Invited speakers

Anne Occhipinti is the Assistant Dean for Professional Education at the Harvard Chan School.   In addition to overseeing the administration of the MPH program at Harvard Chan, Anne conducts leadership development trainings for hundreds of students.  She also coaches for the Harvard Administrative Fellowship program and the Public Health Leadership Concentration.  Anne’s experience in higher education has included a broad range of areas including: teaching, training, student affairs, residence life, counseling, crisis management and international education. Prior to her time at Harvard, Anne enjoyed some time managing the student affairs division at New York University in Florence, Italy.  Anne has worked for several universities, language schools, a mental health agency and her own intercultural consulting company.  This experience enables her to focus leadership training for a wide variety of settings whether working with physicians or undergrads. Anne holds a MA in Counseling Psychology from Boston College and a BA from Colgate University.   In addition, she was awarded a Resident Fellowship from the Harvard University Office of Diversity and Inclusion.  Outside of her professional life, Anne is a big fan of yoga, the performing arts, her kids and all things Italian.

Lecture topic: “Leading with Empathy“.
 
Eric Wasylenko is a clinical ethicist and a retired palliative care physician.  He has held senior leadership and advisory roles for a number of health care organizations and government agencies.  He has helped lead the creation of a number of novel clinical processes and health facilities. 
Eric has recently completed an extended term as Chair of the Public Health Ethics Consultative Group of the Public Health Agency of Canada.  He currently is a member of the Alberta Advisory Committee on Immunizations for Alberta Health.  He has experience in complex priority setting activities, provincial and national issues where ethics and policy intersect and in helping address ethics considerations in pandemic outbreaks. Eric has an extensive resume of speaking engagements for local, national and international audiences on end of life, public health and ethics topics.  He has current Clinical Faculty appointments as Clinical Associate Professor Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, and as Associate Clinical Professor, John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta.
 
Lecture topic: “A call from an ethics lens for research, resource allocation decisions and clinical preparation of learners that assures an increased focus on internationalism/globalism and equity across borders“.
Dr. Ramsey is an Editorial Board Member at the Harvard Public Health Review, the CEO of the NYC Daily Post and a contributing medical writer for the Los Angeles Tribune. 
He is a world-renowned lecturer, an entrepreneur and the author of more than 100 medical papers, articles, reports and manuscripts. 
Prior to his current roles, he served as the Alt-Resident Representative to the Board of Directors at the NY State Academy of Family Physicians and a Board Member of its Operations Commission as well as its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Taskforce. He was also a research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School as well as a college professor at various institutions including Upper Iowa University, Nunez and Delgado community Colleges. 
Dr. Ramsey received his MD (Doctor of Medicine) from Avalon University School of Medicine. He did his undergraduate education in biology at the City College of New York and his basic sciences from Cairo University School of Medicine.
 
Lecture topic: “The opioid crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic“.