Howard C. Stevenson is a renowned psychologist and professor, dedicated to helping youth, families, and communities cope with racial stress by promoting racial literacy, which is the ability to understand and respond to racial issues in a healthy way.
Chera Kowalski is renowned for her work in the opioid crisis by training as a first responder and helping to turn libraries into vital community hubs that provide life-saving resources.
Camila Ventura is a highly respected Brazilian retina specialist and a leading researcher on the long-term effects of congenital Zika syndrome (CZS), who is renowned for being one of the first to report that the Zika virus could cause serious eye damage in babies.
Dr. Philip Steven Low did his PhD at the Salk Institute, which he joined on the recommendation of the late Francis Crick, Nobel Laureate of DNA fame, after completing his undergraduate degree at University of Chicago where he studied Mathematics, Neuroscience, and Physics and invented novel neurosurgical techniques undermining the role Neuroscientists have attributed to the Neocortex.
Amy Baxter is an emergency pediatrician and inventor who transitioned from traditional medicine to founding Pain Care Labs, where she pioneered and popularized the use of vibrational cryotherapy in devices like Buzzy and VibraCool to provide drug-free pain relief for procedures and chronic conditions.
Richard Kogan is a professor and a skilled concert pianist who combines his two careers in internationally known “lecture-concerts” that explore the fascinating link between musical genius, creativity, and the mental health of composers like Mozart and Beethoven.
Elizabeth Letourneau is a clinical psychologist and the inaugural director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at Johns Hopkins, who is a respected leader focused on treating child sexual abuse as a preventable public health problem and developing interventions for at-risk young people.
Dr. Nir Barzilai is a renowned physician and aging expert who directs the Institute for Aging Research, studying the genetics of centenarians and leading the TAME trial to prove that targeting the aging process—specifically with the drug metformin—can delay multiple age-related diseases to extend human health span.
Dr. Tomás Ryan is a leading neuroscientist who studies the neuroarchitecture of memory, making the groundbreaking discovery that memories thought to be lost to amnesia due to brain damage or disease might still exist and can potentially be retrieved, offering hope for new memory loss treatments.
Alia Crum is a psychologist and professor who studies how our mindsets—the beliefs and expectations we hold—create real, measurable physical effects that impact our health and well-being.