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 an attending neonatologist at Baylor College of Medicine and Medical Director of the Simulation Center at Texas Children’s Hospital. 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. Prior to coming to Texas Children’s Hospital, Dr. Arnold completed a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effects of a simulation-based training program on pediatric resident neonatal intubation success and competency.

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.

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.

Janis (Jan) P. Bellack, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been President of the MGH Institute of Health Professions since September 2007. She also holds an academic appointment as the John Hilton Knowles Professor. Previously, she served for seven years as Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost and Professor of Nursing and Health Sciences at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. Prior to that, she served as Associate Provost for Education and Professor of Nursing, Health Professions and Graduate Studies at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Jan is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a senior fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Center for the Health Professions. She has served as consultant and member of the National Program Faculty for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Executive Nurse Fellows Program from 1998-2010, when it was based at the UCSF Center for the Health Professions. She currently serves on the RWJF National Advisory Committee for the Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education program and the Board of Directors Accountability Committee of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Partners Healthcare International, the Center for Medical Simulation, and the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts (AICUM). Jan is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nursing Education and is recognized for her work in curriculum development, program evaluation and accreditation in nursing and the health professions, health professions leadership and workforce development, and interprofessional education. Jan received a diploma in nursing at the University of Virginia Hospital School of Nursing, a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Virginia, a master’s degree in pediatric nursing from the University of Florida and her doctoral degree in higher education policy studies from the University of Kentucky.

Beverly A. Brown, PhD, 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. Previously, she was director of development for both the Center for Global Health & Development and the Technology Development Office 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 startup 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 PhD 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 & 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.

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).

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.

Dan Morash is 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 oversees all finances and operations for the department, with $150M+ budget and 600+ FTEs.

Prior to this role, Dan had extensive consulting experience as a Case Team Leader at Bain & Company. Relevant work included leading a team that designed the population health management strategy and operational model for a major provider system, performing a cost diagnostic for a $1B R&D division of a medical device manufacturer and conducting due diligence on acquisition targets for private equity firms.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Daniel 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. 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.

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.

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.

Dr. Rudolph is an 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.

With an emphasis on creating learning-oriented cultures in healthcare, Dr. Rudolph creates, studies, and writes about how to create feedback and debriefing conversations in which people can analyze and improve their skills as clinicians and educators. At CMS, Dr. Rudolph serves as Senior Director of the Institute for Medical Simulation.