CENTER FOR MEDICAL SIMULATION - Key Persons
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- Instructor in Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
- Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia at Boston Children 's Hospital
Dr. Navedo is a Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia at Boston Children's Hospital. He is an Instructor in Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and is on the faculty of the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston.
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- Program Manager, Institute for Medical Simulation / Program Manager, Institute for Medical Simulation, Center for Medical Simulation / President, Foundation for Healthcare Simulation Safety
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- Master Education Institute President
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- Assistant Professor
- Chairman, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
- Deaconess Medical Center Director, Anesthesia Information Technology & Simulation Training
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- Director of Development, Center for Global Health and Development / Boston University
- Director of Development, Industry at the School of Public Health
Beverly A. Brown, Ph.D., is director of development, industry at the School of Public Health at Boston University. Her work at Boston University is in the capacity of a full-time volunteer. She continues her life's focus of working to improve health for all.
Previously, she was director of development for both the Center for Global Health & Development (CGHD) and the Office of Technology Development (OTD) at Boston University. Dr. Brown has extensive experience in research and development of in vitro and in vivo medical diagnostics. She previously was chief development officer for CIMIT, the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, a non-profit consortium of Boston-area academic medical centers and universities which supports and facilitates innovation and development of medical devices and re-engineered clinical systems. Prior to that, she served as vice president of business development at Linden Bioscience, based in Woburn, Mass., providing invaluable product and corporate start-up experience. She began her career in research and development and held various research positions at DuPont and Baxter International in diagnostic and therapeutic research, as well as in drug discovery assay development. She made the transition into development as director of business development at PerkinElmer. Dr. Brown's academic background includes a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Neurochemistry. She holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
At Boston University, she is an Overseer and member of the Development Committee for Marsh Chapel, and she also serves on the advisory boards for WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), GWISE and the WISE@Warren residence floor. She has been the honorary president of the BU Women's Guild since 2005. She travels extensively to support the University's efforts across the United States, as well as Asia, India, and the Middle East.
In addition to her work at BU, she serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Medical Simulation, on the Board of Directors for The Boston Club and on the Board of Directors of the Home for Little Wanderers. She has been an advisor to Art beCause since 2006, providing assistance on fundraising and marketing strategies and tactics. She has a key fundraising role in the Investing in Prevention Campaign. She and her husband, Dr. Robert A. Brown, president of Boston University, live in Brookline, Massachusetts. They have two grown sons.
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- Associate Professor at Brandeis International Business School
Brad Morrison is an Associate Professor at Brandeis International Business School, and a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management's Engineering Systems Division. He is currently a faculty member at the Center for Medical Simulation.
A scholar in organizational theory and system dynamics, he studies problems that are rooted in the interactions between human behavior and the "physics" of the systems in which we work, such as operating rooms, emergency departments and factory shop floors. He holds a PhD in Management (System Dynamics and Organization Studies) from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and an MBA (Finance) from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
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- Anesthesiologist and Director of Memorial Sloan Kettering 's Josie Robertson Surgery Center
- Director, Josie Robertson Surgery Center / Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Brett Simon, MD, PhD, is an Anesthesiologist and Director of Memorial Sloan Kettering's Josie Robertson Surgery Center. He was previously Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).
Prior to BIDMC, Simon served the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore for eight years as Chief, Division of Adult Anesthesia, and five years as Vice Chairman for Faculty Development. He is widely recognized as an outstanding scientist, clinician, teacher and mentor, something Johns Hopkins' residents clearly recognized when they selected him four times for their highest honor - the Outstanding Teaching Award.
Simon was a magna cum laude graduate in engineering and applied science from Harvard College in 1979. He received his MD and his PhD in biomedical engineering from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1987. His anesthesiology training at Massachusetts General Hospital included an extended rotation at the then New England Deaconess Hospital, where he was exposed to the work of Ellison Pierce Jr., MD, Chair of Anesthesiology, a pioneer in patient safety and founder of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation.
Simon's clinical expertise is with patients undergoing major abdominal, vascular, transplant and thoracic surgery. He has continued to garner NIH-funded support for his outstanding research in the areas of functional lung imaging, lung mechanics and acute lung injury. He has been recognized by his peers for numerous accomplishments, including leadership roles in a number of professional societies, such as the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Thoracic Society, and was elected to the Federation of Anesthesia Education and Research Academy of Mentors.
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- Co - Director, Simulation and Skills Center
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- Senior Director
- Senior Director, Education Leadership and International Programs / Senior Director, Education Leadership and International Programs
Chris Roussin, PhD, is Senior Director, Educational Leadership and International Programs, at the Center for Medical Simulation, and Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He holds a PhD and MA in Organization Studies from Boston College and a BS from Babson College.
Dr. Roussin is an innovator in simulation program and faculty development, devising new ways to use simulation to build relationships, quality, safety and meaning in healthcare work. He has significant experience creating strong partnerships in complex healthcare organizations to build sustainable and culture-changing programs based in experiential learning and positive communication, collaboration and feedback approaches. His academic works on the subjects of teamwork, learning and psychological safety have been published in top healthcare and management journals including Academic Medicine and the Journal of Management. Dr. Roussin previously served as the Learning and Development for the Boston Children's Hospital Simulator Program and on the faculty in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Suffolk University School of Business, Boston.
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- Anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital
Christine Mai is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is an Assistant Professor in Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She is the Program Director of the Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship and the Director of Education in the Pediatric Anesthesia Division at MGH. A native of Boston, she completed her medical school education at Boston University School of Medicine and her anesthesia residency training at Boston Medical Center. She is fellowship trained in pediatric anesthesia at Johns Hopkins University and after a year on faculty at Hopkins, she joined the Pediatric Anesthesia Division at MGH. Dr. Mai has a Masters degree in Health Professions Education from the MGH Institute of Health Professions with a concentration in simulation education. She is a faculty for the Harvard Macy Institute HCE 2.0 technology course and the Post-Graduate Trainee course, as well as faculty in the Pediatric Anesthesia MOCA simulation course at the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. Her scholarly interests are in simulation education, curriculum development, medical education research, history in anesthesia, and health and wellness initiatives.
Clément Buléon is anesthesiologist and intensive care doctor, senior and executive director of the simulation center Normandy Simulation in Healthcare (NorSimS) at the University Hospital of Caen, France. In 2009, he initiated the development of the simulation center of the University Hospital of Caen and, since then, he has been coordinating the initial and ongoing simulation training for anesthesiologists, intensivists, nurse anesthetists, and emergency teams. He participates in the development of simulation for other specialties and he is involved training of trainers in simulation in France, Europe and USA. Clément Buléon is a member of the Board of Directors of the French Speaking Simulation Society in Healthcare (SoFraSimS) for which he also chairs the Scientific and Research Committee. He has completed a one year International and Research Fellowship at Center for Medical Simulation in Boston (USA) in 2019. He is interested in research and innovation in simulation and involved in international research projects and collaborations. Clément Buléon will defend his PhD on the "Role of simulation in training and assessment in anaesthesia and intensive care" in 2021.
