Michaela Kolbe, PhD
Michaela Kolbe is the director of the Simulation Center of the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. She has been leading research projects investigating team processes in acute settings in healthcare for many years. Her particular research interest includes debriefing, psychological safety and the social dynamics of “speaking up” across the authority gradient and across disciplines in healthcare. Michaela Kolbe’s Ph.D. is in psychology and she is a member of the faculty and Privatdozentin at ETH Zurich. She is co-chairwoman of the German Society for Promoting Simulation in Healthcare (DGSIM) and has published widely in psychological, healthcare, and simulation journals and books and is a member of the Editorial Board of BMJ STEL and GIO and Associate Editor of Advances in Simulation.