2024 Speakers

Paul Anderson, MD, PhD

Chief Academic Officer, Mass General Brigham; K Frank Austen Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Rahul Ballal, PhD

CEO, Mediar Therapeutics

Stéphane Bancel

CEO, Moderna

Albert Bourla, PhD

Chairman & CEO, Pfizer

O’Neil Britton, MD

Chief Integration Officer & Executive Vice President, Mass General Brigham

Marc Casper

Chairman, President & CEO, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, MD

Executive Advisor; former CEO & President, Cleveland Clinic

Niyum Gandhi

CFO & Treasurer, Mass General Brigham

Marc Harrison, MD

Co-founder & CEO, Health Assurance Transformation Corp. (HATCo)

Rod Hochman, MD

President & CEO, Providence

David Hyman, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Eli Lilly and Company

Daniel Karlin, MD

Chief Medical Officer, MindMed

Reshma Kewalramani, MD

CEO & President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Anne Klibanski, MD

President & CEO, Mass General Brigham; Laurie Carrol Guthart Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Adam Landman, MD

Chief Information Officer & SVP, Digital, Mass General Brigham; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Chemu Lang’at

Chief Operating Officer, Best Buy Health

John Lepore, MD

CEO, ProFound Therapeutics; CEO-Partner, Flagship Pioneering

Kevin Mahoney

CEO, University of Pennsylvania Health System

James Mawson

CEO, Global Corporate Venturing

Jane Moran

Chief Information and Digital Officer, Mass General Brigham

Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, McLean Hospital; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Joanne Smith-Farrell, PhD

CEO & Director, Be Biopharma

Sukanya Soderland

Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Emma Somers-Roy

Chief Investment Officer, Mass General Brigham

Elsie Taveras, MD

Chief Community Health & Health Equity Officer, Mass General Brigham; Conrad Taff Endowed Chair and Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Ron Walls, MD

Chief Operating Officer, Mass General Brigham; Neskey Family Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Christophe Weber

President, CEO and Representative Director, Takeda

Anna Åsberg

Vice President, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

Rox Anderson, MD

Lancer Endowed Chair of Dermatology; Director, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, MGH; Professor of Dermatology, HMS

Caroline Apovian, MD

Co-Director, Center for Weight Management and Wellness, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Vanita Aroda, MD

Director, Diabetes Clinical Research, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Natalie Artzi, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Giles Boland, MD

President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization; Philip H. Cook Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

James Brink, MD

Chief, Enterprise Radiology, Mass General Brigham; Juan M. Taveras Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

David Brown, MD

President, Academic Medical Centers, Mass General Brigham; Mass General Trustees Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Jonathan Carlson, MD, PhD

Director of Chemistry, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dong Feng Chen, MD, PhD

Associate Scientist, Massachusetts Eye and Ear; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

E. Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD

Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvey W. Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School

Bryan Choi, MD, PhD

Associate Director, Center for Brain Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School

Yolonda Colson, MD, PhD

Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; Hermes C. Grillo Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Marcela del Carmen, MD

President, Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO); Executive Vice President, Mass General Brigham; Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School

Gerard Doherty, MD

Surgeon-in-Chief, Mass General Brigham Cancer; Surgeon-in-Chief, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Moseley Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Florian Eichler, MD

Director, Center for Rare Neurological Diseases, Katherine B. Sims Chair in Neurogenetics, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Maurizio Fava, MD

Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Keith Flaherty, MD

Director of Clinical Research, Mass General Cancer Center; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Jose Florez, MD, PhD

Physician-in-Chief and Chair, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor, Harvard Medical School

Jean-François Formela, MD

Partner, Atlas Venture

Fritz François, MD

Executive Vice President and Vice Dean, Chief of Hospital Operations, NYU Langone Health

Gad Getz, PhD

Director, Cancer Genome Analysis, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Scott Gottlieb, MD

Physician; Former Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration (2017-2019)

Steven Greenberg, MD

Neurologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Steven Grinspoon, MD

