2019-2020 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars
Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD
Associate Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine
Professor, Pediatric Tropical Medicine & Molecular Virology & Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
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Deidra C. Crews, MD, ScM
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Associate Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Oluwadamilola “Lola” Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Duke University
She is an academic breast surgeon who conducts health services research focused on addressing disparities in breast cancer outcome and treatment, optimizing management of aggressive breast cancer variants such as IBC, and enhancing the quality and efficiency of breast cancer care delivery using the principles of value-based health care. In 2017, Fayanju was awarded a Duke CTSA KL2 Career Development Award (CDA) to support her research, and she is the 2019 recipient of the American College of Surgeons/American Society of Breast Surgeons Health Policy And Management Scholarship. Her work has previously been recognized with receipt of two Conquer Cancer Merit Awards from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and has been published in a variety of journals including Annals of Surgery, Annals of Surgical Oncology, Cancer, and JAMA Surgery.Bio
Christopher Friese, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN
Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing
Director, Center for Improving Patient and Population Health
University of Michigan
As the first nurse scientist to complete a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award from the National Institute of Nursing Research, Dr. Friese leads an interdisciplinary research program to study the quality of care delivered in understudied ambulatory oncology settings from the perspectives of patients and clinicians. He has also led pivotal studies to develop a valid and reliable measure of ambulatory nursing work environments. His recent work looks for patterns and correlates of hazardous drug exposure in oncology nurses. Dr. Friese directs the DEFENS (Drug Exposure Feedback and Education for Nurses’ Safety) Study on nurses’ use of personal protective equipment when handling chemotherapy and leads a National Cancer Institute–funded study on individualized decision making and treatment for breast cancer in an era of precision medicine. Dr. Friese received a BSN-PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and completed a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Cancer Control and Outcomes at Harvard University/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is a member of the American Academy of Nursing and received the University of Michigan’s Henry Russel Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty, the first nursing school recipient in the award’s 90-year history. Bio
Marcia Haigis, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
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Mark Huffman, MD, MPH
Quentin D. Young Professor of Health Policy and Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Food Policy, The George Institute for Global Health
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Sandeep Kishore, MD, PhD, MSc
Associate Director
The Arnhold Institute for Global Health
Icahn School of Medicine
Mount Sinai Health
He has worked to amend the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List with 9 medications–including for heart disease and cancers–which facilitates access to low-cost medicines for free or the cheapest prices possible. He has served as an Advisor to the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs regarding expansion of access to low-cost tools globally. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, where his dissertation focused on the evolution of malaria parasitism in humans. His discoveries led him to win the national Raymond W. Sarber award for most outstanding graduate student in microbiology. His work on both innovation + access to health goods has been featured in the popular press (Scientific American, The Huffington Post, National Public Radio and The Scientist), as well as in scholarly journals including JAMA, Health Affairs, The Lancet, the Nature Reviews series and PLoS Medicine. He is on the Medical Review Board of The Huffington Post, the Editorial Advisory Board of TEDMED and is a member of the Forum on Health Professional Education at the Institute of Medicine. He is a graduate of Duke University (B.S.) and Oxford University (M.Sc.), and is the first The Lancet awardee for community service. He completed his MD and PhD degrees at Weill Cornell.Bio
Mark Neuman, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
University of Pennsylvania
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Brea Perry, Ph.D
Professor of Sociology
Indiana University
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Suchi Saria, PhD, MSc
John C. Malone Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
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Julie Segre, PhD
Chief and Senior Investigator
Translational and Functional Genomics Branch
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
Dr. Segre joined the National Human Genome Research Institute of NIH in 2000 and was promoted to a senior investigator with tenure in 2007. Dr. Segre’s laboratory utilizes high-throughput sequencing and develops algorithms to study the microbial diversity of human skin in both health and disease states, with a focus on eczema and other microbial-associated infections. Dr. Segre published the first topographical maps of human skin bacterial and fungal diversity. Dr. Segre’s laboratory also develops genomic tools to track hospital-acquired infections of multi-drug resistant organisms, including the NIH’s recent Klebsiella pneumoniae outbreak. Dr. Segre’s research is based on active collaborations with the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center and the clinical departments of Infection Control, Microbiology, and Dermatology. Dr. Segre is a leader in the NIH Roadmap Human Microbiome Project, communicating with multiple media sources to promote the concept of humans as ecological landscapes. Together with the NIH epidemiologist, Tara Palmore, MD, Segre received the 2013 Service to America Medal, considered among the most prestigious for a federal employee, for their work to establish the clinical utility of microbial genomics.Bio
Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH
Instructor in Emergency Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
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Hassan A. Tetteh, MD, MBA, MPA, MS
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, United States Navy
Associate Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Tetteh received his BS from State University of New York (SUNY) at Plattsburgh, his MD from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, his MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, MBA from Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, and MS in National Security Strategy with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from the National War College. He completed his thoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Minnesota and advanced cardiac surgery fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Tetteh is a bestselling author of the novel Gifts of the Heart, has finished twenty marathons, and recently delivered the popular TEDx talk entitled, From Death to Life, based on his work in transplant surgery. Tetteh is board certified in thoracic surgery, general surgery, clinical informatics, and healthcare management, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.Bio
Jonathan Watanabe, PharmD, MS, PhD, BCGP
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Associate Director and Founding Associate Dean, Samueli College of Health Sciences
University of California Irvine
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Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD
The Simon H. Stertzer, MD Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Radiology
Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Stanford School of Medicine
