The Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation

LEADERSHIP

Stepping Strong Medical Director

Mitchel B. Harris, MD, is medical director of The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). His overarching goal for the center is to bring together individual scientists and clinicians with a common interest in trauma to help streamline research and encourage multi-institutional collaborations. Until fall of 2016, Harris served as the chief of Orthopaedic Trauma Services at BWH, where he was awarded the Stepping Strong Distinguished Chair of Orthopedic Surgery. Currently, he is a professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School, chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the administrative chief of Orthopedic Trauma for Partners HealthCare System. He was a recipient of the International Volvo Award for Low Back Pain Research, has received three “Teacher of the Year” awards, and received the Hippocrates Society’s Humanitarian Award (2015) from the Brigham and Women’s Physician Organization.

Stepping Strong Program Director

Nish Acharya is the program director of The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation. Acharya brings a wealth of experience to his role, having served as CEO of Equal Innovation Consulting, a firm that consults with some of the world’s leading universities, governments, foundations and companies to assist them with innovation, entrepreneurship, and globalization strategies; as senior fellow with the Center for American Progress; and as co-chair of the NIH National Centers for Accelerated Innovation Review. Previously, Acharya was appointed by President Obama as the director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and senior advisor to the Secretary of Commerce, where he led the President’s efforts to nurture economic growth through innovation, entrepreneurship, and commercialization.

Stepping Strong Medical Executive Committee
The Medical Executive Committee consists of plastic and orthopaedic surgeons, bioengineers, and basic scientists. The committee advises the center on scientific and medical direction, utility of current initiatives, prioritization of future grant making areas, and selection of Innovator Award recipients. In addition, committee members provide strategic advice to the Stepping Strong Advisory Board members and Stepping Strong-affiliated faculty.

Medical Executive Committee Members
Mitchel Harris, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Natalie Artzi, PhD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MIT, Broad Institute
Matthew Carty, MD: Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Harvard Medical School
David Crandell, MD: Harvard Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital
George Dyer, MD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Omid Farokhzad, MD, MBA: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Eric Goralnick, MD, MS: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Jeff Karp, PhD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Broad Institute, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
James Lederer, PhD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Bohdan Pomahac, MD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Olivier Pourquie, PhD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Christian Sampson, MD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Indranil Sinha, MD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Mike Weaver, MD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Jack Wixted, MD: Beth Israel Deaconess, Harvard Medical School;

Stepping Strong Advisory Board
The Stepping Strong Advisory Board consists of distinguished business leaders and philanthropists in the Greater Boston area. The board provides strategic guidance on Stepping Strong programming, fundraising strategies, and collaboration with the medical community at BWH and beyond. Advisory members seek to connect Stepping Strong to leading corporations, philanthropies, and academic centers to which they are affiliated.

For information on The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation, please contact Kristin Garrity at kgarrity1@bwh.harvard.edu or 617-424-4325.