HMS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Medicine
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Director of International Innovation Programs, Office for External Education
- Endocrinologist, Clinical Investigator and Teacher
Biography
A. Enrique Caballero, MD, is an endocrinologist, clinical investigator and teacher/educator at Harvard Medical School. He is the director of International Innovation Programs in the Office for External Education and the director of Diabetes Education in the Postgraduate Medical Education Department at Harvard Medical School, where he leads the development of educational programs that benefit health care professionals and patients around the world. Dr. Caballero is also the director of Latino Diabetes Health in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension and an associate scientist in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is also an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Caballero has had a strong and long commitment to helping underserved populations. He founded the Latino Diabetes Initiative at the Joslin Diabetes Center and the Diabetes Program within the Spanish Clinic at Brigham and Women's, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School. He is currently the director of Latino Diabetes Health in the Division of Endocrinology at Brigham and Women's.
Dr. Caballero has been actively involved in multiple activities aiming at eliminating health care disparities through national and international organizations such as the American Diabetes Association, the Endocrine Society, the National Hispanic Medical Association, the National Minority Quality Forum, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, the Latin American Diabetes Association, and the International Diabetes Federation among others. He is also the immediate past chair of the Health Care Disparities Committee at the American Diabetes Association.
Through multiple activities in the areas of patient care, patient education, community outreach, clinical research and professional education, Dr. Caballero's work has favorably impacted the lives of thousands of people and families with diabetes or at risk for the disease.
Dr. Caballero's research interests include type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease prevention, as well as the management of diabetes in racial/ethnic minorities. He has been a co-investigator of the National Diabetes Prevention Program, the Look AHEAD Program and the Diabetes Education Study, all sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Caballero has written numerous publications on how diabetes affects the Latino/Hispanic community, diabetes management and prevention, obesity and the link between diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is also an editor and reviewer for multiple prestigious medical journals.
Dr. Caballero has received local, regional, national and international recognitions and awards. He is the recipient of the 2009 "Alberto Houssay" award by the National Minority Quality Forum, the 2011 award by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists for his work on health care disparities and with underserved populations, and the 2012 Distinguished Community Service and Leadership Award by ALPFA Health Care. In addition, Dr. Caballero was recently named an honorary member of the Dominican Republic Endocrinology and Nutrition Society for his contributions to the Hispanic/Latino community. He also received special recognition from the government of Mexico for his continuous effort and commitment to helping underserved populations. Lastly, he is the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Harold Amos award given by Harvard Medical School as a recognition of his contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion in health care.
Dr. Caballero graduated from the National University of Mexico Medical School, where he was awarded the "Gabino Barreda" medal for being the top student and achieving the highest academic level in his class. He then completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the PEMEX hospital and his fellowship in Endocrinology at the National Institute of Nutrition in Mexico and went on to complete a master's degree in Clinical Epidemiology in Mexico. In addition, Dr. Caballero completed a fellowship program in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Lahey Clinic/Deaconess Hospital/Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and the Program on Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Chief Institutional Planning and Effectiveness Officer
Job Titles:
- Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs
Anne E. Becker is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she serves on the MD-PhD Program Leadership Council. She is also founding and past director of the Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She was named HMS dean for clinical and academic affairs in April 2020.
Dr. Becker is an anthropologist and psychiatrist whose research focus includes the social and cultural mediation of presentation and risk of eating disorders, social barriers to care for mental disorders and school-based mental health promotion. She has led investigations of the impact of rapid social transition on eating pathology and other youth health-risk behaviors in the small-scale indigenous iTaukei population of Fiji and has served as co-PI on school-based mental health interventions in Haiti and Lebanon.
Dr. Becker has authored or co-authored more than 150 publications in the scientific literature and is author of Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji, which probes the cultural mediation of self-agency and body experience and is co-editor of a forthcoming book on global mental health training. She serves on the editorial boards of Anthropology & Medicine and the Harvard Review of Psychiatry and is former co-editor in chief of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. In addition, Dr. Becker is former associate editor of the International Journal of Eating Disorders, past president of the Academy for Eating Disorders and has served as a member of the American Psychiatry Association's DSM-5 Eating Disorders Work Group.
Dr. Becker served as vice chair of the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine from 2009 to 2016 and is also past director of the HMS MD-PhD social sciences program. Her teaching was recognized by the Mass General Department of Psychiatry with the Exceptional Mentorship of Women Faculty award in 2014. She was the inaugural recipient of the Barbara J. McNeil Faculty Award for Exceptional Institutional Service to HMS in 2015 and received the 2013 Price Family Foundation Award for Research Excellence from the National Eating Disorders Association and the 2018 Leadership Award in Research from the Academy for Eating Disorders.
