Keith Baker, M.D., Ph.D. is Vice Chair for Education and Faculty Affairs for the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medical at the Massachusetts General Hospital.  He is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. 

Dr. Baker was the Anesthesia residency Program Director at the MGH for 15 years.  He developed an extensive didactic curriculum and a system for having residents evaluate faculty clinical teaching.This process led to enhanced clinical teaching by the faculty. He also developed a system for evaluating resident clinical performance which allows focused educational intervention aimed at improving resident performance.   

More recently he has been focusing on expert performance. He has led a seminar series for residents, fellows and faculty members on expert performance. He was named the Partners Healthcare Outstanding Program Director in 2013 and was awarded the ACGME Parker J. Palmer “Courage to Teach Award” in 2014. He is an America Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) Senior Examiner and has served on the ACGME Anesthesiology Review Committee.

Roger D. Dias, MD, PhD, MBA is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Research and Innovation at the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he leads the Human Factors and Cognitive Engineering Lab. He serves as the Program Director for the BWH EM Medical Simulation Fellowship. His research focuses on the application of cutting-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, wearable sensors, digital biomarkers, and extended reality (XR) to assess and enhance clinicians' performance and improve patient safety in a variety of fields, including emergency medicine, critical care, surgery, military, and space medicine. His current research projects are funded by the NIH, AHRQ, NASA and DoD.

WEBSITE: www.scholar.harvard.edu/rogerdias

Dr. Erik K. Alexander is the Associate Dean for Medical Education (BWH) and Director of the brigham Education Institute (BEI). Following training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, he pursued course work at the Harvard Graduate School of Education before assuming the role of the BWH Core I Internal Medicine Clerkship Director and Subinternship Director. He held these roles for 15 years, before assuming his current duties. As HMS Associate Dean, Dr. Alexander is responsible for all aspects of the HMS medical school curriculum and student coursework at the Brigham & Women's Hospital. Separately, he directors the BEI, hospital-based institute seeking to foster the community of medical education and grow skills toward improved teaching and learning.

Stanley W. Ashley, MD is the Frank Sawyer Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and a general, gastrointestinal and oncologic surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, A graduate of Oberlin College and Cornell University Medical College, he completed a residency in general surgery and did a research fellowship in gastrointestinal physiology at Washington University in St. Louis. He subsequently served on the faculties of Washington University, the University of California at Los Angeles, and, since 1996, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. At the Brigham, he has served as Program Director of the General Surgery Residency, Chief of Surgery at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates/Atrius Health, Vice Chairman of the Department of Surgery, and most recently Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs. Dr. Ashley is a gastrointestinal surgeon. His research, which has been funded by both the Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Institute of Health, has examined examined the both pathophysiology and clinical aspects of GI disease but also surgical education and policy. Recently he has focused on physician education, both at the graduate and postgraduate levels, and on practical aspects of measuring physiican quality and value. Dr. Ashley is a gastrointestinal surgeon. His research, which has been funded by both the Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Institute of Health, has examined examined the both pathophysiology and clinical aspects of GI disease but also surgical education and policy. Recently he has focused on physician education, both at the graduate and postgraduate levels, and on practical aspects of measuring physician quality and value.He is the author of more than 400 publications. He serves on numerous editorial boards, including the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. He is editor of Current Problems in Surgery and was past editor ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice. He is a former Chair of the American Board of Surgery and more recently served on the Board of Directors of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. He is currently Past President and Chair of the Board of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.

Eugene V. Beresin, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He received a M.A. in Philosophy and M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital from 1985-2013.

Dr. Beresin is Executive Director of the new Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds that is a practical, online educational resource dedicated to promoting and supporting the mental, emotional, and behavioral wellbeing of children, teens, and young adults. The website is www.claycenter.org He is Director of the Elizabeth Thatcher Acampora Endowment, an outreach program to meet the needs of underserved youth and families in three community settings. As a clinical educator, Dr. Beresin was Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training at MGH and McLean for 30 years. He served as a leader of many national organizations and has won a number of local and national teaching awards. He is director of the year-long required Harvard Medical School two year required curriculum, The Developing Physician that focuses on reflective practice, ethics, professionalism and the patient-doctor relationship. He is Deputy Editor and Media Editor for Academic Psychiatry and has published numerous papers and chapters in a wide variety of topics.

Dr. Beresin has consulted to a variety of television shows including ER and Law and Order SVU. He was Consultant to the Emmy Award winning HBO children’s specials, Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales (2000), Through a Child’s Eyes: September 11, 2001 (2003) and Classical Baby (2005). He co-produced a Parenting Resource website for abcnews.com. He was script consultant, expert, and actor in Brains on Trial, a PBS broadcast (2013).

