Day 1 Keynote: Setting Your Course

George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, is Dean of Harvard Medical School, Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine and Professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.

Daley’s research focuses on stem cells, cancer and blood disorders. He received his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard (1982), a doctorate in biology from MIT (1989), where he worked with Nobel laureate David Baltimore, and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School (1991), summa cum laude.

Daley pursued clinical training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he served as chief resident (1994‐1995), and a clinical fellowship in hematology/oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s.

He was a founding member of the executive committee of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, served as president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research from 2007 to 2008 and as its clerk from 2012 to 2015. He anchored the special task forces that produced the society’s guidelines for stem cell research (2006) and clinical translation (2008) and their subsequent revisions and updates (2016).

Daley has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Association of Physicians, the American Pediatric Societies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Daley was an inaugural winner of the National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award for highly innovative research and has received the Judson Daland Prize from the American Philosophical Society for achievement in patient‐oriented research, the E. Mead Johnson Award from the American Pediatric Society for contributions to stem cell research, and the E. Donnall Thomas Prize of the American Society of Hematology for advances in human‐induced pluripotent stem cells.

Day 2 Keynote: Navigating Improvement 

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.

Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 and was honored with the Talent Award in 2017. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and leadership, and her articles have been published numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her books – Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy, Teaming to Innovate and Extreme Teaming – explore teamwork in dynamic organizational environments. In Building the future: Big teaming for audacious innovation, she examines the challenges and opportunities of teaming across industries to build smart cities. Her new book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth, offers a practical guide for organizations serious about success in the modern economy.

Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies. In the early 1980s, she worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller, and her book A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller clarifies Fuller's mathematical contributions for a non-technical audience. Edmondson received her PhD in organizational behavior, AM in psychology, and AB in engineering and design from Harvard University.

Day 3 Intro: Vision for the Future

Graham McMahon, MD, MMSc, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®), which sets standards for high-quality continuing medical education (CME) that supports physicians’ commitment to lifelong learning, improves their competence and performance, and drives healthcare improvement for patients and their communities.

Dr. McMahon directs the ACCME system for accrediting national and international CME providers, and the ACCME system for recognizing state and territory medical societies as accreditors for intrastate CME providers. In collaboration with the ACCME’s colleague accreditors, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Dr. McMahon oversees the program of Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education™. He also administers the process for designating non- US accreditors as substantially equivalent to the ACCME.

A medical educator, researcher, and endocrinologist, Dr. McMahon joined the ACCME in April 2015 from Harvard Medical School, where he served as Associate Dean for Continuing Education and Associate Professor of Medicine. He taught extensively at Harvard Medical School and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, served as Editor for Medical Education at the New England Journal of Medicine, and as Executive Editor for the NEJM Knowledge+ program. He served as an endocrinologist in practice in the division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

A native of Dublin, Ireland, Dr. McMahon earned his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, where he also received a doctoral degree in medical education from the National University of Ireland. He is board certified in internal medicine—as well as endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. He earned a Master of Medical Science in Clinical Research from Harvard Medical School. 

Day 3 Keynote: Arriving Together

Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH recently joined the American Medical Association as its inaugural Chief Health Equity Officer and Vice President. As a physician leader with outstanding achievements advancing public health, health equity, and preventive medicine, Dr. Maybank's role is to embed health equity in all the work of the AMA and to launch a Center for Health Equity.

From 2009-2014, Dr. Maybank was Assistant Commissioner and then Deputy Commissioner in the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene and served as the Medical Director of the Brooklyn District Public Health Office. In 2014, as Deputy Commissioner, Dr. Maybank launched their Center for the Health Equity, a new division geared towards strengthening and amplifying the Health Dept’s work in advancing health equity. Under her leadership, the Race to Justice Initiative launched and made great strides in transforming the culture and public health practice of the health department and embedding health equity in all of the agency’s work. This work has been recognized and adapted by other city agencies and has captured the attention of the World Health Organization. She oversaw the rebranding and reframing for the District Public Health Offices to Neighborhood Health Action Centers, renewing the agency’s commitment to neighborhood-based work. Neighborhood efforts under her purview strengthened and grew in scope through enhanced coordination, including expansions to NYC Teens Connection, Cure Violence, Office of Faith Based Initiatives, and Healthy Start Brooklyn. The Center for Health Equity was recently considered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be a model for the country.

Dr. Maybank successfully launched the Office of Minority Health as its Founding Director in the Suffolk County Department of Health Services in NY from 2006-2009.

Dr. Maybank has served on medical mission trips to Haiti to assist in the post-earthquake relief efforts. While there, she provided health care, conducted a public health assessment, and provided recommendations on how to improve sanitation and hygiene conditions on a tent camp of 20,000 people.

Dr. Maybank holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University, a MD from Temple University School of Medicine, and a MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She is pediatrician board certified in Preventive Medicine/Public Health.

Day 3 Keynote Panelist: Arriving Together

David Ansell, MD, MPH is the Michael E. Kelly Presidential Professor of Internal Medicine and Senior Vice President/Associate Provost for Community Health Equity at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He is a 1978 graduate of SUNY Upstate Medical College and did his medical training at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. Ansell spent 13 years at Cook County as an attending physician and ultimately was appointed Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital. From 1995 to 2005, he was Chairman of Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Chicago. He was recruited to Rush University Medical Center as its inaugural Chief Medical Officer in 2005, a position he held until 2015. His research and advocacy has been focused on eliminating health inequities. In 2011, he published a memoir of his times at County Hospital,County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital. His latest book, The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, was published in 2017.