Dr. Bowen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. Prior to moving to Boston she was a professor of health services affiliated with the social and behavioral sciences track at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Seattle.
Dr. Bowen is widely recognized for her work in cancer and health behavior change and has been the principal investigator of several National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded grants involving breast cancer risk communications, dietary change, and other health behavior topics. She is currently an investigator in the regional Cancer Prevention Network, focused on community-based research of cancer-prevention targets. She is also the principal investigator on a Melanoma study, which adapts a cancer-related behavior change intervention for delivery via the Internet. She was the principal investigator for a church-based, dietary-intervention trial and in that role chaired an advisory committee of local church leaders representing a broad variety of denominations.
She has been an investigator in the coordinating centers of three large multi-center prevention trials: the Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial, the Women's Health Trial: Feasibility Study in Minority Populations, and the Women's Health Initiative. She is currently engaged with Native American tribal settings to improve the health behaviors of tribal members.
Thomas M. Connelly, Jr. is executive vice president, chief innovation officer and a member of the company's Office of the Chief Executive. He has responsibility for Applied BioSciences, Nutrition & Health, Performance Polymers, and Packaging & Industrial Polymers businesses. He also has responsibility for Science & Technology and the geographic regions outside the United States, as well as Integrated Operations which includes Operations, Sourcing & Logistics and Engineering. He joined DuPont in 1977, as research engineer at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Del.
He held a number of technical and leadership roles including laboratory director in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. He led a number of major DuPont businesses including Delrin® and Kevlar®, while based in the United States, Europe and Asia.
In January 1999 he was named vice president and general manager - DuPont Fluoroproducts. He was named senior vice president and Chief Science & Technology Officer in September 2001. He was named executive vice president in June 2006. He added responsibility for Performance Polymers, Packaging & Industrial Polymers and Integrated Operations in October 2009.
Dr. Connelly was born in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated with highest honors from Princeton University with degrees in chemical engineering and economics. As a Winston Churchill Scholar, he received his doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge. He serves in advisory roles to the U.S. Government and the Republic of Singapore.
Dr. Freund is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health, Chief of the Women's Health Unit at Boston Medical Center, and Executive Co-Director of the Women's Health Interdisciplinary Research Center at Boston University.
She has spent her entire medical career at safety net institutions in Massachusetts, first at Cambridge Health Alliance, where she completed her training in Internal Medicine, followed by a residency in Preventive Medicine, a fellowship in General Medicine at Boston University Medical Center. She is now a faculty member and practicing primary care provider at Boston Medical Center.
The focus of Dr. Freund's career at Boston University Medical Center is to find solutions to health disparities for minority, low-income, and underserved women. Dr. Freund and her colleagues have been national leaders in the development of patient navigation using the care management model as a means of supporting patients and their primary care providers and bridging the disparities gap. She currently chairs the design and analysis committee of the National Cancer Institute's Patient Navigation Research Program.
Commissioner Giudice brings diverse and expansive experience to DOER. He is a geologist (B.S. from University of New Hampshire and M.S. in Economic Geology from the University of Arizona) and management professional (M.B.A. from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth) with over 30 years experience in the energy industry.
Commissioner Giudice serves as board member, board executive committee member and treasurer of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Governing Board chair for the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, leadership group member for the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency, vice chair for the National Council on Electricity Policy and a board member of the Commonwealth’s Energy Facilities Siting Board.
Prior to joining DOER, Commissioner Giudice served as Senior Vice President at EnerNOC, a start-up company providing electricity demand-management services to businesses, institutions, utilities, and grid operators. The Commissioner was also a Senior Partner, and leader of Mercer Management Consulting’s global energy utilities practice.
Commissioner Giudice is also active in the nonprofit realm. He is board chair of the Center for Effective Philanthropy and serves on the President’s Council of ACCION. Previously, he served full terms on the board of City Year Boston, First Parish Church of Wayland (Unitarian Universalist), Haitian Health Foundation, and was the founding chair of Boston Cares.
Mary Gordon is the author of six novels; the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and a collection of short stories. She is the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 1997 O. Henry Award for best story, and the 2007 Story Prize. Currently New York's official State Author, she teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City. Her new book, Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels, will be published by Pantheon Books this October.
Dr. Henshaw is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research at the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM). Dr. Henshaw also serves as GSDM's Director of the Division of Community Health Programs. In this role she develops and manages partnerships with diverse community based organizations and underserved populations throughout the Northeast. For the past four years, Dr. Henshaw has served as the Deputy Director of the NIH supported Northeast Center for Research to Eliminate and Evaluate Dental Disparities (CREEDD) and now serves as the primary investigator (PI) of one of the Center's research projects.
