MassCPR Symposium 2022

Sponsored by Harvard Medical School, the Maxwell Finland Fund, and the Warren Alpert Foundation.

Featured Speakers

  • Opening Remarks

    George Q. Daley
    Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
    Harvard University

  • Keynote

    Peter Marks
    Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)
    Food and Drug Administration
    Facilitating the Development and Availability of COVID-19 Vaccines

  • PANEL SESSION 1: SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination: Initial Success and Future Directions

  • Moderators

    Galit Alter
    Vice President of Immunology, Moderna

    Dan Barouch
    Director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

  • Panelists

    Therapeutics
    Jonathan Li
    Associate Professor of Medicine
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital

    Critical issues for kids
    Lael Yonker
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    Massachusetts General Hospital

    Long COVID
    Bruce Levy
    Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital

    What have we learned/or not about pandemics
    Lindsey Baden
    Professor of Medicine
    Brigham and Women’s Hospital

  • Session III: Preparing for SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Other Emerging Pathogens

  • Moderators

    Amy Barczak
    Assistant Professor of Medicine
    Massachusetts General Hospital

    Jeremy Luban
    Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology
    UMass Medical School

  • Panelists

    Domestic and international monitoring of variants,
    Katherine Siddle
    Research Scientist
    Broad Institute

    Limits of SARS-CoV-2 evolution
    Jonathan Abraham
    Assistant Professor of Microbiology
    Harvard Medical School

    Monkeypox and other viruses
    John Connor
    Associate Professor of Microbiology
    Boston University

    Pathogens to focus on for the future,
    Jacob Lemieux
    Assistant Professor of Medicine
    Massachusetts General Hospital

  • Closing Remarks

    Arlene Sharpe
    George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology
    Harvard Medical School

    Bruce Walker
    Director
    Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard