Partners Center of Expertise in Medical Education Faculty
Center of Expertise Co-chairsKeith Baker, MD PhD
Program Director, Anesthesia, MGH
Trainee opportunities
Collaboration in building a bibliography on Med Ed topics / Keith Baker, M.D., Ph.D. is Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medical at the Massachusetts General Hospital (DACCPM). He is Program Director for the Anesthesia Residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). As Education Director he developed the didactic curriculum that continues as the core didactics for the residency. He also developed a quantitative system for having residents evaluate faculty member’s clinical teaching. This process led to enhanced clinical teaching by the faculty. He has developed a system for quantitatively evaluating resident clinical performance which allows focused intervention aimed at improving performance. As Vice Chair for Education he has developed an educational pay-for-performance system to enhance resident teaching by faculty members. He has recently begun the process of changing the goal of teaching and learning from a minimum competency model currently used in graduate medical education (GME) to one focused on expert performance. To this end he has led the DACCPM through a paradigm shift in thinking about teaching and learning. He also leads a seminar series for residents, fellows and faculty on expert performance.
Graham McMahon, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Editor for Medical Education, NEJM
Trainee Opportunities
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared lecture, teaching rounds session, medical student case discussion, etc.
Projects in curriculum development or program improvement
Collaboration in building a bibliography on Med Ed topics / Graham McMahon MD MMSc is an assistant professor of medicine and member of the Academy at Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the faculty in the division of endocrinology, diabetes and hypertension at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston where he completed his postgraduate training. Dr. McMahon received his medical education at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, a master’s degree in clinical research from Harvard Medical School, and his doctorate in education from the National University of Ireland. He is the editor for medical education at the New England Journal of Medicine. He also directs the endocrinology course at Harvard Medical School. He is a board member of the National Board of Medical Examiners where he chairs the test committee for the USMLE step 2 clinical skills examination. He has received local and national awards for his teaching and his work in medical education and diabetes research. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Diabetes Care, the Archives of Internal Medicine, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Medical Education. His research interests include systems of care for patients with diabetes, cardiovascular disease in diabetes, and medical education.
Center of Expertise Faculty
Stan Ashley, MD
Chief Medical Officer, BWH
Frank Sawyer Professor and Vice Chair
Program Director, General Surgery Residency
Department of Surgery, BWH
Trainee opportunities
Didactic sessions
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared lecture, teaching rounds session, medical student case discussion, etc.
Projects in curriculum development or program improvement / Dr. Stanley Ashley is the Vice Chair of Department of Surgery and the Program Director for the General Surgery Residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The five-year ACGME accredited general surgery residency provides surgical education of the highest caliber leading to American Board of Surgery Certification in general surgery within an environment designed to encourage clinical and basic scientific investigational experience. Dr. Ashley has been program director in general surgery first at UCLA and since 2000 at BWH. He has participated in a variety of educational research projects and has been a director of the American Board of Surgery, which deals with educational issues and requirements, for 7 years. In 2012 he will become chair of American Board of Surgery. Dr. Ashley is focused on practical aspects of measurement of surgical quality and how these can be applied to improve outcomes, particularly for the individual surgeon. Closely related to this, he has an interest in surgical education, both at the graduate and postgraduate (MOC) levels, and its integration into a certification/re-certification process that ensures quality of care.
Hasan Bazari
Program Director,Internal Medicine Residency
Associate Professor
Internal Medicine, MGH
Trainee opportunities
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared lecture, teaching rounds session, medical student case discussion, etc.
Projects in curriculum development or program improvement / Dr. Bazari has been the Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency for the last 17 years and has been involved nationally with the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. He has also been part of the ACGME-ABIM Milestones Writing Group. He has interests in Educational Research as well as clinical teaching.
Gene Beresin, MA, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, HMS
Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training, MGH/McLean Hospitals
Trainee opportunities
Didactic sessions
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared lecture, teaching rounds session, medical student case discussion, etc.
Projects in curriculum development or program improvement / Gene Beresin, M.A, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. 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. Dr. Beresin is Co-Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Mental Health and Media. He served President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training and as Editor-in-Chief of the Psychiatry Residents in Training Examination (PRITE). He is director of the year-long required third year course, Patient Doctor III, at Harvard Medical School. He is a member the Academy at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Beresin is Associate Editor and Media Editor for Academic Psychiatry. His educational awards include the Parker J. Palmer “Courage to Teach” Award in 2002, given annually by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education to 10 Program Directors. In 2004, he was awarded the American Psychiatric Association and National Institute of Mental Health Vestermark Award for Outstanding Teaching. 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. Dr. Beresin has published numerous papers and chapters on a variety of topics in medical education, media, patient-doctor relationships and child and adolescent psychiatric treatments.
Robert J. Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D.
Executive Director of Postgraduate Medical Education
Massachusetts General Hospital
Trainee opportunities
Mentoring
Projects in curriculum development or program improvement
‘ / Dr. Birnbaum's clinical training is in psychiatry and his Ph.D. training is in molecular neurobiology. Since 2004 he has been developing postgraduate education activities under the auspices of the MGH Psychiatry and MGH Academy (multi-disciplinary encompassing a broad range of clinical areas). The academy is committed to improving patient care by providing quality medical education. Our goal is to foster quantitative and qualitative improvements in competence, performance and patient outcomes. Learning activities are designed to improve clinical decision making, enhance treatment strategies, interpret new findings as they apply to patient care, and analyze health policy. Our educational content is developed to determine and address identified gaps in knowledge, present emerging new research, and promote state-of-the-art patient care. By providing health care education to patients and their families in addition to health care providers, the academy addresses barriers to care and encourages collaborative health care delivery. Our innovative healthcare education programs are consistent with adult learning principles and include live activities, self-directed learning, e-learning and clinical simulation technology. The academy's programming reaches over 25,000 providers across the United States (with registrants from over 60 countries around the globe) and thousands of patients and their families.
