Faculty Directory
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Harvard Chan Executive and Continuing Education Faculty
Manuel Castillo-Angeles, MD, MPH is a research fellow at the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. At the Division of Trauma, Burn and Surgical Critical Care, both his quantitative and qualitative research focuses on long-term outcomes of emergency general surgery and trauma surgery, and surgical education. After Manuel received his medical training at Cayetano Heredia University in Peru, he completed a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to joining the BWH, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Department of…
Diana Ceballos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington. She received her PhD in Environmental and Occupational Hygiene from the University of Washington, and she also holds a MS in Atmospheric Chemistry from the University of Nevada-Reno and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin, Colombia. She did her postdoctoral training at the University of Washington, and subsequently became an Associate Industrial Hygienist Service Fellow and a Senior Industrial Hygienist Service Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety…
As clinical research director and principal research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology (LCP), and as a practicing intensive care unit (ICU) physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Leo brings together clinicians and data scientists to support research using data routinely collected in the process of care. His group built and maintains the publicly-available Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC) database and the Philips-MIT eICU Collaborative Research Database, with more than 20,000 users from around the world. In addition, Leo is one of the course directors for HST.936 – global health informatics to improve…
Dr. Tich Changamire, M.d., Ph.D., MBA, is the Vice President, Chief Medical Officer of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst). He is responsible for leading CareFirst’s efforts to achieve excellence in healthcare affordability, quality, and accessibility through innovative initiatives to improve the health of members and communities in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Northern Virginia.Dr. Changamire is a board-certified family physician with more than 20 years of industry experience, including medical and health plan knowledge, provider-based healthcare leadership, value-based healthcare, population health, clinical quality improvement and the business of healthcare.Before joining CareFirst, Dr. Changamire served as Chief Medical Officer and Regional…
Martin G. Cherniack, MD, MPH is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Ergonomic Technology Center. His areas of research include hand-arm vibration, small fiber nerve injury and bioacoustics. His clinical interests are concentrated around upper extremity disorders with a special concentration on the hand and arm problems of musicians. His environmental health interests have largely involved the former Soviet Union, where he has worked on air both population and radiation health issues.
Dr. Mickey Chopra is the Lead Health Specialist of the Health of the Nutrition and Population Global Practice at the World Bank. Prior to this he held the post as Chief of Health and Associate Director of Programmes at UNICEF’s New York Headquarters in August 2009, leading the organization’s work on maternal, newborn, and child health; immunization; pediatric HIV/AIDS; and health systems strengthening, policy, and research. Preceding his appointment to UNICEF, Dr. Chopra was the director of the Health Systems Research Group of the South Africa Medical Research Council. Dr. Chopra is qualified as a medical doctor with an additional…
Dr. Christiani’s major research interests are occupational, environmental and molecular epidemiology. He has been active in developing new methods for assessing health effects after exposure to pollutants and has a very active interest in international occupational and environmental health studies. In collaboration with other investigators at HSPH, he has developed new biologic markers used in examination of pollutant-induced diseases such as lung cancer, bladder cancer, skin cancer and upper respiratory-tract inflammation. For example, he has led a large multidisciplinary study of the molecular and genetic analysis of lung cancer with specific attention towards genetic susceptibility to lung cancer and genetic-environmental…
Manuel Cifuentes, ScD, MD, MPH, is a Public Health Researcher and the Senior Biostatistician in the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Until August, 2015 he was an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he continues advising research activities of doctoral students. He is a former scientist of the Liberty Mutual Research Institute and an Assistant Professor of the University of Concepcion Medical School in Chile. Dr. Cifuentes is a Clinical Specialist in adult psychiatry and he holds a doctoral…