Advisory Board

Eric Buehrens is a consultant and senior advisor to healthcare and higher education, and Instructor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has been an executive in academic medicine for twenty years, serving as Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Medical School, Deputy Provost for Administration at Harvard University,…

Lisa Cooper brings considerable experience to OpenNotes, especially in working with underrepresented minority populations. Dr. Cooper is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and a member of President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). She is an internationally renowned general internist whose research has focused on patient-centered strategies for…

Dave deBronkart, known on the internet as “e-Patient Dave” (empowered, engaged, equipped, enabled), brings to OpenNotes the insights of one of the world’s leading advocates for patient engagement, with a particular focus on access to personal health data. After beating back stage IV kidney cancer in 2007 at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dave…

Alexandra Drane is an entrepreneur and activist with special interest in supporting caregivers, those with serious advancing illness, and palliative care. She is the co-founder and CEO of Rebel Health and ARCHANGELS and co-founded and led the Eliza Corporation (acquired by HMS Holdings Corp: HMSY). Alexandra takes an active role with non-profits she feels are…

Jim Guest is a lawyer, consumer advocate, and politician. From 2001 to 2014, Guest was the president and chief executive officer of Consumer Reports. He currently volunteers as President of Consumers International, a federation of more than 250 organizations from over 115 countries that is the global voice and advocate for the world’s consumers. Jim…

John Halamka is internationally recognized for his numerous contributions to health information technology. An emergency physician by training, Dr. Halamka spent over 20 years at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he introduced one of the first patient portals in the country. While in Massachusetts, Dr. Halamka served as the executive director…

Jeffrey Rayport is an award-winning educator at Harvard Business School. He teaches entrepreneurial techniques that include strategic applications of digital, social, and mobile media, and strategies to deepen consumer engagement and competing in a service economy. Jeffrey  is Managing Partner of MarketspaceNext, a company that partners with clients to accelerate growth by integrating insights into…

Mark Wietecha is president and CEO of Children’s Hospital Association (CHA), based in Washington, DC,  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 fostering national collaboration to improve pediatric health policy and practice better serving the unique…