Ryan Aga: Clinical Simulation and Patient Safety at HealthPartners

In Episode 9, we sit down with Ryan Aga, System Director of Clinical Simulation at HealthPartners. Discover how simulation is reshaping patient safety and training in healthcare. Ryan explains why, in many organizations without simulation, clinicians are effectively practicing on real patients—contrasting this with aviation where pilots spend more time in simulators than in the air. Learn about VR/XR, high-fidelity mannequins, task trainers, actors, using simulation to pressure-test care pathways, the economic case for simulation, and democratizing simulation globally.