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- Chief Curiosity Officer Emeritus
Dan Raemer has developed a special expertise in teamwork and crisis management over the past 20 years at the Center for Medical Simulation. He is particularly interested in the art of debriefing and is frequently called upon to facilitate multidisciplinary teamwork sessions in a variety of specialty areas such as operating rooms, intensive care, emergency, endoscopy, and labor and delivery suites.
In 2003, Dan received a unique award from the Harvard Department of Anesthesia for "excellence in teaching." Using simulation as a research tool to investigate healthcare workers' behaviors and thought processes has been his most enduring passion. Dan has published work in these areas and has given numerous keynote addresses for specialty societies and other healthcare organizations on simulation as it has blossomed in the last several years.
He has worked globally to establish the International Meeting on Medical Simulation, is the founding trustee and a Past President of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). In 2008, Dan received a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from SSH for his contributions to the field. He is also a Past President of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia.
Dan earned his doctorate in bioengineering from the University of Utah and he worked as a researcher for many years at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in the Anesthesia and Critical Care Departments. In addition to his publications related to simulation practice and research, he has written extensively on monitoring devices and has a number of patents for clinically useful devices and technologies.
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- Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President / Massachusetts General Physicians Organization
- Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization
Dan Morash is the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization. Previously, Dan was the Executive Director of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. The department has physicians, trainees and CRNAs working in both academic and community settings across the greater Boston area as well as a large research operation. In this role, he oversaw all finances and operations for the department, with $150M+ budget and 600+ FTEs.
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- Chairman, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
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- Principal Faculty, Center for Medical Simulation, Boston
Demian Szyld, MD, EdM is a faculty member at the Center for Medical Simulation. He is the Director of Innovation in Education and an Emergency Physician at the Boston Medical Center (BMC). Demian trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and was the first Simulation and Education Fellow at the STRATUS Simulation Center at BWH. During that time he completed a Masters in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. From 2011 to 2016 he was the Medical Director of NYSIM, the simulation center of the NYU School of Medicine and the City University of New York where he established a successful Fellowship. Dr. Szyld (pronounced "shield") is actively involved in the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and has chaired the Formal Training Affinity Group, led the Affiliations Committee and served as an Accreditation Site Reviewer and completed a term on the Board of Directors (2016-2019). Demian grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina and is fluent in Spanish and English.
Dr Sarah Janssens is a Senior Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Mater Mothers' Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. Her interests include procedural simulation, interprofessional team based and in-situ simulation. She has completed a 6 month fellowship at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston and Supervised Mater's Simulation Fellowship program as the Clinical Simulation Director. Sarah's main research interest is leadership in healthcare emergency teams and her focus is on the application of evidence based teamwork practices to maternity emergency response teams. Sarah is Chair of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist's Simulation Training Advisory Group and she enjoys developing and delivering simulation faculty development courses.
Dr. David Feinstein received his BA in Biochemistry from Harvard University in 1979. In 1983 he graduated from Tulane University with an MS in Biomedical Engineering. He then went on to Dartmouth Medical School where he graduated in 1987. He did his Preliminary Medicine Internship at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I., and from there entered the Anesthesia Residency Program at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
David was appointed Chief Resident for his final half year of residency. During that CA-3 year, his clinical work concentrated on cardiac anesthesia at the Beth Israel Hospital, and he conducted research in physiologic modeling at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. In 1991, David joined the hospital as a Staff Anesthesiologist and as an Instructor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He is currently Director of Information Technology and Simulator Training in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and has special interests in simulation training, airway management, safety training and technology assessment.
Dr. Feinstein was an invited member of the original Harvard Simulation Task Force, which formed in 1991 to investigate the possibility of using human patient simulators for medical education at Harvard. He helped design both the first and the current simulation facilities and, through his 14-year involvement, has played a significant role in the development and implementation of simulator-based curriculum at the Center for Medical Simulation. He has contributed significantly in the creation and teaching of the Clinical Anesthesia first-year curriculum, Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management (ACRM) I, II and Faculty, ACRM Instructor Course, Anesthesia for Amateur Course and Tele-Simulation programs. He has also participated in many other CMS projects including those with Harvard Medical School and hospital-based Mock Codes.
One of David's interests is the advancement of simulation realism and, from its inception, he has helped modify the patient mannequin and simulation environment to enhance the simulation experience. He also has an interest in employing simulation for medical technology development and training and has participated in a number of studies in this area. As Director of Information Technology in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical at BIDMC, Dr. Feinstein has led the development team for a data-driven department intranet site and various web applications that are currently used for sharing crucial department information among members. He also is the Anesthesia Department's Project Manager for the new Anesthesia Information Management (AIM) system recently configured and deployed at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
As a Senior Rabkin Fellow at the Institute, Dr. Feinstein continued his work at the Center for Medical Simulation and designed a simulation-based research protocol to examine the competency of end users of the AIM system. Dr. Feinstein remains highly involved in simulation and medical technology at BIDMC and on a national level. He was recently appointed Co-Director of the Simulation and Skills Center of the BIDMC. He has been elected to the Board of Overseers and Board of Directors for the Society for Medical Simulation. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia. In addition, Dr. Feinstein remains active in advising and teaching residents and staff in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
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- Anesthesiologist at Lahey Hospital
Dr. Edwin Ozawa is an Anesthesiologist at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts. A native of Colorado, he moved away after finishing high school to attend the University of California at San Diego, where he studied Biomedical Engineering. Edwin then extracted himself from Southern California to continue his studies on the East Coast. He earned a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Doctorate in Medical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He finally maxed out on degrees when he received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1999. Edwin then completed his residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital. While he was a resident, he joined the U.S. Navy Medical Corps to help pay off his student loans.
Edwin is obsessed with finding the intersection between Mindfulness and Simulation training, and in 2015 was appointed a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Given the opportunity, he would like to serve in Starfleet.
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- Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Dr. James P. Rathmell is the chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women's Health Care (BWHC). Dr. Rathmell is an established leader in pain medicine who has directed much of his time to the care of patients with acute, chronic and cancer-related pain.
He has been recognized for enhancing medical education for physicians and trainees through direct teaching in the classroom, for strengthening continuing medical education activities around the world, and for publishing original research and textbooks. His research focuses on emerging pain treatments and the evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of specific interventions for pain, with the goal of improving the care of patients with painful disorders.
Dr. Rathmell was previously at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was executive vice chair and chief of the Division of Pain Medicine and the Henry Knowles Beecher Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. At MGH, Rathmell guided the Center for Pain Medicine to become a successful patient-centered clinical operation, as well as a top tier fellowship training program.
