Faculty

This is the faculty for the 2024 course. 

2026 faculty list not yet available.

Harvard Medical School

Maureen M. Achebe, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Richard C. Antonelli, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Medical Director, Integrated Care, Department of Accountable Care and Clinical Integration; Medical Director, National Center for Care Coordination Technical Assistance, and Medical Director, National Care Coordination Academy, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital

Alexy D. Arauz Boudreau, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Associate Chief of Pediatrics for Primary Care, MGHfC Medical Director for Population Health Management, Department of Pediatrics & Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital

Rachael B. Coakley, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director, Clinical Innovation and Outreach in Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital

Staci R. Eisenberg, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Part-time, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Program Director, Harvard Medicine-Pediatric Residency Program, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital

Scott A. Elisofon, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Center for Childhood Liver Disease, Associate Director, Center for Childhood Liver Disease; Medical Director, Liver Transplant Program, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital

Laurie N. Fishman, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Attending Physician, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital

Sarah N. Flier, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Fellowship Program Director, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Associate Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program; Director, Quality Assurance, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Katharine Garvey, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Clinical Chief, Diabetes; Director, Diabetes Program; Attending Physician, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital

Scott E. Hadland, MD, MPH, MS, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine; Chief of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Mass General for Children and Harvard Medical School

Jonathan S. Hausmann, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Pediatric Rheumatology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital; Rheumatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Arda Hotz, MD, MPH, Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Complex Care Service, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital

Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Health Policy Research Center, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital

Yoshio Kaneko MD, Instructor in Psychiatry, Part-time, Harvard Medical School; Director, Transitional Age Youth Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

Erin McNamara, MD, MPH, Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Director, Spina Bifida and Spinal Cord Conditions Center; Fellowship Program Director; Associate Director, Colorectal and Pelvic Malformation Center, Department of Urology, Boston Children's Hospital

Tracey Milligan, MD, MS, FAAN, Visiting Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology, New York Medical College; Director of Neurology, Westchester Medical Center

Anne M. Neilan, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Medicine and Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital

Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Vice Chair of Medical Oncology; Founder and Director, Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer; Director, Adult Survivorship Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Jennifer Turek Queally, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Attending Neuropsychologist, Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital

Stephanie L. Santoro, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Clinical Geneticist, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children; Director, Quality Improvement Research, MGH Down Syndrome Program, Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital

Gregory S. Sawicki, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Director, Cystic Fibrosis Center, Division of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital

Katherine H. Schiavoni, MD, MPP, Instructor in Pediatrics, Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics (EXT), Harvard Medical School; Population Health Fellow, Mass General Brigham; Assistant Physician in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital

Alison D. Schonwald, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician. Co-Founder, Touchstone Neurodevelopmental Center, Department of Pediatrics, Woburn, MA

Sarah J. Spence, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Co-Director, Autism Spectrum Center; Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital

Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS, DABOM, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Obesity Medicine Physician Scientist, Endocrine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital

Margaret E. Threadgill, MD, MBA, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-Founder, BWH Transition Care Team; Medical Director for Pediatrics, BWH Primary Care; Clinician Innovator Fellow and Staff Physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Hospital Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital

Anne Marie Valente, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Section Chief, Boston Adult Congenital Heart (BACH) and Pulmonary Hypertension Program, Fellowship Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Senior Fellowship, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Harvard-Affiliated Faculty

Janis H. Arnold, MSW, LICSW, Clinical Social Worker, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Director, GI Social Work Service, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Co-Director, MSW Social Work Training Program, Boston Children's Hospital

Madeline Chiujdea, BA, CPHQ, CLSSGB, Senior Quality Improvement Consultant, Neuroscience Quality Improvement Program, Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital

Dawn Freiberger, RN, MSN, CCTC, Transplant Coordinator, Lung Transplant Program, Boston Children’s Hospital

Lynne Helfand, MSW, LICSW, MPH, Social Worker, Lung Transplant Program, Boston Children’s Hospital

Colleen Huysman, MSW, LICSW, Clinical Social Worker, BRIDGES Adult Transition Program and AWAKE Program, Emergency Department, Boston Children’s Hospital

Brendan Kimball, MBA, Administrative Director, Pediatric Transplant Center, Boston Children’s Hospital

Natalie Mann, BSE, Quality Improvement Data Analyst, Neuroscience Quality Improvement Program, Neuroscience Center, Boston Children’s Hospital

Kathleen Nolan, NP, Nurse Practitioner, KIND Clinic Team, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Lahey Health

Julia C. Roboff, MSN, FNP-BC, Nurse Practitioner, Weitzman BRIDGES Adult Transition Program, Department of Medicine, Medical Patient Services, Boston Children's Hospital

Kristina Taylor, BS, BSN, RN, Nurse Transition Coordinator, BRIDGES Adult Transition Program, Boston Children's Hospital

Guest Faculty 

Ashley Allen, MD, MSPH, Advanced Clinical Fellow in Palliative Care, UNC School of Medicine

Sneha Dave, Executive Director, Generation Patient; Generationpatient.org

Elisabeth Dellon, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics, UNC School of Medicine

Caitlin M. Erwin, BSN, RN, Administrative Director, Complex Care Manager, East Boston Neighborhood Health Center

Elaine M. Gabovitch, MPA, Instructor, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Director, Division for Children & Youth with Special Health Needs, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Meaghan Hamilton, PNP, CATCH Program, East Boston Neighborhood Health Center

C. Alexis Hopkins, NP, Family Nurse Practitioner/Epic Builder, East Boston Neighborhood Health Center

Kristine McKenna, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine; Attending Psychologist, Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Services, Seattle Children's Hospital

Kristin M. Farias, MD, Orlando Health, FL

Kitty O'Hare, MD, Senior Medical Director, Duke University Health System

Jane Sattoe, PhD, Senior Researcher Transitions in Care, Research Centre Innovations in Care, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands