Michelle Sergel, MD

Senior Module Editor, PEERcert+ Thoracorespiratory

Michelle Sergel, MD, has served as the senior module editor for PEERcert+ Thoracorespiratory since 2021. Dr. Sergel is currently the medical director of simulation for both the Cook County Health and Hospital System and the Rush Center for Clinical Skills and Simulation at Rush University Medical Center. She is also an associate professor of emergency medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Sergel founded the Cook County Health and Hospital System’s Emergency Medicine Simulation Fellowship and has served as its program director since 2014. Dr. Sergel received her doctor of medicine degree from the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, and she completed categorical internal medicine and emergency medicine residencies at Northwestern University.

Dr. Sergel conceptualized and formed the Cook County Hospital Simulation Center and was essential in the overhaul and expansion of the Rush Center for Clinical Skills and Simulation. Her devotion over the past 15 years has been spent cultivating simulation curricula for the various medical disciplines and creating sustainable business plans for the further development of the two centers. Her educational emphasis is to improve organizational preparedness and interprofessional communication during high-stakes events. Her motivation revolves around the use of simulation to improve patient safety within her institutions and regionally.

Dr. Sergel has served on the planning committee for the Rocky Mountain Winter Conference on Emergency Medicine since 2012. She has lectured regionally and nationally on both core content and simulation-based medical education topics at multiple conferences, including ACEP Scientific Assembly, the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine’s Annual Meeting, the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, and the Rocky Mountain Winter Conference on Emergency Medicine.