Among other local and national leadership roles, he serves as a director for the American Board of Anesthesiology and recently served on the National Institutes of Health, Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee's National Pain Strategy Task Force. Dr. Rathmell received his master's in Biochemistry and his medical degree at Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, NC. He completed his internship, residency and research fellowship at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
Dr. Rathmell also received accolades for excellence in teaching and exceptional care delivery. For three consecutive years, he received the Resident/Fellow Teaching Award from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine for his role as teacher and mentor; the Bonica Award from the World Institute of Pain for clinical excellence and education; and the Phillipe M. Lippe Award from the American Academy of Pain Medicine for outstanding contributions to the social and political aspect of Pain Medicine.
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- Treasurer
- Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School
- Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School / Anesthesiologist in Chief, Boston Children 's Hospital
- Treasurer / Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School / Anesthesiologist in Chief, Boston Children 's Hospital
Dr. Paul R. Hickey is a Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the Anesthesiologist-In-Chief of Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Hickey was a Trustee of Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Hickey received his MD degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed an internship and residency in surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, a fellowship in cardiac surgery at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and a residency in anesthesia and fellowship in cardiac anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Hickey is internationally and nationally considered a leading expert in pediatric cardiac anesthesia. He is a past editor of the Journal of Anesthesia and Analgesia and the Journal of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia.
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- Program Director for the Masters
- Reader in Clinical Education, King 's College London / Program Director of the Masters in Clinical Education, King 's College London
Dr. Reedy is the Program Director for the Masters in Clinical Education program at King's College London. He is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, as well as a member of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Reedy is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, where he is also on the Governing Council and is Chair of the Education Committee. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom. He currently serves on the research committee of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), and the co-Chair of the Simulation Committee for the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). He serves on the scientific committee of the Society in Europe for Simulation as Applied to Medicine (SESAM) as well as being Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Simulation, the academic journal of SESAM. He is also a fellow of the Academy of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.
He completed his PhD in Cognition and Educational Psychology and a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Washington.
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- Director, MGH Pain Medicine Fellowship
Dr. Brenner currently sees patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital Pain Center, where he is the Director of the MGH Pain Medicine Fellowship. He is an Assistant Professor in Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He also conducts neuroscience research that investigates mechanisms of pain hypersensitivity. He has authored more than 30 articles, reviews, chapters and abstracts on the pathophysiology of pain, basic pain mechanisms and immune function, and clinical approaches to chronic pain. Dr. Brenner currently has several national leadership positions related to pain medicine education/training.
Gary is a graduate of Northeastern University (BS in Physical Therapy) and Babson College (MBA). He previously worked at Brookdale Senior Living where he served in both operations and business development roles. He has also worked as a healthcare management consultant, and at organizations such as the Joslin Diabetes Center, Rehability Corporation, and Mariner Healthcare where he served as the Senior Vice President of its Outpatient Clinics Division.
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- Nurse
- Senior Director, Institute for Medical Simulation, Faculty Development Program / Senior Director, Institute for Medical Simulation, Faculty Development Program, Center for Medical Simulation, Boston
Grace Ng, PhD, CNM, RN is the Senior Director of the Institute for Medical Simulation, CMS' Faculty Development Program. She was formerly the Nursing and Health Professions Director at the New York Simulation Center for the Health Sciences (NYSIM), a large simulation center affiliated with both NYU Langone Health and The City University of New York. She developed a passion for simulation since 2008, when she started using simulation for obstetrics interprofessional team training. Since then, she expanded her work to using simulation to transform culture in healthcare through experiential learning, debriefing, and reflective practice. Her current teaching focus is faculty development for simulation educators. She has taught extensively in simulation instructor courses in the US and overseas, and served as faculty at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, Massachusetts since 2011. As a dedicated leader in formal training in simulation, Grace developed one of the first longitudinal nursing simulation fellowships in 2014. Grace has authored multiple articles on teamwork and simulation. Her most recent research interests are focused on examining the role psychological safety in nursing clinical practice, as well as debriefing approaches of novice debriefers. She currently serves as an Associate Editor at the International Journal of Healthcare Simulation, and Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research.
Grace has been a nurse since 1998. Prior to devoting her work full time to simulation, she served as a professional development nurse educator at NYU Langone Health. She obtained her Nursing and Nurse-Midwifery degrees from Columbia University, her Post-Master's Advanced Certificate in Nursing Education from Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing at The City University of New York. In 2019, she completed her PhD in Nursing from the Graduate Center at The City University of New York.
Dr. Ginsburg is an anesthesiologist in the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine.
Guillermo Ortiz, MD, is a Physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Director of the program for Internal and Pulmonary Medicine at Bosque University, Bogotá, Colombia. He is also the Director of the Critical Care Department at Santa Clara Hospital in Bogotá, Colombia, as well as the Executive Director of INSIMED (Instituto de Simulacion Clinica). Dr. Ortiz is one of the world's leading experts in the identification and management of sepsis. He completed a year-long Simulation Fellowship at the Center for Medical Simulation. He is on the faculty of the Center for Medical Simulation.
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- Executive Director of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine / Massachusetts General Hospital
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- Chief, Division of Medical Simulation, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Gordon served as principal investigator and national co-chair of the first federally funded research consensus conference on simulation in healthcare. He was a founding board member of the international Society for Simulation in Healthcare, and sits on the editorial board of the inaugural journal in the field, Simulation in Healthcare. Dr. Gordon has received both Investigator and Special Contribution Awards from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and served as a Morgan-Zinsser Teaching Fellow at Harvard Medical School. His work has been featured in The New Yorker magazine and highlighted as medical news in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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- Assistant Director, Instructional Design Media / Assistant Director of Instructional Design Media
James is a graduate of Stanford University (BA), Boston University (EdM), and the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA). Prior to joining CMS as an Instructional Designer, James was the Founding Visual Arts Teacher at KIPP Academy Boston, and a sixth grade ESL teacher at the Edmond P. Talbot Innovation Middle School in Fall River, Massachusetts. He served two years as a Teach for America Massachusetts Corps Member.
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- Associate Director of Health Professions Education at MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Principal Faculty, Center for Medical Simulation / Associate Director of Health Professions Education, MGH Institute of Health Professions
Dr. Palaganas is currently the Associate Director of Health Professions Education at MGH Institute of Health Professions and Principal Faculty at the Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Palaganas has developed a passion in teamwork from her background as an emergency nurse, trauma nurse practitioner, director of emergency and critical care services, and faculty for schools of medicine, nursing, allied health, management, physician assistant program, and emergency medicine. As a behavioral scientist, Dr. Palaganas' passion is in using healthcare simulation as a platform for interprofessional education (IPE) and has served as a committee member of the National Academy of Medicine's (formerly the Institute of Medicine [IOM]) report on measuring the impact of IPE on practice. Dr. Palaganas' primary role is to develop health profession educators in an IPE setting. She previously led CMS's Instructor Course educating educators in simulation globally and is now developing the world's first interprofessional virtual campus as the principal investigator of a board grant awarded by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.