Dr. Lori Berkowitz joined the faculty of Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in 1997, following her graduation from the OB/GYN Residency Program at Brown/Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, where she served as Administrative Chief Resident. She has been a board-certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist since 1999, and a certified subspecialist in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery since 2013. She is a longstanding Oral Board Examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 2005, Dr Berkowitz completed the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education at the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She has been an invited participant in education leadership courses including the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Executive Education Program in Leadership Development, the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization Leadership Development Program, and the Association of Professors in Gynecology & Obstetrics Academic Scholars and Leaders Program. She is a current member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Professors and Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) and serving as the Program Co-Chair for the CREOG & APGO Annual National Meeting.

Dr. Berkowitz was the Program Director for the BWH/MGH Integrated Residency Training Program in Obstetrics & Gynecology from 2004-2009. She is currently Associate Director of Graduate Medical Education at Partners Healthcare, overseeing surgical and procedural training programs and Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals. She serves as the Course Director for the GME Program Director Workshops and has served as the chair of the GME Wellness Task Force. Dr. Berkowitz is also a longstanding Patient-Doctor III Tutor for the MGH Harvard Medical School students. She is currently the Vice Chair of Education at Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Dr. Berkowitz’s passion for medical education is evident in her many honors; including the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Association of Professors of Gynecology & Obstetrics, the CREOG National Faculty Award for Excellence in Resident Education and several departmental resident teaching & faculty mentoring awards.

Robert Boland, MD is the Director of the Brigham and Women’s/Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Residency and Co-Director of the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Dr. Boland joined the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program in 2014, after many years on the faculty of Brown University. Dr. Boland graduated from Georgetown University and Georgetown School of Medicine, completed a residency at the Institute of Living in Hartford and a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at Georgetown/Fairfax Hospital. Dr. Boland has more than 70 scientific publications and is currently on the editorial board for the journals most related to his interests (psychiatry education and the interface of medicine and psychiatry), including Academic Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, FOCUS (the APA’s journal of continuing education) and Psychiatric Times and is Assistant Editor for the American College of Psychiatry's Psychiatry Residents in Training Examination (PRITE). He has had leadership roles in a number of organizations, including past President for the Association for Academic Psychiatry, the American Association of Directors of Residency Training and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (now Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry). He is the Chair for the Psychiatry Residency Review Committee for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, where he has been helping to develop innovative approaches to lifelong learning and maintenance of certification. In addition, he has served on various NIH study sections (grant review committees) for the last decade, and has chaired several special emphasis panels for NIH. 

Dr. Co is currently the Director of Graduate Medical Education (GME) at Partners Healthcare and Director for Ambulatory Quality and Safety at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children. He has expertise in health services research and a Masters of Public Health (Clinical Effectiveness). His academic interests are at the intersection of quality improvement and patient safety with graduate medical education. He served as the Associate Program Director of the MGH Pediatric Residency Program, as well as the Chair of the Association of Pediatric Program Director's Research Task Force. He has severed as an associate editor for several peer-review journals, and currently Co-Chairs the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Evaluation Committee.

Susan E. Farrell, MD, EdM, is Director of Continuing and Professional Development in the Center for Interprofessional Studies and Innovation at the MGH Institute. Dr. Farrell graduated from Syracuse University with a BS in engineering, and Tufts University School of Medicine in 1990. Her clinical training was in emergency medicine and medical toxicology, both at The Medical College of Pennsylvania. She has worked in medical education at Harvard Medical School (HMS) for 20 years, as the Director of Student Programs and the Emergency Medicine Clerkship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and as a course tutor and lecturer. She completed her master’s in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2008, with a focus on assessment and evaluation methods. Dr. Farrell has been a Rabkin Fellow in Medical Education, a Harvard Macy Scholar, and faculty and steering committee member of the Harvard Macy Educator courses. She worked as an educator in the Partners Healthcare Office for Graduate Medical Education and a Program Director at Partners Healthcare International (PHI). At PHI, Dr. Farrell created and implemented faculty development programs in undergraduate, post-graduate, and interprofessional clinical curricula and assessment methods. Her international work includes the development of resident-teacher programs in New Zealand, the creation of interprofessional programs in Singapore, the design of new post-graduate training programs, and physician curriculum development for a hospital system in India. In addition to her role in continuing education, Dr. Farrell is the Director of the HMS OSCE Program, which spans the entire four-year curriculum, and leads interprofessional education efforts for medical students at HMS. In 2016, she joined the MGH Institute as the Director of Continuing and Professional Development, responsible for the oversight and support of internal continuing education endeavors, as well as the development of new external interprofessional development initiatives. She is also actively engaged in education work at the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Farrell’s interests are in curriculum development, methods for assessing clinical skills and program evaluation, and interprofessional faculty development related to clinical teaching, assessment skills and leadership.

