Dr. Steven Locke (Course Director)
Steven E. Locke, MD (Course Director) is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Locke teaches graduate students from MIT and Harvard how to design innovative solutions to public health problems using information technology. He serves on the scientific advisory council of the Harvard Center for Public Health Preparedness, the Surge Capacity and Risk Communication Workgroups of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Advisory Committee, and founded the American Psychosomatic Society's (APS) Task Force on the Biopsychosocial Impact of Terrorism and Disasters during his term as president of APS in 2004. Dr. Locke received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Following a residency in psychiatry at McLean Hospital, he completed post-graduate fellowships in consultation-liaison psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences research at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Locke also has a practice of primary care psychiatry in Wayland, Massachusetts where he chairs the Pandemic Flu Task Force for the Board of Health.He is a principal in Veritas Health Solutions, a behavioral telehealth consulting group that specializes in technologies that facilitate the integration of behavioral health into primary care and chronic disease management. His clients have included major disease management vendors, national health plans, managed behavioral health care companies, and technology companies.
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Bryan Bergeron, MD is president of Archetype Technologies, Inc. (www.ArchetypeTech.com), and specializes in the development of new technologies for high-tech startups. He has been involved in a variety of technology ventures, ranging from voice recognition-based medical record systems, clinical data warehouses, and patient simulators/simulations, to designing and developing AI systems for the military. He is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a graduate of the medical informatics postdoctoral fellowship program at Harvard/Brigham & Women's.Back to top
Daniel Z. Sands, MD, MPH, is director of IBSG Healthcare and Cisco's director of medical informatics. He brings solid industry knowledge and broad experience to these roles, where he provides both internal and external health IT leadership and helps partners with business and clinical transformation using IT.Prior to joining Cisco, Sands was vice president and chief medical officer of Zix Corporation, where he helped the company become a leader in e-prescribing. Before that, he was clinical systems integration architect at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he developed and implemented numerous systems to improve clinical care delivery and patient engagement.
Sands earned his baccalaureate at Brown University, medical degree at Ohio State University, and a master's degree at Harvard School of Public Health. He did residency training at Boston City Hospital and an informatics fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and maintains a primary care practice in which he makes extensive use of health information technology.
Sands is the recipient of numerous health IT awards, sits on the board of the American Medical Informatics Association, and has been elected to fellowship in both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics.
Daniel Z. Sands MD, MPH
Director of Healthcare, Internet Business Solutions Group
Director of Medical Informatics, Cisco
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Julie Yoo, Assistant Course Director of HST.921, is an MS/MBA candidate in the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Enterprise Program. Her academic and professional work focuses on the innovative use of software to address the unique challenges of the life sciences and biomedical industries. Julie spent several years at various startups in the enterprise software space in both technical- and sales- oriented roles. She currently consults for local startup companies at the intersection of software and life sciences, and conducts research at the Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics.
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