2025 Speakers

Omar Abudayyeh, PhD

Director of Gene Editing, Gene and Cell Therapy Institute, Mass General Brigham; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Shailesh Agarwal, MD

Associate Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Paul Anderson, MD, PhD

Chief Academic Officer, Mass General Brigham; K. Frank Austen Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Tanya Andreadis

Chief Marketing, Communication & Digital Officer, University of Miami

Caroline Apovian, MD

Co-Director, Center for Weight Management and Wellness, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Jeffrey Balser, MD, PhD

CEO, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Liron Bar Peled, PhD

Rullo Family Endowed Chair for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Eliav Barr, MD

SVP, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Global Clinical Development, Merck

Brian Bergmark, MD

Interventional Cardiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

James Berry, MD

Neurologist/ALS Clinical Researcher, Mass General Hospital;

Danielle Bitterman, MD

Radiation Oncologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School

Cheri Blauwet, MD

SVP, Chief Clinical Officer, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Richard Blumberg, MD

Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Medicine; Jerry S. Trier, MD, Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Mark Bohen

Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Mass General Brigham

Erin Bohula, MD, DPhil

Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Michael Brenner, MD

Director of the Human Immunology Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Elizabeth Fay Brigham Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

James Brink, MD

Enterprise Chief, Radiology, Mass General Brigham; Juan M. Taveras Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

O’Neil Britton, MD

Chief Integration Officer & Executive Vice President, Mass General Brigham

David Brown, MD

President, Academic Medical Centers, Mass General Brigham; Mass General Trustees Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Furkan Burak, MD

Endocrinologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Roman Camarda

Principal, Novo Holdings Venture Investments

Sailu Challapalli

SVP, Product, Life Sciences, Ecosystem, and Public Sector, Datavant

Yi-Bin Chen, MD

Director, HCTCT Program, Mass General Brigham; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Choi-Fong Cho, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Lily Collison

Program Director, Gillette Children’s Healthcare Press, Gillette Children’s Hospital

Merit Cudkowicz, MD

Executive Director, Neuroscience Institute, Massachusetts General Brigham; Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Charles Czeisler, MD, PhD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Frank Baldino, Jr., PhD Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Victor DiRita, PhD

Rudolph Hugh Professor & Chair, Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Gerard Doherty, MD

Chair of Surgery, Mass General Brigham; Moseley Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Brian Edlow, MD

Co-Director, Mass General Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Robert Edwards, PhD

Clinical Psychologist, Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Patrick Ellinor, MD, PhD

Executive Director, Heart and Vascular Institute, Mass General Brigham; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Conor Evans, PhD

Principal Investigator, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Keith Flaherty, MD

Director of Clinical Research, Mass General Cancer Center; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Justin Gainor, MD

Program Director, Center for Thoracic Cancers, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Lilit Garibyan, MD, PhD

Physician-Scientist, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Mass General Brigham; Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

Michael Gilmore, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, Mass Eye and Ear; Sir William Osler Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Alexandra Golby, MD

Director of Image-guided Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Allan Goldstein, MD

Chief of Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; Surgeon-in-Chief, Mass General for Children; Marshall K. Bartlett Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Ellen Gravallese, MD

Chief, Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Theodore Bevier Bayles Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Steven Grinspoon, MD

Chief, Metabolism Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Adele Gulfo

President & CEO, Biopharma Strategies and Insights

Melanie Haines, MD

Associate Physician, Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Maura Healey

Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

David Heaney

Chief Information Security Officer, Mass General Brigham

Rebecca Heist, MD

Associate Director of Clinical Research, Mass General Cancer Center; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Hugh Herr, PhD

Professor, MIT Media Lab Biomechatronics Group

Craig Hersh, MD

Physician, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Leigh Hochberg MD, PhD

Director, Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Massachusetts General Hospital; Senior Lecturer on Neurology, Harvard Medical School

David Hyman, MD

Group Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Eli Lilly and Company

Roger Kitterman

Senior Vice President, Ventures and Business Development & Licensing, Mass General Brigham; Managing Partner, Mass General Brigham Ventures

Benjamin Kleinstiver, PhD

Investigator, Center for Genomic Medicine; Kayden-Lambert MGH Research Scholar 2023-2028, Mass General Brigham; Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Anne Klibanski, MD

President & CEO, Mass General Brigham; Laurie Carrol Guthart Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Jonathan Kraft

President, The Kraft Group; Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Mass General Brigham

Douglas Kwon, MD, PhD

Director of Clinical Operations, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Robert Langer, ScD

David H. Koch (1962) Institute Professor, MIT

Jeannie Lee, MD, PhD

Phillip A. Sharp Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Mass General Brigham; Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Charles Lin, PhD

Principal Investigator, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Mass General Brigham; Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

David Liu, PhD

Richard Merkin Professor; Director, Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute

Calum MacRae, MD, PhD

Vice Chair for Scientific Innovation, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Joren Madsen, MD, PhD

Director, Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; Paul S. Russell/Warner-Lambert Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Kevin Mahoney

CEO, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Raymond Mak, MD

Director of Clinical Innovation, Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Robert Manguso, PhD

Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Paul Matsen

Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Aamir Mecklai

Global Healthcare Investment Banking, BofA Securities

Rebecca Mishuris, MD

Chief Medical Information Officer, Mass General Brigham; Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School

