CAPE's History
The Center for Advanced Pediatric and Perintal Education (CAPE) is the world’s first simulation-based training center devoted to training health care professionals in the care of fetal, neonatal and obstetric patients. CAPE opened its doors in November 2002, thanks to a generous gift by an anonymous donor to the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health.
Dr. Louis Halamek, CAPE’s Founder and Director, was inspired by the rigorous training of NASA astronauts. He founded CAPE on the principle that prior experience improves future performance. Dr. Halamek is a neonatologist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University. He has over 10 years of experience in neonatal simulation and crisis resource management.
Today, CAPE offers multiple training programs that prepare multidisciplinary teams with the cognitive, technical and behavioral skills necessary to successfully manage fetal, neonatal, pediatric and obstetric crises.
CAPE is also a human performance research laboratory dedicated to validating simulation-based training both as a methodology and an investigative tool.
