Staff

She obtained her medical degree from the University of Cambridge and is undertaking her postgraduate training in London. Her research interests are how to increase value by implementing behavior change in the clinical environment in high and low resource settings. Prior to becoming a doctor, Reena trained as a pharmacist where one of her roles was leading a national project with the Royal College of Physicians on inappropriate prescribing for older people.

Prior to working at Ariadne Labs, Elizabeth was a litigation paralegal at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in New York City and spent a short stint as the Operations Coordinator at the Woods Hole Film Festival in Cape Cod.

Elizabeth earned her B.A. in Sociology from Vassar College.

Prior to Ariadne Labs, Margaret worked for Pathfinder International as a Program Officer providing technical and financial monitoring and operational support to field offices in Angola, Mozambique, and South Africa. Before that, Margaret worked for Management Sciences for Health, first as a Project Support Associate and later as an Operations Officer, supporting projects and offices in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and South America. She has also worked for the MA Department of Public Health’s Bureau of Substance Abuse Services as the Adolescent Services Coordinator. Margaret holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Policy Studies from Syracuse University and a Master’s in Public Health with a Global Health concentration from Boston University.

Prior to joining Ariadne Labs, Emily was at Tufts University School of Medicine in their department of Public Health and Community Medicine. While there, she researched the relationship between substance use, sexual risk, and STI knowledge. She also has experience with maternal and child health projects in Kenya and Guatemala, and worked at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Emily earned her BA in Sociology with a minor in Italian from Holy Cross, and her MPH in Global Health from Tufts University School of Medicine.

Rachelle received her B.S. from Cornell University, her M.S. from the University of Chicago where she completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

He is an assistant professor of medicine and health care policy at the Division of General Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, and is a member of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center for Primary Care. He has studied extensively the dissemination and outcomes around the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) in the United States. He practices primary care internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at their South Huntington medical home practice.

In addition, he serves as a senior advisor at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation for the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, a broad multi-state, multi-payer effort matching payment reform to sustainable primary care transformation.

Prior to this role Lauren worked at Pathfinder International where she supported the implementation of a complex service delivery project in central and southern Haiti. She also previously worked on family planning and maternal child health programs in Togo, Ghana and Zambia.

Lauren holds a BA in International Studies from American University and a MPH from Boston University.

Prior to joining Ariadne Labs, Lisa worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital for seven years. Positions she held include: Executive Assistant to the Chief of IVF and Oncology Resource Specialist with the Social Services department.

Lisa earned her BA in Sociology from Emmanuel College.

Prior to Ariadne Labs, Susan worked as both a Project Manager and a Software Quality Assurance Engineer in Data Warehousing in the Life Sciences domain. She has worked in both start-ups and highly mature organizations and has a history of bringing proven processes and methodologies to software projects to enable the delivery of solutions.

Susan graduated from Denison University with a Bachelors of Science in Biology.

Prior to working at Ariadne Labs, Sharelle worked as a Fellowship Coordinator at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Sharelle earned her Bachelor’s in Social Work from Wheelock College.

Prior to joining the Ariadne Labs team, she was a Project Manager for the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and served as a community healthcare worker in the Gambia for the United States Peace Corps. 

Lizzie earned a B.A. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona.

Prior to Ariadne Labs, Kyle worked as Program Manager at Grounds for Health, managing staff, programs, and partnerships to integrate cervical cancer prevention services into primary healthcare and outreach in Peru, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, and Kenya. She served as an AmeriCorps volunteer for two years in Alaska and also worked at the Urban Institute’s Center on International Development and Governance.

Kyle received her MPH from UCBerkeley where she worked on the Girl-Child Education Project in Nigeria and her BA in Biology from Dartmouth College.

During graduate school, Jocie worked as a consultant for Ibis Reproductive Health where she studied contraceptive use among HIV+ South Africans and was a teaching assistant for a quantitative data analysis class. Jocie received her MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in the Population and Family Health department in 2017 where she was a Rosenfield Scholar in Sexual and Reproductive Health. She holds a BA in Art History and Practice from Williams College.