In addition, Dr. Henshaw was a NIH health disparities scholar and has served as PI on grants from the NIH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and several foundations. She continues to be an active member of the Oral Health Advocacy Task Force and was appointed to Massachusetts' Medicaid Joint Remediation Committee which proposed evidenced based programs, several of which the state has adopted, to improve the oral health of the children of Massachusetts. For the past two years she has also served as the Chair of the Massachusetts Coalition for Oral Health, a statewide coalition of oral health professionals dedicated to oral health promotion. Dr. Henshaw is also the Vice President of the Boston Chapter of the American Dental Research Association.
Dr. Henshaw is a graduate of Columbia University and received her dental degree from the University of California, San Francisco. After attending the Harvard affiliated general practice dental residency at the Brockton VA Medical Center, she completed a post-graduate academic fellowship in geriatric dentistry and medicine and earned her Masters in Public Health and certificate of advanced graduate studies in dental public health at Boston University.
Dr. Steven E. Koonin became the Under Secretary for Science in the US Department of Energy on May 20, 2009. In that capacity, he is responsible for guiding and coordinating technical activities across the Department, overseeing its basic research activities, and providing technical advice to the Secretary of Energy. DOE activities are essential to the Administration’s goals of promoting basic science, providing clean and secure energy, and enhancing nuclear security.
Prior to his government appointment, Dr. Koonin was the Chief Scientist for BP, plc. Koonin’s understanding of energy trends and technologies, widely communicated to the public, underpinned BP’s recent investments in alternative and renewable energy sources, including the Energy Biosciences Institute formed in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Dr. Koonin joined BP in 2004 following a 29-year career at the California Institute of Technology as a Professor of Theoretical Physics. He has published more than 200 scholarly papers and supervised more than 25 PhD theses in such diverse fields as nuclear and many-body theory, nuclear astrophysics, atomic and computational physics, and global environmental science. In a twenty-year teaching career, he educated hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students in advanced physics topics and authored a seminal text on Computational Physics in 1985. Koonin also served as Caltech’s Provost from 1995-2004, helping to hire some 100 of the Institute’s professors and forming initiatives in biology, astronomy, the earth sciences, the social sciences, and information science.
During the past 25 years, Dr. Koonin has served on numerous advisory bodies for the US Government and its national laboratories, including terms on the Defense Science Board, the CNO’s Executive Panel, and the University of California President’s Council on the National Laboratories. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a twenty-year member and former Chair of the JASON advisory group. His work in that latter capacity has included studies on stockpile stewardship, civilian biodefense, radiological terrorism, and DOD basic research.
Koonin was born in Brooklyn, NY. He holds an undergraduate degree in Physics from Caltech and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from MIT. He and his wife Laurie have been married for 34 years and have three children, Anna, Alyson, and Benjamin.
Dr. Ortega, a native of the Dominican Republic, is a graduate of the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña (UNPHU) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and trained in anesthesiology at Boston University Medical Center in the early 1980's. He is Professor of Anesthesiology and Vice-chairman for Academic Affairs, Department of Anesthesiology: Boston University School of Medicine.
Dr. Ortega is board-certified in anesthesiology and transesophageal echocardiography. His interests include cardiac anesthesia, computer-assisted instruction, and education in anesthesiology. He has served in various committees with American Society of Anesthesiologists, Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists and the Wood Library Museum. Dr. Ortega has published a variety of papers, book chapters, and multimedia programs in a broad range of topics including airway management, operating room hazards, and the history of his specialty. In 2006, he published the book Written in Granite and spearheaded the restoration of the Ether Monument in the Boston Public Garden. With the proceeds from this book, a maintenance fund was created to assure the monument's continuing preservation. His most recent work includes the publication of clinical procedure videos in New England Journal of Medicine and an instructional program for the World Health Organization's Global Pulse Oximetry Project.
Edward Rafferty is Assistant Professor of Social Science in the College of General Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Apostle of Human Progress: Lester Frank Ward and American Political Thought, 1841-1913 and is currently working on two books on American environmental thought: American Controversies: Conservation and Natural Resources in the United States, 1845-2000, and Friends of Nature: An Intellectual.
A native of Atlanta, Dr. Louis W. Sullivan graduated magna cum laude from Morehouse College in 1954, and earned his medical degree, cum laude, from Boston University School of Medicine in 1958. He is certified in internal medicine and hematology, holds a mastership from the American College of Physicians and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega academic honor societies.
In 1966, he became co-director of hematology at Boston University Medical Center, and a year later, founded the Boston University Hematology Service at Boston City Hospital. Dr. Sullivan remained at Boston until 1975, holding positions as assistant professor of medicine, associate professor of medicine, and professor of medicine.
