C-Change National Advisory Group

The National Advisory Group advises the principal investigator on strategies for the Initiative, and brings diverse and rich perspective to inform the research of the project.  As appropriate, the National Advisory Group will review aggregated research findings and, based on these findings, craft national recommendations.  The members of the Advisory Group include nationally recognized leaders in academic medicine:

Lotte Bailyn, PhD
Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management
Co-Director, MIT Workplace Center 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JudyAnn Bigby, MD
Secretary of Health and Human Services, State of Massachusetts
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

Christine Cassel, MD, FACP
President and CEO, American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation
Professor and Chair, Geriatrics and Adult Development
The Mount Sinai Medical Center

Jordan Cohen, MD
President Emeritus, Association of American Medical Colleges
Professor of Medicine and Public Health, George Washington University of Medicine

PonJola Coney, MD
Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Julie Freischlag, MD
Chair and Surgeon-in-Chief, Department of Surgery
William Stewart Halstead Professor of Surgery
Johns Hopkins Hospitals

Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA
President and CEO, Partners Healthcare
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 

Tayyaba Hasan, PhD
Director, Office for Research Career Development, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

Thomas S. Inui, ScM, MD
CEO and President, Regenstrief Institute
Associate Dean for Health Care Research
Sam Regenstrief Professor of Health Services Research

Indiana University School of Medicine

Wendy Levinson, MD
Chair of Board of Directors, American Board of Internal Medicine
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine
University of Toronto School of Medicine

Deborah E. Powell, MD
Associate Vice President for New Models of Medical Education
Dean Emeritus, University of Minnesota Medical School
McKnight Presidential Leadership Chair


Shulamit Reinharz, PhD

Director, Women’s Studies Research Center
Director, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
Jacob S. Potofsky Professor of Sociology
Brandeis University

R. Sanders Williams, MD
Senior Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Richard and Pat Johnson University Professor of Cardiovascular Genomics
Duke University School of Medicine

(C - Change Deans on National Advisory Group) 

Harris A. Berman, MD
Interim Dean, School of Medicine
Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine

Tufts University 

Janice Clements, PhD
Vice Dean for Faculty, School of Medicine
Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Faculty Affairs
Professor of Molecular and Comparative Patholobiology
Johns Hopkins University 

Paul B. Roth, MD
Dean, School of Medicine
Executive Vice President for Health Sciences
Associate Vice President for Clinical Affairs
Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of New Mexico


James L. Scott, MD, FACEP
Dean, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Professor of Emergency Medicine
George Washington University