Jennifer has over 15 years of experience working with healthcare and life sciences data. Previously Jennifer was a member of the Life Sciences team at Humedica, part of Optum, where she led a team to implement improved infrastructure to their data factory. The improvements reduced production time of client deliverables dramatically, increased data quality, gave control of the data to end-users instead of programmers, and enabled internal clients to focus on developing new revenue streams instead of rote data delivery. Jennifer has had similar roles at the Department of Veteran Affairs as part of MAVERIC and at Partners Healthcare supporting the Dana-Farber Cancer Institution.

Jennifer earned her Masters in Health Informatics from Northeastern University. She earned her BS in Mathematics from the College of Charleston.

Grace earned her MPH in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Grace graduated from The George Washington University with a BA in International Affairs and with a concentration in international economics and development.

Prior to this role, Jon worked as an Epidemiologist for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, overseeing health management information systems and staff, developing research and monitoring protocols, and conducting infectious disease investigations. Internationally, he has worked in Swaziland, India, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Malawi, Rwanda, and Uganda. Additionally, Jon worked for five years as a Senior Project Director for the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies and Center for Evaluation and Applied Research at The New York Academy of Medicine. Jon has authored scientific publications and presentations focusing on innovative M&E approaches, real-time data feedback for quality improvement, novel modalities for patient outcomes assessment, maternal/neonatal health, end-of-life care, HIV/MDR-TB, and addiction medicine.

Jon earned his BA in International Affairs with a concentration in Global Public Health from The George Washington University, and his MPH in Sociomedical Science from Columbia University.

Emily has over 12 years of experience working as a nurse and public health practitioner in a variety of clinical settings, including Primary Care, Urgent Care, and Infectious Disease. Previously, she was the Director of Adolescent Clinical Trials at Fenway Health and was responsible for the development, oversight and implementation of biomedical research studies for young people living with HIV. In this position, she spearheaded multiple local and national efforts to engage young people in HIV treatment and prevention research through developing educational events and programs geared towards reducing stigma and promoting healthier sexual practices.

Emily earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from MidAmerica Nazarene University and a Master in Public Health from Boston University.

Prior to this role, Sergey worked as a Program Analyst at Partners Healthcare and VA Boston Healthcare developing several open source natural language processing (NLP) systems. He also has extensive experience accessing and working with data in EMR systems.

Sergey earned his MS degree in Computer Science from Boston University.

Before joining Ariadne Labs, Caroline spent five years working at Boston University, where she managed a portfolio of maternal and child health research and service delivery projects in Zambia. Principal among these was the Zambia Chlorhexidine Application Trial, a large-scale community based randomized controlled trial focused on neonatal survival. Prior to BU, Caroline worked as a consultant to several organizations on global health projects including HIV and reproductive health research projects in Ghana, Botswana, Kenya, and Uganda. She also has several years of experience in the development office at a global health management consulting organization. Caroline spent two years living in Mali as a volunteer and trainer with the Peace Corps, where she focused on community-based maternal and child health projects.

Caroline has a Master of Science in Global Health and Population from Harvard School of Public Health and an AB in History from Brown University.

Dr. Haas’s non clinical work has focused on three areas: Physician Leadership, Quality/Patient Safety, and Practice Variation.  In those roles she focused on development of future leaders, functional teams at all levels, and processes to measure, improve, and sustain quality outcomes.  In addition to serving as vice chair of the Quality and Patient Safety Committee of the MA Board of Registration in Medicine, Susan has a longstanding interest in EBM and Provider Practice Variation Analysis (PPVA) and serves on the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners PPVA combined leaders group. Most recently she was department chair of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates ObGyn.  When not at Ariadne Labs, she serves as Clinician in Residence at Northeastern’s Healthcare Systems Engineering institute where she provides input to systems engineers on the operations, culture, and financing of hospital operations.

