Bettina Tweardy Riveros, J.D.
Chief Health Equity Officer; Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Community Engagement · ChristianaCare
Leads health equity and government affairs strategies to advance ChristianaCare's vision and mission to serve the community.
Community Engagement Health Policy Strategy Vision Government Affairs
Timothy T. Baldwin
Randall L. Tobias Chair in Leadership · Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
Professor Baldwin has published his research in leading academic and professional outlets.
Organizational Change Managerial Skill Assessment Organizational Behavior Human Resource Management Leadership Education
Dr. David Chaney
Assistant Director for Local Impact · Diabetes UK
Expert in Diabetic Care, Chronic Illness, and Patient Education. Appointed as the Assistant Director for Local Impact at Diabetes UK.
Patient Education Diabetes Care Chronic Illness
Aileen Anderson
Director of the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center · UC Irvine
Dr. Anderson is an expert on stem cell research, with a focus on spinal cord and traumatic brain injury.
Glioblastoma Stem Cell Biology Stem Cell Research Spinal Cord Injury
Dr. Lee Hamm
Dean, Tulane University School of Medicine · Tulane University
Dr. Hamm is an expert on kidney diseases and hypertension
Hypertension Nephrology
Linda Beeber, Ph.D., PMHCNS-BC, FAAN
Distinguished Professor, School of Nursing · UNC at Chapel Hill
Distinguished Professor, School of Nursing
Mental Health Psychiatry Pediatric Nursing Behavioural Treatment Post-Partum Depression
Marshala Lee, M.D., MPH
Director of iREACH Harrington Community Partnership Fund · ChristianaCare
Dr. Marshala Lee provides expert commentary to media about the value of community partnerships and health equity in medicine.
Social Determinants of Health/Health Disparities Community Partnerships Community Health Health Equity
Rommie Amaro
Professor and Shuler Scholar, Chemistry and Biochemistry · UC San Diego
Her research focuses on development of computational methods in biophysics for applications to drug discovery.
H1N1 Computational Methods in Drug Discovery COVID-19 Biochemistry Chemistry
Ian S. Haworth, PhD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences · USC School of Pharmacy
Ian Haworth's research focuses on bioinformatics, computer-aided drug design and therapeutic drug development.
Therapeutic drug development Computational Chemistry Computer-aided Molecular Design DNA and RNA structure Protein Structure
David B. Peden, M.D.
Faculty · UNC-Chapel Hill
Nationally recognized as a leader in pediatric allergy and immunology, with particular interest in inflammatory processes of the body.
Coronavirus Lung Biology Environmental Sciences Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Allergy and Immunology
Mia Papas, MS, Ph.D
Director of the Institute for Research on Equity and Community Health · ChristianaCare
Dr. Papas utilizes real-world evidence to accelerate the process of moving research into practice to improve health for all.
Epidemiology Health Equity Disease Prevention Translational Research Population Health
Stan Gee Louie, PharmD
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy & Director of Clinical Experimental Therapeutics Program · USC School of Pharmacy
Stan Gee Louie is a clinical and translational pharmacologist with three decades of clinical and drug development experience.
Accelerating wound healing properties Developing novel drug therapy to inhibit chronic inflammation in cancer, diabetes, and neurodegenerative disease. Drug development targeting viral infection and cancer. Metabolomic approaches to dissecting the molecular mechanism(s) driving pharmacologic responses.
Dr. Raphael (Rafi) Hofstein
President & CEO · MaRS Innovation
Turning academic ideas into commercial realities
Corporate & Business Strategy Early-Stage Investing Life Sciences and Healthcare Technology Transfer Commercialization of Innovation
Judith Blumstock
Senior Director, Corporate Development · MaRS Innovation
Senior Director, Mars Innovation
Investing in Life Sciences Making Investments and Overseeing Existing Portfolio Companies
Michael Hamblin, PhD
Principal Investigator, Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital · Associate Professor, Dermatology, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Hamblin's research interests are now broadly in the area of phototherapy for multiple diseases
Microscopy Molecular Biology Photomedicine Flourescence Microscopy Biotechnology
Lawrence Palinkas
Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Endowed Professorship in Social Policy and Health · USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Dr. Palinkas is an expert in the areas of preventive medicine, cross-cultural medicine and health services research
Implementation Science Disaster Mental Health Systems Preventive Medicine Medical Anthropology Global Health
Dr. Gregory Bix
Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Center; Professor & Vice Chair of Clinical & Translational Research · Tulane University
Dr. Gregory Bix is an expert in clinical and translational research, neurology, neurosurgery and stroke research.
Neurosurgery Clinical and translational research COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Stroke Research Neurology
Parimal Nathwani
Vice President, Life Sciences · MaRS Innovation
Parimal Nathwani received his M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia and his M.B.A. from Simon Fraser University
Forming Start-Up Companies Raising Early-Stage Capital Managing Intellectual Property
Adam Woods
Assistant Professor · University of Florida
Woods’ work demonstrates that combining cognitive training with non-invasive brain stimulation can improve cognitive abilities.
Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Cognitive Ageing Brain Imaging Dementia
Stacey Ivanchuk
Director, Intellectual Property · MaRS Innovation
Experienced and strategy-minded director with extensive experience managing commercially driven programs
Intellectual Property Strategy Access to Essential Medicines Biotechnology Patent Protection Early Stage Commercialization