Co-Leader, Macy/Schmeidler Medical Student OpenNotes Educational Initiative at Harvard Medical School
Robert Stern, MD, Ed.M, is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and a hematologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Stern is the Associate Director of the Practice of Medicine—a foundational clinical skills course for first year medical and dental students at HMS. His interests include curriculum development and evaluation.
Along with several members from the OpenNotes team—including Dr. Anita Vanka—Dr. Stern has helped implement, teach, and disseminate a curriculum for medical students and their faculty preceptors on the core principles of patient-centered documentation in the era of open notes. Supported by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and Kate & Arnold Schmeidler, the “open notes curriculum” has been implemented at HMS and disseminated at various regional and national conferences.
In addition to his leadership with OpenNotes, Dr. Stern splits his time between the clinical care of hematology patients and medical education work. He serves as both the Co-Director of the Hematology Fellowship Training Program within the Dana Farber/Mass General Brigham Hematology-Oncology Fellowship program and Director of the Hematology-Oncology medical student elective at Dana Farber and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a member of the American Society of Hematology’s national Committee on Training.
Robert received his MD in 2013 from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He was elected to AOA and the Gold Humanism Honor Society as a medical student. He completed his internship and residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and his hematology-oncology fellowship at Dana Farber/Mass General Brigham. He served as both a chief medical resident and as a chief hematology-oncology fellow. He completed a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