Dr. Becker graduated from Harvard College, summa cum laude, in 1983, and received her MD from HMS and her PhD in anthropology from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences in 1990. She completed her residency in the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General in 1994. She also received a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2008-2009.
Job Titles:
- Faculty Dean for Academic Programs, Dana - Farber Cancer Institute
Job Titles:
- Dean for Medical Education
Bernard S. Chang began serving as HMS dean for medical education in July 2023. He is a noted neurologist, a dedicated HMS faculty member and educator, and former advisory dean of the Francis Weld Peabody academic society.
A Harvard College graduate in biochemical sciences, Dr. Chang received his MD from the New York University School of Medicine and an MMSc degree in clinical investigation from HMS. He completed his residency and fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he is an HMS professor of neurology. Over the years, his clinical practice has centered on the care of patients with seizure disorders, and his research has helped uncover the mechanisms by which developmental brain malformations lead to epilepsy and learning difficulties.
Dr. Chang's career in medical education began in 2000 as a neuroanatomy lab instructor for second-year HMS students. He has been recognized by peers and students as a gifted and creative leader and educator who has demonstrated remarkable dedication to advancing the academic mission of the School. As a society advisory dean, he wholeheartedly promoted the well-being of students, including those from historically underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds.
For 10 years, Dr. Chang directed an HMS course on the human nervous system and behavior, and in the mid-2010s he helped lead the curricular reform process that resulted in the Pathways curriculum. In recognition of his teaching and advising, Dr. Chang has been honored with the O'Hara Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the S. Robert Stone Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Faculty Award for Best Preclinical Instructor, and the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Corporate Learning Team
- Program Manager
Job Titles:
- University Professor and Chief Executive Officer, the Cato T. Laurencin Institute for Regenerative Engineering, the University of Connecticut
Job Titles:
- Member of the Corporate Learning Team
- Program Coordinator
- Program Coordinator for Corporate Learning
Biography
Christian S. Alicea is a Program Coordinator for Corporate Learning at Harvard Medical School. Currently pursuing a degree in Political Science, Christian is a dedicated scholar and a member of both the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society and the National Society of Leadership. Alongside his academic pursuits, he is ambitiously building a small business from the ground up. With a passion for education, leadership, and entrepreneurship, Christian embodies a dynamic and multifaceted professional.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Corporate Learning Team
- Program Manager
Biography
Christina Ramey is a Program Manager. In this role, she manages the delivery of custom executive education programs for medical professionals worldwide. Christina graduated from Northeastern University and earned a Master of Business Administration from Babson College. After years of managing operations and fundraising initiatives for large-scale events for not-for-profit organizations, Christina spent some time caring for her three children, mastering the art of multi-tasking and social networking before joining the Office for External Education.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Corporate Learning Team
- Director of Product Management in the Corporate Learning Division
- Director, Product Management
Biography
Danette Somers is the Director of Product Management in the Corporate Learning division of Harvard Medical School. Danette is responsible for the strategy and execution of customer-centric educational eLearning programs with a focus on healthcare for the corporate market. Previously, she worked in an innovation lab developing point-of-care solutions used in major medical institutions.
Job Titles:
- Dean for Research Operations and Global Programs
- Professor of Medicine
David Golan, the George R. Minot Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, was appointed dean for research operations and global programs in August 2019. He previously served for 11 years as HMS dean for basic science and graduate education and special advisor for global programs. He is a professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, where his laboratory applies biophysical and cell-imaging methods to the study of membrane proteins in blood cells. Dr. Golan is a senior physician in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he sees patients as a practicing hematologist and clinician teacher. Dr. Golan founded and directed the core course in pharmacology in the New Pathway curriculum at HMS from 1989 to 2006, and he co-directs a translational pharmacology course that brings together PhD students in the Therapeutics Graduate Program with MD fellows in the Master of Medical Sciences Program in Clinical Investigation at HMS. He is editor-in-chief of Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy, an award-winning textbook of pharmacology that is used worldwide. In his role as dean for research operations and global programs, Dr. Golan is responsible for planning, coordination, and operations involving research in the School's basic and social science departments and for planning, implementation and oversight of interdisciplinary, interdepartm ental, School-wide, interinstitutional and global research initiative s and technology platforms at HMS.
Job Titles:
- Dean for External Education
David H. Roberts was appointed in March 2014 as the inaugural dean for external education at Harvard Medical School. An HMS alumnus and associate professor of medicine, Dr. Roberts completed his internal medicine training at Massachusetts General Hospital and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship in the Harvard Combined Program. Building his career as a pulmonologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, much of Dr. Roberts' work has focused on the intersection of medicine and medical education, earning him a national reputation as a highly collaborative and innovative medical educator. At Beth Israel Deaconess he served as the associate director of the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research, director of its Office of Undergraduate Medical Education, and director of its Academy of Medical Educators. He has directed both HMS preclinical courses and the Beth Israel Deaconess Principal Clinical Experience. David also is a member of the The Academy at HMS, and, until recently, served as the Academy's associate director. Over the years he has received numerous teaching awards, including the coveted HMS Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Officer
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
Deborah Scott has been the chief information officer at Harvard Medical School since September 2017. Under her leadership, information technology provides the IT infrastructure, computing environments, and teaching and learning technologies to support the HMS global preeminence in biomedical research and medical education. She is responsible for advancing the HMS information technology strategy to enable the School's mission and its collaborations with the Longwood Medical Area hospitals, with nearly 12,000 teaching and research faculty. Her team also provides the IT infrastructure for the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and she serves as a member of the Harvard University CIO Council.
Scott has over 25 years of experience in information technology leadership in both technical industries and in higher education. Before joining HMS, Scott served as the chief information officer at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and as executive director and CTO at the University of California, Santa Barbara. While in her native California, she led a global software development and integration team, led a networking company technology merger following an acquisition, and inaugurated an information technology solutions organization at an aerospace engineering company. Over the years, Scott has developed and led talented and innovative teams that bring current advances in technology to benefit organizations focusing on engineering, research, and education.
Scott holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from California State University, Long Beach, and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Executive - in - Residence, Harvard Medical School Executive Education
Dr. John Glaser is an Executive-in-Residence at the Harvard Medical School. He is a former senior vice president of population health, at Cerner Corporation. Previously he was chief executive officer of Siemens Health Services. Prior to Siemens, John was chief information officer at Partners HealthCare.
John was the founding chair of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the past president of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He is a former chair of the board of the American Telemedicine Association and a former Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Digital Health, World Economic Forum. He was a Senior Advisor to the US Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Federal Department of Health and Human Services.
John serves on the boards of Carlton Willard Village, the Scottsdale Institute, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, Lumeon, Wellsheet, and Relatient.
John has received numerous industry awards including the John P. Glaser Innovation Award (established by the School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Sciences Center), the William B. Stead Thought Leadership Award (American Medical Informatics Association), and the Lifetime Achievement Award (CHIME).
John received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has written over 200 articles and four books on the strategic application of IT in health care. He is on the faculty of the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics and the Harvard School of Public Health. He was previously on the faculty of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Director and Chief Administrative Officer, Francis a. Countway Library of Medicine
Elaine Martin joined the Countway Library as the director and chief administrative officer in October 2016. She oversees and manages a complex organization with an $11 million budget and one of the largest collections of both current medical research materials and historical and rare collections in the world, holding more than 630,000 volumes. The Countway Library serves both academic and practicing physicians at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and the Massachusetts Medical Society.
At Countway, Martin is responsible for providing leadership in strategic planning, development, and the promotion of library resources and services. She also serves as the key representative working closely with the University to embrace best practices and ultimately design the flagship medical library of the 21st century.
Previously, Martin was employed with the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, where she had been the director of library services since 1998, leading the library there through a period of transformational change. She also served as the director of library services of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region, for more than 15 years. In 2018 Martin was selected as the Janet Doe lecturer. This prestigious award recognizes a member of the Medical Library Association who have made substantial contribution to its work through leadership, impact on medical librarianship as a profession, and effectiveness in teaching and training. Also in 2018 Martin was selected to be a Fellow of the Medical Library Association.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Medicine ( Cardiology ), Morehouse School of Medicine
Job Titles:
- Director, Business Development
- Member of the Corporate Learning Team
- Director of Business Development for Corporate Learning
Biography
Eric Vogt is the Director of Business Development for Corporate Learning within Harvard Medical School's Office for External Education. He works closely with the Corporate Learning team, Harvard Medical School faculty, and others across the Office for External Education and the greater Harvard University community. Eric promotes Harvard Medical School solutions to; and builds strategic relationships within; the corporate health care market. Eric has previously led global business strategies and teams in the education/technology space including senior positions at Pearson, Thomson Reuters, Oxford University Press, and Hult/EF.