I direct the Neuropathology Service at MGH, and serve as the Core Leader of the Neuropathology Core of the Massachusetts Alzheimer Disease Research Center. I also direct the MGH Neuropathology Training Program and am Associate Director of the Pathology Residency Program (for research). My research, based in CNY, focuses on the pathobiology of cerebral amyloid angiopathy using mouse models as well as human tissue. I am Associate Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), which is a distinct curricular path to the MD through Harvard Medical School and is focused on training physician-scientists. Within the program, I direct admissions for the entering cohort of 30 students, am involved in curricular design, advise individual students and run & teach two courses (MatLab for Medicine in the M1 year; Neuroscience in the M2 year).

After graduating from Jefferson Medical College, Dr. Goldhamer completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a Clinician Educator Medical Education Fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on curriculum development and effective teaching strategies.

In 2005, Dr. Goldhamer came to MGH for the Harvard Faculty Development Fellowship Program in General Internal Medicine and completed a Masters in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research and thesis focused on a large-scale program evaluation of the HSPH Program in Clinical Effectiveness, a preeminent program for training physicians to conduct clinical research.

In 2010, Dr. Goldhamer joined the Partners Office of Graduate Medical Education, focusing on an initiative to improve trainee assessment and feedback across Partners training programs. Dr. Goldhamer has worked with the Evaluation and Feedback Subcommittee of the Partners Education Committee to develop multi-source assessment tools for evaluation of trainees, faculty, and programs- several of which have recently been published through the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) MedEdPORTAL. Effective feedback and evaluation of faculty and trainees has been promoted through numerous case-based, specialty-specific conferences which have been attended by over 800 Partners faculty, residents, and fellows. In her GME role, Dr. Goldhamer also guides the curriculum development process for new PHS residency and fellowship programs.

Dr. Annekathryn Goodman is a Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School and a Fellow of both the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American College of Surgeons. She has a fulltime practice in Gynecologic Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and is an affiliate of MGH Global Disaster Response and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate of MGH Center for Global Health. She is the Director of the MGH Center for Global Health Program against Gender-Based Violence and Co-director of MGH Women’s Global Health.

She completed medical school and residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and her fellowship training in gynecologic oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). In addition to board certification in gynecologic oncology, she is certified in acupuncture, and has completed training in both pastoral and palliative care. She received a certificate in Clinical Ethics and Health Policy from the Center for Practical Bioethics, University of Kansas Medical School. She received a certificate in Global health and MPH in Health Policy and Management from New York Medical College. She has undergone advanced training in humanitarian disaster relief work through the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Missioncraft in disaster relief operations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.

She was the Director of the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1998 through 2017. She is the past president of The Obstetrical Society of Boston and of the New England Society of Gynecologic Oncologists. She is also a member of the Ethics Committee at Massachusetts General Hospital.

She is a member of the national Trauma and Critical Care Team, a branch of the US department of Health and Human Services and has deployed to various international disasters. Since 2008, she has been consulting in Bangladesh on cervical cancer prevention and the development of medical infrastructure to care for women with gynecologic cancers. She has also developed a two-month observership in gynecologic oncology at MGH for physicians from resource-limited countries.

James A. Gordon, MD, MPA is Chief Learning Officer and Director of the Learning Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, also serving as Chief of the Division of Medical Simulation in the hospital’s Department of Emergency Medicine. He is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he directs the Gilbert Program in Medical Simulation and serves as an Academy Scholar. Dr. Gordon co-founded the Institute for Medical Simulation at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, Massachusetts.

After studying 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 and earned a master's degree in public administration, later serving as a Morgan-Zinsser Teaching Fellow at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Gordon served as principal investigator and national co-chair of the first federally-funded research consensus conference on simulation in health care, and was a founding board member of the international Society for Simulation in Healthcare, where he later was inducted as an inaugural Fellow. He received the Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award for outstanding career contributions from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and received the Founders Recognition Award for distinguished service to its Simulation Academy. His work has been featured in the New Yorker magazine, and highlighted as medical news in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Joel T. Katz, MD, MACP is an infectious diseases consultant, Director of the internal medicine residency program, and Vice Chair for Education at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is the Marshall A. Wolf Distinguished Chair in Medical Education.

