Associate Faculty

Ravi Kavasery, MD

Ravi Kavasery, MD, is Medical Director of Quality and Population Health for AltaMed Health Services — the largest federally qualified health center in the United States, serving the communities of Los Angeles. An experienced physician leader in primary care delivery systems, Dr. Kavasery’s responsibilities include leading a team dedicated to health system improvement, patient safety,… Continue reading Ravi Kavasery, MD

Susan Haas MD, MSc*

Susan Haas is co-PI for Ariadne Labs’ CRICO-funded work focused on reducing health care system expansion risks to patient safety. She oversees the planning and execution of the expansion risks work to design and test tools to be used prior to (elucidating the risks) and after affiliation ( prioritizing and mitigating the risks). Current work focuses… Continue reading Susan Haas MD, MSc*

Richard Gitomer, MD, MBA

Dr. Gitomer is the Director of the Brigham Health Primary Care Center of Excellence (COE). In this role he oversees approximately 200 primary care providers within sixteen locations across the Brigham catchment area. Until COVID the COE was focusing on creating a value-based primary care platform within a large academic medical center. Prior to the… Continue reading Richard Gitomer, MD, MBA

Erik Fromme, MD, MCR, FAAHPM*

Erik Fromme, MD, MCR, Faculty, Serious Illness Care Program.

Nicolas Encina, MS Computer Science, MS Cell Biology, MBA*

Nic is chief science and technology officer at Ariadne Labs and oversees the computer-, data-, and implementation sciences teams. He is a cross-discipline specialist who has played key roles in building teams and pioneering innovation at technology and pharmaceutical companies. He has almost two decades of front line operating experience leading R&D teams, corporate strategy,… Continue reading Nicolas Encina, MS Computer Science, MS Cell Biology, MBA*

Peter Berman, MSc, PhD

Prof. Peter Berman (M.Sc, Ph.D) is a health economist with forty years of experience in research, policy analysis and development, and training and education in global health. Prof. Berman is Professor and Director, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada, and Adjunct Professor in Global Health at Harvard T.… Continue reading Peter Berman, MSc, PhD

Benjamin Bearnot, MD

After completing combined fellowships in community health leadership and addiction medicine, Dr. Benjamin Bearnot is now a research faculty member in the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Mongan Institute in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His clinical research and implementation science training… Continue reading Benjamin Bearnot, MD

Emily Aaronson, MD

Dr. Emily Aaronson is Associate Chief Quality Officer at Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at MGH. She also serves as an Associate Medical Director for CRICO, the risk management foundation of the Harvard medical institutions. Prior to this,… Continue reading Emily Aaronson, MD

Hilary Placzek, PhD, MPH

I love helping people and organizations thrive by conducting rigorous person-centered clinical research. My research focuses on implementing clinically relevant qualitative and quantitative metrics to measure the impact of social and behavioral health interventions at scale as well as establishing use cases for how, when (and if) to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms… Continue reading Hilary Placzek, PhD, MPH

Marcus McKinney, D.Min, LPC

Dr. Marcus M. McKinney is a Psychotherapist (LPC CT) in Northeast Connecticut at Day Kimball Healthcare. His 35-year career includes serving as Regional Vice President & Chief Health Equity Officer for Trinity Health Of New England, a five hospital system in Hartford, CT. He is Co-Founder of the Curtis D. Robinson Center for Health Equity… Continue reading Marcus McKinney, D.Min, LPC