Arabella L Simpkin, MA, BMBCh, MRCPCH, MMSc
Arabella Simpkin is the Associate Director of the Center for Educational Innovation and Scholarship at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She recently became the inaugural Manager of Innovation Strategy at Harvard Macy Institute. Arabella trained in adult medicine and paediatrics in the UK, and holds Membership to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Arabella’s research focuses on medical decision-making, with particular emphasis on how best to acknowledge and communicate uncertainty. She is committed to designing and researching innovative approaches to the teaching of medicine particularly in diagnostic reasoning, resilience, and embracing uncertainty.
Arabella earned an MA in Physiological Sciences and a medical degree (BMBCh) from Lincoln College at Oxford University, and an MMSc in Medical Education from Harvard Medical School. She is currently enrolled in a DPhil program in the Department of Pharmacology at Oxford University.