Dr. Sullivan became the founding dean and director of the Medical Education Program at Morehouse College in 1975. MSM was fully accredited as a four-year medical school in April 1985 and awarded its first 16 M.D. degrees in May of that year.
Dr. Sullivan left MSM in 1989 to accept an appointment by President George H.W. Bush to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In this cabinet position, Dr. Sullivan managed the federal agency responsible for the major health, welfare, food and drug safety, medical research and income security programs serving the American people. In January 1993, he returned to MSM and resumed the office of president.
Dr. Sullivan is chairman of the board of the National Health Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, and is also chairman of the Sullivan Alliance on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce, based in Washington, D.C. He also serves as chair of the President’s Commission on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and was co-chair of the President’s Commission on HIV and AIDS from 2001-2006.
In March 2008, Dr. Sullivan was appointed to the new Grady Hospital Corporation Board of Trustees. In June 2008, Dr. Sullivan accepted appointments to the Health Disparities Technical Expert Panel of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and an Institute of Medicine Committee, “Improving the Organization of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to Advance the Health of our Population.”
A member of numerous medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the National Medical Association, Dr. Sullivan was the founding president of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools. He is a former member of the Joint Committee of Health Policy of the Association of American Universities and the National Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities.
He is married to Ginger, an attorney, and they have three grown children: Paul, a radiologist; Shanta, an actress, and Halsted, a television comedy writer. They have two grandchildren, Paul Jr. and Brent Sullivan.
Doctor Jonathan Woodson is a graduate of the City College of New York (Magna Cum Laude) and New York University School of Medicine (1979) six year B.S.-M.D. program. He received his postgraduate medical education at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and completed residency training in Internal Medicine, General and Vascular Surgery. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Vascular Surgery and Critical Care (surgery). In 1992 he was awarded a research fellowship at the Association of American Medical Colleges Health Services Research Institute. His current research interest is in Health Outcomes Research; particularly functional outcomes in limb salvage vascular surgery. He holds a Master’s Degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College. He has authored/coauthored a number of publications and book chapters on vascular trauma and outcomes in vascular limb salvage surgery.
Doctor Woodson is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Associate Dean at Boston University School of Medicine and a senior attending vascular surgeon at the Boston Medical Center. He Chairs The Boston University Medical Center Institutional Review Board for Human Research. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He has been awarded two teaching awards. In 2007 he was named one of the top Vascular Surgeons in Boston and in 2008 listed as one of the Top Surgeons in the U.S.
Doctor Woodson is a Fellow and Governor of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and has served as state faculty for the ACS Massachusetts Committee on Trauma Advanced Life Support Course (1990-1992).
Doctor Woodson holds the rank of Brigadier General, United States Army, Reserve and has supported several Army Medical Department missions including Advanced Trauma Life Support Training (for active and reserve forces), military-civilian medical programs in Central America, and air medical evacuation missions in Central America. He was appointed to the Leadership Study Board, Office of the Surgeon General, in 1990. His current assignment is Commander, 330th Medical Brigade, Ft. Sheridan Ill. with additional duties as Consultant to The Surgeon General. BG Woodson has been named the next Assistant Surgeon General for Reserve Affairs and Mobilization with assignment to the Office of the Surgeon General.
Howard Zinn was a shipyard worker and an Air Force bombardier in World War II. He received his B.A. from New York University 1951, his M.A. from Columbia University in 1952, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1958. His doctoral dissertation, "LaGuardia in Congress," was an Albert Beveridge Prize publication of the American Historical Association. His first full time teaching position was at Spelman College in Atlanta, where he was chair of the department of history and social science from 1956 to 1963. While in the South, he became active in the civil rights movement as a writer-participant in Albany, Georgia, Selma, Alabama, and various towns in Mississippi. At this time, he began publishing articles in Harper's, The Nation, and The New Republic. In 1964, he joined the faculty of Boston University, and that year published two books on the South: The Southern Mystique (Knopf), and SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Beacon Press). Since that time, he has published roughly 20 books, the latest of which is Uncommon Sense. His memoir is You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. Undoubtedly, his best known work is A People's History of the United States, which has gone through a number of editions, sold over two million copies, and been translated into a dozen languages. With Anthony Arnove, he has edited the collection Voices of a People's History. He is also a playwright, having written three plays: Emma, Daughter of Venus, and Marx in Soho. He has taught abroad as a visiting professor in Paris and Bologna and has lectured in South Africa and Japan. He retired from Boston University in 1988 and is now Professor Emeritus. Many of his essays are collected in The Zinn Reader (Seven Stories Press). He spends much of his time these days speaking and writing on behalf of the abolition of war. His current project is a documentary film, with Chris Moore and Anthony Arnove, based on People's History, which will be aired on the History Channel in December.