Boston, MA - June 21 to 23, 2023

Boston, MA - June 21 to 23, 2023

20Jul

Francoise A. Marvel, M.D.

Francoise A. Marvel, M.D.

Francoise A. Marvel, M.D.

Cardiology Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
Cardiology Fellow, Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Co-Founder, Corrie Health

As a cardiology fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Marvel collaborated with Apple on an app, Corrie Health, designed to empower heart attack patients in their recovery. Corrie Health works with the Apple Watch and is the first cardiology app in CareKit, Apple’s new framework for medical applications. Corrie Health helps patients manage medications, schedule follow-up appointments, and contact healthcare providers. It also shows heart rate and steps walked each day, which are tracked by an Apple Watch, while blood pressure is monitored through another Bluetooth-enabled sensor. The American Heart Association presented Dr.Marvel and her team with a $25,000 Urban Health Accelerator grant. Dr. Marvel aims to expand our understanding of the roles of health technology, machine learning, and big data through ongoing testing and scaling of the Corrie Health platform for cardiovascular disease prevention.

Thomas H. Marshburn, M.D.

Thomas H. Marshburn, M.D.Emergency Room Physician, NASA Astronaut, and AquanautDr. Marshburn was selected by NASA in 2004. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Davidson College, North Carolina; a Masters in Engineering Physics from the University of Virginia; a Doctorate of Medicine from Wake Forest University; and a Masters in Medical Science from the University of Texas Medical Branch. The North Carolina native is a veteran of two spaceflights, STS-127 and Expedition 34/35.Before […]

Sameer Nagda, M.D., M.B.A.

Sameer Nagda, M.D., M.B.A.2021 and 2016, United States Olympic Women’s Soccer Team – Team Physician2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion, Team USA – Team PhysicianFellowship Trained Sports Medicine Surgeon – Knee, Shoulder, ElbowDr. Sameer Nagda is a Sports Medicine and shoulder specialist at the Anderson Clinic, and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He evaluates and surgically treats problems of the knee, shoulder, and elbow. He has particular […]

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served as a medical missionary in Liberia, West Africa, since 1995. His many contributions include caring for patients; training nurses, medical students and interns; leadership development; and helping to increase the hospital’s response to HIV and AIDS, including starting a counselling program for patients living with the virus. He is also helping to develop a Christian Family Practice Residency training program for Liberian doctors. Despite his […]

Pardis Sabeti, M.D., Ph.D.

Pardis Sabeti, M.D., Ph.D.Associate Professor, Harvard School of Public Health InstituteMember of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MITDr. Sabeti is a computational geneticist who has created some of the most widely used algorithms to mine genomes for instances of human adaptation and created powerful molecular tools to clarify their biology. In 2014, she was named a TIME magazine “Person of the Year” as an Ebola fighter and in 2015 was one of TIME’s 100 […]

20Jul

Bohdan Pomahac, M.D.

Francoise A. Marvel, M.D.

Bohdan Pomahac, M.D.

Chief, Division of Plastic Surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital

Dr. Pomahac established the Plastic Surgery Transplantation Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). A pioneer in the field, Dr. Pomahac’s team performed the first three full face transplant procedures in the United States, and the first successful bilateral upper extremity transplantation in the Northeast. With the overall 10 face and 3 bilateral hand transplants, Dr. Pomahac made BWH the world leader in vascularized composite transplantation.

Dr. Pomahac joined Yale School of Medicine in August 2021 where he will pursue ongoing research efforts aim to expand transplantation capabilities in the future.

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served…

20Jul

Harriet A. Washington

Francoise A. Marvel, M.D.

Harriet A. Washington

American Writer and Medical Ethicist
Author of Medical Apartheid, which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

Harriet A. Washington is a prolific science writer, editor, and ethicist who is the author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award. She has also authored five other well-received books, including A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind and Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Informed Consent in Medical Research.

Ms. Washington is a Writing Fellow in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine has been the 2015-2016 Miriam Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada’s Black Mountain Institute. She has also been a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, a visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. She has held fellowships at Stanford University and teaches bioethics at Columbia University, where she delivered the 2020 commencement speech to Columbia’s School of Public Health graduates and won Columbia’s 2020 Mailman School Of Public Health’s Public Health Leadership Award, as well as its 2020-21 Kenneth and Mamie Clark Distinguished Lecture Award.

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served…

20Jul

Stephen Ray Mitchell, M.D., MBA

Francoise A. Marvel, M.D.

GStephen Ray Mitchell, M.D., MBA, MACP, FAAP, FRCP

Dean for Medical Education, Georgetown University School of Medicine (2000-2020)
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and the Joseph Butenas
Professor, Georgetown University School of Medicine

Dr. Mitchell was a Dreyfus National Merit Scholar at the University of North Carolina and completed his medical education at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He is the fourth-longest sitting member of the National Council of Deans and has led more than 20 accreditation visits to schools of medicine. For six years, he has served as a member of the Liaison Committee for Medical Education, the national accrediting body for medical schools. Dr. Mitchell has received every residency teaching award, including six “Golden Apples,” and was inducted into the “Golden Orchard.” He is a Master of the American College of Physicians and, in 2019, became one of 15 U.S. faculty inducted into the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians London.

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served…