Peter H Weinstock MD PhD
Associate in Critical Care Medicine
Director, Children's Hospital Boston Simulator Program
Harvard Medical School
300 Longwood Ave - MSICU Offices Bader 6
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, MA USA
Phone: 617-355-7327
Fax: 617-734-3863
Email: peter.weinstock@childrens.harvard.edu
Education and Professional Experience:
My professional career has focused on efforts to make a substantial and lasting contribution to the care of children through both research, simulation-based education, and clinical care. I received my MD and PhD (Molecular Biology) in NYC and went on to train in General Surgery and Pediatrics before completing my training in Pediatric Critical Care and becoming Staff at the Children's Hospital. I graduated from the Macy in 2005 and now serve on the Founding Board for the Children's Hosptial Teaching Academy. I have spent the past seven years involved in the founding and development of the Children’s Hospital Boston (CHB) Simulator Program, the first hospital-based simulator program in New England, where I now serve as Director.
Scholarly Interest:
My research has focused on optimizing medical simulation to promote safe and high quality patient care accross all pediatric sub specialists at all levels of training. The CHB Simulator Program has shown on-site simulation to be a robust mechanism to provide frequent and repetitive training of clinical and behavioral skills through over 30 highly interactive simulation based training programs and curricula—focused on teamwork/crisis resource management (CRM), competencies, communication and policy/guideline implementation—for over 1600 trainees, faculty and staff throughout a teaching hospital. Simulation is used for hopsital systems probing by delivering the technology to the point of care via a low cost, low space mobile cart. The CHB CRM course has become a prototype “turn key solution” for rapid upstart of teamwork training programs at multiple centers in both US and abroad. Current research activties include:
- Developing novel modes of information delivery
- Exploring stress response during simulated activities
- Exposing process errors during code-blue events
- Measuring effects of simulation training on patient satisfaction and comfort
- Measuring benefits of simulation on NRP and PALS training
- Design and engineering of novel integrated skills trainers to enhance pediatric simulation
Personal Background:
I was born and raised in New York City and therefore often yearn for a good bagel. A philosophy major, I spent most of my time in college (Columbia '89) involved in comedy writing, musical theater and the arts. My best audience is my wife and two children.