Malcolm “Kip” Mackenzie’s passion is to provide innovative and highly effective training opportunities in order to improve practitioners’skills and confidence, as well as improve the quality of surgical care and the health of women.

Following graduation from Harvard College, Dr. Mackenzie taught at both the Junior and High school level. His medical training was at Dartmouth Medical School graduating AOA in 1990 following which he began Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Maine Medical Center. After Fellowship training in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital he began practice.  Engaged in the practice of ObGyn for 35 years, he has made unerring commitment to teaching — his patients, his students and his colleagues.

With additional fellowship training in Medical Education, he is recipient of numerous teaching awards, holding or having held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, Boston University School of Medicine, and Northeastern University.  For the first half of his career having taught Dartmouth Medical School Clinical clerkships and for the last 15 years teaching medical students, residents and fellows at Mount Auburn Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he now is focused on providing surgical training courses for Residency programs and practicing surgeons throughout the country and abroad.

In 2005 as a practicing surgeon, Dr. Mackenzie identified in the accelerative change of surgical technique and technology the mandate that practicing surgeons pursue active ongoing skill development.  As an educator he knew that surgical training of mid-career surgeons must necessarily be skills-focused, hands-on and closely proctored creating for surgeons the opportunity for what is called “supervised deliberate practice” - identified as the most effective technique for surgical training. Recognizing the paucity of opportunity for intensive and robust hands-on learning  he invented Real Tissue Model™ high fidelity surgical simulation to support procedure specific and "All Hands-on All-the-Time"™ surgical training courses. His instructive focus begins with is on developing basic instrument skills including suturing and knot-tying, safe use of surgical energy, and facility in dissection of the retroperitoneum, all pointed towards the most advanced challenges implied by endometriosis excision.

Skilled in vaginal, laparoscopic, robotic and hysteroscopic surgery,  his clinical focus has been on endometriosis care: with curative results, he developed an excisional technique performing over 2500 cases of radical wide-field excision of classic, atypical and deep infiltrating disease of pelvis, bladder, bowel and diaphragm, tackling the most complex and challenging of endometriosis presentations. For 20 years seeing the transformative effect of the excision on women’s lives and the relative void of skilled endometriosis excision practitioners, he founded the Advanced Endometriosis Care Fellowship at Mount Auburn Hospital and aims to expand endometriosis training to a broader provider base.

It is this focus that is the foundation for much of the current mission of Gynesim. You can contact Kip at malcolmmackenzie@gynesim.com.