Willem van Meurs, Ph.D., is the co-inventor of the Human Patient Simulator. He is a consultant at Medical Education Technologies, Inc., and conducts modeling and simulation teaching and research at the University of Porto, Portugal. Dr. van Meurs was the president of the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine from 2005-2007. He has published more than 20 full papers in peer-reviewed international journals and books and co-authored eight U.S. patents on modeling and simulation techniques.