Member, Board of Directors | Be Team International
Dr. Jason Dausman is an internal medicine and pediatric trained physician who has spent much of his early career working and teaching in low resource communities both domestically and internationally. His first job was as a teaching hospitalist at Christ Community Health Services, a federally qualified health center in Memphis. While there, he was invited to join the faculty at the University of Tennessee in Memphis and spent three years working with students and residents at the county and pediatric teaching hospitals. Colleagues from Memphis ultimately led him on a lecture tour through Afghanistan, where he first visited Cure Hospital in Kabul and saw the groundbreaking family medicine residency training program. This eye-opening trip and a year-long gap in teaching physicians ultimately led him back to Cure Hospital in 2006 and 2007 to teach internal medicine, pediatrics and manage the neonatology unit.
Upon returning to the U.S., he spent a year studying at Covenant Seminary while working part-time with plans to go back to Kabul. In 2010 after the Haiti earthquake and numerous volunteer trips, he decided to work full time as a hospitalist in St Louis at Mercy, a large Catholic health system. In 2015, he took on the role of Medical Director in clinical informatics, where he has spent the last five years focusing on electronic medical records optimization, provider education, quality improvement projects and has supported the acceleration of Mercy’s transformation into a healthcare platform.
He obtained his undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine and was the recipient of the Dean’s award. He trained in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, finishing in 2004.
He is married to Lindsay Rae, a nurse and fitness instructor, has three wonderful girls, and spends free time with his family in Tower Grove Park, playing soccer, teaching piano and reading books.