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Harvard Chan Executive and Continuing Education Faculty
Dr. Tarek Nafee is an Internal Medicine Resident Physician at Boston University and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the PERFUSE Study Group in the Cardiovascular Division of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Nafee received his BSc. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his M.D. in from the ASU College of Medicine in St. Vincent & The Grenadines. He is a proud graduate of the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research Program (2015) and has been a Teaching Assistant for the program for the last 4 years. He graduated with a MMSc. Degree…
Rebekah Nagler is an associate professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, where she held the Beverly and Richard Fink Professorship in Liberal Arts from 2020-2023. She is also affiliate faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and a member of the Masonic Cancer Center. Professor Nagler’s research examines the effects of routine exposure to health information in the media, with a particular focus on conflicting and often controversial information. She has additional research interests in communication and health equity. Professor Nagler’s work has been funded by agencies and…
Dr. Naslund is Instructor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He holds expertise in psychiatric epidemiology, implementation science, social disparities research and digital mental health. Dr. Naslund's scholarship seeks to advance efforts aimed at improving the lives of individuals facing the challenges of mental illness worldwide. Specifically, his work explores the intersection between emerging digital technologies, such as smartphones, social media, and mobile applications, and implementation science, towards improving the reach, quality and effectiveness of mental health services and addressing gaps in equity and sustainability. Dr. Naslund has led numerous projects, with emphasis in India and…
Vivek Natarajan is a Research Scientist at Google leading research at the intersection of large language models (LLMs) and biomedicine. In particular, Vivek is the lead researcher behind Med-PaLM and Med-PaLM 2, which were the first AI systems to obtain passing and expert level scores on US Medical License exam questions respectively. Med-PaLM was recently published in Nature and has been featured in The Scientific American, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, STAT News, CNBC, Forbes, New Scientist among others. Vivek also led the development of Med-PaLM M, the first demonstration of a generalist biomedical AI system and AMIE, a research AI…
Sinaia Nathanson, Ph.D. is a social psychologist specializing in conflict resolution and organizational behavior. Dr. Nathanson earned her Masters Degree at Harvard and her Doctorate at Tufts University. As a full-time Senior Lecturer in the department of psychology at Tufts University she teaches social psychology, conflict resolution, leadership and group dynamics. She also leads courses on negotiation, mediation and communication at the Gordon Institute and at the Program on Peace and Justice at Tufts. Prior to her appointment at Tufts, Dr. Nathanson taught at the Graduate Program of Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Dr. Nathanson has…
Ivo Nelson, a 23-year veteran of information systems and reengineering, is Leader of IBM’s Healthcare Industry, Global and Americas, with responsibility for all of IBM’s Healthcare Industry. He is also former CEO of Houston-based Healthlink Incorporated, a company he built to be the nation’s largest privately held, provider-focused healthcare information systems consulting firm. IBM acquired Healthlink in June 2005. Prior to Healthlink, Mr. Nelson served with corporations such as EDS and Perot Systems. While at Perot Systems, he helped start the Healthcare division and developed it into a $50 million business in a three-year period. Then, in 1992, he cofounded…
Julie Cohen Norris is a Senior Client Partner in the Boston Office of Korn Ferry and a member of the Board & CEO, Technology, and Legal Services Practices.Julie specializes in the recruitment of Board Directors and C-suite executives. She has completed more than 350 board director searches working with Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 clients, middle-market public and privately held companies. Julie's board practice focuses on identifying next generation directors who will bring insights into new technologies, customers and markets. She also has extensive experience working with boards to increase diversity and advising on succession planning.Prior to joining Korn Ferry,…
Peter Noseworthy is Chair of the Division of Heart Rhythm Services at Mayo Clinic. He has led the implementation of several EKG-focused AI models into Mayo's clinical practice.