Chief, Metabolism Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD

Chief, Enterprise Radiation Oncology, Mass General Brigham; Professor, Harvard Medical School

Daniel Haber, MD, PhD

Director, Mass General Cancer Center; Kurt J. Isselbacher Professor of Oncology, Harvard Medical School

Roger Hajjar, MD

Director, Gene & Cell Therapy Institute, Mass General Brigham

Yvonne Hao

Secretary of Economic Development, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Ole Isacson, MD, PhD

Founding Director, Neuroregeneration Research Institute, McLean Hospital; Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School

Russell Jenkins, MD, PhD

Investigator, Center for Cancer Research, MGH; Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS

Hadine Joffe, MD

Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Paula A. Johnson Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Women’s Health, Harvard Medical School

Tatsuo Kawai, MD, PhD

Director of the Legorreta Center for Clinical Transplantation Tolerance, A.Benedict Cosimi Chair in Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Albert Kim, MD

Assistant Physician, Mass General Cancer Center; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Roger Kitterman

Senior Vice President, Ventures and Business Development & Licensing, Mass General Brigham Managing Partner, Mass General Brigham Ventures

Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, DMSc

Chief Scientific Advisor, Novo Nordisk

Vesela Kovacheva, MD, PhD

Director of Translational and Clinical Research, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School

John Krystal, MD

Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

Bruce Levy, MD

Chair, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Katherine Liao, MD

Associate Physician, Department of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

David Louis, MD

Enterprise Chief, Pathology, Mass General Brigham Benjamin Castleman Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Tim Luker, PhD

VP, Ventures & West Coast Head, Eli Lilly

Calum MacRae MD, PhD

Vice Chair for Scientific Innovation, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Joren Madsen, MD, PhD

Director, MGH Transplant Center; Paul S. Russell/Warner-Lambert Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Peter Marks, MD, PhD

Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA

Marcela Maus, MD, PhD

Director of Cellular Immunotherapy, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Rebecca Mishuris, MD

Chief Medical Information Officer, Mass General Brigham; Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School

Pradeep Natarajan, MD

Director of Preventive Cardiology, Paul & Phyllis Fireman Endowed Chair in Vascular Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Nawal Nour, MD

Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor, Kate Macy Ladd Professorship, Harvard Medical School

Heather O’Sullivan, MS, RN, AGNP

President, Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home

Richard Pierson III, MD

Scientific Director, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD

Director, Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; Steve and Deborah Gorlin MGH Research Scholar; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Heidi Rehm, PhD

Chief Genomics Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD

Medical Director of Kidney Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harold and Ellen Danser Endowed Chair in Transplantation, Harvard Medical School

Jorge Rodriguez, MD

Clinician-investigator, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

David Ryan, MD

Physician-in-Chief, Mass General Brigham Cancer; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Gregory Simon

President, Simonovation

Prabhjot Singh, MD, PhD

Senior Advisor, Strategic Initiatives Peterson Health Technology Institute

Caroline Sokol, MD, PhD

Assistant Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Daniel Solomon, MD

Matthew H. Liang Distinguished Chair in Arthritis and Population Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Fatima Cody Stanford, MD

Obesity Medicine Physician Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Shannon Stott, PhD

d’Arbeloff Research Scholar, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Alec Stranahan, PhD

Senior Analyst, Bank of America

Marc Succi, MD

Executive Director, Mass General Brigham MESH Incubator; Associate Chair of Innovation & Commercialization, Mass General Brigham Radiology; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Guillermo Tearney, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Remondi Family Endowed MGH Research Institute Chair; Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Raul Uppot, MD

Interventional Radiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Kate Walsh

Secretary of Health and Human Services, State of Massachusetts

David Walt, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School

Jennifer Warner-Schmidt, PhD

Vice President, Scientific Affairs, Transcend Therapeutics

Christoph Westphal, MD, PhD

General Partner, Longwood Fund

Nathan Yozwiak, PhD

Head of Research, Gene and Cell Therapy Institute, Mass General Brigham

Alice Zheng, MD

Principal, RH Capital