Team

Carrie, a medical illustrator and health educator, has a particular interest in conveying the first-person perspective of vulnerable patient populations through virtual reality storytelling. After completing her master’s in Biomedical Visualization in 2016, she founded her company Embodied Labs, with the goal of revolutionizing the way health care providers, caregivers, and patients learn about human health.

Erin has experience working in both higher education and the aging care space -- doing instructional and curricular design, and developing and innovating immersive technologies and experiences. Erin is excited about the unique ability of immersive experiences to engage learners, create actionable empathy, foster insight and understanding, and improve learning outcomes. 

Thomas leads operations at Embodied Labs, the team behind a VR-based training platform built to improve how healthcare and care professionals learn and deliver care. He joined early as a developer, helping build the core platform, then moved into project management before taking on operations across the business. Today, he oversees the functions that keep the company running and scaling, spanning customer success, contracts, finance, and the systems that support a growing base of partner organizations. Under his operational leadership, Embodied Labs has expanded its reach across health systems, universities, and senior care providers, putting immersive training in the hands of thousands of learners and translating it into measurable improvements in empathy, confidence, and quality of care. 

Anthony is a 26 year veteran of operational finance and accounting. After starting his career at Deloitte, Anthony moved on to leading high performance teams globally in a diverse range of roles and industries in Australia, UK, Canada and the United States. Anthony blends his technical skills with his passion for entrepreneurship and strategy execution to bring added value to the senior management team and in partnering the finance function with operations.

Carrie Cusker is an innovator in the aging space and a fervent advocate for older adults and their care partners. Carrie draws on her 26 years of nursing experience to create meaningful, immersive content that encompasses both the clinical and human aspects of healthcare. With Embodied Labs, Carrie continues to challenge the social construction of aging through unique learning design. She has lent her voice to multiple conferences and webinar panels in efforts to inform, inspire, and celebrate innovation in aging services.