Ronald Newbower, PhD
rnewbower@partners.org
Phone: 617-726-1635

CIMIT Responsibilities:

• Strategic Director and CTO
• Chairman, CIMIT Executive Committee

• Faculty member, Harvard Medical School, MIT, and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Background:
Dr. Newbower is CIMIT's Strategic Director and Chief Technology Officer, as well as Program Leader for CIMIT's Point-of-Care Technologies Program. Formerly, he was the Vice President of Research Management for Partners HealthCare System. In that role, he oversaw the operation of its unique biomedical research program which included $450 million per year of sponsored research at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and $350 million per year at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As a member of the Partners HealthCare Senior Management executive team, he was involved in many aspects of the overall management of this healthcare enterprise as it adjusted to its rapidly changing environment, and as it developed its leadership role as an integrated healthcare system. In addition, he has led or participated in several strategic planning task forces for MGH, BWH, McLean and Spaulding, within Partners, and for their academic interactions with MIT, Harvard, and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST).

Early in his career Dr. Newbower led the MGH Anesthesia Bioengineering Unit, which conducted pioneering rigorous studies of human error in medical care, leading to technologies and standards of care that dramatically reduced the consequences of error in anesthesia and in critical-care medicine over subsequent years. He led the development of many innovative medical instrumentation systems and devices, several of which led to important changes in clinical practices and care. Subsequently, he built and directed MGH’s academic Department of Biomedical Engineering, continuing to lead research and development efforts in biomedical technologies and systems with widespread impact in intensive-care products and practices.

Dr. Newbower has a PhD in Solid-State Physics from Harvard, and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from MIT. He holds faculty appointments at MIT in Electrical Engineering, and in HMS and HST in Anesthesia and Bioengineering.