Susan received her AB from Mount Holyoke College, her MD from Harvard Medical School, and her MSc from the Harvard School of Public Health.  She completed her residency in ObGyn and fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

He is Associate Chair of  Anesthesiology at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts University School of Medicine.  He is a past president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.  Representing ASA, he led the development of physician quality measures in anesthesiology and critical care for the AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement.  He serves on the national Council on Surgical and Perioperative Safety and was chair of its Board in 2013.  He led the creation of the Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI) and its National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry, and serves on the AQI Board of Directors.

Alex received his A.B. from Vassar College and his M.D. from Tufts University, followed by residency and fellowship training in anesthesiology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

Previously, Alex led the pilot study for the World Health Organization’s “Safe Surgery Saves Lives” campaign. In this role he led a multi-institutional study of a checklist-based intervention to reduce complications and death following surgery in eight countries. He has published in numerous high-impact journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Lancet, Health Affairs, and Cancer.

Alex received his BA from Tulane University, his MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and his MD from Wayne State University School of Medicine. His clinical training includes residency in general surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and fellowship in surgical oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and is board certified in surgery and complex general surgical oncology.

Additionally, she has been an evaluator for the Clinical and Systems Transformation project in British Columbia and SAMHSA’s national children’s mental health systems of care program, and was a research scientist at the British Columbia Center for Disease Control. Natalie has taught courses at the University of British Columbia on program development and evaluation, medical anthropology and human evolution and has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Latin America, Fiji and with ethnic communities in Detroit. She has published numerous scientific articles and is co-author of the book “Why Humans Cooperate.” Natalie earned her PhD in Anthropology from UCLA and her MPH from Harvard University.

Nicola’s extensive background in research management and clinical program management includes experience at Partners HealthCare, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Nicola received her B.S. in Management and Marketing from the University of Massachusetts – Boston and her M.B.A. from Simmons College.

Prior to joining Ariadne, Molly was a Manager of Recruiting & HR Operations at Cambridge Associates.

Molly earned her BA from the University of New Hampshire.

Before joining Ariadne Labs, Brooke spent six years working at Management Sciences for Health, where she provided program support to a range of health service delivery projects primarily in Africa that focused on HIV, malaria, and child health. Prior to MSH, Brooke worked with Boston University’s Center for International Health and Development Zambia where she supported the scale-up of early infant diagnosis of HIV in the Southern Province of Zambia.

Brooke earned her B.A. from University of California Santa Barbara and her MPH from Boston University’s School of Public Health.

In the past, Amanda has held administrative and customer service-based positions in banking and insurance. Amanda earned her B.A. in Psychology at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Prior to this role, Nabihah served as a strategy consultant at The Bridgespan Group, where she advised foundations, nonprofits, and philanthropists on achieving greater impact. Previously, Nabihah worked at the Aga Khan Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, where she supported maternal child health field-based programs and community health insurance and savings groups throughout East Africa, Central and South Asia. She also brings expertise in monitoring and evaluation, change management, and knowledge dissemination through her past experiences at The Clinton Foundation and Management Sciences for Health.

Nabihah received her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Global Health from Duke University, and a joint Master of Science degree in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from the London School of Economics and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Ami has worked with Dr. Gawande in her capacity as a Research Assistant for over eight years. She is currently researching the ethics of quality improvement and human subjects research and the history of the quality improvement movement in medicine. Previously, Ami worked in the education field as a teacher, mentor, and tutor.

Ami’s background is in the history of science and medicine, including a B.A. in History and Science from Harvard University. She has received extensive training in oral history in addition to more traditional historical research practices.

Prior to joining Ariadne Labs, Jane worked as the Senior Research Strategist for PolicyLab at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In this role, she led the center’s work of translating research findings into policy and practice recommendations. Jane earned her BA in History from Yale.

