Claire Condron
Claire Condron, Director of Simulation Education, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Professor Claire Condron is Chair and Director of Simulation at RCSI SIM, the RCSI Centre for Simulation Education and Research. A founding Senior Lecturer in simulation-based education at RCSI, she has more than two decades of experience in designing, delivering and evaluating educational programmes across the health professions.
Her expertise spans simulation science, faculty development, instructional design, human factors and interprofessional education. She has played a leading role in advancing simulation-based learning for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development programmes, supporting clinicians and educators across a wide range of disciplines.
Professor Condron has an extensive research portfolio, with more than 160 publications focused on medical education, simulation-based learning, surgical training and healthcare innovation. Her work explores how simulation can improve patient safety, enhance team performance and facilitate the transfer of learning into clinical practice.
A major focus of her current work is the application of translational simulation to medical device innovation. She collaborates with clinicians, researchers and industry partners to develop and evaluate emerging technologies within realistic clinical environments, with the aim of accelerating safer design processes, improving human factors integration, and reducing reliance on early-stage animal testing through advanced simulation methodologies.
Through her leadership at RCSI SIM, Professor Condron continues to champion interdisciplinary collaboration and the use of simulation as a catalyst for safer, more effective healthcare systems and medical technologies.