The OpenNotes Team

Catherine M. DesRoches, DrPH

Executive Director

Sigall Bell, MD

Director, Patient Safety & Discovery

Jan Walker, RN, MBA & Tom Delbanco, MD

Co-Founders

Joe Dong, MS

Biostatistician & Statistical Programmer

Anna Garcia, MD

Senior Project Manager

Isabel Hurwitz, BS

Clinical Research Coordinator

Amanda Norris, MDiv, MTS

Deputy Director, OpenNotes Lab

Stephen (Steve) O’Neill, LICSW, BCD, JD

Director, Behavioral Health

Liz Salmi

Director, Communications & Patient Initiatives

Chethan Sarabu, MD, FAAP, FAMIA

AI & Informatics Strategist, OpenNotes Lab

Ria Shah, MS

Clinical Research Coordinator

Robert Stern, MD, EdM

Robert Stern, MD, Ed.M

Co-Leader, Macy/Schmeidler Medical Student OpenNotes Educational Initiative, Harvard Medical School

Sarah Stern, MA, MS

Health Communication Designer

Anita Vanka, MD

Co-Leader, Macy/Schmeidler Medical Student OpenNotes Educational Initiative, Harvard Medical School

Deb Wachenheim, MPP

Deb W. Wachenheim, MPP

Senior Project Manager

Claudia Weitman, MS

Research & Administrative Assistant

Collaborators

OpenNotes works closely with a broad variety of patients, families, clinicians, and researchers in the U.S. and around the world.

Anshu Abhat, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Division of Internal Medicine, Harbor-UCLA
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Paul J. Barr PhD, MSc PH, BSc

Associate Professor, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Rosie Bartel

Patient advocate and collaborator

Charlotte Blease, PhD

Keane OpenNotes Scholar, 2019-2022

Fabienne Bourgeois, MD

Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital

Lisa Danielpour

Healthcare Technology, Disabilities, Patient/Family Advocate and Speaker

Laura Dickman, LICSW

Program Leader, Patient & Family Engagement, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Vadim Dukhanin, MD, MHS

Research Associate, Department of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Leonor Fernández, MD

Director, Patient Engagement, Healthcare Associates.
Member, Beth Israel Lahey Health Diversion, Equity & Inclusion Council
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Maria Hägglund, PhD

Keane OpenNotes Scholar, 2019-2020

Shoshana J. Herzig, MD, MPH

Director of Hospital Medicine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Robin T. Higashi, PhD

Assistant Professor, Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Gila R. Kriegel, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Chair, Quality Improvement, Healthcare Associates, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Steven Lane, MD

Chief Medical Officer, HealthGorilla

Suzanne Leveille, RN, PhD

Investigator

CT Lin, MD, FAMIA

Chief Medical Information Officer, UCHealth.
Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Betsy Lowe

Patient & Family Advisor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Scott MacDonald, MD

Chief Medical Information Officer, UC Davis Health

Deven McGraw

Lead, Data Stewardship and Data Governance, Ciitizen
Former Deputy Director Health Information Privacy, HHS Office for Civil Rights

Jody Naimark, MD

Family Physician, Winchester Physician Associates, Lahey Health

Long Ngo, PhD

Biostatistician

Aditya S. Pawar, MD

Transplant Nephrologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

S. Trent Rosenbloom, MD MPH

Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs & Professor of Biomedical Informatics Director, My Health at Vanderbilt Patient Portal

John Santa, MD, MPH

Retired Internist and Health Administrator

Bryan Steitz, PhD

Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University

Eric J. Thomas, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center Houston

Robert Turer, MD

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Jennifer L. Wolff, PhD

Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor of Health Policy & Management.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

OpenNotes Lab Advisory Board

With domain expertise ranging from patient advocacy to health information technology, entrepreneurship to health policy and equity, OpenNotes Lab advisors help inform and shape our strategic initiatives.