Susan Monarez, PhD

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Patricia Musolino, MD, PhD

Co-Director, Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Service, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Seemantini Nadkarni, PhD

Principal Investigator, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Mass General Brigham; Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

Pradeep Natarajan, MD

Director of Preventive Cardiology, Paul & Phyllis Fireman Endowed Chair in Vascular Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

John Orsini

EVP & CFO, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare

Sabrina Paganoni, MD, PhD

Co-Director, Neurological Clinical Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School

Director, Colorectal Medical Oncology Research Program, Director, Global Cancer Care Initiatives, Mass General Cancer Center; Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at Reversing Early Recurrence (RER); Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Robin Patel, MD

Director, Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Mayo Clinic

Alpa Patel, PhD

Senior Vice President, Population Science, American Cancer Society

Dinesh Patel, PhD

CEO, Protagonist Therapeutics

Laura Peabody

Chief Legal Officer, Mass General Brigham

Roger Perlmutter

CEO, Eikon Theraputics

Gianluca Pettiti

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Zofia Piotrowska, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Adam Posner

HighVista Strategies

Xiayang Qiu, PhD

CEO, Regor Therapeutics

Mike Quigley, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, Global Head of Research, Sanofi

Arya Rao

HMS MD-PhD Candidate, Harvard Medical School

Shiv Rao, MD

CEO & Founder, Abridge

John Reed, MD, PhD

Johnson & Johnson

David Reese, MD

EVP & Chief Technology Officer, Amgen

David Rhew, MD

Global Chief Medical Officer & VP Healthcare, Microsoft

Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD

Medical Director of Kidney Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harold and Ellen Danser Endowed Chair in Transplantation, Harvard Medical School

Jonathan Rosand, MD

Founder, Global Brain Care Coalition; Director, Brain Care Labs, Mass General Brigham; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Bruce Rosen, MD, PhD

Director, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Mass General Brigham; Laurence Lamson Robbins Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Jay Rughani

Investing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

David Ryan, MD

President, Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dennis Selkoe, MD

Mass General Brigham; Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School

Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, PhD

Senior Advisor, Former CSO, Intellia Therapeutics

Lecia Sequist, MD

Director, Cancer Early Detection and Diagnostics Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Landry Family Professor of Medicine in the Field of Medical Oncology, Harvard Medical School

Erica Shenoy, MD, PhD

Chief of Infection Control, Mass General Brigham; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Yaping Shou, MD, PhD

Wells Therapeutics

Gaurav Singal, MD

Independent advisor and investor

Rishi Singh, MD

Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, Cleveland Clinic Martin Health

Emma Somers-Roy

Chief Investment Officer, Mass General Brigham

Ken Song, MD

CEO, Candid Therapeutics

David Sontag, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO, Layer Health

David Spetzler, PhD

President, Caris Life Sciences

Ariel Stern

Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Hasso Plattner Institute

Marc Succi, MD

Executive Director, MESH Incubator; Associate Chair of Innovation & Commercialization, Mass General Brigham Radiology; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Michael Talkowski, PhD

Director, Center for Genomic Medicine, Mass General Brigham; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Rudolph Tanzi, PhD

Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, McCance Center for Brain Health, Massachusetts General Hospital; Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Elsie Taveras, MD

Chief Community Health & Health Equity Officer, Mass General Brigham; Executive Director, Kraft Center for Community Health; Conrad Taff Endowed Chair and Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Chris Thompson

CEO, Sober Sidekick; CEO, Empathy Health Technologies

David Ting, MD

Associate Clinical Director for Innovation, Mass General Cancer Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dimitry Tran

Co-Founder, Harrison.ai

Andrew Trister, MD, PhD

Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Verily

Aleksandar Videnovic, MD

Chief, Division of Sleep Neurology, Mass General Brigham Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Christopher Viehbacher

CEO, Biogen

Jiping Wang, MD, PhD

Research Director, Division of Surgical Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Aaron Waxman, MD, PhD

Executive Director, Center for Pulmonary Heart Disease, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Howard Weiner, MD

Senior Neurologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Andrew Wellman, MD, PhD

Director, Sleep Disordered Breathing Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Erin Xie, PhD

Managing Director, BlackRock

Chi-Fu (Jeffrey) Yang, MD

Thoracic Surgeon; Founding Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence & Innovation Research, Mass General Brigham; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Nazlee Zebardast, MD

Mass Eye and Ear; Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Weiyi Zhang, MD

Founder & CEO, RiboX

Engy Ziedan, PhD

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Omar Abudayyeh, PhD

Shailesh Agarwal, MD

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Tim Anderson, MD

Tanya Andreadis

Caroline Apovian, MD

Peter Arduini

Jeffrey Balser, MD, PhD

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Erin Bohula, MD, DPhil

Michael Brenner, MD

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Larry Bucshon, MD

Furkan Burak, MD

Robert Califf, MD

Nancy Cam-Winget

Roman Camarda

David Campbell, PhD

Sailu Challapalli

Morgan Cheatham, MD

Yi-Bin Chen, MD

Choi-Fong Cho, PhD

Hyung Chun, MD

Susan Collins

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Merit Cudkowicz, MD

Jasmine Cui, PhD

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Charles Czeisler, MD, PhD

Reza Dana, MD

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Jacob Donoghue, MD, PhD

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