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Susan Farrell, MD Susan Farrell, MD, EdM Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital Consultant to course or clerkship (core and elective) directors and planners Susan Farrell, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine (Emergency Medicine). Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Dr. Farrell, an emergency medicine physician, graduated from Syracuse University and Tufts School of Medicine and trained in emergency medicine and medical toxicology at Medical College of Pennsylvania. She is Director of Student Programs and the Emergency Medicine Clerkship at BWH, and Course Co-Director, Emergency Medical Care, at HMS. Dr. Farrell created and writes “TOX TALKS,” a case-based toxicology newsletter. She teaches in numerous courses at HMS, including an emergency medicine elective for 1st-year students, “Beyond Shadowing.” She participates in the Mentor/Mentee Program, Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, and has been a Macy Scholar and Rabkin Fellow in Medical Education. 
Susan Frankl, MD Susan Frankl, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Clinical Teaching Consultant. Dr. Frankl received a BA in biology from State University of New York at Binghamton and her MD degree from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1983. She did her post-graduate training at the University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, and completed a Faculty Development Program in General Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1988. Prior to joining Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, she was medical director of general medicine of the Evans Medical Group at Boston University Medical Center and directed ambulatory medicine training for the internal medicine residency training program where she developed their first written curriculum. During her year as the Lepofsky Fellow at the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research in 2000, she began her work on faculty development for community-based teachers. She is now actively involved in faculty development initiatives for medical educators in the outpatient setting and has presented her work both locally and nationally. She is currently a member of the steering committee for the Harvard Medical School Primary Care Clerkship and directs their faculty development activities. In addition, Dr. Frankl serves as Director of Medical Education for the Affiliated Physicians Group of BIDMC where she coordinates the teaching activities of approximately 50 community-based physicians. Appointed a Scholar in the Harvard Medical School Academy at its inception, she serves as the faculty chair of the annual Medical Education Day at Harvard Medical School. Her other projects include work on the development of innovative video-taped vignettes and supportive materials to be made available for use in faculty development. 
Alex Green, MD Alexander Green, MD, Faculty Consultant, Associate Director for The Disparities Solutions Center, MGH Senior Scientist for the Institute for Health Policy, Co-chair for Cross Cultural Care Committee, Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School Dr. Green is Associate Director at the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and lecturer at Harvard Medical School. He has authored articles on topics including cross-cultural education, culturally competent health care systems, and language barriers and interpreters, and has presented his work widely. Dr. Green has been involved in a variety of research projects on racial/ethnic disparities in health and cultural competence and his research has been funded by RWJF, The Commonwealth Fund, NIH, and HCFA (now CMS). He has served on several expert panels and advisory boards including JCAHO's Hospitals, Language and Culture project. He helped produce and implement a documentary film and education project called Worlds Apart, designed to teach health professionals to better care for patients across cultural divides. This is currently used by several hundred organizations around the country. His current research and programmatic interests focus on culturally competent approaches to quality improvement, clinician biases as root causes of racial/ethnic disparities in health care, and cultural competence education for health professionals. 
James Gordon, MD James A. Gordon, MD, MPA, Director of the Gilbert Program in Medical Simulation, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital 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, also receiving a master's degree in public administration. His academic interests blend medical education (patient simulation) and health policy (medicine and social welfare). Dr. Gordon recently served as principal investigator and national co-chair of a federally-funded research consensus conference on simulation in healthcare. He was a founding board member of the international Society for Simulation in Healthcare, and sits on the editorial board of the inaugural journal in the field, Simulation in Healthcare. Dr. Gordon has received the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and the Morgan-Zinsser Teaching Fellows Award at Harvard Medical School. His work has been featured in the New Yorker magazine, and highlighted as medical news in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). |
