DemianSzyldMD

Summary

• Demian Szyld (pronounced “Shield”) is an Attending Physician at Boston Medical Center where he cares for acutely ill and injured and enjoys being on high performance teams and supervising and teaching at the bedside. He is the Director of Innovation in Education and oversees the Innovation Incubator, a faculty development program for Emergency Medicine Faculty and co-directs the Fellowship Academy in Emergency Medicine.
  
  His academic and scholarly focuses on evidence-based approaches to teaching and assessing clinical skills and more recently on bringing the techniques of reflection and debriefing to the clinical setting studying and innovating on all aspects of Debriefing and other workplace learning opportunities.
  
  From 2017-2022 he was the Senior Director of the Institute for Medical Simulation – the Faculty Development Program at the Center for Medical Simulation. From 2011-2016 he was the Medical Director of the New York Simulation Center for the Health Sciences. Dr. Szyld is actively involved in the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and has chaired the Formal Training Affinity Group, led the Affiliations Committee and served as an Accreditation Site Reviewer and completed a term on the Board of Directors (2016-2019). He serves on the Editorial Board of Advances in Simulation.
  
  Demian trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and was the first Simulation and Education Fellow at the STRATUS Simulation Center at BWH. During that time, he completed a Master’s in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
  
  Demian grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina until the age of 14. His mother, grandmother and other extended family still live there. Demian currently lives in Cambridge, MA with his family who speak Spanish, English and Bengali.