Speaker Introduction

James A. Gordon, M.D., M.P.A.  is  currently Director of the MEC Program in Medical Simulation at Harvard Medical School, where he is also a Scholar in the new Academy of medical educators.  Dr. Gordon practices and teaches in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.  He is also on faculty at the Harvard Macy Institute and the Boston Center for Medical Simulation, both educational centers affiliated with Harvard faculty.  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 at Michigan, also receiving a master's degree in public administration.  His initial work, "'Practicing' Medicine Without Risk:  Students' and Educators' Responses to High-Fidelity Patient Simulation," was reported in Academic Medicine (2001), and his most recent work, "Education 'On-Demand': The Development of a Simulator-Based Medical Education Service," was awarded recognition at the International Meeting on Medical Simulation (2002).  Dr. Gordon received the 2002 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.