Congratulations to CMS’ Robert Simon, EdD, for being selected to speak at the 8th Öresund Symposium on Clinical Skills Training where he spoke on “Effective Feedback. Closing the performance gap” The conference was held at the Stadionmässan in Malmö Sweden on December 6th and featured international lecturers who gave presentations on on patient safety, evaluation, paediatrics and communication skills. Click here and then scroll down the right hand side to 15:15 to see Dr. Simon’s presentation.
Dr. Simon is a human factors specialist and educator with a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts. For the past 20 plus years he 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 CMS’ 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