Career and Leadership Development Opportunities
LEADERSHIP FORUM
SPECIAL SESSION
"American Indian Health Policy"
Speaker: Donald Warne, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Public Health
Mary J. Berg Distinguished Professor of Women's Health
College of Health Professions
North Dakota State University
Thursday, March 2, 2017
12:30 pm - 1:30pm Presentation and Discussion
Lunch will be provided
Ballard Room, Countway Library
10 Shattuck Street, Boston
LEADERSHIP FORUM
"Should Healthcare Institutions be the Epicenter for Health in America?"
Speaker: Patricia A. Gabow, MD, MACP
Board of Trustees, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Former CEO, Denver Health and Hospital Authority
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Presentation
Reception to follow
Tosteson Medical Education Center, Room 227
Harvard Medical School
260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
PAST FORUMS
LEADERSHIP FORUM
"The Transformation to Value Driven Care"
Speaker: Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA
University of Utah Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
Dean of the School of Medicine
CEO, University of Utah Health Care
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 | Download Flyer 
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SPECIAL SESSION
"From the Latino Epidemiological Paradox to El Cinco de Mayo: Adventures in Research"
Speaker: David E. Hayes-Bautista, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA;
Director, Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture
April 7, 2016 | Download Flyer
LEADERSHIP FORUM
“Population Health and Academic Health Systems: Something Old, Something New"
Speaker: A. Eugene Washington, MD, MPH, MSc
Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University
President and CEO of the Duke University Health System
March 22, 2016 | Download Flyer
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SPECIAL SESSION
"Language Deprivation Syndrome: Identifying a Clinical Entity"
Speaker: Sanjay Gulati, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School;
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services, Cambridge Hospital;
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program, Boston Children's Hospital
January 28, 2016 | Details
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LEADERSHIP FORUM
“Achieving Health Equity: Tools for a National Campaign Against Racism”
Speaker: Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
President, American Public Health Association
December 3, 2015 | Details
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LEADERSHIP FORUM
“From Vision to Action: Measures to Mobilize a Culture of Health”
Speaker: Alonzo Plough, PhD, MPH
Vice President for Research and Evaluation
Chief Science Officer
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
November 16, 2015 | Details
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LEADERSHIP FORUM
“Leadership for Ensuring a Diverse and Inclusive Academic Environment”
Speaker: Ricardo Azziz, MD, MPH, MBA
President, Georgia Regents University, Chief Executive
Officer, Georgia Regents Health System
Augusta, Georgia
April 2, 2015 | Details
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LEADERSHIP FORUM
“Question Everything - Why Health Disparities Researchers Must Be Critical of Health Disparities Research”
Speaker: Thomas A. LaVeist, Ph.D.
William C. & Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy
Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 | Details
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"Correcting’ Correctional Healthcare: The Business of Providing Constitutionally Mandated Care"
Speaker: Woodrow A. Myers Jr., MD
Chief Executive Officer, Corizon Health
Thursday, October 16, 2014 | Details
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"Essential Hospitals in an Age of Reform"
Speaker: Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH
President and CEO, America’s Essential Hospitals
Thursday, February 20, 2014 | Details
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LEADERSHIP FORUMS IN PREVIOUS YEARS
ALVIN F. POUSSAINT, M.D. VISITING LECTURES
The Alvin F. Poussaint, MD Visiting Lecture Fund at Harvard Medical School was established with an inaugural gift from Harvard Medical School alumni/ae in honor of Dr. Poussaint.
"Does it Really Matter? Cognitive Technologies, Thinking and Time"
Speaker: Martín-J. Sepúlveda, MD, MPH (HMS ’78)
IBM Fellow; Member, National Academy of Medicine;
Chief Executive Officer, Claraluz, LLC;
Former Vice President of Health Systems and Policy Research,
and Vice President of Integrated Health Services, IBM Corp.
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 | Details | Presentation
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“How Can Leadership Address Health Equity, Social Justice, and Diversity?"
Speaker: Raul Ruiz, MD, MPP, MPH (HMS '01)
Congressman
United States House of Representatives, California, 36th District
Monday, April 11, 2016 | Details
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“Leadership in American Surgery: An African-American Perspective”
Speaker: Henri Ford, M.D., M.H.A. (HMS ’84)
Vice President and Chief of Surgery, Vice-Dean of Medical Education,
Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs,
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Thursday, March 5, 2015 | Details
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"Youth Violence: The Ultimate Health Disparity - Reflections of a Pediatric Surgeon"
Speaker: Edward Barksdale, M.D.
Robert J. Izant, Jr. Professor of Surgery, Chief of Pediatric Surgery, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital,
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
Thursday, November 7, 2013 | Details
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"Important Factors Negatively Impacting Asthma Outcomes"
Speaker: Michael B. Foggs, MD, FAAAAI, DFACAAI, FCCP,
Chief of Advocate Medical Group, Advocate Health Care;
President, American College of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | Details
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MEDICINE AND CIVIL WAR SERIES
“Dr. Zabdiel Boylston Adams: Surgeon and Soldier for the Union”
Speaker: Mitchell Adams, M.B.A., Former Vice Chair of the Executive Committee,
Harvard University Board of Overseers
Thursday, February 7, 2013 | Details
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IN THE NEWS:
"Breaking Medicine’s Color Barrier" - New York Times, June 21, 2013
"Saga of a Civil War Surgeon: Lecture recalls Harvard physician who also served in the infantry" - Harvard Gazette, February 14, 2013
