Innovators

Dr. David Allison – Dean of the School of Public Health at Indiana University Bloomington – joins Innovators to talk about what perceptions and trust are like today in fields like research, public health, and public safety, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Allison became Dean and Provost Professor at the Indiana University-Bloomington School of Public Health in 2017. Prior to assuming his current role as Dean, he served as Distinguished Professor, Quetelet Endowed Professor, and Director of the NIH-funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Allison received his Ph.D. from Hofstra University in 1990. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a second post-doctoral fellowship at the NIH-funded New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center. He was a research scientist at the NY Obesity Research Center and Associate Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons until 2001.

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Very soon, the likelihood is that one or more of the COVID-19 vaccines will be approved for use with children under age 12 and for the first time in the pandemic, children will be afforded the protection provided adults. Listen to a special Innovators podcast of excerpts from three guests — leaders in pediatric research — Dr. Tina Cheng (Chief Medical Officer at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center), Mark Wietecha (CEO of Children's Hospital Association), and Dr. Mark Batshaw (former Chief Academic Officer at Children's National Hospital) in a short summary. We encourage you to listen further to their full discussion on any one or all of our featured guests' Innovators podcast episodes. All three full episodes are available on all podcast platforms and also at HarrisSearch.com.

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Dr. Tina Cheng, Chief Medical Officer at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, joins Innovators to talk about the state of pediatric research, what came before, and what comes next for the field.

Dr. Tina Cheng is the BK Rachford Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati; Director of Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation; and Chief Medical Officer of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

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*The views and opinions shared by the guests on Innovators do not necessarily reflect the views of the interviewee's institution or organization.*

Dr. Sarah Stone, Executive Director of the eScience Institute at the University of Washington, and Dr. Jing Liu, Managing Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science at the University of Michigan, join Innovators to discuss the Burgeoning and Expanding Field of Data Science.

Dr. Sarah Stone is the Executive Director of the eScience Institute. Stone handles eScience operations and planning, develops research and training programs, participates in strategic planning, and serves as the primary contact for university and industry partners, funding agencies and the public.

eScience Director of Data Science Education since 2018, Stone is co-leading the Education and Career Paths Special Interest Group and helping departments across campus develop data science specializations. Stone also directs the UW Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program which partners student fellows from across the country with project leads from academia, government, and the private sector to find data-driven solutions to pressing societal challenges. Stone sits on the executive committees for the eScience Institute and the UW Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE). Since 2015, as a Deputy Director of the West Big Data Innovation Hub (WBDIH), she has focused on building and strengthening partnerships across the western U.S., with a particular focus on urban data science and data-enabled scientific discovery and training.

Dr. Jing Liu, Managing Director, has been at Michigan Institute for Data Science since 2016. She oversees the operation of the institute and the staff team, designs programs to implement the institute's mission, and builds academia-industry-government-community partnership. In addition, she plans and coordinates research activities to enable groundbreaking, transformative and reproducible data science research.

Dr. Liu's past research management experience includes coordinating mental health research, biostatistics, and grant proposal review. Her research experience includes visual neuroscience with human brain imaging and animal electrophysiology, genetics, and most recently science policy. She also writes and translates about science and education, and has received multiple awards including China Book Award and China National Library Book Award.

Innovators is a podcast production of Harris Search.

*The views and opinions shared by the guests on Innovators do not necessarily reflect the views of the interviewee's institution or organization.*

Mark Wietecha, CEO of Children's Hospital Association, joins Innovators to talk about the progress made in pediatric research and what he expects from his organization and children's hospitals around the country in the coming years.

From the Children's Hospital's website: Mark is CEO of Children's Hospital Association (CHA), representing over 200 children's hospitals and major pediatric programs with a mission to improve child health through innovation in care, education, and research. CHA advances these aims by leading and supporting national collaboration in public policy and pediatric practice improving the access, quality, and costs of care for children.

Prior to joining CHA, Mark was a management consultant with Kurt Salmon Associates, where he served as the firm's executive chairman, responsible for over 2,000 professionals working across five continents in six languages. His professional work in both adult academic and pediatric medicine has been recognized as among the best in the country, and he has advised most of the U.S. News & World Report "Best" medical centers and children's hospitals. Mark has been named among the nation's "Most Influential Consultants" by Consulting Magazine and as one of the "5 Healthcare Leaders to Know" by Becker's Review. He is a regular presenter on the future of health care and cited in such media as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Politico, and National Public Radio.

Mark currently serves on the boards of the Children's Hospital Association, the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems of the AAMC, the Coalition to Protect America's Health Care, the National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect, OpenNotes, an organization advancing greater patient engagement in their own care, and Virtual PICU Systems, where he is past chairman of the board. He serves on the advisory boards of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Michigan's CMS national quality initiative, and the New York University Sala Institute, with a mission to integrate pediatric care across a large academic teaching hospital. Mark is a former trustee and past chairman of the board of overseers of the UCLA Health System, a former director and past deputy chairman of the board of Management Consulting Group, a public London-listed company, and a former director and past chairman of the board of Kurt Salmon Associates.

Mark's academic training includes a Master of Science in pharmacology from The Ohio State University and a Master of Business Administration from Indiana University. He is based in Washington, D.C.

Innovators is a podcast production of Harris Search.

*The views and opinions shared by the guests on Innovators do not necessarily reflect the views of the interviewee's institution or organization.*

Mark Wietecha, CEO of Children's Hospital Association, joins Innovators to talk about the progress made in pediatric research and what he expects from his organization and children's hospitals around the country in the coming years.

Dr. Mark Batshaw - Executive Vice President and Physician-in-Chief at Children's National Medical Center – joins Innovators to talk about the next innovations and breakthroughs in the field of pediatric research.

Mark L. Batshaw, M.D., is executive vice president, physician-in-chief, and chief academic officer at Children's National Hospital, and also serves as director of Children's National Research Institute. Dr. Batshaw also holds the Fight for Children Professorship in the Department of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences.

He received a medical degree from the University of Chicago, completed a residency in pediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children, and a fellowship in neurodevelopmental pediatrics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins. He previously served on the faculty of John Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Batshaw has spent his entire career caring for children with developmental disabilities. He has published more than 200 articles and reviews and is senior editor of the classic textbook, "Children With Disabilities," now entering its eighth edition. Dr. Batshaw's research has focused on inborn errors of urea synthesis, in which he is considered an international authority and he has been continuously funded as a National Institutes of Health Principal Investigator for over 40 years.

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*The views and opinions shared by the guests on Innovators do not necessarily reflect the views of the interviewee's institution or organization.*

Dr. Jennifer Christner MD, Dean of the School of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, joins Innovators to talk about how to build medical schools and healthcare systems around a more diverse generation of physicians and healthcare professionals. With her creativity in approaching the learning process balanced with her understanding of the requirements of documenting the quality of our programs, Dr. Christner has been recognized for work in faculty development, as well as teaching and research. She has mentored students, residents, and fellows in clinical practice and research.

A pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine, Dr. Christner became the Dean of Baylor's School of Medicine in 2015 after serving as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education at State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University. Prior to SUNY Upstate, Dr. Christner held academic leadership positions at the University of Toledo and the University of Michigan. She earned her MD from the University of Toledo and a Bachelor's degree from Ohio State University.

Innovators is a podcast production of Harris Search.

*The views and opinions shared by the guests on Innovators do not necessarily reflect the views of the interviewee's institution or organization.*

Dr. Duane Ireland, Acting Dean of the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, joins Innovators to talk about the mission and goals of A&M's student-centered business program, how he measures success, and more.

On top of being named Acting Dean of the school in January, Dr. Ireland has served as Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship at Mays Business School since September 1, 2020. Previously, he served as Executive Associate Dean for Mays Business School for five years and as Head of the Management Department for two years. He earned his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University.

Innovators is a podcast production of Harris Search.

*The views and opinions shared by the guests on Innovators do not necessarily reflect the views of the interviewee's institution or organization.*

Dr. Cristina Gonzalez, Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, joins Innovators to talk about implicit bias in education and how schools can combat it when selecting and elevating students.

In 2011, Dr. Gonzalez's leadership was recognized nationally through the Unified Leadership Training in Diversity Award from the Association of Chiefs and Leaders in General Internal Medicine. In 2016, Dr. Gonzalez was one of five educators selected as a Macy Faculty Scholar from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Dr. Gonzalez's work was also funded by the Amos Medical Faculty Development Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, making her only the second education researcher chosen as a scholar in that program's 30-year history.

Dr. Cristina Gonzalez's research interests focus on health disparities and advocacy education. Specifically, she focuses on undergraduate medical education both in the clinical realm and in the preclinical years, including teaching about health disparities and giving learners the tools to overcome health and health care disparities in their own clinical encounters and expose them to avenues of advocacy to help patient populations at large. In 2011 Dr. Gonzalez's leadership was recognized nationally through the Unified Leadership Training in Diversity Award from the Association of Chiefs and Leaders in General Internal Medicine. An active member of the Society of General Internal Medicine, she has contributed to the efforts of the Disparities Task Force and has served as Chair of Minorities in Medicine Interest Group since 2010.

In 2011 she was named the Associate Director of the Institute of Community and Collaborative Health at Einstein, in recognition of her dedication to minority health and diversity enhancement in academic medicine. Most recently, she was selected as a Scholar in the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This four-year award will enable her to continue to pursue her research in the instruction of recognition and management of implicit bias in clinical encounters.

Dr. Gonzalez completed her medical education at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and her internal medicine residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital- Weill Cornell Medical Center. In 2010 Dr. Gonzalez was awarded a Faculty Development Fellowship through Einstein's Hispanic Center of Excellence, through which she earned a Master's Degree in Medical Education in August of 2012. In 2011 she was selected for the Stanford Faculty Development Program and is now trained as a facilitator for Clinical Teaching seminars.

Innovators is a podcast production of Harris Search.

*The views and opinions shared by the guests on Innovators do not necessarily reflect the views of the interviewee's institution or organization.*