Elizabeth Gaufberg, MD, MPH, Founding Director, CHA Center for Professional and Academic Development; Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Elizabeth Gaufberg, MD, MPH is the Founding Director of the CHA Center for Professional and Academic Development, an Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and a Senior Consultant to the Association of American Medical Colleges FRAHME (Fundamental Role of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education) Initiative. She founded and co-directs the Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-based Health Professions Education Fellowship. From 2012-2018, Liz served as the Jean and Harvey Picker Director of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Research Institute during which she developed a national community of practice of researchers, educators, and advocates dedicated to advancing humanism in healthcare. The CHA Gold Innovation Fellowship and CEO CLER program are fruits of CHA's partnership with the Gold Foundation. For the past two decades, Liz has led the Harvard Medical School Cambridge Integrated Clerkship Developing Physician Course. Her areas of professional interest include exploring assumptions about teaching and learning, and developing innovative models of medical education, including longitudinal integrated clerkships and humanities and arts-based pedagogy.

David Bor, MD, Emeritus Chief of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance; Professor, Harvard Medical School

Dr. David Bor is the Emeritus Chief of Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bor has dedicated his career to helping develop Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) as a model, academic, public healthcare institution. During over forty years at CHA, he practiced as a community-engaged clinician and infectious disease consultant. His leadership roles have included Director of CHA's Internal Medical Residency Program, Director of the Cambridge Health of the City Program, Chief of Infectious Diseases, Chief of the Department of Internal Medicine, Chief Academic Officer and Trustee. He contributed to articulating CHA’s mission and vision and guiding its evolution to an award-winning, socially accountable public authority and a major teaching affiliate of Harvard’s Medical School, and Schools of Dental Medicine and Public Health. He has promoted academics that are aligned with CHA’s mission, including innovative medical education and health policy research. Dr. Bor has recruited and mentored over one hundred faculty members and scores of future health professionals.

Meghan Horan, MPH, Manager, Center for Professional and Academic Development

Meghan Horan is the Manager of the Cambridge Health Alliance Center for Professional and Academic Development and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Research Institute. Meghan is an avid public health and academic professional who recently joined Cambridge Health Alliance from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute where she served as a program manager for a cancer research laboratory. She graduated from Colby-Sawyer College with a BA in biology and the University of New Hampshire with an MPH. Previously, Meghan was the Education & Outreach Manager for the UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, an academic research center at UCLA where she provided professional career development to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. She has also worked for non-profit organizations including the New Hampshire Public Health Association and the New Hampshire Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health.

Maren Batalden, MD, MPH, Director, CHA-Gold Innovation Fellowship Program, CHA Chief Quality Officer

Maren Batalden is the Chief Quality Officer at the Cambridge Health Alliance.  She has been at the Cambridge Health Alliance since 2004, working clinically as a general internist in the hospitalist program and providing leadership in a variety of roles related to medical education and organizational quality and safety.  Prior to becoming the Chief Quality Officer in 2022, she served as the Associate Chief Quality Officer with a focus on hospital quality and safety; she also served as the Senior Medical Director for Medical Management in the institution's population health management structure.  Once a high school English teacher, she has a longstanding commitment to education.  She created and continues to lead an internal mid-career fellowship in quality and safety that has supported the development of five cohorts of multidisciplinary health professional learners at CHA.  She serves as core faculty in a Harvard Medical School-sponsored master’s degree in quality and safety.  She is proud to be at the Cambridge Health Alliance with a large portfolio of primary care and behavioral health services and a strong identity as a safety net institution with deep connections and a history of innovation to advance equitable health outcomes in the seven geographic communities it serves.  She is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed an internship and residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.  Prior to medical school, she also earned an MPH at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Sandra DeJong, MD, MSc, Senior Consultant, Mentoring and Provider Orientation; Senior Consultant, Department of Psychiatry, Associate Professor, Part time, Harvard Medical School

Dr. DeJong is a child psychiatrist and national leader in education and training in psychiatry. Since 2004, she has worked as a clinician-educator at CHA, where she served as Child/Adolescent Psychiatry Training Director and Interim Division Chief. She is Past President of the Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT), past editor of the Child Psychiatry Residency In-Training Examination (PRITE) and current Chair of the PRITE Commission; and member of ACGME’s Child Psychiatry and General Psychiatry Milestones workgroups. She currently serves as Secretary of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), a Director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a co-investigator on the Manton Family Foundation Grant to promote youth mental health in undergraduate medical education. She has served as mentor to CHA faculty members and psychiatrists nationally through mentoring programs at AADPRT, APA and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Her academic interests and scholarly work are in curriculum development and professionalism.