About The Heller School
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Office of the Dean

  • Lisa Lynch, Ph.D.

    Dean

  • Laurence R. Simon, Ph.D.

    Associate Dean, Academic Planning and
    Director, M.A. and M.S. Programs

  • Deborah Garnick, Sc.D.

    Associate Dean, Academic Personnel

  • Constance Horgan, Sc.D.

    Associate Dean, Research

  • Ron Etlinger

    Chief Administrative Officer

  • Claudia Jacobs ’70

    Director, Development, Communications and Alumni Relations

Educational Program Directors

  • Christine Bishop, Ph.D.

    Director, Ph.D. Program in Social Policy

  • Laurence R. Simon, Ph.D.

    Associate Dean, Academic Planning and
    Director, M.A. and M.S. Programs

  • Maria Cristina Espinosa, Ph.D.

    Associate Director, Academics, M.A. Program

  • Joan Kaufman, Sc.D.

    Interim Associate Director, Academics, M.S. Program

  • Jody Hoffer Gittell, Ph.D.

    Director, M.B.A. Program

  • Michael Doonan, Ph.D. ’02

    Director, M.P.P. Program

  • Jon Chilingerian, Ph.D.

    Director, Executive Leadership Program

  • Sarita Bhalotra, M.D., Ph.D. ’99

    Co-Chair, Undergraduate Program in Health:
    Science, Society and Policy

Heller Administration

  • Thomas Broussard, Ph.D. '06

    Assistant Dean, Admissions, Recruitment and Career Services

  • Ravi Lakshmikanthan, M.A. ’99

    Assistant Dean, Student Records, Enrollment and
    Financial Services

  • Doris Breay

    Assistant Dean, Academic and Student Services

Heller Board of Overseers

  • Thomas P. Glynn III, M.S.W. ’72, Ph.D.’77, Chair

    Chief Operating Officer
    Partners Health Care

  • Rhonda S. Zinner, Vice-Chair

    Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Foundation

  • G. Lawrence Atkins, Ph.D. ’85

    Executive Director, Public Policy and Reimbursement
    Schering-Plough Corporation

  • Neal F. Bermas, Ph.D. ‘81

  • Chester Black

    Founder/Managing Member
    Angel Healthcare Investors, LLC

  • Ellen Block

  • Carmen S. Canino, M.M.H.S. ’78

  • Rosalind B. Chaikin*

  • Nancy A. Dreyer ’72

  • Paul Egerman

    CEO
    eScription, Inc.

  • Karen Feinstein, Ph.D. ’83

    President
    Jewish Healthcare Foundation

  • Moses Feldman ’62

  • Linda Frieze

  • Leonard Goodman

  • Peter E. Heller

  • Nick Littlefield, Jr.

    Foley Hoag LLP

  • Laura Oskowitz

  • Muriel Pokross*

  • Julius B. Richmond**

    Dept. of Social Medicine
    Harvard Medical School

  • Gail Robinson, Ph.D. ’80

    Vice President
    Health Services Research Evaluation
    Abt Associates

  • Charles S. Rodgers, Ph.D. ’78

  • Susan Rothenberg

  • M. Bryna Sanger, Ph.D. ’76

  • Lynn Schneider

  • Alan D. Solomont

    Solomont Bailis Ventures

  • David F. Squire*

  • Samuel O. Thier, M.D.

    Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Emeritus
    Massachusetts General Hospital

  • Joan Wallace-Benjamin, Ph.D. ’80

*emeritus

**deceased

Heller Alumni Association Board

  • Gail Robinson, Ph.D. ’80, President
  • Rosina Becerra, Ph.D. ’76, Vice President
  • Audrey Shelto, M.M.H.S. ’82, Vice President
  • G. Lawrence Atkins, Ph.D. ’85, Immediate Past President
  • Ruth A. Brandwein, Ph.D. ’78
  • Thomas Broussard, Ph.D. ’06
  • James Callahan, Jr., Ph.D. ’68
  • Matinal Chan ’91, M.M.H.S. ’00
  • Gerald M. Eggert, M.S.W. ’71, Ph.D. ’73
  • Marwa Farag, M.S. ’05
  • May Futrell, Ph.D. ’76
  • Toni Gustus, M.B.A. ’99
  • Oscar Harrell, Ph.D. ’95
  • Adam Kessler, M.B.A. ’05
  • Diane Feeney Mahoney, Ph.D. ’89
  • Chrisann Newransky, M.A. ’05
  • Ruth Palombo, Ph.D. ’03
  • Paula Paris, M.M.H.S. ’79
  • Gustavo Payan, M.A. ’05
  • Deborah Pearlman, Ph.D. ’90
  • Deborah Polivy, M.S.W. ’72, Ph.D. ’78
  • Scott Provost, M.M. ’98
  • Julie Rosen, M.M.H.S. ’89
  • Diana Marginean Schor, M.A. ’03
  • Richard Scobie, Ph.D. ’72
  • David Segal ’78, M.M.H.S. ’83
  • Lynne Sullivan, M.B.A. ’02
  • Joseph Warren, M.S.W. ’72, Ph.D. ’83
  • Ghenet Weldeslassie, M.A. ’99
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