2024 Virtual Symposium

Tuesday, March 26 | Noon – 1 p.m. ET | 9–10 a.m. PT

Innovation to Impact: Using Digital Tech to Transform Global Surgery

Hosted By

George Q. Daley, AB ’82, MD ’91, PhD
Dean, Harvard Medical School

Welcome Remarks By

Tenley E. Albright, MD ’61, on behalf of the Albright family

Featuring

Adeline Boatin, AB ’04, MPH ’09, MD
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, SM ’05, PhD ’08
Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Coleen S. Sabatini, MD ’04, MPH ’04
Past Albright Scholar
Professor and Vice Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco

2024 Albright Scholar Award Recipient

Tarika Srinivasan, MD Class of 2025

Speaker Bios

  • Adeline Boatin, AB ’04, MPH ’09, MD

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    Adeline Adwoa Boatin is an assistant professor in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her undergraduate education at Harvard University, medical degree at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and an MPH focusing on international health at the Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health. She was trained in obstetrics and gynecology at the Harvard Integrated Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program. She is a researcher, clinician, and educator with over a decade of experience in high-resource and resource-limited settings. Through her research, she aims to reduce global reproductive health inequities. She focuses on using digital technology to improve surgical care, ranging from decision-making for surgery to post-operative recovery. Her current research portfolio explores wireless monitoring technology to overcome human resource limitations in post-operative care. She also leads a multi-site and multi-country study examining cesarean delivery use in sub-Saharan Africa. Boatin is a Ghanaian native born in Zambia and has lived, studied, and worked in Zambia, Ghana, Uganda, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.

  • George Q. Daley, AB ’82, MD ’91, PhD

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    George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, is the dean of Harvard Medical School. A world-renowned physician-scientist and educator, his achievements span basic science, translational research, and clinical medicine. Daley’s work is at the forefront of stem cell science and cancer biology, and his discoveries have twice been cited in Science’s Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year. His research paved the way for Gleevec, a “magic bullet” drug for chronic myeloid leukemia; generated stem cell models for more than a dozen human diseases; and advanced our understanding of tissue regeneration and bone marrow transplantation therapies. He has also been a central force in establishing international guidelines for the conduct of stem cell research. Daley earned his AB and MD degrees from Harvard and a PhD in biology from MIT, and has worked as a trainee, fellow, and staff physician at several HMS-affiliated hospitals.

  • Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, SM ’05, PhD ’08

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    Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, PhD, is an associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School. Hedt-Gauthier leads NIH-funded research exploring the feasibility and impact of mobile health (mHealth) tools for community health worker-led post-operative follow-up after cesarean delivery in rural Rwanda. She also leads the development and application of statistical methods, with expertise in complex survey sampling, surveillance, and program monitoring and evaluation methods. In addition to her research, Hedt-Gauthier leads conversations on equity in global health research collaborations and on the universities’ responsibility to build research programs focusing on health impact. She received a bachelor of science with distinction in mathematics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1999. Immediately following her undergraduate training, she served three years in the U.S. Peace Corps in Namibia, where she was introduced to the needs and challenges of global public health and the role of research in addressing these gaps. She received her PhD in biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (now the Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health) in 2008. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the same department before joining HMS in 2010. 

  • Coleen S. Sabatini, MD ’04, MPH ’04

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    Coleen S. Sabatini, MD ’04, MPH ’04, is a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Her clinical practice is at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland in Oakland, California. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, her doctorate of medicine from Harvard Medical School, and her master’s of public health from the Harvard School of Public Health (now the Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health). She completed her residency training in orthopaedic surgery at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program and her fellowship training in pediatric orthopaedics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She joined the UCSF Faculty in 2010. She has taught and worked in numerous countries including Uganda, Nepal, Philippines, India and the Dominican Republic. She now spends nearly 50% of her time outside of the U.S. focused on pediatric orthopaedic education and research, with a particular focus in Uganda, where she runs a pediatric musculoskeletal research and education program with a particular research focus on injection injuries (post-injection paralysis and gluteal fibrosis) and other neglected surgical conditions such as clubfoot, chronic osteomyelitis, and angular limb deformities.

