Steve Dawson MD Chair

Dr. Dawson is an interventional radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). After graduating from Tufts Medical School, he did his radiology residency and a two year post-doctoral fellowship in Interventional Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also holds faculty appointments as Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As a means of integrating the revolutions in minimally invasive therapies and medical devices, Dr. Dawson and his surgical colleague, Dr. David Rattner, conceived and organized the Center for Innovative Minimally Invasive Therapy (CIMIT) in 1993. CIMIT now has over 300 participating employees and an annual budget of over $10 million.

In 1994, Dr. Dawson became interested in the possibilities for procedural medical training through computer-based simulations. Since that time, he has concentrated his research efforts in this area as leader of The SimGroup, a research group at CIMIT and Massachusetts General Hospital. In December 2000, the journal Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions published the first report of a simulator for interventional cardiology training, which was developed as collaboration between the Mitsubishi Research Laboratories and Dr. Dawson and colleagues from MGH. An accompanying editorial called the work "a breakthrough of astonishing and revolutionary importance." The commercial version of this system, called VIST (Mentice AB, Gothenburg, Sweden), has trained over 15,000 physicians at the Guidant Cardiovascular Training Institutes in Brussels and Tokyo, as well as individual sites throughout Europe, Asia, and .North America. The Group's work has been selected for inclusion in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC, and was exhibited at the Wellcome Collection in London in 2008 and the Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany, in 2009.

In addition to his research work, he remains an enthusiastic, active clinical interventional radiologist at MGH. He is on the simulation and education committees and subcommittees of the Radiological Society of North America, the Society of Interventional Radiology, and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe, and has consulted for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the American Society of Neuroradiology, the American College of Cardiology, and the Radiological Society of North America.

	Steve Dawson, MD Chair
	Dale Alverson, MD Director
	David M. Gaba, MD Secretary-Treasurer
	Gerald Moses, PhD Director and Industry Council Liaison