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Paul P. Christopher, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Brown University
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Adaeze Enekwechi, PhD, MPP
President
Impaq, LLC
Most recently, Dr. Enekwechi was a Vice President at McDermott+Consulting, and before that served as the Associate Director for Health Programs at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under President Barack Obama. As the federal government’s chief health care budget official, she provided budget, policy, management, and regulatory oversight for over $1 trillion in spending on a range of federal programs including Medicare, Medicaid, insurance marketplaces, the CMS Innovation Center, and for a number of agencies including CMS, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the OMB, Dr. Enekwechi managed the review and approval of major CMMI reform proposals, as well as MACRA/Quality Payment Program rulemaking. She also managed OMB processes for reviewing several FDA policies, Medicaid negotiations, Zika and other public health funding requests. Dr. Enekwechi is highly experienced with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation, playing a key role in driving ACA budget, policy, strategy and operational coordination with various agencies, including the Department of Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Office of Personnel Management, among others. Dr. Enekwechi was previously a Managing Consultant at the Lewin Group where she specialized in health policy evaluation, Medicare and Medicaid payment policies, and quality measurement. She also worked at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, and the Congressional Budget Office. Dr. Enekwechi completed a BA at the University of Iowa, an MPP at the American University, and a PhD in Health Services and Policy from the University of Iowa. Her research area focused on the use of long-term care services among older adults. She completed postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago, School of Medicine. Dr. Enekwechi is also a Research Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, and a Visiting Professor at Meharry Medical College.Bio
Lori Freedman, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
The University of California, San Francisco
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Jordan Green, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
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Leora Horwitz, MD
Associate Professor
New York University School of Medicine
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Ning (Jenny) Jiang, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Texas at Austin
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Raina Merchant, MD, MSHP
Associate Vice President, Penn Medicine/Digital Health
Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Merchant attended Yale University for her undergraduate degree, University of Chicago for Medical School, and the University of Pennsylvania for a Masters of Science in Health Policy Research and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. Her research is at the intersection of digital media and health. She has specifically conducted projects evaluating health behaviors and communication on digital platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Instagram, and Google. One of her projects in this area involves “banking language” through the development of a unique longitudinal database of social media data merged with health record data. Much of her work also bridges new technologies in the field of cardiovascular health and resuscitation science. In this context, she is the Director of the MyHeartMap Challenge, a social media and crowdsourcing project aimed at improving (automated external defibrillator) AED access and awareness by engaging the public to serve as citizen scientist. Dr. Merchant is currently funded by the NIH and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as NEJM, JAMA, Circulation, and Health Affairs. Her work has been featured in Wired, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal and others. She is a member of the editorial board of JAMA. She is an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow and was recognized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as one of 10 young investigators likely to have a significant impact on the future of health and healthcare in the US.Bio
Minal Patel, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Health Behavior & Health Education
University of Michigan
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Nathan Price, PhD
Professor and Associate Director
Institute for Systems Biology
Price has received a number of awards for his research work, including an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Howard Temin Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, a young investigator award from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, and being named as one of the inaugural “Tomorrow’s PIs” by Genome Technology. He was also named as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and received the 2016 Grace A. Goldsmith Award for his work pioneering scientific wellness. Price has co-founded two companies: Consilience (a 2019 AI startup focused on the learning healthcare system) and Arivale. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) and on the Board of Advisors for the American Cancer Society (WA). He is also Chair of the NIH study section on Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems (MABS). Price also serves on numerous scientific advisory boards including for Providence St. Joseph Health, Roche (personalized healthcare division), Sera Prognostics, Navican, Basepaws, Mexico’s National Institute for Genomic Medicine, the Center for Big Data and Precision Health at Duke University, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability. He is a fellow of the European Society of Preventive Medicine, and has published over 160 scientific papers and given 200 invited talks.Bio
Margaret (Gretchen) L. Schwarze, MD, MPP
Associate Professor
Division of Vascular Surgery
University of Wisconsin
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Jacob Sherkow, JD, MA
Professor of Law at the Innovation Center for Law and Technology
New York Law School
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Sohail Tavazoie, MD, PhD
Leon Hess Professor
Head of the Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology
Director, Black Family Metastasis Center
The Rockefeller University
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Y. Claire Wang, MD, ScD, MS
Vice President for Research, Evaluation and Policy
The New York Academy of Medicine
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Jeffrey K. Wickliffe PhD, MS
Associate Professor
Department of Global Environmental Health Sciences
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Fogarty International Center, the National Science Foundation, the Health Effects Institute and non-governmental foundations. Jeff received a PhD from Texas Tech University and completed a 2-year, NIEHS-sponsored postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Branch. After joining the faculty at Tulane University, he received the 170th Early Career Professorship.Bio
Ramnik Xavier, MD, ChB
Chief of Gastroenterology
Director, the Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Massachusetts General Hospital
Kurt Isselbacher Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Through a transformative collaboration with the Broad’s Chemical Biology Platform, the Xavier laboratory aims to discover small molecules that can correct pathways defective in Crohn’s and autoimmunity. Xavier and his colleagues have made progress in identifying small molecules in the autophagy pathway (Crohn’s), and small molecules that control cytokine function and regulatory T cells. In his role as Chief of Gastroenterology at MGH, which he assumed in 2010, Xavier oversees one of the only comprehensive, multidisciplinary programs in New England dedicated to diagnosing, treating, and managing patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Xavier was elected to the American Association of Physicians in 2011and is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology. Dr. Xavier received his MB, ChB from the University of Zimbabwe and completed his residency and fellowship at MGH.Bio