Job Titles:
- Dean for Students
- Fellow of the American College of Physicians
Fidencio Saldaña was appointed dean for students at Harvard Medical School in July 2016. Dr. Saldaña oversees the Office of Student Affairs, which collaborates with the HMS academic societies to support and guide students in their individual and professional growth. He also supervises the activities of the dormitory resident counselor, the student council, and the Office of Advising Resources and chairs the Council of Academic Societies. He works with students and administrative offices to develop and clarify relevant policies for students as well as to plan major events such as Orientation, Family Day, Match Day, and Class Day. He leads the new HMS Wellness and Mental Health Initiative, a student-faculty program whose mandate is to develop programs and initiatives that promote the health and wellness of students.
Dr. Saldaña has an abiding commitment to diversity in medicine. From 2010 to 2016 he served as faculty assistant dean for student affairs in the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs and received the Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award from HMS, a Brigham and Women's Health Care Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Pillar Award, and an Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Latino Medical Student Association. In 2016 he received national recognition for advising with the Careers in Medicine-Excellence in Medical Student Career Advising Individual Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. He is a devoted teacher and mentor, and co-chairs the Practice of Medicine course for first-year students at HMS. He has received numerous awards recognizing his teaching and mentoring, including the Award for Excellence in Mentoring by a Junior Faculty Member, and the Charles McCabe Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching at HMS.
Dr. Saldaña received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University, his MD from HMS, and his MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his internal medicine residency, chief residency, and cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Currently, Dr. Saldaña is a clinical cardiologist at the Brigham, specializing in cardiovascular imaging and is an assistant professor of medicine at HMS.
Dr. Saldaña is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Cardiology and American Society of Echocardiography. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Diversity in Medicine, serves as the Northeast Representative on the Committee for Student Diversity Affairs for the American Association of Medical Colleges, and is vice-chair of the Northeast Group on Student Affairs.
Job Titles:
- Dean
- Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
George Q. Daley, dean of Harvard Medical School and the Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine at HMS, is an internationally recognized leader in stem cell science and cancer biology. He is also a longtime member of the HMS faculty whose work spans the fields of basic science and clinical medicine.
Daley has been professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at HMS since 2010 and was an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2008 until he resigned in 2017 upon assuming the HMS deanship. He previously held, as its inaugural incumbent, the Samuel E. Lux, IV Chair in Hematology/Oncology at Boston Children's Hospital and was the Robert A. Stranahan Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at HMS.
A former chief resident in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (1994-95), Daley maintained an active clinical practice in hematology/oncology at Mass General and then at Boston Children's, until assuming his administrative role as director of the Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, a post he held until Jan. 2017.
He has served since 1995 as a member of the faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), since 2004 as a founding member of the executive committee of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and since 2009 as an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and as a core faculty member of the Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research at Boston Children's.
Daley's research focuses on the use of mouse and human disease models to identify mechanisms that underlie blood disorders and cancer. His lab aims to define fundamental principles of how stem cells contribute to tissue regeneration and repair and improve drug and transplantation therapies for patients with malignant and genetic bone marrow disease.
Beyond his research, Daley has been a principal figure in developing international guidelines for conducting stem cell research and for the clinical translation of stem cells, particularly through his work with the International Society for Stem Cell Research, for which he has served in several leadership positions, including president (2007-08). He has also testified before Congress and spoken in forums worldwide on the scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research and its promise in treating disease.
Job Titles:
- Dean for Faculty Affairs
- Hospitalist
- Professor of Medicine
Grace C. Huang, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was named dean for faculty affairs effective July 2021. In directing the Office for Faculty Affairs, she is responsible for the strategic leadership, oversight, planning, and implementation for the Faculty of Medicine, including the recruitment, retention, academic promotion processes, and career advancement of our faculty through professional development programming, resources, and celebration of their accomplishments.
Huang is a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess and nationally recognized educator with expertise in faculty development and educational scholarship. At BIDMC she was previously vice chair for Career Development and Mentorship in the Department of Medicine, director of Academic Careers and Faculty Development, and director of the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education, a yearlong intensive program founded in 1996 that has been responsible for training educational leaders across HMS. Her two decades of scholarship in medical education have led to contributions across the continuum of physician training.
She is the recipient of many teaching awards, including the 2021 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Society of Hospital Medicine, the 2021 Clifford A. Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award at HMS, and the 2022 Class Day Excellence in Clinical Instruction Award at HMS.
Dr. Huang served as associate editor of NEJM Journal Watch for nine years and was on the editorial board of Simulation in Healthcare for 14 years. She serves as editor-in-chief of MedEdPORTAL, a journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. As a leading authority on educational scholarship, she gives presentations nationally and internationally on publishing and developing academic writing skills. She is an editorial board member of Academic Medicine.
