Jamie Robertson, PhD, MPH

Dr. Jamie M. Robertson is an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and the director of innovation in surgical education for the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She drives efforts within the surgery department to develop curricula and assessments to support medical students, residents, fellows and faculty. Additionally, she serves on the leadership of multiple teaching and clinical research courses within the Harvard Medical School’s Postgraduate Medical Education portfolio. Nationally, she is an associate editor for the Healthcare Simulation Dictionary and a leader in simulation design and implementation. She is one of the first fifty individuals to earn the designation of Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator-Advanced.  Dr. Robertson’s funded research involves studying teamwork and communication between members of medical teams in both terrestrial and deep space environments. Dr. Robertson completed her undergraduate education at Seattle University before earning her MPH in Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.