Women driving innovation
Learn more about the featured Trailblazers below and register for the Trailblazers in Science seminar series at Beacon Hill Seminars to hear directly from them.
This series is a part of the special 25th anniversary curriculum for Beacon Hill Seminars.
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Profiles of the featured Trailblazers
Irini Albanti, DrPH, MPH, MA
Executive Director at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative | Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health | Lecturer of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School
October 17, 1-2pm
“Leading the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative”
Gilda A. Barabino, PhD
Second President and Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering of Olin College of Engineering | Elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Medicine, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences
October 17, 2-3pm
“Engineering Approaches to Sickle Cell Disease”
Lilit Garibyan, MD, PhD
Board-certified Dermatologist | Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School | Physician-Scientist-Innovator at Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Mass General Hospital
October 24, 1-2pm
“From Immigrant to Innovator: “From Bench to Breakthrough: How to Translate Invention into Impact”
Shannon Tessier, PhD
Associate Professor and Director of Surgical Research at Harvard Medical School and Mass General Hospital
October 24, 2-3pm
“Stopping Biological Time of Organs and Tissues for Transplantation”
Ludy Shih, MD, MMSc
Clinical Director of the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
October 31, 1-2pm
“Parkinson's disease: the science of aging and implications for community health”
Kaori Oshima, PhD
Instructor in the Department of Medicine at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School | Director of Translational Glycoanalysis at Mass General Hospital
October 31, 2-3pm
“Predicting patient survival with blood vessel sugar-layer”
Brittany Seymour, DDS, MPH
Dentist | Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Harvard School of Dental Medicine
November 7, 1-2pm
“Diary of a Dentist- Confronting a Silent Global Crisis”
Carla E. Brodley, PhD
Founding Executive Director of the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University | Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence & American Association for the Advancement of Science
November 7, 2-3pm
“Broadening Participation in Computing and AI”
Sudeshna Das, PhD
Associate Professor at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School | Lead of the Data Core of the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the ADRD Pilot Core of the Massachusetts AI and Technology Center
November 14, 1-2pm
“AI for Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementias”
Jamie Maguire, PhD
Kenneth and JoAnn G. Wellner Professor of Neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine
November 14, 2-3pm
“Understanding and treating postpartum depression”
Immaculata De Vivo, PhD, MPH
Melanie Mason Niemiec ’71 Faculty Codirector of the Sciences at Harvard Radcliffe Institute | Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School | Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School for Public Health
November 21, 1-2pm
“Molecular Epidemiology: Bridging the Gap Between Biology and Public Health”
Heidi Rayala, MD, PhD
Urologic Surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School
November 21, 2-3pm
“Innovating With Purpose: Patient Experience of Pain and AI-Driven Academic Medicine”