Catherine Heith, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist, Palliative Care physician and Ethics Consultant at the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma. She completed her Pediatric Residency at the Cleveland Clinic, Pediatric Critical Care fellowship at the University of Minnesota and Cardiac Critical Care Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her research focuses on teaching communication about difficult news through simulation. She is currently investigating how to teach breaking bad news as an interprofessional team through simulation and is developing a novel tool to provide specific feedback to teams about their communication and interprofessional teamwork.