
Nora Downey is a Project Manager for the Serious Illness Care Program. In this role, she supports a portfolio of projects which aim to implement the Serious Illness Care Program in a variety of health systems.

Eesha Desai is a Research Assistant on the Primary Health Care team. In this role, she works across research initiatives in both global and domestic primary care. Primarily, her role involves research surrounding the implementation and refinement of the Progression Model and Vital Signs Profile for the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative. Eesha is also… Continue reading Eesha Desai

Christy Cauley, MD, MPH is a faculty member in the Safe Surgery Program at Ariadne Labs an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a lead investigator in HealthPrism work at Ariadne. Her currently funded research focuses on patient centered outcomes evaluation using mHealth as well as Improving… Continue reading Christy Cauley

Linda Vesel, PhD MPH is the Scientific Lead of the Low Birthweight Infant Feeding Exploration (LIFE) study at Ariadne Labs. She provides technical, strategic and day-to-day management of the LIFE study and it’s team in India, Malawi, Tanzania and the United States; and serves as a strategic thought partner to the Director of the BetterBirth… Continue reading Linda Vesel

Sam is the Manager of the Computer Science team on the Science and Technology platform. He provides leadership on projects requiring software development, data analytics, and scalable systems. He has partnered closely with teams across the Lab on designing and developing innovations in team communication, birth equity, vaccine delivery, health system measurement, and context assessment.… Continue reading Sam Woodbury

Stephanie Schorow is a part-time Writing and Communications Coordinator who assists the Ariadne Labs Communications team in producing copy for reports, press releases, the Web, social media and other outlets.

Laura Subramanian is the Senior Specialist, Monitoring and Evaluation at Ariadne Labs. In this role, she leads the development of monitoring and evaluation plans for Ariadne Labs’ programs, including protocol development, identifying indicators and data sources, supporting mixed methods analysis, and promoting utilization of data for quality improvement. She also collaborates with technology staff to… Continue reading Laura Subramanian

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

Douglas S. Smink, MD, MPH is the Chief of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital and the Associate Chair of Education at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is an Associate Professor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School and practices minimally invasive general surgery at both Brigham and Women’s and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospitals.… Continue reading Doug Smink

Jocie is a Research Manager on the Delivery Decisions Initiative team where she leads the Expecting More project, a national campaign to change the narrative about childbirth and highlight the role that every individual and institution has in supporting growing families in the United States. She also contributes to the Cities Challenge project. Previously, Jocie… Continue reading Jocie Fifield