James A. Gordon, MD, MPA

James A. Gordon, MD, MPA is chief learning officer, and David F.M. Brown, MD Endowed Education Academy chair at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he oversees the Peter L. Slavin, MD, Academy for Applied Learning in Health Care.  He is a professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  

After studying 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 and earned a master's degree in public administration, later serving as a Morgan-Zinsser teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School. 

Dr. Gordon served as principal investigator and national co-chair of the first federally-funded research consensus conference on simulation in health care and was a founding board member of the International Society for Simulation in Healthcare, where he later was inducted as an inaugural fellow.  He received the Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award for outstanding career contributions from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and received the Founders Recognition Award for distinguished service to its Simulation Academy.  His work has been featured in the New Yorker magazine and highlighted as medical news in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).