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Meet Our Keynote Speakers

Visionaries Shaping the Future of Medicine and Medical Education

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Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD

President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Dr. Harvey Fineberg is the president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, with a distinguished career in academia, healthcare leadership, and philanthropy. He previously served as president of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, provost of Harvard University, and dean of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. His academic work has focused on health policy, medical decision-making, global health, medical technology assessment, vaccine evaluation, pandemic responses, and the spread of medical innovations.

 

Dr. Fineberg has chaired prominent boards, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Hewlett Foundation, and remains actively involved in numerous organizations such as the Science Philanthropy Alliance and the China Medical Board. He has contributed to advisory roles with institutions like the Singapore National Research Foundation and the Peterson Center on Healthcare, while also chairing key initiatives on public health and infectious disease preparedness.

 

As an author, Dr. Fineberg has co-written books on clinical decision-making, medical education, and public health controversies, alongside editing works on topics such as AIDS prevention, vaccine safety, and global health. He has been recognized with honorary degrees and prestigious awards, including the Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health and the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.

Jennifer Tseng, MD, MPH

Professor of Surgery Emerita, Boston University

Dr. Jennifer F. Tseng is a surgical oncologist and academic leader specializing in upper gastrointestinal surgery. A native Californian, she earned degrees in English and biological sciences from Stanford, an MD from UCSF, and an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. After completing her surgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she served as Super-Chief, she pursued a fellowship in surgical oncology at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.

 

Dr. Tseng began her academic career at UMass Chan Medical School, founding the Surgical Outcomes Analysis & Research (SOAR) initiative in 2007. She later joined Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School as Chief of Surgical Oncology, becoming the first woman to achieve the rank of Professor of Surgery at BIDMC. From 2017 to 2024, she served as Chair of Surgery at Boston University and Surgeon-in-Chief at Boston Medical Center, where she advanced medical education, increased departmental diversity, and enhanced research funding and clinical quality.

 

She has held leadership roles as Past President of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons. She also serves on the American Board of Surgery and editorial boards, including JAMA Surgery. Currently, as BU Professor Emerita, she focuses on advocacy, consulting, and writing projects to promote health equity and advance surgical oncology.

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Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA

Professor of Medicine, Health Policy, Operations, and IT 
Associate Chair, Department of Medicine
Stanford University

Dr. Schulman is a Professor of Medicine, and, by courtesy, Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He serves as interim co-Chair of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Stanford, and as an Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine. He is the Faculty Director of Stanford’s new applied master degree program, the Master of Science in Clinical Informatics Management program. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and has an appointment in the Department of Health Policy (by courtesy).

 

Dr. Schulman is a health economist/health services researcher working at the intersection of business, medicine and technology. With over 500 publications, he has had a broad impact on several areas of health policy (Scopus h-index=81). His research has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. He is the editor-in-chief of Health Management, Policy and Innovation (www.HMPI.Org), and Senior Associate Editor of Health Service Research (HSR).

 

He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the New York University School of Medicine, and The Wharton Health Care Management Program. He is an elected member of ASCI and AAP.

Curtis Langlotz, MD, PhD

Senior Associate Vice Provost for Research
Professor of Radiology, Medicine, & Biomedical Data Science

Stanford University

Dr. Langlotz is Professor of Radiology, Medicine, and Biomedical Data Science and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Research at Stanford University. His laboratory investigates the use of deep neural networks and other machine learning technologies to detect disease and eliminate diagnostic errors through analysis of medical images and clinical notes. He is a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI Center), which supports over 150 Stanford faculty conducting interdisciplinary artificial intelligence research that optimizes how clinical data are used to promote health.

He has published over 200 scholarly articles and is author of the book “The Radiology Report: A Guide to Thoughtful Communication for Radiologists and Other Medical Professionals”. He has led many national and international efforts to improve the quality of radiology communication, including the RadLex™ terminology standard, the RadLex™ Playbook of radiology exam codes, the RSNA report template library, and a technical standard for communication of radiology templates.

Raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Dr. Langlotz received his undergraduate degree in Human Biology, Master’s in Computer Science, MD in Medicine, and PhD in Medical Information Science, all from Stanford University. He is a founder and past president of the Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research (RAHSR) and has served as president of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), and the College of SIIM Fellows. He is a former board member of the Association of University Radiologists (AUR), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM). He currently serves as President of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Dr. Langlotz is a recipient of the Lee B. Lusted Research Prize from the Society of Medical Decision Making and the Career Achievement Award from the Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research. He and his trainees have received numerous scientific awards, including seven best paper awards and five research career development grants. He has founded several healthcare information technology companies, including Montage Healthcare Solutions, which was acquired by Nuance Communications in 2016.

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Rachel Brook, MD

Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency;
Associate Clinical Professor, UCLA Health

Dr. Rachel Brook is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA with expertise in internal medicine and women’s health. A graduate of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, she completed her residency and served as chief resident at UCLA. Dr. Brook has dedicated her career to medical education, teaching across numerous courses at the David Geffen School of Medicine, where she also chaired the Doctoring 1 course and served as Vice Chair of the Academic Medicine College. She currently serves as Associate Program Director for the internal medicine residency program and Director of Clinical and Career Coaching.

 

Dr. Brook has received numerous accolades for her contributions to education and mentorship, including the Kaiser Permanente Award for Excellence in Education, multiple Golden Apple Awards for Teaching, and the Wilbur S. Schwartz MD Prize for Kindness, Compassion, and Humanity. A passionate advocate for the physician-patient relationship and mentoring future healthcare leaders, she combines academic rigor with genuine care.

Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD

Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at UPenn

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, Co-Director of the Health Transformation Institute. From January 2009 to January 2011, he served as special advisor for health policy to the director of the Office of Management and Budget in the White House. From 1997 to 2011, he was chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. He is also a breast oncologist.

 

Dr. Emanuel received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University. After completing his internship and residency in internal medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and his oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, he joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School. He has since been a visiting professor at UCLA, the Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School, the Kovitz Professor at Stanford Medical School and visiting professor at New York University Law School.

 

Dr. Emanuel has written and edited 15 books and over 300 scientific articles. He is a regular guest on CNN and MSNBC, and often publishes pieces in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post.

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