Helen Riess, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Empathetics, Inc.

Helen Riess, MD is Chief Scientist for Empathetics. Dr. Riess is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, PT, at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Empathy and Relational Science Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a core member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (CREIO) and faculty of the Harvard Macy Institute. Dr. Riess is a psychiatrist who developed an empathy training approach based on research in the neurobiology and physiology of empathy that has been rigorously tested in pilot studies and a randomized, controlled trial at MGH. She completed her residency and Chief Residency at MGH and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Riess has devoted her career to teaching and research in the art and science of the patient-doctor relationship.

Helen Riess, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Empathetics, Inc.

Riess

Jessi Gold, MD, MS

Chief Wellness Officer University of Tennessee System

Jessi Gold, MD, MS, a nationally recognized expert on student mental health and wellness, has been named the inaugural chief wellness officer for the University of Tennessee (UT) System and an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).

Jessi Gold, MD, MS

Chief Wellness Officer

University of Tennessee System

Gold

Marion McCrary, MD, FACP

Primary Care Internal Medicine Physician Duke Signature Care

Marion McCrary MD FACP is a primary care internal medicine physician at Duke Signature Care and serves as the Associate Director of the Duke GME Professional Development Coaching program where she develops curriculum, educates, and coaches residents and fellows in a 1:1 and group setting. She is a national board-certified health and wellness coach. She is the Governor for the NC chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP), Lead Faculty for the American Medical Women’s Association’s (AMWA) ELEVATE and EVOLVE Certificate in Leadership programs for female physicians and residents, and a member of the AMWA Board of Directors.

Marion McCrary, MD, FACP

Primary Care Internal Medicine Physician

Duke Signature Care

McCrary

Susan T. Hingle, MD, MACP, FRCP, FAMWA

Professor of Internal Medicine and Medical Humanities

Susan T. Hingle, MD, MACP, FRCP, FAMWA is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Medical Humanities and serves as Associate Dean for the Center for Human and Organizational Potential, Chair of the Department of Medical Humanities, and Director of Professional Development and Wellness for the Department of Medicine. Dr. Hingle completed the prestigious Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program. She was awarded the AMWA Elizabeth Blackwell Career Award for her contributions to advancing women in medicine and the SGIM Career Award for her contributions to educational research, education, leadership and mentoring in general internal medicine. Dr. Hingle has also received several teaching awards including the Golden Apple Award, the Excellence in Teaching Outstanding Teacher Award and the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award.

Susan T. Hingle, MD, MACP, FRCP, FAMWA

Professor of Internal Medicine and Medical Humanities

Hingle

Luisa Duran

Speaker, Author, Co-Founder Pink Coat, MD

Dr. Luisa Duran grew up in the San Francisco, Bay Area where she loves practicing as a board-certified endocrinologist. She is a speaker, author, the Co-Founder of Pink Coat, MD, and the co-author of the bestselling How to Thrive as a Woman Physician. A graduate from Brown University where she earned her bachelor’s and medical degree, she fell in love with endocrinology after researching diabetes at the Joslin Diabetes Center with Harvard Medical School. She completed her internal medicine residency training at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, affiliate of Stanford University, and her fellowship in endocrinology, nutrition, and metabolism at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Duran strongly believes that helping women doctors thrive in clinical practice creates a healthier, more equal, more joyful world!

Luisa Duran

Speaker, Author, Co-Founder

Pink Coat, MD

Duran

Tammie Chang

Board-Certified Oncologist

Dr. Tammie Chang is a board-certified pediatric oncologist, award-winning author, TEDx speaker, leadership coach, podcast host and fierce national advocate for cultural change in healthcare. She is the Co-Founder of Pink Coat, MD, the Co-Founder of ELEVATE, the American Medical Women’s Association’s Leadership Development Program for Women Physicians, and the Medical Director of Physician/APP Wellness for her health system. She is the award-winning author of Boundaries for Women Physicians, the co-author of How to Thrive as a Woman Physician, and the creator and host of the LeadHER Podcast for Women Physicians.

Tammie Chang

Board-Certified Oncologist

Chang

Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, PhD, MPH

Executive Director, Associate Professor Center for Health ; Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at Bentley University

Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, PhD, MPH is Executive Director of the Center for Health and Business and Associate Professor in the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, MA. Dr. Blanch-Hartigan holds a PhD in Psychology from Northeastern University, an MPH from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and completed postdoctoral training as a Cancer Prevention Fellow in the Behavioral Research Program and Office of Cancer Survivorship at the National Cancer Institute. Her interdisciplinary research in psychology and public health aims to improve the patient care experience through better communication with healthcare providers. She studies how patients and providers use verbal and nonverbal behavior to form impressions and how these perceptions are influenced by interpersonal characteristics, such as gender.

Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, PhD, MPH

Executive Director, Associate Professor

Center for Health ; Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at Bentley University

Blanch-Hartigan

Andrew Donovan

Director of Business Development, Strategy and Innovation Bentley University

As the Director of Business Development, Strategy and Innovation at Bentley University, Andrew connects external partners with the university’s Executive and Professional Education division, the Center for Health and Business, and all academic centers. He leverages his 20+ years of business development experience and his passion for connecting industry with thought leadership to create customized, results-driven solutions for his partners. Andrew specializes in delivering content to internal and external audiences across various industries, including corporate innovation, R&D, strategy, health, finance, and nonprofit sectors. He has a proven track record of building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, identifying opportunities, and executing successful projects.

