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

Harvey Fineberg is president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which fosters scientific discovery, environmental conservation, and preservation of the San Francisco Bay Area. He previously served as president of the US National Academy of Medicine, provost of Harvard University, and dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Fineberg received his BA, MD, and PhD in government from Harvard University.

Fineberg’s academic career has been dedicated to the fields of health policy and medical decision-making. His research has focused on global health, medical technology assessment, vaccine evaluation and use, pandemic response, and the dissemination of medical innovations. He is the co-author of Clinical Decision Analysis, Innovators in Physician Education, and The Epidemic That Never Was, an analysis of the controversial 1976 swine-flu immunization program. He has co-edited books on AIDS prevention, vaccine safety, understanding risk in society, and global health, and has published widely in professional journals. Fineberg is the recipient of several honorary degrees, the Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health, and the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.

A member of the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine, Fineberg chairs the board of the Science Philanthropy Alliance and previously chaired the boards of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He is a member of the China Medical Board, and served on the boards of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation and the Association FXB. He co-founded and served as president of the Society for Medical Decision Making and serves on the foresight committee of the Veolia Environment Institute and scientific advisory board of the Singapore National Research Foundation. Fineberg also chairs the advisory board of the Peterson Center on Healthcare, co-chairs the inaugural international advisory board of Tsinghua University Vanke School of Public Health, and chairs the US National Academies standing committee on emerging infectious diseases and twenty-first century health threats.

Jennifer Tseng, MD, MPH, FACS

Professor of Surgery Emerita, Boston University

Dr. Tseng is an upper GI surgeon and surgical oncologist who earned degrees in English and biology from Stanford, her MD from UCSF, and MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She did residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by surgical oncology at MD Anderson. Dr. Tseng began as faculty at UMass in 2005 where she founded Surgical Outcomes Analysis & Research (SOAR). She moved to Beth Israel Deaconess 2011 as Chief of Surgical Oncology, where she rose to Professor at Harvard. From 2017-2024, Dr. Tseng was Chair of Surgery at Boston University and Surgeon-in-Chief at Boston Medical Center. At BU, Dr. Tseng spearheaded education; increased department prominence; promoted faculty; and improved clinical quality, research, and funding.

Tseng is Past President of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and is a founder and Past President of the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons. Dr. Tseng is a member of the American Board of Surgery Council, a Director of the Complex General Surgical Oncology Board, and a deputy editor for JAMA Surgery. Currently, Dr. Tseng is focused on work in health equity and advocacy including improving access to care, service to medical and philanthropic organizations, consulting, and writing projects.

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.

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, MD, PhD, is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and the Diane

v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

Perelman School of Medicine.

Emanuel is an oncologist and world leader in health policy and bioethics. He is a

Special Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Senior Fellow

at the Center for American Progress, and member of the Council on Foreign

Relations. He was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National

Institutes of Health and held that position until August of 2011. From 2009 to 2011, he

served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of

Management and Budget and National Economic Council. In this role, he was

instrumental in drafting the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Emanuel also served on the

Biden-Harris Transition Covid Advisory Board.

Dr. Emanuel is the most widely cited bioethicist in history. He has over 350 publications and has authored or edited 15 books. His recent publications include the books Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care (2020), Prescription for the Future (2017), Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve our

Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System (2014) and Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family (2013). In 2008, he published Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America, which included his own recommendations for health care reform.

Dr. Emanuel regularly contributes to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the

Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and often appears on BBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC and

other media outlets.

He has received numerous awards including election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM)

of the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the

Association of American Physicians, and the Royal College of Medicine (UK). He has

been named a Dan David Prize Laureate in Bioethics, and is a recipient of the AMA-

Burroughs Wellcome Leadership Award, the Public Service Award from the American

Society of Clinical Oncology, Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award, President's Medal for Social Justice Roosevelt University, and the John

Mendelsohn Award from the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Emanuel has received

honorary degrees from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Union Graduate

College, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Macalester College.

Dr. Emanuel is a graduate of Amherst College. He holds a M.Sc. from Oxford University in Biochemistry, and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University.