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LEADING THE FIELD OF MEDICAL SIMULATION
Jeffrey Cooper, PhD
Executive Director
Dr. Cooper is a Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the former Director of Biomedical Engineering for Partners Healthcare. A Faculty member in the Massachusetts general Hospital Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine. He is also co-founder and board member of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, and a member of the National Patient Safety Foundation Board of Governors. Since earning his doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri, he has dedicated his career to patient safety. Dr. Cooper is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2003 John M. Eisenberg Award for Lifetime Achievement in Patient Safety from the National Quality Forum and the JCAHO.
Dan Raemer, PhD
Director of Research and Development
Dr. Raemer is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School’s Anesthesia Department, and serves on the faculty of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, where he has received a special teaching achievement award for his simulation work. Dr. Raemer has also applied his doctorate in Bioengineering from the University of Utah to his work as President of the Society of Technology in Anesthesia. Dr. Raemer has also served as President of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, of which he also was a founder and first Chairperson of the Board of Overseers.
Gary Rossi, MBA
Director of Business Administration and Development
Gary previously worked at the 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.
Robert Nadelberg, MD
Medical Director, Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management
Dr. Nadelberg is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Harvard Medical School. After training in surgery, and in anesthesia at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania he received his Board Certification in Anesthesia and has been in private practice in the Boston area for the past 30 years. He is currently on the staff of the Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and is on the faculty of both Harvard Medical School and Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Nadelberg serves as the Director of Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management and is the organizer of the Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesia (MOCA) course in simulation at CMS.
Robert Simon, EDD, CPE
Education Director
Dr. Simon is a human factors specialist and educator with a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts. For the past 20 years, Dr. Simon has specialized in research, development and training for high-performance, high-stress teams in aviation and medicine. He worked as principal investigator for the US Army Aircrew Coordination Program, which applies lessons learned from aviation crew resource management to healthcare. Dr. Simon joined CMS in 2002 as Education Director and now serves as the Director of the Institute for Medical Simulation. He is an Instructor in Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and serves in the faculty of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia, Critical care and Pain Medicine
Jenny Rudolph, PhD
Associate Director, Institute for Medical Simulation
Dr. Rudolph is a Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, at Massachusetts General Hospital. Drawing on a doctorate from Boston College in organizational studies, ten years of research in high hazard industries and her experience as a rock climber and world-class rower, Dr. Rudolph has unique expertise in how cognition, emotion and communication interact in high-stakes healthcare situations. At CMS, Dr. Rudolph serves as Associate Director of the Institute for Medical Simulation.
William Berry, MD, FACS
Dr. Berry is board-certified in General Surgery and Surgical Intensive Care. A research fellow in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health, he is also a faculty member at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Dr. Berry has taught clinical process improvement extensively for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and serves on the Workforce on Patient Safety for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Since 2003, he has taught simulation, researched and designed scenarios, particularly for surgeons and surgical teams, at the Center for Medical Simulation.
Toni Beth Walzer, MD
Dr. Walzer is a board-certified Obstetrician Gynecologist and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. She has been a faculty member of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital since 1981. She also serves as a malpractice claims consultant for both Harvard’s Risk Management Foundation and for ProMutual Group. Dr. Walzer has been a faculty member at the Center for Medical Simulation since January 2002, and as Co-Director of the Labor and Delivery Program she designs and implements simulation-based team training, crisis resource management, and instructor education courses for clinicians.
Roxane Gardner, MD, MPH
Dr. Gardner is a board-certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. She has been a faculty member of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital since 1999. In 2002, she joined CMS and has helped design and implement simulation-based, team-training program for labor and delivery personnel. As well as simulation instructor education. Patient safety and simulation are the focus of her research.
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