Prior to working at Ariadne Labs, April interned at PATH in Washington, D.C. and at a community health NGO and HIV/TB hospital in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.

April earned her A.B. in Sociology with a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy from Harvard University.

Janaka received a BA in Anthropology and Economics at UNC-Chapel Hill. She then served as a high school teacher in Durham, NC through the Teach for America program. She attended medical school at Duke University, where she continued international health work in central India and East Africa, as well as health policy work with the World Health Organization. Following medical school, she began her general surgery residency at Indiana University, where she has completed her third year.

Josh is also an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician on the Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care team at the Dana – Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Josh completed his medical training at the University of California, San Francisco and was recognized for leading a number of quality improvement projects, including a successful incentive program to increase standardized and effective documentation of advance care planning discussions. In the past, he has also worked in the field of business as a consultant for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Earth Institute of Columbia University, Butterfield Bank of Bermuda, McKinsey & Co., and as a financial analyst for Tektronix, Inc.

Josh earned his B.A. from Willamette University, his Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical accreditation from Columbia University, and his M.D. from Brown Medical School. He completed his fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Her first rounds at Brigham and Women’s Hospital occurred around the age of four, when she would accompany her father, a cardiologist, on the weekends. At this point, interest in medicine took a back seat to her interest in journalism. She did, however, embark on a stint as the editor of Harvard University’s daily paper and then a year at the Miami Herald as a medical reporter. After this, Daniela moved to New York City for medical school and ultimately moved back to Boston to work for a year with the New England Journal. Daniela is currently entering her second year of pulmonary fellowship and is excited to work with the End-of-Life Program team.

Daniela received her M.D. from Columbia University and her B.A. from Harvard University with a concentration in history of science. During medical school, Daniela completed her residency at New York Presbyterian-Columbia, where she studied interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and access to tertiary care.

Stu is also Director of Biostatistical Services at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as well as a collaborative statistician in the Division of General Internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a full professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Stu dedicates his efforts to biostatistical methods and collaborative research. To date, he has served as co-author on over 300 publications and has more than 100 publications in top statistical journals. In the past, Stu has held faculty appointments at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Medical University of South Carolina.

Stu received his B.A. from Mathematics University of South Carolina and his M.S. in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Stu attained his Sc.D. in Biostatistics at Harvard University. He completed post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Prior to this role, Carrie was the Associate Director of Research Finance at Northeastern University, responsible for management of the central post-award finance function. Before that, Carrie worked in various finance, management and capacity building roles on international sponsored projects at Harvard University, which included five years working in Africa as Director of Finance & Administration for PEPFAR in Tanzania and Program Manager for a USAID-funded public finance project in Ethiopia.

Carrie earned an MPH from the BU School of Public Health in 2006 and is currently completing an MBA/MS in Finance at Northeastern University.

Prior to joining Ariadne Labs, Jenny worked for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières as an epidemiologist on a project focused on the treatment and prevention of Tuberculosis in Uzbekistan. Jenny also worked for the University of Oxford at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, where she conducted research on English nationally linked hospital admission records and studied trends in medical careers to inform workforce policy.

Jenny received a BSc from McGill University in Kinesiology and International Development Studies and an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

In addition, Francine serves as the Ethics & Regulatory Specialist on the Science and Technology Platform at Ariadne Labs. In her role, Francine works with the Ariadne Labs’ project teams to ensure the projects protocols and procedures comply with the applicable local and international regulatory standards; develops research guidelines and education and training materials; and serves as a bridge between Ariadne Labs’ project teams and outside regulatory bodies.

Prior to Ariadne Labs, Francine worked as a Project Manager for Partners HealthCare in their division of Clinical Quality Analysis on a number of projects focusing on the use of health information technology and patient safety. In this time, she also managed research projects related to the use of informatics to improve the clinician experience, including making it easier to track and follow-up on abnormal test results.

Francine earned her BA in Philosophy/Ethics from Simmons College. She also received a MPH in Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights from Boston University School of Public Health.

