Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD, is a clinical health psychologist, the David T. and Joanne V. Rovee Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and associate chief for research in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is the founding director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research (CHOIR) and director of the Office of Research Careers at Mass General Brigham’s Center for Academic Development and Enrichment. CHOIR integrates research, education, and community engagement to improve health and well-being through interdisciplinary collaborations. Dr. Vranceanu’s research focuses on improving the lives of older adults, individuals with serious illness, and their caregivers, emphasizing dementia care, chronic pain, and dyadic interventions. Using the NIH Stage Model and Science of Behavior Change principles, she co-develops, tests and implements behavioral, mind-body, and digital interventions. She co-leads the MGH Roybal Center for Dyadic Interventions in Dementia, the MGH T32 Bridge the Gap, the R25 Dementia Palliative Care Clinical Trials, the Research and Education Core of the MGH Dementia RCMAR, and the Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research (CHOIR) Lifespan Health Track of the MGH Clinical Psychology Internship.

Philip Wang, MD, DrPH, is a professor of the practice of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He also directs the Learning Health Systems Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which helps systems collect and integrate digital and real-world data from electronic health records (EHRs) and administrative claims, to continuously improve access, quality, and outcomes. Dr. Wang completed his undergraduate degree in biochemistry, medical school, masters and doctoral degrees in epidemiology, as well as psychiatry residency and chief residency, all at Harvard University. He was a faculty member at HMS and BWH until 2006, when he went to serve as deputy director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). He has also served as the deputy medical director and director of research for the American Psychiatric Association (APA) where he helped develop the APA’s national quality reporting registry (PsychPRO) and oversaw the recent text revision of DSM. He is currently PI of an NIMH UG3 grant to develop and test clinical decision support tools to personalize treatment-resistant depression care. He has also been awarded research grants from CMS, NIDA, AHRQ, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has served on several NIH Study Sections, as well as the FDA Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, FDA Medical Devices Advisory Committee, and FDA Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee.

Elizabeth (Betsy) White, APRN, PhD, is an assistant professor of health services, policy, and practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Her research agenda broadly focuses on understanding how medically-complex older adults, including people living with dementia and people living in nursing homes, receive healthcare, and how factors affecting the nursing and primary care workforces impact care quality and health outcomes for this population. She has assisted in the construction of large data systems of nursing home electronic health records to examine various aspects of COVID-19 management, treatment, and outcomes among nursing home residents and staff during the pandemic, and to support observational and interventional research in nursing homes more broadly. Dr. White is a board-certified adult geriatric primary care nurse practitioner and practices in the Brown Medicine Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care Medicine.