Dr. Palaganas has shaped the field of simulation, leading the development of the Society for Simulation's (SSH) Accreditation and Certification Program and now the Chair of the SSH Credentialing Commission, urging the development of the recently released SSH dictionary, has authored seminal articles, has been involved in field-changing research including the National League for Nursing (NLN) study for high-stakes assessment using simulation and was editor-in-chief of SSH's first and premier textbook, Defining Excellence in Simulation Programs.
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- Organizational and Human Development Consultant
Jay W. Vogt is an organizational and human development consultant with over 30 years of experience working with government, nonprofit organizations, corporations and small businesses. In 1982, he founded Peoplesworth, a private practice in consulting, training and counseling. He holds a master's degree in counseling from Antioch University New England and a BA from Hampshire College.
Jay is an accomplished facilitator, mediator, trainer, management consultant and coach. He is a master at facilitating large groups, having led hundreds of events averaging one hundred or more participants. In 2014, Jay co-founded EssentialWorth with partner Judy Ozbun to help nonprofits better achieve their missions by using effective, engaging and affordable online technologies.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director Emeritus
- Founder
Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD, is the founder and Executive Director emeritus of the Center for Medical Simulation, which is dedicated to the use of simulation in healthcare as a means to improve the process of education and training and to avoid risk to patients. He is also Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering and MS in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University in 1968 and 1970 respectively and completed a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Missouri in 1972.
Starting soon thereafter with the Bioengineering Unit in the Department of Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), he led the team that conducted seminal studies of critical incidents and human error in anesthesia. During the same time, he was leading a team that developed one of the first microprocessor-based medical technologies, the Boston Anesthesia System, aimed at integrating functions for the ultimate purpose of reducing human and system errors. Both of these efforts have catalyzed changes in anesthesia practice in the ensuing years.
In April, 2009, Dr. Cooper retired as Director of Biomedical Engineering for the Partners HealthCare System Inc., a technology development and service department that he organized and led for 15 years. Dr. Cooper was a lead member of the group that created the first safety-related standards for anesthesia, equivalent versions of which have since been adopted in the U.S. and throughout the world. He is a co-founder of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), serving continuously on its Executive Committee and for 13 years as Chairman of its Committee on Scientific Evaluation.
He is now an APSF Executive Vice President. He serves on the Board of Governors of the National Patient Safety Foundation and founded its Research Program, which he chaired for seven years. Dr. Cooper is one of the pioneers in diffusion and innovation in healthcare simulation. He has led CMS to become one of the premier simulation programs in the world. Among the more innovative programs he has created or co-developed are the Institute for Medical Simulation, live, interactive simulation video-teleconferencing and the novel Healthcare Adventures (a program for training healthcare administrators and leaders in teamwork via realistic simulation). He has mentored the faculty of CMS since its inception and has stimulated, participated in and advised on various research projects.
Dr. Cooper has been awarded several honors for his work in patient safety, including the 2003 John M. Eisenberg Award for Lifetime Achievement in Patient Safety from the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Clinical Engineering. The Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care of the MGH recently established the Jeffrey B. Cooper Patient Safety award in his honor.
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- Neonatologist and Medical Director of the JHACH Simulation Center / Johns Hopkins All Children 's Hospital
Jennifer Arnold, MD, MSc, FAAP, completed her undergraduate degrees in Biology and Psychology at the University of Miami in Florida. She then completed her medical degree at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore and graduated in 2000. She attended a Pediatric Residency Program at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. During her fellowship in neonatology, she obtained a Master of Science in Medical Education from the University of Pittsburgh. She is Board Certified in both Pediatric and Neonatal Medicine.
She is currently an attending neonatologist and Medical Director of the Simulation Center at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital (JHACH). Dr. Arnold has been involved in healthcare simulation education for the last eight years. She was a NIH postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Safar Center for Resuscitative Medicine from July 2006-July 2007. She has been funded for her simulation educational research through the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine. Dr. Arnold completed a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effects of a simulation-based training program on pediatric resident neonatal intubation success and competency. Prior to joining the Simulation Center at JHACH, Dr. Arnold was the Medical Director of the Simulation Center at Texas Children's Hospital.
Dr. Arnold has spoken both nationally and internationally on healthcare simulation education and motivational talks on overcoming obstacles. She has made numerous speeches for avenues such as the Texas Conference for Women, Shriners Hospital, March of Dimes and many more. She has received numerous awards including the Ray E. Helfer Award for innovation in medical education from the Academic Pediatric Association, Compassionate Doctor Recognition in 2010 and 2011, and Patients' Choice Award for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 from Vitals.com. On Nov. 10, 2007, she was featured on the ABC's "Good Morning America, Weekend Edition." Jennifer spoke about the challenges she had to overcome and how she decided to initiate a career in medicine. She is now featured with her husband, Bill Klein, on TLC's docudrama, "The Little Couple," which follows her personal and professional life. She has also appeared on television programs including "Oprah," "The Today Show, "The Dr. Oz Show" and "The Doctors," among others.
Dr. Arnold continues to develop research opportunities in simulation education. She is in the process of developing multiple educational curriculums for various departments in the hospital including pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric critical care, neonatal intensive care, OR team training, transport team and pre-hospital care providers. She is currently submitting the results of a survey completed on the current simulation education activity at children's hospitals in the U.S. Results were presented at the NACHRI annual conference in October 2010.
She is also in the process of submission of an IRB for a simulation project to evaluate the effect of simulation education on pediatric resident and fellow neonatal intubation skills. This project has funding through the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine. Dr. Arnold is also working on other research opportunities within the simulation curriculums currently in development.
Jenny Rudolph, PhD is a life-long athlete who brings the joy of practice to learning in healthcare education, especially feedback, debriefing, and collaboration at point of care. Jenny is an organization behavior scholar on the faculty of Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine, and department of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School.
The approach to reflective conversations known as "debriefing with good judgment" Jenny pioneered has helped health educators world-wide promote dynamic, honest, but non-threatening conversations. The "…with good judgment approach" pairs three key dichotomies to promote connection and learning: psychological safety and challenge in the learning environment; holding high standards and high regard for learners; and balancing advocacy and inquiry to share and elicit thought processes.
Jenny studied system dynamics at MIT Sloan School of Management, received a doctorate in organizational behavior from Boston College, was a National Science Foundation Fellow, and received a B.A. in sociology from Harvard College.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Director of Thoracic Anesthesia at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
John Pawlowski is the clinical director of Thoracic Anesthesia at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He directs the anesthetic care of approximately 1,500 cases per year by the Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology. He has used medical simulation in the teaching of medical students, residents and faculty since 1993. Since 2010, Dr. Pawlowski has been co-director of the Shapiro Simulation and Skills Center at BIDMC.
He is a co-director of the Pharmacology course at Harvard Medical School. He has published and presented at local and national meetings, conducted workshops and participated in numerous telesimulations. John sits on the Education Committee and the MOCA Endorsed Center Committee of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. He is a Past President of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia.
