Doctors Dinner

Notre Dame Business Council Doctors Dinner

Est. October 2016

Purpose: A forum for ND health profession leaders to discuss health care delivery, equity, justice, compassion, and policy.

John G. Meara, MD, DMD, MBA
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Director, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School; Plastic Surgeon-in-Chief, Boston Children’s Hospital

James J. O’Connell, MD
President, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism

Blaise Aguirre, MD
Founding Medical Director, 3East DBT Continuum; The Michael Hollander, Ph.D., Endowed Director; Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry

Didi Garcia-Banigan, MD, MPH, FACE, CHES
Chair, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism; Co-Director, Center for Sexual and Reproductive Health; Co-Director, Transgender Health Program; Clinical Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

James E. Muller, MD
Chief Medical Officer, SpectraWAVE, Inc.;  Cardiologist, Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Nobel Laureate for co-founding International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War

Ailis Tweed-Kent, MD
CEO Cocoon Biotech;  Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

David H. Barlow Ph.D, ABPP
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry Emeritus; Founder, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University

Geoffrey Pechinsky, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Lynn Community Health Center

Nada Milosavljevic MD, JD 
Founding Medical Director, School-Based Integrative Health Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Author, Holistic Health for Adolescents.

Alexander Vuckovic, MD
Medical Director, the Pavilion at McLean Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (PT), Harvard Medical School
President and Founder, Gentelon, Inc

John O. Pastore, MD, FACC
Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine;
Former Governor for Massachusetts, the American College of Cardiology;
Former International Secretary, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Nobel Prize for Peace, 1985);
Overseas Fellow, the Royal Society of Medicine (UK);
Founder, Physicians Medical Legal Consulting of Boston, LLC

Dinner Guests

DateNameTitle
mm/dd/yyyyRay OffenheiserWilliam J. Pulte Director; Pulte Institute for Global Development; Professor of the Practice; Keough School of Global Affairs; University of Notre Dame; Former CEO Oxfam America
mm/dd/yyyyBernard Nahlen MDDirector, Eck Institute for Global Health; Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame; former U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI)