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É«É«Ñо¿Ëù T.H. Chan School of Public Health Executive and Continuing Education programs are taught by esteemed É«É«Ñо¿Ëù faculty and industry experts in health care and related fields.
É«É«Ñо¿Ëù Chan Executive and Continuing Education Faculty
Fawn Phelps is in her 14th year as an Instructor and the Director of Leadership Development at the É«É«Ñо¿Ëù T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She oversees the leadership development programing for the É«É«Ñо¿Ëù Chan mid-career DrPH program. Phelps also directs a year-long, co-curricular leadership development training program open to any É«É«Ñо¿Ëù Chan student. Prior to É«É«Ñо¿Ëù Chan, Phelps had a 15-year career in federal and state legislative and policy advocacy roles focused on the well-being of low-income and marginalized populations. She joined É«É«Ñо¿Ëù after 7 years at Health Care For All where she served as Policy Director, Interim-Executive Director, and…
Ivan Pirzada oversees BBH's Corporate Advisory, Commercial Lending and Private Equity investing activities in the Boston office. Having joined the firm in 2000, he has over 23 years of experience as an M&A advisor and private equity investor as a Principal with BBH Capital Partners, the firm's private equity investment strategy.Earlier in his career, Ivan was responsible for BBH’s healthcare corporate finance advisory (M&A) practice worldwide, leading a variety of transactions, including equity recapitalizations, corporate sales, divestitures and acquisitions. His clients included owner-managed private companies and public companies in both the U.S. and Europe, where he completed over $7 billion…
Dr. Skyler Place is a world expert in behavior change and leverages this perspective to help Fortune 100 clients unlock the power of artificial intelligence to improve outcomes for their businesses, customers, and employees. He has guided the world's largest consumer brands, healthcare providers, and telecommunication companies to bring emotionally intelligent artificial intelligence into their business operations. He has authored 8 patents and over a dozen publications at the intersection of machine learning, health, and communication. He served for over a decade as the Chief Behavioral Science Officer at Cogito, a Boston-based emotion AI company. In addition, Dr. Place is…
Eric Poon is the IS Director of Clinical Informatics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA and Assistant Professor of Medicine at É«É«Ñо¿Ëù Medical School. He is also a practicing internist at the Brigham Internal Medicine Associates at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA. In his capacity as the IS Director of Clinical Informatics, Dr. Poon oversees the development and implementation of clinical systems applications used by physicians, nurses, and pharmacists and all inpatient settings at BWH, including the emergency room and the peri-operative areas. He is also leading the effort to define the 5- year clinical systems…
John M. Price, PhD, CIH, CSP is an Instructor at the É«É«Ñо¿Ëù T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Northeastern University Department of Chemical Engineering. He was previously the Director of Environmental Health and Safety at Northeastern University where he supervised staff in assessing worker exposure, conducted training in occupational health and safety, and designed engineering controls for the workplace. He also provided oversight for compliance with environmental regulations.
Andrew Principe is a veteran clinical application specialist with ten years of experience working with Electronic Medical Records, e-Prescribing, Practice Management, and Laboratory Information Systems. Andrew spent 5 years as Associate Director of Clinical Applications at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, MA. Under Andrew's leadership, Joslin achieved a successful EMR implementation that supports the organization's clinical, financial, and research goals. For the past 4 years, Andrew has worked as a consultant with Arcadia Solutions where he has helped various healthcare provider organizations adopt and utilize EMR and other clinical applications.
Ms. Puhy joined her first public board – Reebok – in 2001. Over the course of the next 20 years, she served on 2 additional public boards, Eaton Vance (an investment management firm) and Abiomed (a medical device company). Her board service for each of these public companies ended when each was acquired in very favorable transactions.She served on the board of two major companies that are structured as non-profits – Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and the Controlled Risk Insurance Company (CRICO) which is the captive professional liability insurance company of the É«É«Ñо¿Ëù related hospitals and physician groups.…