Dr. Maestre received his Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cantabria, Spain. He is an Attending Physician in the Division of OB/GYN and Pediatric Anesthesia at Valdecilla University Hospital. He serves as Education Director at Valdecilla virtual Hospital, a simulation center in Santander, Spain. He is a Harvard Macy Scholar and Director of the Spanish Simulation Instructor Courses at the Center for Medical Simulation.
He is member of the Faculty Development Committee of the Consortium of American College of Surgeons' Accredited Education Institutes and member of the Clinical Simulation Working Party of the Anesthesia and Critical Care Spanish Society. He is especially interested in faculty development and simulation as a tool to facilitate organizational change.
Julian Van Dijk has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Nursing) from RMIT University and is currently completing a Master's in Health Professional Education at Monash University, Melbourne. He is the current Simulation Coordinator at St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, and is responsible for operations, program and faculty development. Julian has extensive experience in using simulation across nursing, medicine and allied health disciplines.
His primary research interests are instructor teaching practices, debriefing and the integration of simulation into health education curriculum. Julian is the current scientific convener for SimHealth 2012 and is a current executive member of the Australian Society for Simulation.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham & Women 's Hospital
Dr. Morse is the Assistant Dean, Experiential Learning and Innovation, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, USA. She is faculty in the Institute for Medical Simulation courses. Her clinical background includes critical care and she has practiced as an Adult Geriatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in a variety of settings. She has held various academic positions in the past, including Assistant Director Educational Leadership and International Programs at the Center for Medical Simulation; the Associate Chair of Nurse Practitioner Programs, Associate Clinical Professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University, Associate Professor at the Drexel University College of Medicine and Director of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program at Drexel University. Her research interests continue to focus on simulation, faculty development, speaking up and clinical feedback.
Job Titles:
- Chief Quality Officer, NYC Health Hospitals / Jacobi / Clinical Director, NYC Health and Hospitals Simulation Center / Associate Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Komal Bajaj, MD, MS-HPEd is Chief Quality Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi, catalyzing quality improvement transformation through culture change and data-driven decisions. She is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and serves as the Clinical Director of Simulation for NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal health system in the United States.
Dr. Bajaj attended medical school at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and completed her training in Obstetrics & Gynecology at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. Following residency, she completed a fellowship in Reproductive Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and continues to deliver cutting-edge reproductive genetics care in the Bronx. Sparked by desire to incorporate contemporary educational theory into her quality improvement work, she completed a Masters in Health Professional Education from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions.
Dr. Bajaj is an internationally recognized speaker on the use of simulation to advance healthcare quality and safety. Her scholarly interests include defining innovative approaches to embed simulation within the clinical environment, developing sustainable programs to build agency in healthcare teams, and characterizing the emerging role of debriefing in healthcare quality/safety. She sits on the Advisory Board for the Foundation for Healthcare Simulation Safety and on the External Advisory Board for the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics of Sarah Lawrence College.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director, Business Operations Assistant Director of Business Operations
Laura is a graduate of Ithaca College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry with a minor in Mathematics. She completed the Master of Instructional Design Program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 2012. Laura has prior experience in sales, marketing, customer service and technical writing.
Her previous position was as the Action Learning Program Coordinator at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, where she provided program management and administrative support for the Action Learning courses and played an active role in bringing new technology to the classroom as well as training faculty and staff in its use.
Job Titles:
- Director of the Simulation Core Faculty for the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Dr. Rock is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Rock received a BA from Carleton College and an MD from the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. She completed residency at Stanford University and a fellowship at Boston Medical Center.
Dr. Rock's professional activities include attending in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, teaching and communication education research. As the Director of the Simulation Core Faculty in the Department of Medicine, she designs and teaches numerous courses for learners ranging from students to faculty, including: communication with family of critically ill patients, interprofessional code leadership and team training, "rapid response training," individual training in clinical decision making and communication, central line insertion and pulmonary procedures.
She is a co-investigator and faculty director for a simulation-based course to teach residents leadership and communication skills for family meetings in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU). The course, and related research project, emphasizes strategies to improve empathic behaviors and a patient-centered approach. She was selected as the 2011-2012 Putnam Scholar, a scholarship of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare.
Dr. Rock is active in Harvard Medical School courses as a tutorial leader and preceptor as well as integrating simulation into preclinical pathophysiology courses. She received the Harvard Medical School Excellence in Tutoring Award in 2009, an honor granted by students' evaluations. Other responsibilities include teaching medicine house staff and critical care fellows in the medical intensive care unit. Dr. Rock has several educational interests, including the use of high-fidelity simulation and providing feedback with an emphasis on curiosity and respect in the simulation and clinical setting. Dr. Rock's clinical practice involves serving as the attending physician in the MICU. She is also a faculty member for the Center for Medical Simulation.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School
Dr. Dohlman is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and an affiliate of the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. She is a member of the Harvard Academy and the adjunct faculty at Center for Medical Simulation (CMS). She was an attending anesthesiologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) after residency training there in surgery and anesthesia. She joined the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as an attending anesthesiologist in 1999. In 2018 she retired from clinical medicine and is now focusing on improving anesthesia safety through education and positive change, both locally and internationally. Dr. Dohlman has a long-standing interest in regional anesthesia, global health and intercultural communication. She has lectured and written about these topics throughout her career. She has held leadership positions for several anesthesia organizations and received awards related to her educational work. These include the Nicholas M. Greene, MD Award for Outstanding Humanitarian Contribution from the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the MGH Global Health Service Award in Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring.
Job Titles:
- Anesthesiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital
- Director, Anesthesia Programs
Dr. Tron has been an attending anesthesiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and on the faculty at Harvard Medical School since 2015. Her clinical work is adult OR, non-OR and regional anesthesia. She is the current chair of the departmental Quality and Safety Improvement Committee; and has a long-standing interest in strategies the promote effective teamwork and enhance interprofessional communication. During the COVID surge she led a quality improvement team effort to understand the pandemic experience of anesthesia team members, share those, and implement quality improvement changes, including implementation of Circle Up - a system created by CMS faculty for psychological support and daily workflow adaption during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. Currently she is working on a departmental effort to understand and improve production pressure in the perioperative environment. Prior to joining the team at MGH, she was a staff anesthesiologist for United Anesthesia Services in Pennsylvania, and before that was on the faculty in the Neuro Anesthesia Division at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Setnik's clinical duties include attending in the Emergency Department in Concord Hospital, a regional referral center and level 2 Trauma center as well as Critical Access Hospitals in rural New Hampshire. He has worked in simulation since 2013, most recently as the Medical Director of the Forrest D. McKerley Simulation and Education Center. He has led simulation programs with the NH Army National Guard, Paramedics, Family Medicine Residents, and hospital based teams including Obstetric, Trauma, Pediatric and Adult Code Blue, and Stroke. Most recently he has been involved in projects to improve the safety of teams performing intubation in COVID-19 suspected patients. As Immediate Past President of the Medical Staff he has contributed to a culture of safety, transparency and inclusiveness in organizational leadership.
