Kellie Bryant

Dr. Bryant is currently the Executive Director of Simulation and an Assistant Professor at Columbia school of nursing’s newly accredited Helene Fuld Health Trust Simulation Center. Dr. Bryant has over eighteen years of teaching experience and ten years of experience as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. Throughout her career she has become an expert in the field of simulation through her experience with designing simulation centers and implementing simulation programs for two of the top-rated nursing schools in the country. In her current role she oversees the day to day operations and implementation of simulation-based education for all the graduate nursing and advance practice nursing students. She is also the medical director of Columbia school of nursing’s Opioid Overdose Prevention program where she provides naloxone training for over 1,500 health profession students each year.

She has presented at over fifty national and international conferences in the areas of simulation education and opioid overdose prevention. She is the coinvestigator on a five year $1.86 million-dollar R18 grant funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality. The grant titled Simulation to Improve Infection Prevention and Patient Safety (SIPPS) will evaluate the use of simulation to improve hand hygiene and decrease infection rates across two hospitals. She is also the primary investigator on a $500,000 grant from the Hearst foundation that will cover the cost of simulation equipment, faculty development courses, and hiring of Standardized Patients to enhance our simulation program. 

She has served on the Nominations and Election committee for International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation Learning (INACSL) and is the past co-chair of INACSL’s webinar committee. She is currently the on the executive board for the Greater NYC Black Nurses Association.