Jonathan F. Borus, MD
Stanley Cobb Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty Dean for Education at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Co-Chair, Partners Education Review Board
Psychiatry and Medical Education, BWH
Trainee opportunities
Didactic sessions
Mentoring
Projects in curriculum development or program improvement / Dr Borus is currently the HMS Stanley Cobb Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty Dean for Education at BWH, coordinating undergraduate and graduate medical education efforts at BWH with those at the Medical School. He served from 1976-1990 as Director of Psychiatric Residency and Fellowship Training at MGH and from 1983-1990 as Chair of the MGH Executive Committee on Teaching and Education. From 1990-2008 he was Chairman and Psychiatrist in Chief of the BWH Department of Psychiatry, and was instrumental in the development of the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Program. From 2008-2010 Dr. Borus was the Director of Medical Education for BWH, fostering the teaching and careers of medical educators in all specialties, and from 2006-2010 served as Co-Chair of both the BWH and Partners Education Committees. Since 2009 he has Co-Chaired the Partners Education Review Board which oversees all interactions between industry and educational programs throughout Partners. Dr. Borus has served as the President of the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP), the national organization of educators in psychiatry, and Editor of the journal Academic Psychiatry. Among his honors are the 1992 AAP Outstanding Psychiatric Educator Award, the 1997 American Psychiatric Association and National Institute of Mental Health Vestermark Award for Psychiatric Education, and the 1998 HMS Excellence in Mentoring Lifetime Achievement Award.
Elizabeth (Lisa) Breen
Core Surgery Clerkship Director, BWH
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Trainee opportunities
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared lecture, teaching rounds session, medical student case discussion, etc.
Projects in curriculum development or program improvement / Elizabeth Breen has been a colon and rectal surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) for over 13 years. Her academic efforts are centered around the model of a clinician–educator. As such, she has functioned as the Clerkship Director of the Core Surgery Clerkship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School since January 2005. In the role of Clerkship Director she has had opportunity to reassess the BWH clerkship in light of the changing needs of students and the environment in which today’s surgeons practice. From this needs assessment she proposed and implemented curriculum changes particularly with respect to methods of instruction. She increased student exposure to faculty time as well as to outpatient settings. In addition, she worked successfully with faculty to improve teaching strategies. In keeping with the recommendations for a surgeon-educator as put forward by the Association for Surgical Education her educational activities are focused on teaching skills, curriculum development and instructional material design, advising activities, trainee assessment, faculty development, and educational scholarship. The majority of her research projects focus on surgical workforce, faculty development and trainee assessment.
John Co, MD
Director, Partners Graduate Medical Education
Director, MGH Pediatric Outpatient Quality and Safety
Pediatrics, MGH
Trainee opportunities
Projects in curriculum development or program improvement / Dr. Co is currently the Director of Graduate Medical Education (GME) at Partners Healthcare. He has a background in health services research and a Masters in Public Health, with an interest in better integrating quality improvement and measurement into graduate medical education. He oversees the annual retreats for Interns and Clinical Fellows that are organized by the GME office, and leads the monthly Medical Education Research Works in Progress at MGH. He formerly was the Associate Director of the MGH Pediatric Residency Program, as well as the Chair of the Association of Pediatric Program Director's Research Task Force. He continues to teach pediatric residents critical appraisal of medical literature, as well as about quality improvement. Dr. Co is also an Associate Editor for Academic Pediatrics, helping oversee and review manuscript submissionsrelated to medical education research.
Marc de Moya
Surgical Clerkship Director
Associate Program Director, Surgery, MGH
Trainee opportunities
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared lecture, teaching rounds session, medical student case discussion, etc.
Projects in curriculum development or program improvement / After completing surgical residency in New Jersey and trauma/critical care fellowship at the University of Miami, Dr. deMoya joined the faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the department of surgery in 2005. He became one of the first faculty to develop the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care. In 2007, he became the MGH Surgical Clerkship director and has become more involved in surgical education for both undergraduate and graduate medical education. His areas of focus are assessment and evaluation of critical thinking, the use of simulation for surgical education, and development of competency based curricula for both students and surgical residents. He has received funding from the Academy of Medical Education to develop simulation based programming and has interests in educational research.
Annekathryn Goodman
Fellowship Director, Gyn Oncology, MGH
Trainee opportunities
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared lecture, teaching rounds session, medical student case discussion, etc. / Dr. Annekathryn Goodman was born in Washington, D.C. She grew up in Tokyo and Singapore. She attended undergraduate school at The University of Pennsylvania, and went on to receive an M.S.in Chemistry. She obtained her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, where she then completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology. She completed her fellowship in gynecology oncology in 1990 at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston where she has been on staff since 1993. Dr. Goodman was certified in acupuncture in 2002. She has completed four units of clinical pastoral education. She joined the national disaster team, IMSuRT (International Medical Surgical Response team), a branch of the US department of health and human services and has deployed to various international disasters including Bam, Iran 2004, Banda Aceh 2005, and Haiti 2010. Dr. Goodman is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. She is the Director of the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is the past president of The Obstetrical Society of Boston and of the New England Society of Gynecologic Oncologists. Teaching experience includes teaching didactically in medical school, informal and didactic teaching on the gyn oncology service at MGH, development of a curriculum for gyn oncology fellowship, small group facilitator in Harvard palliative care for educators course, Primed lectures for primary care providers on topics in gyn oncology, teaching team members obstetrics in field hospitals during disasters.