Dr. Huang graduated with degrees in English and biological sciences from Stanford University and received her MD from Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess. She has completed a Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education, HMS Academy Fellowship, and Picker Fellowship in Evidence-Based Medicine.
Job Titles:
- Chief Academic Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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- Faculty Dean for Academic Programs, Boston Children 's Hospital
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- Dean and Chief Academic Officer, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Job Titles:
- Chief of Staff
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Chief of Staff, 617 - 432 - 1633
Jennifer Ryan joined Dean George Q. Daley's office as chief of staff in June 2019. She came to Harvard Medical School in 2010 as a program manager for outside activities and has served in various roles in the Office for Academic and Research Integrity, eventually becoming its executive director.
In the academic and research integrity office, Ryan worked with members of the HMS community to execute key initiatives for the School, such as directing a review of the Conflicts of Interest Policy, developing procedures for Title IX reporting, and providing support for the governance subcommittee for the Liaison Committee on Medical Education review. Throughout, Ryan proved her strategic and operational acumen, as well as her ability to successfully navigate complex situations by strong management skills coupled with nuanced sensitivity.
Ryan also led the HMS Community Values Initiative and helped revise the HMS mission statement in 2018. In 2016, she was honored with the Daniel D. Federman Staff Award for Exceptional Service to HMS/HSDM. Before coming to HMS, Ryan was an associate attorney at Dwyer & Collora, LLP, in Boston, concentrating on criminal defense, governmental investigations and complex civil litigation. Previously, she served as a law clerk to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice Robert Cordy.
Ryan graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, where she double-majored in biochemistry and Spanish. She later earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Job Titles:
- Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership
Appointed as the first dean for diversity and community partnership in January 2002, Joan Y. Reede is responsible for the development and management of a comprehensive program that provides leadership, guidance, and support to promote the increased recruitment, retention, and advancement of underrepresented minority faculty at Harvard Medical School. This charge includes oversight of all diversity activities at HMS as they relate to faculty, trainees, students, and staff.
In 1990, Dr. Reede founded the HMS Minority Faculty Development Program and also currently serves as faculty director of the Community Outreach programs. In 2008, she became the director of the Harvard Catalyst Program for Faculty Development and Diversity. In addition, Dr. Reede holds appointments of professor of medicine at HMS, Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and Assistant in Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital.
In 1989, prior to coming to HMS, Dr. Reede served as the medical director of a Boston community health center, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. She has also worked as a pediatrician in community and academic health centers, juvenile prisons, and public schools.
The impact of Reede's work is reflected in the numerous programs she has created to benefit minority students, residents, scientists, and physicians. Dr. Reede created and developed more than 20 programs at HMS that aim to address pipeline and leadership issues for minorities and women who are interested in careers in medicine, academic and scientific research, and the healthcare professions. Supported by a dedicated staff, she has developed mentoring programs for underrepresented minority students from the middle school through the graduate and medical school levels. She has also designed a training program for middle and high school teachers, developed science curricula for public schools, implemented research and exchange clerkship programs at HMS, and designed and implemented innovative fellowships in minority health policy for physicians, dentists, and doctoral-level mental health professionals.
In collaboration with the Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Board of Higher Education, Dr. Reede founded the Biomedical Careers Program (BSCP). A collaborative, community-based organization, BSCP's scope of involvement includes academia, private industry, medical centers, public education, and professional societies. BSCP's goal is to identify, support, and provide mentoring for underrepresented minority students, trainees, and professionals pursuing careers in the biomedical and health sciences.
Dr. Reede has received many awards. The diversity of these honors is a reflection of her far-reaching and varied accomplishments. A few of the awards included in these recognitions of her achievements are: the Boston NAACP Health Award for her contributions to the health of the Boston minority community; the Community Service Award from the Epilepsy Association of Massachusetts for her work on a five-part satellite series on neuroscience for New England high school teachers; the American Association of University Administrators Exemplary Models of Administrative Leadership Award; the Herbert W. Nickens Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine; the Herbert W. Nickens Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Academic Leadership in Primary Care Award from Morehouse School of Medicine. In 2007, she was awarded the Riland Medal for Public Service from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the New York Institute of Technology.
