Faculty Directory

John D. Halamka, MD, MS leads innovation for Beth Israel Lahey Health. Previously, he served for over 20 years as the chief information officer (CIO) at the Beth Israel Deaconess Healthcare System. He is chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), and a practicing emergency physician. He is also the International Healthcare Innovation professor at Harvard Medical School.Dr. Halamka completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University, where he received a degree in medical microbiology and a degree in public policy with a focus on technology issues. He entered medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and simultaneously pursued graduate work…

Donald Halstead is Lecturer on Epidemiology and Director of Writing Programs at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He works with students, postdoctoral research fellows, and faculty from all nine of the school’s departments and its many different disciplines to improve writing, critical thinking, and communication skills. He also conducts grant and scientific writing workshops for basic, clinical, translational, and population health scientists at other Harvard schools and in a number of other countries.  

Ian Scott Hamilton, Ph.D., is the Corporate Radiation Safety Officer, and Chief – Diagnostic Physics/Nuclear Medicine Physics, for Baylor Scott & White Health (CTX-Div), which consists of more than 1000 hospitals and clinics that make use of radiation in the healing arts. Dr. Hamilton is also a faculty member within the Texas A&M University, College of Medicine, where he has responsibilities for teaching both medical school students and radiology residents. Dr. Hamilton lectures extensively across the US on patient dose reduction and domestic preparedness, and consults from time-to-time on various engineering, regulatory, and scientific projects through an engineering consulting firm he founded…

James K. Hammitt is Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences and Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. His research and teaching concern the development and application of quantitative methods—including risk, decision, and benefit-cost analysis— to health and environmental policy.Professor Hammitt holds degrees in Applied Mathematics and Public Policy from Harvard University and was previously Senior Mathematician at the RAND Corporation, a faculty member at the RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies, and held the Pierre-de-Fermat Chaire d’Éxcellence at the Toulouse School of Economics. He chaired the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis and…

Mr. Harpin received both his B.S. in Physics and his M.S. in Radiological Sciences and Protection from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Mr. Harpin currently works as an EHS Officer in the MIT Reactor Radiation Protection Program and previously worked as a Health Physicist at Lantheus in a radiopharmaceutical production environment. Mr. Harpin is an experienced trainer and has expertise in the areas of air sampling and shipping. 

Wendy Heiger-Bernays is a faculty member in the Department of Environmental Health at the BU School of Public Health where she applies her training in molecular toxicology to practical questions about the impact of industrial chemicals, consumer products and pharmaceuticals in waste streams on people’s health. She works collaboratively to assess toxicity of chemicals and chemical mixtures that modify metabolic pathways in cells, fish and rodent models. Dr. Heiger-Bernays’ work is focused on technology and information transfer of the science to multiple audiences, including environmental regulatory and health agencies as well as with advocacy groups and community groups. Her research…

Dr. Hernandez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and the Interim Director of the Center for Maternal Health Equity at Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Hernandez has a broad background in community-based participatory research (CBPR), women’s health inequities, health policy, and social determinants of health. She has more than 15 years of experience in developing community partnerships and implementing CBPR that engages with diverse stakeholder groups. Dr. Hernandez has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-investigator on numerous university, foundational, and NIH-funded grants focused on women’s health inequities.In 2019, she helped to…

Victor has over 45 years of industrial hygiene experience in diverse environments including hospitality, health care, industrial, aerospace, defense, commercial, construction, shipyard, mining, theatrical, semi-conductor, electronics, laboratory (decommissioning), and residential. For forty years he was with the Liberty Mutual Industrial Hygiene team, holding various positions from Field Industrial Hygienist to Industrial Hygiene Technical Director and Director of Industrial Hygiene Field Services. Vic has testified numerous times in cases involving occupational and environmental health. Most recently, he founded the Hillman Health and Hygiene LLC consulting company. Victor has been active on several American Industrial Hygiene Association committees, has been on AIHA local section boards,…

James H. (Jim) Hinton is the President and CEO of Presbyterian Healthcare Services, New Mexico’s only private, not-for-profit healthcare system, comprised of eight hospitals in seven communities, the state’s largest health plan and a fast-growing multi-specialty medical group. Recent Presbyterian accomplishments include: (2008) Business Finance Magazine’s 2008 Vision Award for its performance management program.(2007) #4 ranking (out of 550) for America’s Top 10 Integrated Healthcare Delivery Networks.(2006) National Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award site visit for the second year in a row.(2005) “Most Preferred for Overall Healthcare Services” by The National Research Corporation for the tenth year in a row. Mr.…