Mark D Adler

Mark D Adler is a Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) and Medical Education. He serves as an attending physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, focusing on simulation-based healthcare education, educational faculty development, and validity frameworks for assessment tools. His roles include Chair of the National Academy of Distinguished Educators in Pediatrics (NADEP), Associate Editor for Simulation in Healthcare, and Subject Matter Expert in the Pediatric Pandemic Network. Formerly a member of the Executive Committee of the International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research and Education (INSPIRE), he has pioneered clinical skills checklists and team training programs.

Research interests include

• Simulation-based mastery learning for clinical emergencies
• Validity argument construction in learner assessment
• Team dynamics in pediatric critical care transport
• Addressing structural racism through simulation pedagogy
• Optimizing CPR quality with feedback devices

His scholarly work spans 75 publications, emphasizing simulation training for pediatric sepsis, cardiac pacing, and social determinants of health education. Notable trends include rigorously designed assessment tools and collaborative national studies on transport team performance. Awards include multiple Outstanding Contributions in Education from Feinberg School of Medicine (2005–2023), the Ray E. Helfer Award (2006), and election to the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (2018) and Academic Pediatric Association (2020).