Faculty Directory
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Harvard Chan Executive and Continuing Education Faculty
Jess Paulus, is Senior Director of Real World Research and leads a team of scientists with expertisein the designs and methods specific to leveraging real-world data networks to meaningfully informclinical and regulatory decision making. Dr. Paulus provides senior scientific oversight regardingstudy design, analytic approaches, and dissemination strategies for RWD-based studies.Prior to joining Ontada, Dr. Paulus was faculty at Tufts Medical School for over a decade, where sheserved as Research Director of the Tufts Predictive Analytics and Comparative Effectiveness Centerand Associate Director of the Clinical and Translational Science MS/PhD Graduate Program. AtTufts, she led the conduct of federally-funded studies related to…
Jordan serves as a Principal Health Practice & Systems Advisor at MITRE Corporation, a non-profit organization dedicated to “Solving Problems for a Safer World.” MITRE operates 6 Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) including the Center for Government Effectiveness and Modernization where Jordan sits. At MITRE Jordan focuses on national projects for the Veterans Health Administration, ARPA-H, and CMS. Prior to MITRE Jordan spent a decade at MaineHealth an integrated health system based in Portland Maine. During that time, he served as the Vice President of Practice Operations at Southern Maine Healthcare, leading a multispecialty network with 21 practice sites,…
Dr. Pham, PhD is a Research Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Faculty with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI). She recently joined HHI after holding the positions of Director of Research at UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center and Adjunct Associate Professor at Tulane University's Payson Center for International Development. Her areas of specialization are applications of epidemiologic research method and information technology in complex emergency settings. She is a founding member of the Initiative for Vulnerable Populations and Kobo Project. She has extensive experiences in designing and implementing research and technology solutions in on-going and post-confliction…
Ivan Pirzada oversees BBH's Corporate Advisory, Commercial Lending and Private Equity investing activities in the Boston office. Having joined the firm in 2000, he has over 23 years of experience as an M&A advisor and private equity investor as a Principal with BBH Capital Partners, the firm's private equity investment strategy.Earlier in his career, Ivan was responsible for BBH’s healthcare corporate finance advisory (M&A) practice worldwide, leading a variety of transactions, including equity recapitalizations, corporate sales, divestitures and acquisitions. His clients included owner-managed private companies and public companies in both the U.S. and Europe, where he completed over $7 billion…
Dr. Skyler Place is a world expert in behavior change and leverages this perspective to help Fortune 100 clients unlock the power of artificial intelligence to improve outcomes for their businesses, customers, and employees. He has guided the world's largest consumer brands, healthcare providers, and telecommunication companies to bring emotionally intelligent artificial intelligence into their business operations. He has authored 8 patents and over a dozen publications at the intersection of machine learning, health, and communication. He served for over a decade as the Chief Behavioral Science Officer at Cogito, a Boston-based emotion AI company. In addition, Dr. Place is…
John M. Price, PhD, CIH, CSP is an Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Northeastern University Department of Chemical Engineering. He was previously the Director of Environmental Health and Safety at Northeastern University where he supervised staff in assessing worker exposure, conducted training in occupational health and safety, and designed engineering controls for the workplace. He also provided oversight for compliance with environmental regulations.
Andrew Principe is a veteran clinical application specialist with ten years of experience working with Electronic Medical Records, e-Prescribing, Practice Management, and Laboratory Information Systems. Andrew spent 5 years as Associate Director of Clinical Applications at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, MA. Under Andrew's leadership, Joslin achieved a successful EMR implementation that supports the organization's clinical, financial, and research goals. For the past 4 years, Andrew has worked as a consultant with Arcadia Solutions where he has helped various healthcare provider organizations adopt and utilize EMR and other clinical applications.
Ms. Puhy joined her first public board – Reebok – in 2001. Over the course of the next 20 years, she served on 2 additional public boards, Eaton Vance (an investment management firm) and Abiomed (a medical device company). Her board service for each of these public companies ended when each was acquired in very favorable transactions.She served on the board of two major companies that are structured as non-profits – Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and the Controlled Risk Insurance Company (CRICO) which is the captive professional liability insurance company of the Harvard related hospitals and physician groups.…