Associate Faculty

Avik Chatterjee, MD, MPH

Dr. Chatterjee is a med-peds trained primary care and addiction medicine physician physician at several shelter-based clinics through Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. His areas of clinical and research interest include innovative treatment models for opioid use disorder in vulnerable populations, and interventions on social determinants of health, such as food insecurity.

Richard Cash, MD, MPH

Richard Cash’s research interests include scaling health programs. He conducted clinical trials of oral rehydration therapy on adults and pediatric cholera patients and interventions to scale up programs especially in diarrhea management. Dr. Cash has also developed programs to assist low and middle income countries’ scientists in honing their research skills and directs a program… Continue reading Richard Cash, MD, MPH

Susan Block, MD*

Susan Block is a Senior Consultant to the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health care innovation at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She founded the program in 2011, and served as its… Continue reading Susan Block, MD*

Amy Billett, MD

Amy Billett is the Principal Investigator of a project through Ariadne Labs called “Making It Easier to Care for Your Central Line at Home: A Standardized Process to Reduce Ambulatory Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI).” This project is developing a model to decrease infection rates in pediatric hematology/oncology patients by ensuring that patients and… Continue reading Amy Billett, MD

William Berry, MD, MPH, MPA, FACS*

William Berry serves as the Strategic Advisor to the Chief Medical Officer and as Co-Founder of Ariadne Labs. In 2012, together with Atul Gawande, he co-founded the Labs and served as Chief Medical Officer for its first five years. For the last year, he has been the Chief Implementation Officer and created the Implementation Platform.… Continue reading William Berry, MD, MPH, MPA, FACS*

Rachelle Bernacki, MD, MS

Rachelle Bernacki, MD, MS, is the Director of Quality Initiatives in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Bernacki played a key role in developing the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs, which has developed a standardized approach for ensuring clinicians conduct discussions about end-of-life values and goals… Continue reading Rachelle Bernacki, MD, MS

Amy Baughman, MD, MPH

As a Hospitalist Physician and a Physician Advisor for Case Management at Massachusetts General Hospital, I work in several capacities to optimize patient flow and quality of care. In my prior role as a Director of Quality Improvement at the VA Boston, I had a unique vantage point as physician in both a hospital and… Continue reading Amy Baughman, MD, MPH

Salma Batool-Anwar, MD, MPH

Salma Batool-Anwar’s research focuses on integrating palliative care services for critically ill patients in intensive care units. In addition, she is interested in studying the public health impact of variety of sleep disorders.

Michael Barnett, MD

Dr. Michael L. Barnett is Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a primary care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Barnett received his MD from Harvard Medical School and completed a residency and fellowship in primary care and general internal medicine at Brigham… Continue reading Michael Barnett, MD

Stanley Ashley, MD

Stan Ashley is a GI Surgeon with interests in GME, CPD, and quality improvement. He has served as a member of a Ariadne task force focused on reducing patient safety risk from health systems expansion and currently is involved with the surgical coaching project.