COPES

Our Team

Clinical expertise, research, and industry working together.

COPES brings together experts in clinical education, computing, immersive technology, and simulation with industry partners building the technologies that support the platform.

Experts

The people shaping the clinical and technical direction of COPES.

Each expert contributes a distinct area of responsibility, connecting clinical validity, instructional design, platform engineering, and healthcare simulation.

Clinical & Procedural Validity

Peter DeBlieux, MD

LSU Health New Orleans · Assistant Dean for Advanced Learning and Simulation

Biography

Dr. Peter DeBlieux is a pulmonary, critical care, and emergency physician with decades of practice in a Level One Trauma Center. His career combines frontline clinical care with medical education, including ten years directing an emergency medicine residency and extensive work in simulation and procedural education. He serves as Assistant Dean for Advanced Learning and Simulation at LSU Health New Orleans.

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Instructional Design & Analytics

Kevin Lord, PhD, MHS, RRT

LSU Health New Orleans · Assistant Dean of Student Affairs & Associate Professor

Biography

Dr. Kevin Lord is an educator and researcher whose work spans cardiopulmonary science, pharmacology, clinical physiology, curriculum development, and educational technology. His research includes the use of haptic feedback, virtual and augmented reality, and gamification for foundational clinical-skills training, together with experience in curriculum blueprinting and learner remediation.

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Healthcare Simulation & Implementation

Adam Dodson, MBA, NRP, NCEE, CCEMTP

Healthcare Simulation & Clinical Education · Johns Hopkins / Laerdal Medical

Biography

Adam Dodson is a healthcare educator, clinician, author, and simulation specialist with more than 30 years of experience in emergency medicine, resuscitation, airway management, human factors, and clinical education. His background includes leadership in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center and work in simulation strategy, curriculum development, educational data science, systems integration, and outcomes-focused implementation.

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Platform Architecture & Technical Development

Felipe Fronchetti, PhD

Louisiana State University · Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Biography

Dr. Felipe Fronchetti is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University and principal investigator of the Robotics and Software Engineering Laboratory. His research spans software engineering, human-computer interaction, robotics, virtual reality, and intelligent interactive systems, with an emphasis on translating emerging technologies into usable human-centered applications.

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Industry Partners

Technology partners helping bring COPES to life.

Our industry collaborators contribute complementary expertise across intelligent interaction, immersive development, haptics, and extended-reality technologies.

Industry Partner

Videra Health

Contributes AI and intelligent-interaction capabilities that support responsive learner communication, behavioral analysis, and data-informed coaching within COPES.

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Phoenix Life Sciences

Supports the immersive software, virtual environment, and haptic layer used to connect procedural actions with realistic interaction and measurable psychomotor performance.

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Industry Partner

Meta

Supports the extended-reality and AI technology ecosystem underlying COPES, including Meta Quest-class immersive hardware and technologies for interactive virtual training.

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Work with COPES

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