At the national level, Dr. Reede was appointed to the Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Minority Health by Donna E. Shalala, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, and she served on the Board of Governors for the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center; the National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Council; the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society at the National Institutes of Health; and as a Commissioner of The Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce. Dr. Reede formerly served on the Secretary's Advisory Committee to the Director of NIH; the Sullivan Alliance to Transform America's Health Professions; the Education Board of the American Public Health Association; the National Hispanic Medical Association; the Health Research & Trust Board of Directors of the American Hospital Association, and the National Children's Study Advisory Committee of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In 2009, Dr. Reede was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Reede is the past chair of NAM's Interest Group 08 on Health of Populations/Health. Some of Dr. Reede's current affiliations include the Steering Committee and Task Force for the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students; co-chair of the Bias Review Committee of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director's Working Group on Diversity; the National Advisory Board of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute of Morehouse School of Medicine; chair of the AAMC Group on Diversity and Inclusion (GDI), HMS representative to the GDI Diversity Strategic Planning Working Group; CTSA Women in CTR Interest Group of the NIH, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science STEM Education Review Committee.
Locally, former Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift appointed Dr. Reede to the Board of Directors of the John Adams Innovation Institute of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Also in 2007, Dr. Reede was invited to join the Massachusetts Life Sciences Collaborative Task Force, one of several task forces charged with developing a state-wide life sciences strategy.
Dr. Reede graduated from Brown University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She completed a pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and a fellowship in child psychiatry at Boston Children's Hospital. She holds an MPH and an MS in Health Policy Management from Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and an MBA from Boston University.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Corporate Learning Team
- Senior Director
Biography
Josh Brand leads Corporate Learning for Harvard Medical School's Office for External Education. Corporate Learning provides health care industry and medical science education to people across the health care industry. Josh also teaches strategic management and health care strategy to undergraduate, graduate, and executive education participants. Previously, Josh was an executive at Harvard Business Publishing and was a management consultant in several boutique firms.
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- Professor, Head of Laboratory, Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics, the Rockefeller University
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
Julie Joncas joined Harvard Medical School as chief financial officer in January 2022. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of managing the School's annual budget of more than $800 million. Joncas leads the Office of Finance, ensuring the financial sustainability of HMS and helping to advance critical investments in the School's research and education mission. As a strategic partner to senior administrative and department leadership, she provides financial counsel in support of the institutional priorities, infrastructure, and evolving needs of HMS.
An experienced and versatile executive, Joncas has more than 20 years of financial and operational management expertise honed primarily at academic medical institutions in Boston. She served most recently as the system vice-president of finance and CFO for Boston Medical Center. Prior to that, she worked for Tenet HealthCare in a variety of leadership roles, including serving as CFO of MetroWest Medical Center. Joncas also has extensive research finance and operations experience from her nine-year tenure with Mass General Brigham, where she served as administrative director for the laboratory animal research program and then as director of research finance, overseeing all budgeting and financial planning for MGB's $1.3 billion research enterprise. Joncas holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Boston University.
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- Executive Assistant, 617 - 432 - 1501
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- Dean for Faculty and Research Integrity
As the dean for faculty and research integrity, Bittinger oversees a coordinated approach to research policy setting, implementation, and compliance. She serves as the research integrity officer, overseeing research misconduct, student misconduct, and faculty grievance processes and authorship disputes, and as the signatory official for managing conflicts of interest and outside activities. Bittinger works closely with senior colleagues at HMS, HSDM, and HMS-affiliated hospitals and research institutions in areas of faculty and research integrity and provides advice and consultation to faculty and senior administrators.
Bittinger has more than a decade of service to Harvard, including in her role as HMS chief integrity officer and previously as executive director of external education, director of scientific integrity, and serving as an associate attorney in the Harvard Office of the General Counsel. She earned her BA in biochemistry at Mount Holyoke College and both her MS in biochemistry and JD at the University of Wisconsin.
Job Titles:
- Chief Communications Officer
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
Laura DeCoste was appointed chief communications officer at Harvard Medical School in April 2021 after serving in an interim capacity since September 2019. In this role, she leads the HMS Office of Communications and External Relations in its work to advance the School's mission to alleviate suffering and improve health and well-being for all.
DeCoste came to HMS in 2012, serving as executive director of development communications and donor engagement in the Office of Alumni Affairs and Development. There she led the development communications, donor relations, and special events teams. For her exemplary service, in 2018 DeCoste was named a Harvard Hero, an award that recognizes positive impact in the workplace and day-to-day work that upholds the mission and values of Harvard University.
Before coming to HMS, DeCoste led communications and marketing teams as executive director of advancement communications and marketing at Boston College and as director of development marketing at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. Earlier in her career, DeCoste worked in communications and marketing at Ernst & Young, Pine Street Inn, and the Boston council of the Girl Scouts.
