Associate Professor
Queen's University, School of Nursing, Canada
Dr. Marian Luctkar-Flude is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University School of Nursing, and Co-President of the Canadian Alliance of Nurse Educators using Simulation (CAN-Sim). She has extensive experience with high-fidelity patient simulation, virtual simulation, interprofessional education and online learning. Her current program of research focuses on virtual simulation game design, presimulation preparation approaches, and faculty development. She develops and teaches simulation courses for the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) and more recently she helped design and delivers virtual simulation game design workshops through CAN-Sim. Simulation scenarios and virtual simulation games developed through these courses and workshops are shared freely with other members of CAN-Sim. Dr. Luctkar-Flude was the 2016 recipient of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning Excellence in research award in recognition of her innovative research and leadership in the field of clinical simulation and the 2019 CASN Pat Griffin Nursing Education Research Scholar Award. In 2021 she was the recipient of the Council of Ontario University Programs in Nursing (COUPN) Strategic Contribution to Nursing Education Award in recognition of creating a series of virtual simulation games for healthcare professionals related to essential skills for assessment and management of patients with COVID-19 (available at www.can-sim.ca/hc) in response to the pandemic, and the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) Award for Excellence and Innovation in Instructional Design for leading the team that created the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Nursing Educational Toolkit (available at www.soginursing.ca) to promote cultural humility and safety in healthcare interactions with patients who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex or two-spirit (LGBTQI2S). Most recently she received the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) Award for Innovation Virtual Simulation Section along with CAN-Sim Co-President Dr. Jane Tyerman.