Directions
FAQ
Resources
Research
Graduates
Accredited by the American College of Surgeons and endorsed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
LEADING THE FIELD OF MEDICAL SIMULATION
Jeffrey Cooper, PhD
Executive Director
Jeffrey B. Cooper, Ph.D. is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Medical Simulation, which is dedicated to the use of simulation in healthcare as a means to improve the process of education and training and to avoid risk to patients. He is also Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering and MS in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University in 1968 and 1970 respectively and completed a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Missouri in 1972. Starting soon thereafter with the Bioengineering Unit in the Department of Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital, he led the team that conducted seminal studies of critical incidents and human error in anesthesia. During the same time, he was leading a team that developed one of the first microprocessor-based medical technologies, the Boston Anesthesia System, aimed at integrating functions for the ultimate purpose of reducing human and system errors. Both of these efforts have catalyzed changes in anesthesia practice in the ensuing years. In April, 2009, Dr. Cooper retired as Director of Biomedical Engineering for the Partners Healthcare System, Inc., a technology development and service department that he organized and led for 15 years.
Dr. Cooper was a lead member of the group that created the first safety-related standards for anesthesia, equivalent versions of which have since been adopted in the US and throughout the world. He is a co-founder of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), serving continuously on its Executive Committee and for 13 years as Chairman of it Committee on Scientific Evaluation. He is now an APSF Executive Vice President. He serves on the Board of Governors of the National Patient Safety Foundation and founded its Research Program, which he chaired for seven years.
Dr. Cooper is one of the pioneers in diffusion and innovation in healthcare simulation. He has led CMS to become one of the premier simulation programs in the world. Among the more innovative programs he has created or co-developed are the Institute for Medical Simulation, live, interactive simulation video-teleconferencing and the novel Healthcare Adventures (program for training healthcare administrators and leaders in teamwork via realistic simulation). He has mentored the faculty of CMS since its inception and has stimulated, participated in and advised on various research projects.
Dr. Cooper has been awarded several honors for his work in patient safety, including the 2003 John M. Eisenberg Award for Lifetime Achievement in Patient Safety from the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Clinical Engineering. The Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care of the MGH recently established the Jeffrey B. Cooper Patient Safety award in his honor.
Dan Raemer, PhD
Director of Research and Development
Dan Raemer has developed a special expertise in teamwork and crisis management over the past fifteen years at the Center for Medical Simulation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is particularly interested in the art of debriefing and is frequently called upon to facilitate multi-disciplinary teamwork sessions in a variety of specialty areas such as operating rooms, intensive care, emergency, endoscopy, and labor and delivery suites.
In 2003 Dan received a unique award from the Harvard Department of Anaesthesia for “excellence in teaching”. Using simulation as a research tool to investigate healthcare worker’s behaviors and thought processes has been his most enduring passion. Dan has published work in these areas and has given numerous keynote addresses for specialty societies and other healthcare organizations on simulation as it has blossomed in the last several years.
He has worked globally to establish the International Meeting on Medical Simulation, is the founding trustee and a Past-President of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). In 2008, Dan received a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from SSH for his contributions to the field. He is also a Past-President of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia.
Dan’s graduate degrees are in Bioengineering and he worked as a researcher for many years at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in the Anesthesia and Critical Care Departments. In addition to his publications related to simulation practice and research, he has written extensively on monitoring devices and has a number of patents for clinically useful devices and technologies.
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, PhD
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.
 |
||
|
||
 |
|---|