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CloseAs 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.
Daniel S. Talmor, MD, MPH, an accomplished physician on the forefront of research to improve the delivery of critical care medicine, is the Chief of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Talmor served as Interim Chief at BIDMC for a year prior to his appointment and before that as Vice Chair for Critical Care Medicine.Dr. Talmor received his medical degree from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He completed his residency in Anesthesiology at Soroka University Medical Center, the teaching hospital of Ben-Gurion. He later completed fellowships in Critical Care Medicine and Cardiac Anesthesia at BIDMC. A Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, he also earned a master’s in public health with an emphasis on clinical effectiveness from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
During his more than 15 years at BIDMC, Dr. Talmor has provided extraordinary care for patients, mentored future physicians and conducted research that focuses on early identification and treatment of critically ill patients, with a particular emphasis on the optimal delivery of mechanical ventilation. He currently serves as Principal Investigator (PI) on two large Phase 2 clinical trials funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). One is a testing a novel mode of mechanical ventilation in patients with acute lung injury; the other is a testing aspirin as a potential treatment to prevent acute lung injury in at-risk patients.
He is also the site investigator for the NHLBI network for the Prevention and Treatment of Acute Lung Injury. Dr. Talmor is also co-PI on a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation aimed at redesigning the way care is delivered in intensive care units using principles of systems engineering. This $5.3 million grant was one of only four awarded nationally and recognizes BIDMC’s excellence in clinical care, safety and innovation.
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.