  • Tarika Srinivasan, MD Class of 2025

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    Tarika Srinivasan is a dual-degree candidate at Harvard Medical School pursuing an MD and Master of Medical Science in Global Health Delivery. She was born in rural North Dakota and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019 with dual degrees in philosophy and biochemistry. Her research interests include global surgical care delivery, rural hearing screening innovations, indigenous health governance, ear/hearing genomics, and surgical ethics. After graduation, Srinivasan plans to pursue surgical training in otolaryngology.

  • Past keynote speakers

    2023: Vikram Patel, MBBS, MSc, PhD
    2022: Robert Gentleman, PhD, and Mark Namchuk, PhD
    2021: Shelly F. Greenfield, MD ’86, MPH
    2020: Postponed
    2019: Sharon K. Inouye, MD, MPH, and Bruce A. Yankner, MD, PhD
    2018: Arlene H. Sharpe, AB ’75, AM ’76, PhD ’81, MD ’82, and Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD ’69
    2017: David M. Altshuler, MD ’90, PhD ’90, and Laurie H. Glimcher, AB ’72, MD ’76
    2016: Dennis A. Ausiello, AM ’67, MD, and Nancy E. Oriol, MD ’79
    2015: Edward M. Hundert, MD ’84, and George Q. Daley, AB ’82, MD ’91, PhD
    2013: Lewis C. Cantley, PhD and Peter K. Sorger, AB ’83, PhD
    2012: Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, and John A. Parrish, MD
    2011: Eric S. Lander, PhD, and Vamsi K. Mootha, MD ’98
    2010: Robert S. Langer Jr., PhD, ScD, and David T. Scadden, MD
    2009: Edward J. Benz Jr., MD ’72, and Robert A. Weinberg, PhD
    2008: Atul A. Gawande, MD ’94, MPH ’99, Tom J. Brady, MD, and John E. Abele
    2007: Peter Libby, MD, and Michael B. Brenner, MD
    2006: Judah M. Folkman, MD ’57, and Robert S. Langer Jr., PhD, ScD
    2005: Edward M. Scolnick, MD ’65, and Todd R. Golub, MD
    2004: George Q. Daley, AB ’82, MD ’91, PhD, David T. Scadden, MD, and Rudolf Jaenisch, MD
    2003: Gary J. Nabel, MD ’79, PhD ’82
    2002: Steven E. Hyman, MD ’80, and Carla J. Shatz, PhD ’76, MPhil
    2001: Eric S. Lander, PhD, and Raju Kucherlapati, MD, PhD

  • Past scholar recipients

    2023: Colby Hyland, MD ’23, and Akash Premkumar, MD ’23
    2022: Moustafa Abdalla, MD ’22
    2021: Troy Amen, MD ’21, MBA ’21
    2020: Selena Shi-Yao Li, AB ’15, MD ’20
    2019: Samantha M. Landino , MD ’19
    2018: Jennifer Bido, MPH ’17, MD ’18
    2017: Irene Y. Zhang, MD ’17
    2016: Derek S. Stenquist, MD ’16
    2015: Shakina Elmore, MD ’14
    2013: Sophia K. McKinley, AB ’06, EdM ’13, MD ’13
    2012: Benedict U. Nwachukwu, MBA ’13, MD ’13
    2011: Dayron Rodriguez, MD ’12, MPH ’12
    2010: Regan Bergmark, MD ’11
    2009: Carolyn Schook, MD ’11
    2008: Theodore Nyame, MD ’09
    2007: Eric Feins, MD ’08
    2006: Sarah Psutka, AB ’03, MD ’07
    2005: Dzifa Kpodzo, MD ’05, MPH ’06
    2004: Elisabeth Tomlinson Tracy, AB ’99, MD ’05
    2003: Coleen Sabatini, MD ’03, MPH ’04
    2002: Jeffrey Edwards, MD ’03
    2001: Melody Hou, MD ’03, MPH ’08