• David O Kessler, Kimberly P Stone, Todd P Chang, Tom Dolby, Rebecca Gray, Nicole A Shilkofski, Ellen Deutsch, Jordan Duval-Arnould, Vinay M Nadkarni, Adam Cheng, Martin Pusic, and Elizabeth A Hunt.
• From the Seattle Children's Hospital (K.P.S.), Seattle, WA; Keck School of Medicine (T.P.C.), Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; AiSolve Ltd (T.D.), Luton, United Kingdom; Department of Anaesthesia & Peri-operative Medicine (R.G.), University of Cape Town, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (N.A.S., J.D-A); Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (E.D., V.M.M.), Philadelphia, PA; University of Calgary (A.C.); NYU Langone Health (M.P.), New York City, NY; and Health Informatics and Health Policy and Management (E.A.H.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
• Simul Healthc. 2020 Aug 1; 15 (4): 295-297.

StatementThe International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education co-hosted a novel research accelerator meeting with the International Pediatric Simulation Society in May of 2019 in Toronto. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together healthcare simulation scientists with resuscitation stakeholders to brainstorm strategies for accelerating progress in the science of saving pediatric lives from cardiac arrest. This was achieved by working in teams to draft targeted requests for proposals calling the research community to action investigating this topic. During the 1-day meeting, groups were divided into 6 teams lead by experts representing specific domains of simulation research. Teams developed a pitch and presented a sample request for proposals to a panel of expert judges, making a case for why their domain was the most important to create a funding opportunity. The winner of the competition had their specific request for proposal turned into an actual funding opportunity, supported by philanthropy that was subsequently disseminated through International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education as a competitive award. An inspired donor supported an award for the second-place proposal as well, evidence of early research acceleration catalyzed from this conference. This article is a summary of the meeting rationale, format, and a description of the requests for proposals that emerged from the meeting. Our goal is to inspire other stakeholders to use this document that leverages simulation and resuscitation science expertise, as the framework to create their own funding opportunities, further accelerating pediatric resuscitation research, ultimately saving the lives of more children worldwide.

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