Faculty Directory
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Executive and Continuing Education programs are taught by esteemed Harvard faculty and industry experts in health care and related fields.
Harvard Chan Executive and Continuing Education Faculty
Jamie Tessler has extensive research and practice experience in the field of occupational ergonomics and musculoskeletal epidemiology. She has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications, designed ergonomic exposure assessment tools, trained research fieldwork teams, designed survey and data collection instruments, and managed research-to-practice educational programs. As a consultant, Jamie has supported creative ergonomics solutions in healthcare facilities and a variety of office environments from the large firm down to the home office. Jamie is also an experienced occupational and environmental health learning manager, educator, master trainer. Her communications portfolio includes the design and launch of innovative training content, e-learning products and a range…
Dr. Testa, MPH, MPhil, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics (Department of Biostatistics | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) and Co-Director of Emergency Preparedness, Research, Education and Practice (EPREP) Program (The EPREP Program – Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health), Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She received her MPH, MPhil, and PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health with concentrations in biostatistics, statistics, and epidemiology from Yale University. Dr. Testa was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut Schools of…
Shiby Thomas is the Director of Enterprise Analytics at Boston Medical Center. He provides leadership, vision, strategy and overall management for Clinical Data Warehousing and Analytics at BMC. He is an expert in Clinical Data Management and quality measurement. He led the development of BMC's Clinical Data Warehouse, which has grown to be a comprehensive clinical data repository on the hospital side of healthcare and the associated analytical reports and dashboards. BMC Clinical Data Warehouse is also a certified PQRI Registry to compute and submit Physician Quality reports to CMS. Prior to joining BMC in 2005, he worked for Oracle…
Javier is a technology executive, investor and entrepreneur. As Technical Director at the CTO Office Javier drives long term technical strategy for Google Cloud. During 15 years at Google, Javier has led technical work and managed teams in Search, Ads, Supply Chain and Cloud. Recently he has been focusing on healthcare, pharma and biotech, and helping organizations use Cloud, Machine Learning and Generative AI to improve drug discovery and patient care.
John Torous, MD MBI is director of the digital psychiatry division, in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School affiliated teaching hospital, where he also serves as a staff psychiatrist and assistant professor. He has a background in electrical engineering and computer sciences and received an undergraduate degree in the field from UC Berkeley before attending medical school at UC San Diego. He completed his psychiatry residency, fellowship in clinical informatics, and master's degree in biomedical informatics at Harvard. Dr. Torous is active in investigating the potential of mobile mental health technologies for psychiatry and has…
Chris Trimble has dedicated more than a decade to studying a single challenge that vexes even the best-managed organizations: how to execute an innovation initiative. In September of 2013, Chris published Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization, his fifth book on the topic with co-author Vijay Govindarajan. Chris and Vijay also collaborated on the New York Times bestseller Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, which focuses on the specific challenge of innovating to propel growth in emerging markets, and How Stella Saved the Farm, a simple story that instigates productive conversations about what it…
Alexander Turchin is Director of Informatics Research at the Division of Endocrinology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focus is on studying advanced methods of real-world evidence data analytics, including natural language processing, causal inference and predictive modeling, and applying these methods to investigations of outcomes and treatment of patients with chronic cardiometabolic conditions. Dr. Turchin’s research group makes open-source natural language processing platform Canary (http://canary.bwh.harvard.edu/). Dr. Turchin is the Medical Lead for the Know Diabetes by Heart Initiative at the American Diabetes Association and a member of the Methods…
Steven Van Putten is Managing Director and head of the firm's Boston office. He has extensive experience advising Fortune 500 compensation committees and senior management on executive and director compensation matters. He consults across a range of industries, including technology, life sciences, manufacturing and consumer products.Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Van Putten was the North America East Region Practice Leader of Watson Wyatt's Executive Compensation Consulting Practice and North American practice director of Watson Wyatt's performance metrics and measurement group. Before joining Watson Wyatt, he was a senior executive compensation consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.He is a frequent speaker at industry…