Roxane Gardner MD, MPH, MSHPEd, DSc. is a board-certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she helped develop and co-directs a simulation-based perinatal team training and obstetrical safety drills program. She is a non-clinical faculty member of Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anethesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine and has worked at Center for Medical Simulation (CMS) since 2001. At CMS, she designed, implemented and currently co-directs a human simulation-based team training program for labor and delivery teams. She also serves as the CMS Senior Director for Clinical Programs and directs the CMS Simulation Fellowship and International Scholars Program. Patient safety, team training and simulation are the focus of her research.