Board of Trustees and Corporate Officers

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 the Program Director, Immersive Design Systems at Boston Children’s Hospital Simulator Program and a Neonatologist at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Prior to joining Boston Children’s Hospital, she was 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.

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.

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 [email protected] 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.

James A. Gordon, MD, MPA, is Director of the Gilbert Program in Medical Simulation at Harvard Medical School, where he is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a Scholar in the Academy of medical educators. He is Chief of the Division of Medical Simulation in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he also leads the hospital-wide Learning Laboratory initiative. Dr. Gordon co-founded the Institute for Medical Simulation at the Center for Medical Simulation in Cambridge, Mass.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in intellectual history at Princeton, Dr. Gordon attended medical school at the University of Virginia and completed his training in emergency medicine at the University of Michigan. Following residency he completed a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, also receiving a master’s degree in public administration.

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).

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.

Ida Myoung, MHA the Executive Director of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Prior to joining MGH in 2018, she was the System Director of Operations for Physician Services and Development with Providence Health & Services and the Director of Operations for Cardiovascular Services with Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.

Ida holds a Master of Health Administration degree from the University of Washington.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.