Elizabeth Sanseau, MD, MS, FAAP, DTM&H is the Medical Director of the CHOP Indigenous Health Unit and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine at CHOP and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Sanseau’s research focuses on pediatric emergency readiness and disaster preparedness in U.S. Indigenous communities and healthcare systems. She uses simulation as an educational, research and quality improvement tool. Her current research includes mixed-methods evaluations, qualitative Talking Circles, and elements of implementation science and Community-Based Participatory Research.

Dr. Sanseau Co-leads the ImPACTS (Improving Pediatric Acute Care Through Simulation) collaborative and the Emergency Simbox free and openly accessible web-based simulation training resource. She is the recipient of the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) Pediatric Pandemic Network Mentored Disaster Research Career Development Award. She is founder and Co-lead of the HRSA-funded Indian Health Service Emergency Medical Services for Children Hybrid Simulation Program.

Dr. Sanseau earned her Master’s in Health and Medical Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. She completed residency in General Pediatrics at the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital-Alaska Track. Following residency, she worked full-time at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation in Bethel, Alaska with the mostly Yup’ik, Cup’ik and Athabascan Native communities. There, she founded a simulation-based medical education program designed for Alaska Native Community Health Practitioners and studied the feasibility of program implementation. This experience led her to return to Academia to focus on simulation-based medical education design, facilitation, implementation and evaluation and emergency medicine. She completed a four-year combined fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Global Health at CHOP.