Massachusetts General Hospital is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School,Harvard University located in the West End neighborhood of Boston,Massachusetts. Massachusetts General Hospital houses the world's largest hospital-based research program,the Mass General Research Institute,with an annual research budget of more than $1.2 billion in 2021. It is the third-oldest general hospital in the United States with a patient capacity of 999 beds. Along with Brigham and Women's Hospital,Mass General is a founding member of Mass General Brigham,formerly known as Partners HealthCare,the largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts. It is currently ranked among the best hospitals in the United States by U.S. News &World Report.
Mass General Brigham is a not-for-profit,integrated health care system that is a national leader in medical research,teaching,and patient care. It is the largest hospital-based research enterprise in the United States,with annual funding of more than $2 billion. The system's annual revenue was nearly $18 billion in 2022. It is also an educational institution,founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. The system provides clinical care through two academic hospitals,three specialty hospitals,seven community hospitals,home care services,a health insurance plan,and a robust network of specialty practices,urgent care facilities,and outpatient clinics/surgical centers. It is the largest private employer in Massachusetts. In 2023,the system reported that from 2017–2021 its overall economic impact was $53.4 billion –more than the annual state budget.
Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is the second largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the largest hospital in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston,Massachusetts. Along with Massachusetts General Hospital,it is one of the two founding members of Mass General Brigham,the largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts. Robert Higgins,MD,MSHA serves as the hospital's current president.
Paul Edward Farmer was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University,where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was the co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health (PIH),an international non-profit organization that since 1987 has provided direct health care services and undertaken research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. He was professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Elizabeth Nabel is an American cardiologist and Executive Vice President of Strategy at ModeX Therapeutics and OPKO Health. Prior to this role,she served as President of Brigham Health and its Brigham and Women's Hospital,Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School,and Director of the NIH's National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute.
Joia Stapleton Mukherjee is an associate professor with the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Since 2000,she has served as the Chief Medical Officer of Partners In Health,an international medical non-profit founded by Paul Farmer,Ophelia Dahl,and Jim Kim. She trained in Infectious Disease,Internal Medicine,and Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Mukherjee has been involved in health care access and human rights issues since 1989,and she consults for the World Health Organization on the treatment of HIV and MDR-TB in developing countries. Her scholarly work focuses on the human rights aspect of HIV treatment and on the implementation of complex health interventions in resource-poor settings.
Sachin H. Jain is an American physician who held leadership positions in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). From 2015 to 2020,he served as president and chief executive officer of the CareMore Health System. In June 2020,it was announced that he would join the SCAN Group and Health Plan as its new president and CEO. He is also adjunct professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a Contributor at Forbes. In 2018,he was named one of American healthcare's most 100 most influential leaders by Modern Healthcare magazine (#36).
Howard Haym Hiatt is a medical researcher involved with the discovery of messenger RNA. He was the past chair of the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston from 1963-1972. He was past dean of the Harvard School of Public Health from 1972–1984. He was co-founder and associate chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at the Brigham and Women's Hospital,and was also the Associate Chief of the hospital's Division of Global Health Equity. He was a founding head of the cancer division of Beth Israel Hospital. He was a member of the team at the Pasteur Institute,Paris,led by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod,which first identified and described messenger RNA,and he was part of the team led by James Watson that was among the first to demonstrate messenger RNA in mammalian cells.
Paula Adina Johnson is a cardiologist and the current president of Wellesley College. She is the first Black woman to serve in this role. The first Black graduate of Wellesley College came in the year 1887,and 129 years later President Johnson became the first Black leader. Prior to her role as president of Wellesley,Johnson founded and served as the inaugural executive director of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health &Gender Biology,as well as Chief of the Division of Women's Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Johnson's background in working for the betterment of women in the field of health led her on a notable path to Wellesley College,a women's college right outside of Boston,where there is an emphasis on the role of women in STEM.
Dr. Harold L. Paz is the former executive vice president of health sciences at Stony Brook University and former chief executive officer of Stony Brook University Medicine. He is the former executive vice president and chancellor for health affairs at Ohio State University and chief executive officer of the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center. Prior to that,he served as executive vice president and chief medical officer at CVS Health/Aetna.
Camara Phyllis Jones is an American physician,epidemiologist,and anti-racism activist who specializes in the effects of racism and social inequalities on health. She is known for her work in defining institutional racism,personally mediated racism,and internalized racism in the context of modern U.S. race relations. During the COVID-19 pandemic,Jones drew attention to why racism and not race is a risk factor and called for actions to address structural racism.
Lucila Ohno-Machado is a biomedical engineer and Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the National Academy of Medicine.
Reshma Kewalramani,is the president and chief executive officer of Vertex Pharmaceuticals,a biotechnology company based in Boston,Massachusetts,as of April 1,2020. She is the first female CEO of a large US biotech company. She was previously the chief medical officer and vice president of global medicines development and medical affairs at Vertex.
UchéBlackstock is an American emergency physician and former associate professor of emergency medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. She is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity,which has a primary mission to engage with healthcare and related organizations around bias and racism in healthcare with the goal of mobilizing for health equity and eradicating racialized health inequities. During the COVID-19 pandemic Blackstock used social media to share her experiences and concerns as a physician working on the front lines and on racial health disparities and inequities exposed by the pandemic. She is best known for her work amplifying the message on racial health inequities and her media appearances speaking on the COVID-19 pandemic. She has been featured on Meet the Press,PBS NewsHour,Slate and Forbes among others. Blackstock became a Yahoo! News Medical Contributor in June 2020.
Sherry Hsiang-Yi Chou is a Canadian neurologist and an Associate Professor of Neurology and Chief of Neurocritical Care at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Neurocritical Care Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. During the COVID-19 pandemic Chou assembled a worldwide team of physicians and scientists to better understand the neurological impacts of COVID-19,forming the Global Consortium Study of Neurologic Dysfunction in COVID-19 (GCS-NeuroCOVID). The first report of this large,multicenter,multicontinent consortium found that neurological manifestations are present in 8 out of 10 adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and are associated with increased mortality.
Thea L. James is an American emergency medical physician as well as an Associate Professor,Associate Chief Medical Officer,and Vice President of the Mission at the Boston Medical Center in Boston,Massachusetts.
LaShyra "Lash" Nolen is an American medical student and science communicator. She is the first Black woman to become class president of the Harvard Medical School. In 2020 Nolen was selected by The Root as one of their Young Futurists.
Varda Shalev is an Israeli medical researcher,a professor of medicine at the Tel Aviv University School of Public Health,and a primary care physician. She is also the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Alike. In 11.2022 she became a managing partner at Team8 foundry.
Michelle Asha Albert is an American physician who is the Walter A. Haas Lucie-Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and professor of medicine at the University of California,San Francisco. Albert is director of the UCSF Center for the Study of Adversity and Cardiovascular Disease. She is president of the American Heart Association. She served as the president of the Association of Black Cardiologists in 2020–2022 and as president of the Association of University Cardiologists (2021–2022). Albert is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Society of Clinical Investigators.
Bisola Ojikutu is an American physician,infectious disease specialist,and health equity researcher. In July 2021,she was appointed as the executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission. Ojikutu is the fifth Commissioner of Public Health for the City of Boston and the first Black person to permanently hold this position. She currently serves on the Cabinet of Mayor Michelle Wu.