A Cleveland, Ohio, area native, DeCoste graduated from Muskingum University, where she double majored in English and speech communications. She subsequently relocated to Boston and earned her master's degree in journalism from Northeastern University.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Coordinator
- Member of the Corporate Learning Team
Biography
Lauren McHale joined Harvard Medical School's Office for External Education in October 2019 as the Coordinator for Institutional and Corporate Relations with HMX. She currently serves as Business Development Coordinator for Corporate Learning for the Office for External Education. Prior to joining HMS, she spent several years at edX the online course provider created by Harvard and MIT.
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- Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
Lee M. Nadler was appointed dean for clinical and translational research at Harvard Medical School in February 2008. He is also the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and Teaching and director of Harvard Catalyst at HMS. He is the senior vice president for academic integration and the Pan Mass Challenge Senior Investigator at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Dr. Nadler's laboratory discovered the human B-cell specific molecules CD19, CD20, CD21 and CD22 and the costimulatory molecules B7-1 (CD80) and B7-2 (CD86). His translational experiments established our understanding of human B-cell differentiation and led to the worldwide immunologic classification of human B-cell leukemias and lymphomas. Similarly, he was the first to administer a monoclonal antibody to a human and to use monoclonal antibodies to improve the outcome of human stem cell transplantation. His discovery and characterization of the B1 molecule (CD20) led to the development of Rituxan, which has significantly improved the survival of patients with lymphomas and other B-cell diseases throughout the world.
Dr. Nadler has been recognized with numerous awards for his pioneering efforts in the discovery and development of revolutionary treatments for cancer patients. He was the founding chief of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies and founding chair of the Department of Medical Oncology at Dana-Farber. He served as the first leader of the Center for Clinical and Translational Research at Dana-Farber. As director of Harvard Catalyst, he and his colleagues have worked to bring investigators together as "One Harvard" to begin to solve major issues in human health.
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- Executive Vice President, Head of Product Development and Chief Medical Officer, Genentech / Roche
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Dean for Alumni Affairs and Development
Lisa Boudreau was named dean for alumni affairs and development at Harvard Medical School in January 2017, having previously served as interim dean beginning in August 2015. Boudreau has nearly 25 years of development experience in higher education. She works closely with the School's dean, board of fellows, campaign steering committee and members of the faculty to raise funds for world-class medical research and education at HMS.
Boudreau began her career as an annual fund professional at Connecticut College in New London. After nearly four years, she initiated a 10-year commitment to Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences as associate director of the Harvard College Fund. Successively, she served as major gift officer, director of development and corporate relations for the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and managing director of the Harvard College Fund. During a one-year hiatus from Harvard, Boudreau lived in London and served as head of individual giving at the London School of Economics. Before joining HMS in 2008, Boudreau worked for two years as a fundraising consultant at Jaques & Company.
At HMS, Boudreau served for seven years as the senior director of development and as the executive director of development and alumni relations before becoming interim dean for resource development.
Boudreau has a BA from Bucknell University. She is currently co-chair of Building for the Journey Ahead: A Campaign for First Church in Wenham.
Job Titles:
- Executive Dean for Administration
- Key Strategic Partner to the
- Medical School Executive
Lisa Muto has been the Harvard Medical School executive dean for administration since June 2017. Previously, she served for nine years as associate dean for institutional planning and policy at HMS. Muto joined Harvard University more than 30 years ago and has held a range of senior leadership positions. As executive dean for administration, Muto oversees all HMS administrative functions, including finance, campus planning and facilities, communications and external relations, human resources, institutional planning and policy, information technology, and research administration.
Muto is a key strategic partner to the HMS dean and focuses on building a more cohesive community and sparking important synergies that will better align administrative and academic teams. She has a lead role in planning for the School's financial sustainability by assessing processes that support mission-critical research and operations while strategizing to create greater efficiencies.
As associate dean for institutional planning and policy, Muto was responsible for academic and strategic planning as well as the development of faculty policy for the preclinical departments at HMS. She managed initiatives to support the School's strategic vision, such as contributing to the formation of the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Additionally, Muto partnered with the Harvard University Office of Governing Boards and the HMS Visiting Committee.
Muto also co-led the School's planning process for the Liaison Committee on Medical Education accreditation visits and continuous quality improvement initiative. She was a leader in developing a fresh vision for the School's continuing medical education program and, in 2008, managed a School-wide strategic planning process that brought together faculty and administrative leaders from HMS, other Harvard schools, and HMS affiliated hospitals.
