Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston,Massachusetts. Founded in 1782,HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States,and provides patient care,medical education,and research training through its 15 clinical affiliates and research institutes such as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH),Dana–Farber Cancer Institute,Brigham and Women's Hospital,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,Boston Children's Hospital,Mount Auburn Hospital,McLean Hospital,Cambridge Health Alliance,The Baker Center for Children and Families,and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. Harvard Medical School also partners with newer entities such as Harvard Catalyst,Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,Harvard Stem Cell Institute,the Center for Primary Care,and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
UT Health San Antonio is a public academic health science center in San Antonio,Texas. It is part of the University of Texas System.
The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) is the center for health services research,health policy,and health care management education at the University of Pennsylvania. It is based in the Colonial Penn Center on Locust Walk,at the heart of Penn's campus.
Helene D. Gayle is an American physician,and academic and non-profit administrator. She has been president of Spelman College since 2023. She formerly was CEO of the Chicago Community Trust,one of the nation's leading community foundations. Earlier in her career she was the director of international humanitarian organization CARE,and spent much of her career in the field of public health research in epidemiology at the CDC.
Helen Octavia Dickens was an American physician,medical and social activist,health equity advocate,researcher,health administrator,and health educator. She was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the American College of Surgeons in 1950,and specialized in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) is a National Cancer Institute NCI-designated Cancer Center,founded in 1911 and located at NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center (NYP/CUIMC).
Shiriki K. Kumanyika is an Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and co-chair of the International Association for the Study of Obesity International Obesity Task Force. She has previously served as Associate Dean for Disease Prevention and was founding director of the University of Pennsylvania Master of Public Health. She chairs the African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network. She is the former president of the American Public Health Association.
Edith Peterson Mitchell (1947-2024) was a retired Brigadier general of the United States Air Force and an oncologist. She was clinical professor of medicine and medical oncology at Thomas Jefferson University. In 2015,she became the president of the National Medical Association.
Nadia Lauren Dowshen is an American pediatrician and adolescent medicine physician. She specializes in the care of youth living with HIV infection and medical care to transgender and gender-diverse youth. Dowshen researches health inequality,access to care,and promoting resilience in LGBT youth. As an associate professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,she is also the medical director and co-founder of the Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic.
Daniel Elias Polsky is an American health economist. He is the 40th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Economics at Johns Hopkins University.
Karen Glanz is an American behavioral epidemiologist. She is the George A. Weiss University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Glanz is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has been recognized as one of the world's most influential scientific minds.
Janet Alma Deatrick is a Professor Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing.
Mary Kathryn "Katie" Haltiwanger Schmitz is an American exercise physiologist. She is the Associate Director of Population Sciences at Penn State University College of Medicine and a Full Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Allison Walsh Kurian is an American medical oncologist. She is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology &Population Health at Stanford University and an oncologist at the Stanford Cancer Institute.
Patricia Anne Ganz is an American medical oncologist. She is a professor of health policy and management in the Fielding School of Public Health and a professor of medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In 2007,she was elected to the Institute of Medicine.
Raina Martha Merchant is an American emergency medicine specialist,a member of the National Academy of Medicine. She is the associate vice president and director of the Center for Digital Health in Penn Medicine and associate professor of emergency medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Rinad S. Beidas is an American clinical child psychologist and implementation scientist. She is currently the chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of the department of Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She was formerly professor of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania;Founding Director of the Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE@LDI);and Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit. She also served as Associate Director at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.
Sonia Yris Angell is an American public health figure. She is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of the Practice of American Health in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Angell also maintains a clinical professorship of medicine in the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2020,after resigning as director of the California Department of Public Health,Angell was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Rachel Michele Werner is an American physician-economist. She is the first woman and first physician-economist executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. In 2018,Werner was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine for her investigation into the unintended consequences of quality improvement incentives.
David A. Asch is an American physician-scientist. He is the Senior Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania where he is the John Morgan Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and Professor of Operations,Information,and Decisions and Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School.
