

Leveraging Simulation to Advance LAS Training: From the 3Rs to Competency Assessment
What you’ll learn: How simulation supports LAS training—from technical skills to procedural integration, observation, and judgment. How deliberate practice, feedback, and assessment support competency-based progression toward work with live animals. Speaker: Dr. Diego Celdran
Time & Location
Sep 15, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Microsoft Teams
About the event
✨ What you’ll learn:
- How using simulation can help address different educational needs in LAS: from technical skill acquisition to procedural integration, observation, and judgment.
- How we can leverage simulation to support competency-based LAS training: using deliberate practice, feedback, and assessment to support progression toward work with live animals.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Diego Celdran is a laboratory animal veterinarian and Diplomate of the European College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ECLAM). He serves as Associate Director of University Animal Care at the University of Arizona, where he also directs the Rodent Surgery and Anesthesia Training Program. He holds research and teaching appointments in the College of Medicine and the College of Veterinary Medicine. His research and professional interests include lab animal surgery and anesthesia, laboratory animal science training and competency assessment, and the application of new technologies to advance the 3Rs.
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