Valerie Fulmer

Valerie Fulmer, BA,  has worked in the field of Standardized Patient (SP) methodology since 2002. Val has a passion for supporting the SPs that work with the medical students , having been an SP herself, before becoming an SP trainer and then operations director of the Standardized Patient Program at the University of Pittsburgh , School of Medicine. She transitioned from Pitt to Duquesne University in 2024 to open the Nasuti College of Osteopathic Medicine's inaugural SP program, as the Director of Standardized Patients.

Valerie served as chair of the publications and abstract review committees and on the board at the Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) before her ASPE presidency, spanning 2016-2020. She was named ASPE Educator of the Year in 2022.

Val has a passion for bringing the voices and perspectives of real people into the experiential learning platforms at the college of osteopathic medicine. Most recently, Val's drive for including disability voices and perspectives through the Lived Experience Patient (LEP) activities at the COM has been rewarded with positive feedback from both the LEP volunteers and the three classes of OM students who have interfaced with our outstanding LEP volunteers.  Val looks forward to including the richness of human interaction and personal stories in the clinical skills labs on the horizon. 

• B.A. Social Sciences, University of Pittsburgh