In 2007, Muto was honored with the Joseph B. Martin Dean's Award for the Advancement of Women Faculty and Staff. She received an AB with highest honors from Harvard College and a PhD from McGill University in Montreal.
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- Assistant Director, Dean 's Office and Special Projects, 617 - 432 - 4203
Lorien Hecht, Assistant Director, Dean's Office and Special Projects, 617-432-4203, lorien_hecht@hms.harvard.edu
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- Member of the Corporate Learning Team
- Program Manager
- Program Manager in Corporate Learning
Biography
Maria Scerri is a program manager in Corporate Learning, Harvard Medical School's Office for External Education. Corporate Learning provides health care industry and medical science education to people across the health care industry. Maria collaborates with clients and faculty leads to develop and deliver quality programs, meeting their educational needs. She joined the Corporate Learning Team in October 2018, after 11 years in Continuing Medical Education at Harvard Medical School. She has also worked for Walt Disney World for 10 years in the hospitality industry.
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Executive Director of Therapeutics Translation
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- Associate Dean for Online Learning Research
Biography
Michael Parker, MD, is an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. As associate dean for Online Learning Research and faculty director of HMX at HMS, he builds innovative online learning materials across the spectrum of healthcare education. A former Rabkin Fellow in Medical Education, Dr. Parker is an accomplished teacher, combining his computer science and medical knowledge to enhance the teaching and learning of medical concepts that are critical to the future of medicine and life sciences. The HMX courses are used by a rapidly growing number of people, including tens of thousands of professionals across hundreds of companies in the life sciences and tech/healthcare sectors. Dr. Parker has received local and national recognition for his work.
The HMX online courses that Dr. Parker's team at HMS have developed include genetics, immunology, and pharmacology, as well as cutting-edge topics in these areas, such as immuno-oncology, gene therapy, drug discovery and development, and clinical trials that emphasize the linkage between principles of basic science and the clinical significance and application of these principles. Dr. Parker's special areas of interest include enhancing understanding of difficult concepts, particularly through active/interactive learning, and developing novel techniques for understanding, predicting, and changing learner behavior in online learning to optimize the courses' impact on people's lives.
Dr. Parker received a BS and MS in electrical engineering and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before becoming a physician, he worked in the software industry in Silicon Valley.
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- Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
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- Academic Dean for Partners Healthcare System
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- Jonathan Taft Distinguished University Professor of Dentistry, University of Michigan School of Dentistry
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Chief Research Administration Officer
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- Chief Academic Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital
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- Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic Oncology, Division of Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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- Dean for Graduate Education / Executive Dean for Administration
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- Chief Human Resources Officer
- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
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- Associate Dean
- Associate Dean for Executive Education
Bio
Stanley Y. Shaw, MD, PhD is the Associate Dean for Executive Education at Harvard Medical School. In this role, he designs and directs a growing portfolio of programs for companies and executive leaders from diverse sectors of health care, from small biotechs to Fortune 100 companies. Dr. Shaw is also the Chief Scientific Officer for One Brave Idea (at Brigham and Women's Hospital), an initiative funded by the American Heart Association, Verily and Astra Zeneca to understand and treat the earliest changes in coronary heart disease. His research seeks to understand how digital health, bioinformatics, the gut microbiome and patient-reported data can be leveraged to better assess health and disease.
Previously, he co-founded the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health (CATCH) at Massachusetts General Hospital, and his team led the development of one of the first ResearchKit iPhone apps in partnership with Apple. Dr. Shaw received his AB in Chemistry & Physics from Harvard College, and his MD and PhD (in Biophysics) from Harvard. He completed his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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- Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
- Chief Campus Planning and Facilities Officer
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- Member of the Corporate Learning Team
- Associate Director of Program Management in Corporate Learning for Harvard Medical School 's Office for External Education
- Associate Director, Program Management
Biography
Suzanna Rivituso is the Associate Director of Program Management in Corporate Learning for Harvard Medical School's Office for External Education. Suzanna oversees a team of Program Managers who work with HMS faculty to design and deliver executive education programs. Prior to HMS, Suzanna spent over fifteen years at the Harvard Alumni Association managing the international travel program. During her time at the HAA, Suzanna completed her MBA at Boston College Carroll School of Management.
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- Visiting Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley
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- Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford School of Medicine General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz ( A16z )
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- Dean of Harvard School of Dental Medicine
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- Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity; Taube Endowed Professor of Global Health and Infectious Diseases; Professor of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Population Health; Interim Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
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- Project Administrator, 617 - 432 - 5280