In addition, Ernest is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician in the Division of Renal (Kidney) Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he provides consultative services to individuals with kidney disease in the intensive care units. Ernest also serves as the staff nephrologist at Hebrew SeniorLife, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated provider of comprehensive elder care to seniors in the Boston area. Ernest teaches renal physiology and pathophysiology to students at the Harvard Medical School, for which he has received several teaching awards, and is the director of the Geriatric Nephrology Curriculum for the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital Joint Nephrology Fellowship Program. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology.

Ernest obtained his A.B. from Harvard College, his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine, and his S.M. in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and his fellowship in Nephrology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital, during which he was named an American Kidney Fund Clinical Scientist in Nephrology.

Prior to starting at Ariadne Labs, Anup worked in finance for the Boston based investment manager Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo & Co (GMO).  At GMO, he worked with various groups across the globe to solve problems, implement new tools and platforms, and streamline processes to make his organization more competitive. In working with such a variety of business and software IT/development groups, he learned complex data systems from the bottom up to articulate and help realize the most innovative and effective solutions possible.

Anup grew up in California and attended University of California, Davis where he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics.

Megan has over 8 years of experience in public health and is committed to improving the quality of nursing practice both domestically and abroad.   Prior to Ariadne Labs, she served as Nurse Advisor for the Ministry of Health of Palau, where she worked to build nursing leadership capacity and implement evidenced-based changes in nursing practice related to childbirth and emergency care.

Additionally, Megan worked as a Research Study Coordinator with the Johns Hopkins School  of Medicine to investigate the safety culture of nurse anesthetists in Sierra Leone,  practiced as a clinical nurse at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and served in the United States Peace Corps in Honduras.

Megan is a registered nurse and holds a dual Master of Public Health and Master of Science in Nursing, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Skidmore College.

Before joining Ariadne in November 2016, Kate was Director of Population Health at Optum Patient Insights, leading a strategic effort to support patient-reported outcomes in population health management following the Affordable Care Act. Previously, Kate’s work focused on measurement of reproductive health care quality in sub-Saharan Africa and the US, working first at the Population Council and later at Ibis Reproductive Health, where she also served on the Senior Management Team.

Kate’s background is in statistics, research design, health quality measurement, and reproductive health services. She earned her MPH in Population and Family Health at Columbia University and PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania as a William Penn Fellow.

She is a second-year Global Women’s Health Fellow through the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at BWH. Her global health work focuses on implementing an adapted Safe Childbirth Checklist in rural Chiapas, Mexico with Partners In Health.

Prior to working at Ariadne Labs, Alexandra worked for the Merrimack Valley YMCA as their School Age Child Care Director where she gained her passion for impacting the lives of children and the community around her.

Alexandra earned her B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies and MEd. in Instructional Design both from Western Governors University.

Prior to his work at Ariadne Labs, Brandon worked as a Biostatistician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where he provided statistical support to multiple ongoing clinical trials as well as trained new Biostatisticians and oriented them to the ongoing research. His previous work also includes time at Boston University’s Center for Global Health and Development as a Program Administrator. While working at Boston University, Brandon was also a teaching assistant for the Global Health Department’s Kenya Field Practicum Program.

Brandon earned his MPH from Boston University with a concentration in Epidemiology. He earned his BS in Biology from Messiah College.

Prior to this role, Bridget was an analyst at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, where she was responsible for creating avoidable use reports from claims data and helped lead the implementation of a business intelligence package. Most of Bridget’s career, however, was spent as a statistical programmer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she worked in an outcomes research group using very large claims datasets to identify patterns of care for various cancers.  In her spare time, she taught SAS at BU SPH for several years.

Bridget earned her MPH from Emory University with a concentration in Epidemiology.  She earned her BA in Chemistry from Colby College.

Christine has worked at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Cambridge Health Alliance and Health Leads in various accounting and finance roles.