Job Titles:
- Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of CRICO / Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Luke Sato, MD, is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for CRICO and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). His current responsibilities include overseeing development of all Patient Safety programs for CRICO and coordinating these initiatives across the Harvard medical system.
Dr. Sato's clinical training is in neurology and in computer science/medical informatics through the Division of Health Sciences and Technology at HMS and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a National Library of Medicine sponsored post-doctoral fellowship program. He has applied industry principles and best practices to clinical risk management and patient safety and has developed several methodologies to analyze medical malpractice claims and patient safety data.
Before he became CMO, Dr. Sato was the Chief Information Officer for CRICO, overseeing all system application development. Prior to CRICO, Dr. Sato was staff at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and held the position of associate director of a medical informatics research and development laboratory at BWH and Harvard Medical School.
Maria D. Davila Rudolph is an independent consultant in simulation-based medical education and research. She received her M.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Maryland. She brings her understanding of human behavior to the field of healthcare education to support both developing and established healthcare providers in acquiring the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that reduce errors and improve patient outcomes.
Dr. Rudolph's research focuses on teamwork, psychological safety, and empathy, with a special interest in the theory and practice of effective individual and group feedback in order to achieve educational goals and behavioral change. She has worked as simulation research consultant at the UCLA Simulation Center and at the Center for Medical Simulation.
Dr. Rudolph received her A.B. in French Literature from Bryn Mawr College. She is fluent in French, Spanish, and English.
Dr. Rudolph is integral to supporting the CMS team with the MGHIHP Simulation Clerkship Program. Dr. Rudolph supported the translations of the Debriefing Assessment for Simulation in Healthcare© (DASH) into both Spanish and French. She was integral to the process of understanding the user experience as we developed our interprofessional virtual campus under a grant from the Josiah Macy Junior Foundation.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director, Simulation Technical Operations Director, Simulation Technical Operations, Center for Medical Simulation, Boston, MA USA
Mark Jones is a graduate of Rhode Island College (BA in Communications Technology) and a veteran of the US Air Force. He has more than fourteen years of medical simulation experience in multiple technical roles. He previously worked at the Lifespan Medical Simulation Center and before coming to CMS he worked at the Naval Undersea Medical Institute. Prior to entering the field of medical simulation, he spent many years as an Audiovisual Specialist and has extensive experience in live event and media production.
Mary Fey has been working in the field of clinical simulation since 2007 and has been responsible for developing clinical simulation programs, integrating simulation into nursing curricula, and designing simulation labs. Her past work focused on faculty development for simulation educators as the Senior Director of Teaching and Learning, Simulation Educator Training Program and Principal Faculty at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, MA.
Dr Fey is a co-author of the Standard of Best Practice for Simulation: Standard VI, The Debriefing Process and Standard IX, Simulation Design. She has completed both qualitative and quantitative studies on debriefing and provides faculty development to interprofessional groups of simulation educators. In her work with the National League for Nursing (NLN) in Washington, DC, she co-authored the NLN Vision Statements: Teaching with Simulation and Debriefing Across the Curriculum. She is co-editor of the NLN Monograph Critical Conversations, a guide for nurse educators.
Maureen Hemingway has more than 30 years of experience in perioperative nursing. She is currently the Clinical Nurse Specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She received her BS in Nursing from University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and her Master's in Health Administration from St. Joseph's College in Maine. She has experience caring for surgical patients and has held leadership positions within perioperative nursing. She has been working in collaboration with the Center for Medical Simulation for several years.
Dr. Pian-Smith's clinical specialty is obstetric anesthesia. Much of her clinical work and investigation centers on improving the healthcare of women, but within that realm projects have spanned a wide spectrum from studying markers of endothelial dysfunction in pre-eclamptics to the role of alternative therapies for the management of menopausal symptoms.
Job Titles:
- Executive Committee Member, Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare ( ASSH )
- Mater Education Ltd
- Registered Nurse With a Master
Melanie Barlow is a Registered Nurse with a Master's in Intensive Care Nursing and is currently completing postgraduate qualifications in Education, Leadership and Management. She is currently the Education Programs Manager at Mater Education, with 10 years' experience in the delivery of interprofessional simulation education. Melanie is currently an Executive Committee member for the Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare (ASSH) and a member of the Queensland Simulation Advisory Committee.
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Anesthesia / Harvard Medical School
- Vice President / Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Anesthesia
As Dean for Students, Dr. Oriol works with the Office of Student Affairs, which collaborates with the Harvard Medical School academic societies on issues related to the individual and professional growth and development of HMS students, including issues of career path, specialty choice and questions about leaves of absence. Dr. Oriol oversees the activities of the advising resource coordinator, the dormitory resident counselors and the student council; and chairs the Council on Student Affairs and the Committee on Careers. She works with students and administrative offices to develop and clarify relevant policies for students as well as to plan major events such as orientation, Family Day, Match Day and Class Day.
From 1984 to 1997, Dr. Oriol was the director of obstetric anesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she continues to be an active member of the obstetric anesthesia team. She also holds the position of associate professor of anesthesia at HMS. In addition to her academic and clinical responsibilities, Dr. Oriol is founder and executive director of the Family Van, a public health outreach program of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Oriol has served on the board of trustees of CareGroup Inc., the board of directors of the Massachusetts Hospital Association and the board of the Echoing Green Foundation, a philanthropic organization that provides fellowships for social entrepreneurs. In 2000, she was awarded the Dr. Louis W. Sullivan Award for contributions to the delivery of quality health care to black men and the New England Women's Leadership Award in Health.
Dr. Oriol is a respected researcher who has studied the effects of maternal cocaine use on fetal outcome, heart rate variability as a measure of fetal well-being, and developed an anesthetic technique that allows laboring women to ambulate. She is the inventor of two medical devices: the NEO-VAC Meconium Suction Catheter for newborn resuscitation and a fetal data processing system and method for assessing fetal heart rates during labor to detect fetuses at risk for birth asphyxia. She has presented many abstracts and authored or co-authored numerous peer reviewed articles, as well as book chapters, documentaries, reviews and case reports.
She is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Society of Obstetric Anesthesiologists and Perinatologists, the Association of University Anesthesiologists, and the Association of American Medical Colleges and its Group on Student Affairs. Dr. Oriol received her bachelor's degree from Boston University and her MD from Harvard Medical School.
Job Titles:
- Anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital
Rebecca Minehart is an obstetric anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, and the Program Director for the MGH Obstetric Anesthesia Fellowship. She is an ardent education and patient safety advocate, and has been involved in international efforts to both research and promote best teamwork and communication practices, especially involving speaking up and giving feedback, on the labor and delivery unit, as well as during interprofessional operating room team training sessions using simulation. She is a recognized expert in educational techniques using simulation, and is a core teaching faculty member both at the Center for Medical Simulation in Charlestown, and also for the MGH Learning Laboratory, teaching interprofessional faculty and staff.