Andrew Donovan

Director of Business Development, Strategy and Innovation

Bentley University

Donovan

Olivia Schlabach

Associate Vice President FINN Partners

Olivia is an Associate Vice President at FINN Partners where she manages a diverse portfolio of clients in the growing global Health Practice. Olivia’s health experience spans revenue cycle, payers, providers, social determinants of health, and consulting. She has built an extensive network of media contacts, including national and regional healthcare reporters across the United States and Europe. As a leader in FINN’s Health Media team, she works to maintain relationships with reporters and analysts, craft pitches and media plans for clients, search the latest editorial calendars, and provide strategic counsel to clients and fellow team members. Olivia’s clients have been featured in publications such as Crain’s New York Business, Modern Healthcare, and The Wall Street Journal.

Olivia Schlabach

Associate Vice President

FINN Partners

Schlabach

Michellene Davis Esq.

President & CEO National Medical Fellowships

Michellene Davis, Esq. is the President and CEO of National Medical Fellowships and former Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Barnabas Health. Davis is an Honors graduate of Seton Hall University and holds a Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall School of Law. She also received an Executive Education Certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility from the Harvard Business School and a Wharton Executive Education Certificate in Social Impact Strategy.

Michellene Davis Esq.

President & CEO

National Medical Fellowships

Davis

Eliza Chin, MD, MPH

Executive Director American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)

Eliza Lo Chin, MD, MPH is the Executive Director of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA). In this role, she helps lead AMWA’s strategic vision and oversees all of AMWA’s programs and initiatives. She has served as co-chair/co-director of national/international meetings, executive producer of the short film At Home and Over There: American Women Physicians in WWI, and member of several advisory/editorial boards. Dr. Chin is also Assistant Professor (Voluntary) at the University of California, San Francisco. She is treasurer of the Medical Women’s International Association and an AMWA Representative to the United Nations Department of Global Communications. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Dr. Chin received her MD from Harvard Medical School and her MPH from Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health.

Eliza Chin, MD, MPH

Executive Director

American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)

Chin

Roya Zandparsa, DDS, MSc, DMD, FICD

Clinical Professor and Biomaterials Course Director Department of Prosthodontics at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine

Dr. Roya Zandparsa is a Clinical Professor and Biomaterials Course Director at the Department of Prosthodontics at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (TUSDM), a Lecturer at the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Chief Innovation & Development Officer at Qualitas Dental Partners Organization, the Director of Qualitas training Center, the Founder & CEO of Expert Dental Advisory, the President Elect of The American Association of Women Dentists (AAWD), the Past President of American Academy of Dental Science, and a Fellow of the International College of Dentistry. Dr. Roya Zandparsa received her DMD from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Master of Science in Biomaterials & Biomimetics and Certificate in Prosthodontics from New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science.

Roya Zandparsa, DDS, MSc, DMD, FICD

Clinical Professor and Biomaterials Course Director

Department of Prosthodontics at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine

Zandparsa

Shikha Jain, MD

Founder and CEO Women in Medicine Summit

Dr. Shikha Jain is a triple board-certified hematology and oncology physician. She is a tenured associate professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Illinois Cancer Center. She is the Director of Communications Strategies in Medicine and the Associate Director of Oncology Communication and Digital Innovation for the University of Illinois Cancer Center. Dr. Jain is the Founder and CEO of the Women in Medicine Summit as well as the Founder of the 501©(3) nonprofit Women in Medicine®. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of the action, advocacy and amplification 501©(3) nonprofit IMPACT and was named the 2024 Illinois Physician Leader of the Year, one of Medscapes 25 Rising Stars in Medicine in 2020, one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Emerging Leaders in 2019 and was also awarded the Rising Star award by the LEAD Oncology Conference in 2019.

Shikha Jain, MD

Founder and CEO

Women in Medicine Summit

Jain

Reshma Jagsi, MD, D.Phil

Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology Emory University

Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., is the Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University. Author of over 450 publications, she is the PI of multiple NIH grants, including R01-funded projects that focus on investigating women’s under-representation in senior positions in academic medicine and the mechanisms that must be targeted to promote equity, which have yielded numerous high-impact publications in journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. Active in organized medicine, she serves on the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the NIH Advisory Committee for Research on Women’s Health.

Reshma Jagsi, MD, D.Phil

Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology

Emory University

Jagsi

Nancy Spector, MD

Professor of Pediatrics, Executive Director of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) program Drexel University College of Medicine

Nancy Spector, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics and serves at the Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM) as Executive Director of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) program, a part-time year-long, national leadership fellowship program for women in academic medicine, dentistry, public health, and pharmacy and as Executive Director of the Executive Leadership in Health Care (ELH) program for women leaders in hospital and health care systems. In addition to these roles, she serves as Senior Vice Dean for Faculty, the Betty A. Cohen Chair in Women’s Health, and Executive Director of the Lynn Yeakel Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership (IWHL).

Nancy Spector, MD

Professor of Pediatrics, Executive Director of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) program

Drexel University College of Medicine

Spector

Women in Healthcare World Congress

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Helen Riess, MD

Jessi Gold, MD, MS

Marion McCrary, MD, FACP

Susan T. Hingle, MD, MACP, FRCP, FAMWA

Luisa Duran

Tammie Chang

Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, PhD, MPH

Andrew Donovan

Olivia Schlabach

Michellene Davis Esq.

Eliza Chin, MD, MPH

Roya Zandparsa, DDS, MSc, DMD, FICD

Shikha Jain, MD

Reshma Jagsi, MD, D.Phil

Nancy Spector, MD

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