Christine received her B.S in Finance and MBA from Alliant International University, San Diego CA. She also has a certificate in Forensic Accounting from Northeastern University.

She joined Ariadne Labs in 2015 from Florida International University in Miami where she served as speechwriter to the president, editor of the university’s magazine, a news writing instructor in the School of Communication & Journalism, and associate director of News and Communications, a role that entailed leading creative campaigns, co-founding and directing TEDxFIU and serving as a video and documentary producer. A former daily newspaper reporter, Deborah was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative and explanatory journalism and was the recipient of the Loeb Award and the Courageous Journalist Award from the Florida Society of Professional Journalists. She has a BA in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida and an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Florida International University.

Stephanie earned a B.S. in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy and a minor in chemistry from Duke University. She is currently a third year medical student at the Duke University School of Medicine.

Jo completed her internship and residency training in Primary Care and Population Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She completed her fellowship training in Palliative Care at Harvard’s Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Prior to working at Ariadne Labs, Tanya worked as an Executive Assistant at Tufts Medical Center and Project Manager at Grameen America. She was a U.S. Fulbright scholar to Bangladesh in 2004.

Tanya holds an M.A. in International Development and Social Change from Clark University, and a B.A. in International Relations from James Madison College at Michigan State University.

Natalie first joined Ariadne Labs as an intern while completing her undergraduate degree. Prior to Ariadne Labs, Natalie conducted epigenetics research at a wet lab at Boston College, her alma mater.

Natalie earned her B.A. in Biology with a minor in Medical Humanities, Health, and Culture from Boston College. She will ultimately pursue a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, where she has deferred matriculation for one year in order to continue her work at Ariadne Labs.

Prior to joining Ariadne Labs, Avery interned with health-focused NGOs and start-up companies. In these roles, she contributed to projects ranging from researching best practice in medical training assessment to developing prototypes for clinical neuroscience research.

Avery earned her BA in Neuroscience and Economics from Dartmouth College and is currently completing her MPH in Health Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Previous positions include managing a hospital-based Staff Development and Training Department, creating the position of Training Coordinator for the New York State Governor’s Office of Employee Relations labor/management Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) and serving as Associate Faculty for the Continuing Medical Education Section of the Albany Medical College Department of Psychiatry. Katrinka graduated from UCLA with a degree in Sociology and has a Master of Science Degree in Health Science Education from Russell Sage College in Troy, New York.

Before joining Ariadne Labs in 2015, Hannah worked at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a Project Manager on an implementation research project focused on defining and measuring disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth and promoting respectful maternity care. Hannah has a strong background in implementation science, particularly in the fields of maternal and child health, and has worked in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, Bangladesh, and the United States.

Hannah holds a Master of Science in Global Health and Population with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a BA in Biology from Williams College.

Prior to coming to Ariadne Labs, Rebecca worked for numerous departments at Harvard University between Boston and Cambridge, including the Department of Environmental Health (Occupational Health Program) as well as the Office for External Relations at the School of Public Health. She also worked as an Events Coordinator for Harvard’s Alumni Affairs and Development Office, supporting and taking the lead in multiple events throughout the Boston area.

Rebecca studied Deaf Culture at Northeastern University and is fluent in American Sign Language.

Before coming to Ariadne Labs and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Jim worked at CRICO/Risk Management Foundation.

Jim graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and received his Master’s degree in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard University Extension School in 2014.

Raffaella is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Faculty Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. In the past, Raffaella’s research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals including: The American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics and The Economic Journal. In 2012, Raffaella was nominated as a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation for her work.

Raffaella received her undergraduate degree in Economics from the Università La Sapienza of Rome, Italy, her M.Sc. in Economics from the University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, Spain, and her Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Justin is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in the Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care department at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As a Fulbright Scholar, Justin studied barriers to utilization of hospice services among South Asian Muslims in East London, UK. Justin has a BA in Art History from Haverford College, an MD from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and an MSc in medical anthropology from University College London. He completed internship, residency and a chief residency in Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and is a recent graduate of the Harvard Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Fellowship.

