Dr. Steven Locke (Course Director)
Mirena Bagur (Associate Course Director)
Steven E. Locke, MD (Course Director) is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an affiliate faculty member in the Division 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 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. He is a research psychiatrist at the Harvard Center for Medical Simulation and in the Division of Clinical Informatics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and a consulting psychiatrist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Locke is past-President of the American Psychosomatic Society and has chaired meeting programs in behavioral medicine, telehealth, and disease management. He is the founder and president of Veritas Health Solutions LLC, a Boston-based behavioral telehealth consulting firm specializing in technology-supported behavioral medicine and disease management. Dr. Locke also has a practice of primary care psychiatry in Wayland, Massachusetts.
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Mirena Bagur (Associate Course Director) offers in-depth experience in creating and leading execution of marketing communications programs for technology-inspired companies. Within the healthcare space, Mirena has served as strategic counselor to a variety of organizations from non-profits and start-ups to multi-million businesses -- Delphi Medical Systems Corporation, the Healthcare Unbound Conference, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, Palomar Medical, and Partners Telemedicine (now Partners Healthcare/Center for Connected Health). She also co-led research on home as an extension of a hospital and adoption of healthcare technologies for remote monitoring of aging Boomers and their parents with the faculty of HST 921.
As a founder of CONTeXO, Mirena provides strategic business and marketing counsel to organizations at the intersection of healthcare and IT. Prior to that, Mirena held a management role as a senior vice president at Weber Shandwick, a leading global communications agency. She spent 15 years in the technology practice collaborating with emerging and enterprise companies and her role ranged from conceiving strategic direction to ensuring flawless execution of marketing and communications campaigns. Mirena was chosen to lead national-level initiatives designed to elevate Weber Shandwick's brand and to increase visibility in new markets (start-ups and e-health segments, boomers' market) resulting in numerous referrals and revenue increase. Mirena also provided strategic counsel to thought-leading organizations, be it within the IT industry (IDC Financial Insights & Giga Information Group) or community-leading organizations (Big Brother Association of Boston).
Mirena serves on the advisory boards of the Health, Life sciences and Robotics clusters of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, www.masstlc.org. She also advises prominent healthcare IT events and has participated in a few as a speaker.
Passionate about innovation in entrepreneurship circles, Mirena has actively participated as a strategic counsel to numerous start-ups ranging from early stage to the IPO phase. She is has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Capital Network, www.thecapitalnetwork.org, a community for entrepreneurs and investors focused on guiding entrepreneurs as they prepare for the funding stage.
Mirena holds a bachelor's degree in economics, international trade and marketing major, from the University of Zagreb/School, Croatia, and has completed strategic business leadership program at Columbia University.
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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
Shinya Oku, MD, PhD Born in Osaka in 1962 and graduated from the School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in 1988. Residency at the Department of Radiology, the University of Tokoyo and received the degree in "Quantitative Analysis of colorectal cancer with FDG-PET" in 2003. Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo from 2004 and Professor at the University of Aizu since 2009.
Current position is the Chief Professor of the Advanced Research Cluster Center for Medicine in the Center for Advanced Information Science and Technology. Research interest include: Medical Imaging, Healthcare Informatics, Standardization of Healthcare Informatics, Community Medicine Alliance, Medicine-Engineering Collaboration, University-Industry Collaboration, Business Modeling in the Field of Medical Healthcare Services
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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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Joanne Chang, Teaching Assistant for HST.921, is an MS candidate in the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Enterprise Program and graduated from Harvard Business School. Joanne worked as a management consultant for the life science industry, and has experience in life sciences investing and business development.