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Bryan Bergeron Named Acting Director of Clinical Investigation Graduate Program

Posted on: Tuesday, 31 July 2007, 12:03 CDT

The MGH Institute of Health Professions, an academic affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital, announces the appointment of Bryan Bergeron, MD, as Acting Director of the Graduate Program in Clinical Investigation, effective August 1, 2007. The clinical investigation program currently enrolls fifty full- and part-time students in its online Master of Science and Certificate of Advanced Study degree programs.

Dr. Bergeron is a physician, technologist, researcher and educator. As President of Archetype Technologies, Inc., Bergeron provides technology consulting to businesses and academia, develops grant proposals and white papers, and speaks internationally on the intersection of technology and business. Representative roles and clients include scientific support for Partners HealthCare and the MGH Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, including support for the Harvard Anesthesia Multimedia project.

Most recently, Bergeron has been involved in bioterrorism preparedness. He designed a web portal for training physicians to recognize and treat Class A and Class B biologicals, an intelligent tutoring system for the US Army's Advanced Technology group, and given lectures on bioterrorism risk assessment. He is primary investigator on a congressional grant to develop a nuclear, chemical, and biological collaboratory for first-responders.

As an author, Dr. Bergeron has written twenty-one books, 15+ chapters and monographs, 25+ software programs, 24+ proceedings, 45+ reviews; 50+ technical articles, 1,200+ illustrations, including 30 magazine covers, and dozens of white papers. He is currently editor of Servo Magazine and Nuts & Volts Magazine.

Recent awards and honors include: Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics; Fulbright; Bausch and Lomb Science Award (Gallium Arsenide Semiconductors); and Distinguished Technical Communication Award, Society of Technical Communications.

Current academic appointments include Member of the Affiliate Faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, and Consultant in Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior appointments include: Research Affiliate, HST; Assistant Professor of Radiology, Instructor in Medicine, and Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Research Fellow in Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health.

He completed his formal education with a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Medical Informatics, including courses in computer science at Harvard, graduated from Louisiana State University Medical Center and was licensed in Medicine and Surgery. He graduated with a BS cum laude as a Tulane Scholar (Psychology/Chemistry/Physics); Neurobiology research, Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, Electrical Engineering, Louisiana State University; Mechanical Drawing, Morgan City Vocational Tech School; Radiological Monitoring, University of Michigan.

The MGH Institute was one of the first schools in the country to develop graduate-level education Clinical Investigation. The master's curriculum includes a semester-long Mentored Field Experience, which places students in an actual clinical research setting to provide hands-on experience in human subject research. Alumni have accepted roles in venues as diverse as pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, contract research organizations (CROs), government, and academic health centers.

The MGH Institute of Health Professions (www.mghihp.edu), an academic affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital, is an innovative and independent graduate school that operates within the framework of Partners HealthCare System. A progressive leader in developing comprehensive models of health care education, the MGH Institute prepares advanced practice professionals in the fields of nursing, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, medical imaging and clinical investigation through a distinctive combination of academic study, clinical practice and research. An average of 800 students are enrolled in graduate level degree and certificate programs, with an increasing number of courses available online. The Institute is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

[Editors: Our style preference is to not spell out 'MGH' on a first reference to our name, as it incorrectly implies the Institute is a department within the hospital. Alternately, we recommend, "The MGH Institute of Health Professions, an academic affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital..."]

Source: Business Wire

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