BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER - Key Persons

Lachlan Forrow, MD, is Director of the Cheng Tsui Ethics Program and Director of Palliative Care Programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He served for many years as President of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, and from 2010-2013 as President of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon. Dr. Forrow earned his AB (summa cum laude in Philosophy) from Princeton University in 1978 and his MD from Harvard Medical School (HMS) in 1983. He has been active for more than 30 years in the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which was honored in 1985 with the Nobel Peace Prize, including service as IPPNW's Board Chair and CEO. In 2007, Dr. Forrow was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for Community Service from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Forrow has lectured widely and published numerous articles and book chapters on issues in medical ethics education, palliative care, medical decision-making, and the social responsibilities of physicians. His work has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and other leading publications.

LaShonda Walker-Robinson

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Member of the Advisory Committee

Lisa M. Fleming

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General Cardiology, Advanced Heart Failure / More Info / Profile & Contact

Loryn S. Feinberg

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Director, Women 's Cardiovascular Program

Louis M. Chu

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Advanced Heart Failure Transplant Cardiology Cardiac Surgery Surgical Director, ECMO & Temporary MCS Program / More Info / Profile & Contact

Lynne Henning

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Certified Family Nurse Practitioner

Education: Master of Science in Nursing, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Maia Betts

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Member of the Advisory Committee

Marie-France Poulin

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Associate Director, Structural Heart Clinical Services Interventional Cardiology

Mark Benson

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Director of Preventative Cardiology General Cardiology

Marwa Sabe

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Associate Director, Advanced Heart Failure Program

Meghan York

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General Cardiology / More Info / Profile & Contact

Melody Route-Satchell

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Member of the Advisory Committee
Practice Manager

Mercedes Freije Ibanez

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Board - Certified in Internal Medicine / Medical School: Universidad De Navarra, School of Medicine, Pamplona, Spain

Meredith Talbot

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Board - Certified in Internal Medicine

Michael Cooper

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Board - Certified in Internal Medicine

Michael G. McLaughlin

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General Cardiology, Cardiac Electrophysiology / More Info / Profile & Contact

Michael Gavin

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Director, Cardiac Direct Access Unit, General Cardiology

Murray A. Mittleman

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General Cardiology / More Info / Profile & Contact

Nancy I. Kasen - Managing Director, VP

ni..@bidmc.harvard.edu

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Managing Director
Vice President

Pablo Quintero Pinzon

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Director, Latinx Clinic Cardiovascular Disease Advanced Heart Failure

Panos Papageorgiou

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Cardiac Electrophysiology, General Cardiology / More Info / Profile & Contact

Paul M. Bailey

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General Cardiology / More Info / Profile & Contact

Peter J. Zimetbaum

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Associate Chief and Director, Clinical Cardiology, Electrophysiology

Peter M. Kang

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General Cardiology / More Info / Profile & Contact

Rami Burstein

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Vice Chair, Neuroscience Research

Richard Hochman

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Board - Certified in Internal Medicine

Rishi K. Wadhera

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General Cardiology / More Info

Robert E. Gerszten

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Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine

Robert Torres

ro..@bilh.org

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Director

Robert W. Yeh

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Director, Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology

Roger J. Laham

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Director, Structural Heart Center, Interventional Cardiology

Sait Ashina

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Director, Comprehensive Headache Center Neurology

Sandy Novack

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Member of the Advisory Committee

Shweta Motiwala

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Associate Medical Director, Cardiac Direct Access Unit General Cardiology Advanced Heart Failure

Stephen F. O'Neill

Stephen F. O'Neill, LICSW, BCD, JD, is Associate Director of the Cheng Tsui Ethics Program at BIDMC and Social Work Manager for Psychiatry, Primary Care, and Infectious Disease. He completed a fellowship in Bioethics in the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, is a clinical instructor in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work. Mr. O'Neill holds the positions of Director of Medical Education in Social Work at BIDMC and Social Work Consultant at the Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society in Waltham. He chairs the National Association of Social Work's Massachusetts Chapter's Committee on Ethics and Professional Review, the adjudicatory arm of NASW. He has extensive teaching experience, numerous committee assignments including the Professional Review Task Force of NASW, Harvard Medical School's Ethics Consortium and Harvard Medical School's Ethics Leadership Group. He is the author/co-author of a number of articles, chapters and a book entitled Legal Issues in Social Work (2004).

Susan Frankl

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Board - Certified in Internal Medicine

Thomas Hauser

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General Cardiology Director, Nuclear Cardiology / More Info / Profile & Contact

Thomas T. Simopoulos

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Director, Arnold - Warfield Pain Management Center Co - Director, Spine Center

Ulrike Kohler

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Board - Certified in Internal Medicine

Usman Tahir

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Director, Cardiovascular Genetics

Vladimir Kaplinskiy

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General Cardiology / More Info / Profile & Contact

Wally A. Omar

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Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Disease / More Info / Profile & Contact

Warren J. Manning

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Chief, Non - Invasive MRI Cardiac Imaging General Cardiology

Wendy McHugh

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Clinical Nurse

Wendy McHugh is the Clinical Nurse Ethicist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She provides individual ethics consultations to patients and staff members, facilitates monthly Ethics Rounds on 18 units, co-coordinates a monthly Ethics Case Conference and the Ethics Liaison Group. Wendy is as a member of the Ethics Advisory Committee at BIDMC and a member of the Harvard Ethics Leadership Group. Wendy earned both her BS in Nursing and Master's in Nursing Administration from Northeastern University. She practiced as an intensive care unit nurse for 22 years. In 2000, she attended the Intensive Bioethics course at the Kennedy Institute at Georgetown University as a BIDMC Kraft Scholar. And in 2004, she completed the Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. In addition to her focus on ethics and healthcare quality in the critical care setting, she is also interested in ethics at the end of life.

Yohanna Garcia-Hernandez

Education: Master of Science in Nursing, Florida International University, Miami, FL Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Florida International University, Miami, FL

Yue "Jillian" Yu

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Education

Zachary Gross

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Board - Certified in Internal Medicine