She received her Master's in Health Professions Education from the MGH Institute of Health Professions in 2015, and was awarded the Partners Research in Medical Education Award in 2014 for her research on feedback. She has received grant funding for research in education from the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research as well as the Executive Committee on Teaching and Education at MGH. In addition, she is a member of the ASA's Interactive Computer-Based Education Editorial Board, the Chair of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Fellowship Program Directors' Committee, and the Obstetric Anesthesia Fellowship Program Director representative to SAAAPM.
Job Titles:
- Administrative Coordinator
Ms. Young joined CMS as Administrative Staff Assistant in 2001 and assumed the role of Coordinator in 2010. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science from Emmanuel College in Boston and has more than 20 years of experience in healthcare. Prior to joining CMS, she was the Team Leader in the Obstetrics & Gynecology Department at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Job Titles:
- Principal Investigator
- Anesthesiologist at Boston Children 's Hospital
- Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Blum is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Boston Children's Hospital. He attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine followed by an internship in Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine/Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center and by fellowships in Pediatric Cardiac and General Pediatric Anesthesia at Tufts-New England Medical Center/Boston Floating Hospital for Infants & Children and Adult & Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Blum is the Principal Investigator of a research study, Assessing the Performance of First Year Anesthesia Residents to Ensure Basic Competence, which has been funded by a grant from the Harvard School of Medicine's Department of Anesthesia, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation and The Cathedral Fund. The long-term goal of this project is to have an effective, objective, credible, ongoing process for evaluation of anesthesia residents' clinical competencies, ensuring that no resident graduates from any program not meeting the levels of performance that are sufficient to ensure an acceptable level of patient safety.
Job Titles:
- the Clinical Education and Simulation Centre, Epworth Richmond
Dr. Berry has spent more than 30 years in medical education and clinical practice in
Job Titles:
- Chairman, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Brigham & Women 's Hospital
- Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics
Robert L. Barbieri, MD, is professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University School of Medicine. He has contributed nearly 200 review and peer review articles to medical literature, and is a co-editor of the sixth edition of Yen & Jaffe's Reproductive Endocrinology. Dr. Barbieri researches in the area of reproductive endocrinology and he is an NIH-funded investigator. He has served as an elected officer and member of several national and international organizations, including ACOG, the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, and the Council of University Chairs of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He holds a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and interned at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Dr. Simon is an educator with more than 40 years' experience. For nearly 25 of those years he has specialized in research, development and training for high-performance, high-stress teams in aviation and medicine. He was the Principal Investigator for the U.S. Army's Aircrew Coordination Training Program, the U.S. Air Force's Crew Resource Management Program and for the MedTeams program, a joint civilian and military program to transition lessons learned from aviation crew resource management to healthcare. Following successful validation of the MedTeams program, it was adopted by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and renamed TeamSTEPPS.
In 2002, he joined the Harvard Medical School faculty assigned to the Center for Medical Simulation as Education Director. In 2004, he established himself as the Director of the Center's Institute for Medical Simulation, a program developed with the cooperation of the MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology and the Massachusetts General Hospital which is intended to foster high-quality, simulation-based healthcare education through training clinical educators to use simulation as a teaching tool.
In 2014, Dr. Simon became Director Emeritus of the Institute and assumed the CMS position of Senior Director, Educational Leadership & International Programs with the goal of helping CMS Affiliate institutions use simulation as a transformational tool. Dr. Simon is on the faculty of the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Institute of Health Professions, Harvard Medical School and the University of Cantabria.
After 18 years at CMS, Dr. Simon announced his "semi-retirement" in 2019, taking on the role of Principal Consultant. In this position, he works with several of the institutions who comprise the CMS Affiliate Program, continues as a mentor in the CMS International Scholars program, and continues teaching in CMS faculty development courses.
He received his baccalaureate from Washington University, master's degrees from Smith College and the University of Massachusetts, and holds a doctorate in education with a concentration in Research & Evaluation from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Job Titles:
- Anesthesiologist from Mexico City
Dr. Rubio is an anesthesiologist from Mexico City. He is director of the simulation program of the anesthesia department at the American British Cowdray Medical Center. He is also simulation education director at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where he is responsible for faculty development, academic program development and establishing relations with other simulation centers around the world.
Rodrigo completed a simulation fellowship at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. Rodrigo has an interest in the role of realism in simulation and conducts research on this topic. As an accomplished magician, he uses insights and techniques from this area to help instructors create innovative simulation scenarios. He is a co-facilitator for the Center for Medical Simulation.
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- Co - Founder / Center for Integration
Dr. Newbower has a PhD in Solid-State Physics from Harvard and a bachelor's degree in Physics from MIT. Early in his career, he led the Massachusetts General Hospital Anesthesia Bioengineering Unit, which conducted pioneering rigorous studies of human error in medical care, leading to adoption of technologies and standards of care that dramatically reduced the consequences of error in anesthesia and in critical-care medicine.
He led the development of many innovative medical-instrumentation systems and physiologic-monitoring devices, several of which led to products sold worldwide, as well as to important changes in clinical care. Subsequently, he built and directed MGH's academic Department of Biomedical Engineering, while continuing to lead many research and development efforts in biomedical technologies and systems.
Dr. Newbower co-chaired the MGH Strategic Planning Committee that formulated the need for a center to connect technologists with clinicians more effectively in the pursuit of cost-effective innovations in medical devices and systems. Based on their findings he and Dr. John Parrish then proposed and co-founded CIMIT - the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology - a nonprofit consortium that links Boston's major teaching hospitals with MIT and other engineering institutions, fosters interdisciplinary teams that develop and commercialize novel and cost-effective approaches to improving patient care. Together they built the team that grew CIMIT into a highly successful consortium to fill that identified need. Founding members included MIT, Mass General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Since then most other major Harvard-affiliated academic medical centers and well as Boston University and BUMC have joined CIMIT as affiliate members. Its mission is to catalyze interdisciplinary technology innovations that impact healthcare in cost-effective ways. CIMIT currently sponsors or facilitates over 150 innovative projects, and has many success stories in its portfolio.
Dr. Newbower formerly served as Vice President of Research Management for Partners HealthCare System and, from 1989 to 2005, as the Senior Vice President for Research and Technology for Massachusetts General Hospital. In those dual roles he oversaw the operation of Partners' unique biomedical research program, which included $450 million per year of sponsored research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and $350 million per year at Brigham and Women's Hospital. As a member of the Partners HealthCare Senior Management executive team, he was involved in a broad range of issues as this unique healthcare enterprise adjusted to its rapidly changing environment, and as it developed its leadership role as an integrated healthcare system.