Justin’s academic interests lay at the intersection of culture, communication, and serious illness, with a focus on disparities and quality measurement in serious illness communication. He is a 2016 recipient of the Cambia Health Sojourn Scholars Award, a leadership focused career development award for future leaders in palliative care.

Previously, Kizzy worked as a Research Finance Manager at Brigham & Women’s Hospitals in the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management with a concentration in Finance and is currently pursuing her MBA degree at Simmons College.

Neel is also the Founder and Executive Director of Costs of Care, a global NGO that curates insights from clinicians that help delivery systems provide better care at lower cost. He is listed among the “40 smartest people in healthcare” by the editorial staff of Becker’s Hospital Review, and has been profiled by CNN, the New Yorker, and other outlets for his efforts to expose how overtreatment can harm patients. In 2015 he co-authored the book Understanding Value-Based Healthcare (McGraw-Hill). He is an advisor to Square Roots (a maternal health life sciences company) and the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Neel earned joint degrees in medicine and public policy from Brown University and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He completed residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.

For over 15 years, Robbie has managed domestic and international research projects focused on HIV prevention and treatment, maternal and child health, and health services. At Fenway Health, she served as Project Director for two multi-site, federally-funded research networks where she was responsible for capacity building and managing the execution of behavioral, epidemiological, and clinical research studies.

Robbie received her BA from Northwestern University, MPH from University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and DrPH from Boston University.

Previously Shreyas developed scalable enterprise applications for the GenISIS (Genomic Information System for Integrated Science) Platform to support the Million veteran project at the Department of Veteran Affairs as part of MAVERIC. He was one of the Technical Lead/Architect for the Participant recruitment and enrollment side of GenISIS where he designed and developed applications for site coordination, mail management and call center. Before joining the VA, he developed software for the Hedge fund industry at Eze Castle Software working on various projects from writing software for interfaces between multiple systems to Trader management console.

Shreyas earned his MS from the Syracuse University in Computer Engineering.

Before joining Ariadne, Courtney worked as a graphic designer in the Publications unit for MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program, where she handled layouts for public-facing and internal government materials.

She received her BFA in Illustration from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Prior to working at Ariadne Labs, Lina worked as the Event Coordinator at Chamber Theatre Productions and as an Executive Assistant for a Boston-based yoga teacher.

Lina earned her B.A. in Psychology from Tufts University.

Hillary has eight years of global development and public health experience. Before joining Ariadne Labs, she supported global health projects as a graduate intern at John Snow, Inc. Previously, Hillary worked as a health policy specialist and lobbyist for an association representing community-based mental health and addiction treatment providers. She began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Dominica, where she focused on the public health, community development, and education sectors. Hillary earned a MBA in Nonprofit Management and a MSc in Global Health Policy and Management from The Heller School at Brandeis University.

Prior to this, Danielle spent 10 years in program management roles designing, monitoring and implementing complex international development projects. She spent over 5 years managing US Government-funded projects in the US and Latin America. Danielle served as Technical Writer for the USAID Public Policy Reform Program in Bogota, Colombia where she supported the development of the program’s knowledge management and communications strategy, and as Operations Manager on a range of USAID and local government programs, overseeing budgeting, contracting, logistics and compliance issues.

Danielle holds a Master of Health Science from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and a BA in Psychology from Barnard College/Columbia University.

Liz’s extensive background in research administration includes working with the Framingham Heart Study for 13 years and the Department of Medicine at Boston University & Boston Medical Center for the past 2 years. In her last year at BU, she served on a newly created advisory council to help guide and develop policies and procedures for training and management of sponsored research throughout the institution. She also utilizes her accounting skills as a volunteer to help small, local non-profits manage their finances. Liz received her B.S in Accounting and Business Administration from Gordon College as well as an MBA with a concentration in non-profit management from Suffolk University.