Kelli Swazey, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist who investigates the role that spiritual and religious practices play in defining group identity. She has conducted research on Indonesian society and culture as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, a Fulbright-Hayes researcher, and a fellow of the East West Center in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
Kaoru Ishibashi, who goes by the professional name Kishi Bashi, is a singer-songwriter, composer and performing artist who appears both solo and with groups. He plays multiple instruments including violin, keyboard and guitar, and his musical repertoire ranges from indie pop and rock to psychedelic pop. He sometimes uses Japanese singing as one of many sound layers in his creations, helping to suggest (to Western ears, at least) a sense of the ineffable.
Mariano Vázquez, PhD, is a researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He helps lead a multi-disciplinary, international team of 25 researchers from the fields of mathematics, physics, computer sciences and engineering. Their common goal: to better understand nature through creating a “computational world” employing the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
In 1997, Jonathan Bush co-founded athenahealth as a women’s health practice management company. Today, athenahealth has evolved into a leading provider of cloud-based business services to U.S. medical groups pursuing a vision of an information backbone that makes healthcare work as it should.
Giovanni Colella co-founded Castlight Health in 2008, along with Todd Park (currently U.S. chief technology officer and formerly the CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) and Bryan Roberts of Venrock. Prior to co-founding Castlight, Giovanni was Founder, President and CEO of RelayHealth, which was acquired by McKesson.
Dr. Gary Slutkin is an epidemiologist, an innovator in violence reduction, and the Founder/ Executive Director of Cure Violence, formerly known as CeaseFire. He previously served as Medical Director for the San Francisco Health Department Tuberculosis Program, and worked for the World Health Organization reversing epidemics, including Uganda’s AIDS program, the only country to have reversed its AIDS epidemic.
Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, co-directs the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He applies computational techniques, whole genome analysis, and functional genomics to study human diseases through the developmental lens, and particularly through the use of animal model systems.
John Kheir, MD is a staff physician in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He has developed and tested methods for the intravenous administration of oxygen using gas-filled microparticles. He is now the principal investigator of a lab which is further developing this concept and testing it in a variety of animal models.
H. Shaw Warren, M.D., is a physician and pediatrician in the Infectious Disease Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Shaw received his training from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, and did further training in Infectious Disease in Boston and at the Institute Pasteur in Paris before returning to Boston.
Afro Blue, a widely acclaimed vocal jazz ensemble, is known as a “vocal big band.” Based at Howard University in Washington, DC, the group has repeatedly been named “best graduate college vocal jazz ensemble” by DownBeat Magazine. Professor Connaitre Miller formed Afro Blue in 2002.