CIMIT RESPONSIBILITIES

Simulation Leader

BACKGROUND

Dr. Dawson received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his radiology residency and fellowship in Interventional Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has served as the head of the Abdominal Interventional Radiology fellowship at MGH and remains a clinical Interventional Radiologist at MGH. He is also an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the SIMGroup, a team of researchers that has created award-winning simulation systems for procedural education. Their work has been selected for the permanent collection of the National Museum of Health and Medicine and has been exhibited at the Boston Museum of Science, the Wellcome Collection in London, and the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden. Dr. Dawson is the founder and Chairman of Advanced Initiatives in Medical Simulation, a 501 c 6 non-profit corporation, and he leads the annual meeting of AIMS.