James Kimo Takayesu, MD

Dr. James Kimo Takayesu, an attending physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, received his M.D. from the University of California San Francisco in 1999 during which time he also earned a Masters in Health Sciences Education from UC Berkeley. He completed his residency with the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program (HAEMR) at Mass General Brigham in 2003. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Takayesu served as the Associate Residency Director of HAEMR from 2004-2018 during which time he organized and implemented the integration of simulation education and competency assessment into the residency curriculum. He also served as the Assistant Clerkship Director & Clerkship Director of the Emergency Medicine at MGH from 2004-2018. His teaching excellence and educational innovation have been recognized by multiple awards including the MGH Department of Internal Medicine Stanley Wyman Educator Award, MGH Department of Emergency Medicine Educator of the Year Award, many HAEMR Outstanding Attending Awards, and the MGH Physician Assistant Attending of the Year Award.

He is currently the HAEMR Education Fellowship Director (est. 2018) as well as the MGH Departmental Simulation Officer, coordinating inter-professional educational initiatives in both the MGH Learning Lab and in-situ in the MGH emergency department.