Dr. Arbour is a physician anthropologist who implements and evaluates interdisciplinary interventions to promote child development globally, using a combination of experimental, ethnographic and quality improvement methodologies. She has particular interests in methods for adapting evidence-based practices across diverse contexts and populations, and in scale. Dr. Arbour’s expertise includes adapting continuous quality improvement methods (CQI)… Continue reading MaryCatherine Arbour, MD, MPH
Dr. Larissa Nekhlyudov is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is a practicing internist at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also Clinical Director, Internal Medicine for Cancer Survivors at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute where she offers clinical consultations for long term survivors of childhood… Continue reading Larissa Nekhlyudov, MD, MPH
Amie Shao is a Principal with MASS Design Group, where she oversees research focusing on health infrastructure planning, design, and evaluation. Blending human-centered design practices with evidence-based research, Amie has collaborated with Ariadne Labs and the Robert Wood Foundation to investigate the Impact of Design on Clinical Care in Childbirth, coordinated the production of National… Continue reading Amie Shao, MArch
Melissa Abraham, in her role as the Director for the MGH Division of Clinical Research’s Research Ethics Consultation Unit, uses her 15 year background as a member and Chair of the Partners IRB and a fellow in Bioethics at HMS, to consult with investigators to improve the quality of IRB submissions and reviews, by discussing… Continue reading Melissa Abraham, PHD, MSc
Dr. Kuhn is Medical Director for Critical Care at Cambridge Health Alliance and a HMS Clinical Instructor, based in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine. He also provides attending coverage for the Division of Infectious Diseases, and serves as the co-director of the Thoracic Mass Program at CHA. Dr. Kuhn completed… Continue reading Duncan Kuhn, MD
Dr. Ingrid Katz, MD, MHS is the Associate Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, and an Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She serves as an Associate Physician in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is a research scientist at the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts… Continue reading Ingrid Katz, MD, MHS
Cherie Lynn Ramirez is a faculty member in the Chemistry and Physics Department at Simmons University, where she teaches courses in biochemistry and public health. She earned her PhD in genetics at Harvard studying site-specific nucleases and their applications in genome engineering. She completed her post-doctoral training at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of… Continue reading Cherie Lynn Ramirez, PhD
Dr. Esteban Gershanik is a Medicine Hospitalist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Pediatric Hospitalist at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he recently served as Chief Medical Officer for the Medical Monitoring Station at the Convention Center in New Orleans and Medical Director for… Continue reading Esteban Gershanik, MD, MPH, MMSc, FAAP, FHM
Joyce K. Edmonds, Ph.D., M.P.H., RN, is an Associate Professor at Boston College, Connell School of Nursing. She received an MPH from Oregon Health Sciences University and a PhD from Emory University. She has over fifteen years’ experience in nursing and public health practice and research focused on maternal health outcomes. Dr. Edmonds has a… Continue reading Joyce K Edmonds
Michael Zalis serves as the chief medical officer of QPID Health, a medical informatics company based in Boston, MA. He is a board certified Radiologist with extensive experience in abdominal imaging, interventional radiology, computer science, and clinical research. Dr. Zalis continues to serve part-time as a staff member of Massachusetts General Hospital and as an… Continue reading Michael Zalis, MD