Dr. Katz’s practice is in primary care and infectious diseases, particularly HIV-infected individuals and recipients of solid organ and bone marrow transplants. Administratively, he has developed novel and nationally recognized training programs to complement clinical skills with expertise in global health, basic and translational research, genetics and genomics of complex medical conditions, leadership medicine management, and social justice, disparities and health equity.

Formerly a commercial artist, Dr. Katz has an interest in utilizing the humanities to improve medical education. He is the director of the Harvard Medical School course “Training the Eye: Improving the Art of Physical Diagnosis”, in which students hone their physical diagnosis acumen through the study of fine arts at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

A Boston native, Dr. McLoud received her BS degree from Boston College.  After obtaining her MD degree from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal, she completed a thoracic imaging fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine and soon became an assistant professor of diagnostic radiology at Yale.  In 1976, she returned to Boston and joined Harvard Medical School where she has been professor of radiology since 1993.  Dr. McLoud is the first woman in the department of  Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to hold the rank of professor at Harvard.

Dr. McLoud served as the Division Head of Thoracic radiology from 1982-2001 and she is currently Vice Chair for Education in  the department of Radiology and the incumbent Manorama and Virender Saini Endowed Chair in Radiology Education..

A world-renowned expert in thoracic imaging, Dr. McLoud has conducted more than 150 postgraduate courses and published more than 200 scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters.  She is the author of the first and second editions of Thoracic Radiology:  The Requisites ,a popular and comprehensive introductory work. Her research has been in the area of interstitial lung disease, lung cancer staging and screening and radiologic education.

She has received the Association of Program Directors in Radiology Achievement award and the Marie Curie Award from the American Association for Women Radiologists. She is also the recipient of the Gold Medal of the Society of Thoracic Radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society,  the International Cancer Imaging Society and in 2013 the Radiologic Society of North America.   She is past president of the Fleischner Society, the Society of Thoracic Radiology, ARRS and the RSNA. She is an honorary member of the European Society of Radiology, and the Spanish, Argentinian, Italian, Mexican, Australia - New Zealand, Austrian and French societies of radiology, the Faculty of Medicine in Radiology of the Royal College of Surgeons of  Ireland, and the European Society of Thoracic Radiology.

Dr. Roy Phitayakorn completed his residency training in general surgery at Case Western Reserve University in 2009 and completed an endocrine surgery fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2011. Dr. Phitayakorn is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School with a practice in general surgery and endocrine surgery at the main campus of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Phitayakorn is also the MGH Department of Surgery Director of Medical Student Education and Surgical Education Research and the Co-Director of the American College of Surgeons-accredited MGH Surgery Education Research and Simulation Fellowship program. Finally, Dr. Phitayakorn is the Senior Education Research and Development Consultant for the New England Journal of Medicine Group.

Dr. Phitayakorn has a Master’s degree in Medical Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago (MHPE). His MHPE thesis won the best thesis award in 2007 and best presentation at the 2008 MHPE medical education conference. Dr. Phitayakorn was the first Surgical Simulation Fellow at the MGH Learning Laboratory and completed a certificate in simulation-based teaching from the MGH Institutes of Health Professions in 2011.

Dr. Phitayakorn is an external examination consultant for the American Board of Surgery and develops medical education content for the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Phitayakorn is also a faculty member for several national medical education courses and institutions including the Harvard Macy Institute, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Surgeons as Educators course, the Institute of Medical Simulation, the ACS Surgical Education Principles and Practice course, and the Harvard Medical School Office of Global Education.

Dr. Pozner is an emergency phyician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed residencies in Internal Medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and in emergency medicine at UCLA. Dr. Pozner was the founding medical director of the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Under his leadership the center grew from a center exclusively for emergency medicine to service the entire hospital community. There is a particular emphasis on interprofessional team training. Simulation is also used for quality initiatives at the hospital. Dr. Pozner's research interests is in non-technical skills in healthcare and his primary clinical interest is in resuscitation. He has been an invited speaker national and internationally and has been a consultant on simulation projects across the globe. He was honored as an Inaugural Fellow in the Academy of the Society of Simulation in Healthcare in 2017. His outside interests revolved around a variety of activities with his wife Sara and his two children Jeremy and Kate.

Douglas S. Smink, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School and a minimally invasive general surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Smink is the program director of the general surgery residency at Brigham and Women’s and the associate chair of education for the BWH Department of Surgery. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Surgical Education and serves as a member of the editorial board of SCORE (Surgical Council on Resident Education).

Dr. Smink’s research focuses on resident and faculty education through simulation, team training, and coaching. He is co-leader of the Surgical Culture Core at the Center for Surgery and Public Health, where he studies how to teach communication, leadership, and decision-making to surgeons, surgical trainees, and surgical teams.