Nora Kayton Bryant, PhD, ACRP® received her PhD in Molecular Physiology & Biophysics from Vanderbilt University in 2015. Her doctoral work defined direct effects of glucose toxicity on in vivo human beta cell function and transcription factor expression, in the laboratory of Al Powers, MD. In 2016, Dr. Bryant began a postdoctoral fellowship at the… Continue reading Nora Kayton Bryant, PhD
Lindsay A. Martin, MSPH, is a healthcare improvement and innovation leader dedicated to system design, improvement, and innovation. She founded I-Squared Consulting Group and works with government entities, healthcare systems, and community organizations to advance the role of quality and safety within health systems and across populations. Ms. Martin is an Instructor in the Department… Continue reading Lindsay A. Martin, MSPH
Dr. Silobrcic is currently Executive Advisor to Innovaccer, Inc., where he was previously Vice President and Executive Director, Innovaccer Academy, heading the company’s efforts around its industry-leading platform for training programs and resources in transformative, value-based care. He is also Course Director and Adjunct Faculty in the Health Policy and Management Department of the Harvard… Continue reading Josko Silobrcic, MD, MPH, MS
Jason Pradarelli, MD, MS is the Medical Director at the Academy for Surgical Coaching, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to establishing a national network for surgeons to implement coaching for performance improvement. He is also a general surgery resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a former safe surgery fellow at Ariadne Labs. He is passionate… Continue reading Jason Pradarelli, MD, MS
Gareth Parry, PhD, Senior Scientist at IHI, leads the internal evaluation and dissemination system within IHI. Based on 30 years of experience in the quality and health services research field, he provides scientific leadership in several IHI programs and chairs the annual IHI Scientific Symposium. He regularly consults, teaches and presents on measurement and evaluation… Continue reading Gareth Parry, PhD
Eric Alper, MD is VP/Chief Quality Officer and Chief Clinical Informatics Officer at UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, MA. After Brown, he attended medical school and did his residency in Internal medicine at UMass in Worcester. He became the first Hospitalist and built the hospitalist program which now employs over 60 physicians. He led… Continue reading Eric Alper, MD
Deb Polzin-Rosenberg, RN, MArch is a nurse and architectural designer. She began her career training to be a midwife, but the sterile labor and delivery room, chaotic nursing stations and incessant beeping and chiming of the hospital environment left her deeply dissatisfied with the typical U.S. birth experience. She practiced as a registered nurse (RN)… Continue reading Deb Polzin-Rosenberg, RN, MArch
Christine Ritchie, MD, MSPH is Professor of Medicine and the Ken Minaker Chair of Geriatric Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a board-certified geriatrician and palliative care physician and conducts research focused on optimizing quality of life for those with chronic serious illness and multimorbidity. She has provided geriatrics and… Continue reading Christine Ritchie, MD, MSPH
Dr. Parikh is a medical oncologist with a focus on gastrointestinal malignancies at the Massachusetts General Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School. She has a robust clinical practice and is also involved with drug development and translational research, including work with liquid biopsies and the PI of a first of its kind national trial,… Continue reading Aparna Parikh, MD
I am a clinician investigator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. I see patients through my primary care clinic part-time, while the bulk of my work involves executing clinical trials focused on disease prevention. I spent over 10 years in training at Johns Hopkins University, completing my… Continue reading Stephen Juraschek, MD