David Feinstein MD

Dr. David Feinstein received his A.B. in Biochemistry from Harvard University in 1979. In 1983 he graduated from Tulane University with a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering. He then went on to Dartmouth Medical School where he graduated in 1987. He did his Preliminary Medicine Internship at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, RI and from there entered the Anesthesia Residency Program at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. David was appointed Chief Resident for his final half year of residency. During that CA-3 year, his clinical work concentrated on cardiac anesthesia at the Beth Israel Hospital, and he conducted research in physiologic modeling at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.

In 1991, David joined the hospital as a Staff Anesthesiologist and as an Instructor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He is currently Director of Information Technology and Simulator Training in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and has special interests in simulation training, airway management, safety training and technology assessment.

Dr. Feinstein was an invited member of the original Harvard Simulation Task Force, which formed in 1991 to investigate the possibility of using human patient simulators for medical education at Harvard. He helped design both the first and the current simulation facilities and through his fourteen-year involvement, has played a significant role in the development and implementation of simulator-based curriculum at the Center for Medical Simulation in Cambridge/Boston. He has contributed significantly in the creation and teaching of the Clinical Anesthesia first year curriculum, Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management (ACRM) I, II and Faculty, ACRM Instructor Course, Anesthesia for Amateur Course and Tele-Simulation programs.