goyal DG, Hayden E, Kauh CY, Laack TA, Okuda Y, Palm K. Simulation in Graduate Medical Education 2008: A Review for Emergency Medicine. Acad Emerg Med 2008;.

Kaji A, Bair A, Okuda Y, Kobayashi L, Khare R, Vozenilek J. Defining Systems Expertise: Effective Simulation at the Organizational level - Implications for Patient Safety, Disaster Surge Capacity, and Facilitating the Systems Interface. Acad Emerg Med 2008;.

Okuda Y, Mahajan R. Acute Renal Infarct. Int J Emerg Med 2008;.

Okuda Y, Jagoda A. Weakness. In: Harwood-Nuss A, Wolfson A, Linden C, Shepherd S, Stenklyft P, editors. The Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, 4th Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins;.

Okuda Y. Glaucoma. In: Rosen P, Barkin R, Hayden S, Schaider J, Wolfe R, editors. The 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, 3rd Edition. Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins;.

Okuda Y. Central Retinal Artery Occlusion. In: Rosen P, Barkin R, Hayden S, Schaider J, Wolfe R, editors. The 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, 3rd Edition. Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins;.

Okuda Y, Jagoda A. Delirium and Dementia. In: Adams , editor. Emergency Medicine, 1st Edition. Elsevier;.

Okuda Y, Nelson B, Reidenberg JS, Laitman JT. Emergency Anatomy: A new paradigm in teaching surface anatomy applying principles used in emergency medicine procedures. The FASEB Journal 2007; 32(5): A87.

Okuda Y, Quinones J. A Second Chance to Make a Bad Impression: Do residents repeat errors in Simulated M&M cases? . Acad Emerg Med 2005; 12: 793.