In addition, he has led or participated in several strategic planning task forces for MGH, BWH, McLean and Spaulding, within Partners, and for their academic interactions with MIT, Harvard and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). It was during that time that he collaborated with Dr. Parrish in developing the concept of CIMIT, marshalling support for it and building its core team. Upon stepping down from his MGH and Partners administrative positions, he joined CIMIT full-time in his current role as strategic director and chief technology officer.
His honors in the field of instrumentation include the Arnold O. Beckman Award for Innovation from the Instrumentation Society of America, the AAMI Becton-Dickinson Career Achievement Award, election as a Fellow in the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, as well as senior elected positions in the IEEE and BMES. He holds faculty appointments at MIT in Electrical Engineering, and at HMS and HST in Anesthesia and Bioengineering. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Forsyth Research Institute in Boston.
Dr. Gardner is a board-certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where she helped develop and co-directs a simulation-based perinatal team training and obstetrical safety drills program.
In 2002, Dr. Gardner joined CMS and has helped design, implement and co-direct a human simulation-based team training program for labor and delivery personnel as well as simulation instructor education. Patient safety, team training and simulation are the focus of her research.
Job Titles:
- Specialist in Anesthesiology
Sacha Muller-Botti MD is a specialist in Anesthesiology, originally from Chile. Currently he is a Staff Specialist and Supervisor of Training in Anaesthesiology at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia. He is a conjoint lecturer for the Faculty of Medicine, University of Newcastle, and he is an instructor and part of the faculty of Hunter New England Simulation Centre, Newcastle, Australia. He is also on the faculty of the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston.
Job Titles:
- Acting Director of Simulation at Mater Education
- Mater Education
Stephanie is the Acting Director of Simulation at Mater Education, Brisbane, Australia. Stephanie is both a Registered Nurse and Registered Midwife. She has a combined passion for critical care nursing and simulation-based education. Stephanie has spent the last 3 years implementing an organisational wide in-situ simulation program and spent the beginning of 2018 leading the educational development of the Speaking With Good Judgement Program.
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- Anesthesiologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. Sundar is a cardiac anesthesiologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is the Director of the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship, an ACGME approved fellowship. Dr. Sundar completed her medical school training in Chennai, India. She subsequently trained and board certified as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist in the UK. Dr. Sundar joined BIDMC as an anesthesia resident in 2000 and completed a cardiac anesthesia fellowship. She was chief resident and earned the Medical Student Teacher of the Year Award.
Her interest in teaching and educating residents won her the Leonard Bushnell Award for Innovations in Teaching in her department. She has developed a simulator-based curriculum in cardiac anesthesia as part of the Rabkin Fellowship. Some of her research interests include genomic variations and their impact on the cardiac surgical patient, impact of low tidal volume ventilation in cardiac surgical patients, and impact of age of red cell in the cardiac surgical patient. Dr. Sundar also serves as the Resource Faculty for her department and is a core faculty member of the Simulation and Skills Center at BIDMC.
Cl Assoc Prof Suresh Pillai, MBBS (S'pore), FRCS Ed(A&E), PBM is a Senior Consultant in the Emergency Medicine Department of National University Hospital. After his basic MBBS qualifications from the National University of Singapore, he obtained his Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Accident & Emergency Medicine. He was awarded a Health Manpower Development Plan Award from MOH for a Fellowship in Toxicology at the San Francisco Poison Control Centre in 1999. He was also awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM) at the 2005 National Day Awards for his efforts in organizing and spearheading humanitarian medical relief missions to Indonesia and Sri Lanka during the catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami.
Job Titles:
- President
- President / Vice President, Business Planning and Market Development
- Vice President, Business Planning and Market Development
Susan Chapman Moss, MPH, is the Vice President for Business Planning and Market Development at Partners HealthCare where she is responsible for strategy development, business planning, marketing and market research. Prior to joining Partners in 2011, she was the Executive Director for Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital where she was the senior administrator responsible for finances, operations, human resources and physician/hospital relationships, as well as a management consultant with ECG Management Consultants.
She is the recipient of the 2010 Early Careerist Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives and guest lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Susan holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire and a Master of Public Health degree from Yale University.
Job Titles:
- Certified Anesthesiologist
Dr. Vassallo is a board certified anesthesiologist affiliated with Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts General Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Vassallo graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1985 and has been in practice for 30 years. She completed a residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Suzie Kardong-Edgren is an internationally known speaker and educational researcher. She served as a consultant on the landmark NCSBN National Simulation Study and assisted with writing the simulation guidelines that followed. She was most recently the Director of the Regional Research and Innovation in Simulation Education Center (RISE) and Professor at the Robert Morris University, School of Nursing and Health Sciences in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, past Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Simulation in Nursing, past VP of Research for the INACSL, and past chair of the Research Committee for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). She is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the new SSH CHSE and CHSOS certification review book. She holds a PhD in Health Studies from Texas Woman's University and has a nursing background in Labor and Delivery. She also teaches for the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, Massachusetts.
Job Titles:
- Simulation Operations Specialist
Thalia Constantinou is a recent graduate of Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences and Minor in Business Administration. Her program included spending her first year at the University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. She has first-hand experience in physical therapy as a student placed in a busy private practice setting and at Spaulding Hospital. She has lived in Dubai, UAE and is able to speak in several additional languages, including Spanish, Greek and Arabic.
Job Titles:
- Director, Labor and Delivery Crisis Resource Management Director, Labor and Delivery Crisis Resource Management
Dr. Walzer is a board-certified Obstetrician Gynecologist and an Assistant Professor, Part-Time, of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School. She has been a faculty member of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital since 1981. In 2014 she joined Massachusetts General Hospital as an Assistant in Healthcare Education. Since January 2002, Dr. Walzer has been a faculty member at the Center for Medical Simulation, where she is a Director of the Labor and Delivery Program and Co-Director of the Operating Room Teams Instructor Course. She designs and implements simulation-based interprofessional team training relevant to the real clinical setting, crisis resource management and instructor education courses for clinicians.
Walter Eppich, MD, PhD is the Chair of RCSI SIM, Centre for Simulation Education and Research. Formerly, director of the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators (FAME) and Faculty Development for the Department of Medical Education. He uses qualitative research methodologies to study the contribution of conversation to learning for individuals and teams. He has taught extensively on basic and advanced simulation educator courses and serves as principal faculty at the Harvard Center for Medical Simulation. Walter has been an invited speaker on topics related to feedback & debriefing around the world. He served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare from January 2012 to December 2014.
In 2018, Prof. Eppich completed a PhD in Medical Education from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His PhD thesis was entitled ‘Learning through Talk: The Role of Discourse in Medical Education'. His research program involves qualitative methodologies, conversational learning through debriefing and workplace interactions, team reflection. He collaborates with psychologists to study teamwork effectiveness in extreme environments and has traveled to Antarctica to perform field observations and interview research teams.