Our teams are made up of doctors, nurses, mental health professionals, patient advocates, social scientists, health services researchers, and communications specialists. We work to spread the adoption of open notes, explore the effects, and to develop new approaches to fully transparent care. Our goal is to make open notes a truly meaningful standard of care.
Executive Director
Director of Patient Safety and Discovery
Jan Walker, RN, MBA & Tom Delbanco, MD
Co-Founders
Co-Leader, Macy/Schmeidler Medical Student OpenNotes Educational Initiative at Harvard Medical School
Communications & Patient Initiatives Director
Senior Project Manager
Biostatistician and Statistical Programmer
Senior Project Manager
Project Strategist
Chethan Sarabu, FAAP, FAMIA, MD
AI & Informatics Strategist
Collaborators
OpenNotes works closely with a broad variety of patients, families, clinicians, and researchers in the U.S. and around the world.
Anshu Abhat, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Division of Internal Medicine, Harbor-UCLA
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Paul J. Barr PhD, MSc PH, BSc
Associate Professor, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Rosie Bartel
Patient advocate and collaborator
Charlotte Blease, PhD
Keane OpenNotes Scholar, 2019-2022
Fabienne Bourgeois, MD
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital
Lisa Danielpour
Healthcare Technology, Disabilities, Patient/Family Advocate and Speaker
Vadim Dukhanin, MD, MHS
Research Associate, Department of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Leonor Fernández, MD
Director, Patient Engagement, Healthcare Associates.
Member, Beth Israel Lahey Health Diversion, Equity & Inclusion Council
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Priya Gill, MSc, BA
Behavioral Science Consultant
Maria Hägglund, PhD
Keane OpenNotes Scholar, 2019-2020
Shoshana J. Herzig, MD, MPH
Director of Hospital Medicine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Robin T. Higashi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Gila R. Kriegel, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Chair, Quality Improvement, Healthcare Associates, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Steven Lane, MD
Chief Medical Officer, HealthGorilla
Suzanne Leveille, RN, PhD
Investigator
CT Lin, MD, FAMIA
Chief Medical Information Officer, UCHealth.
Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Betsy Lowe
Patient & Family Advisor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Scott MacDonald, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer, UC Davis Health
Deven McGraw
Lead, Data Stewardship and Data Governance, Ciitizen
Former Deputy Director Health Information Privacy, HHS Office for Civil Rights
Jody Naimark, MD
Family Physician, Winchester Physician Associates, Lahey Health
Long Ngo, PhD
Biostatistician
Stephen F. O’Neill, LICSW, BCD, JD
Mental Health Liaison
S. Trent Rosenbloom, MD MPH
Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs & Professor of Biomedical Informatics Director, My Health at Vanderbilt Patient Portal
John Santa, MD, MPH
Retired Internist and Health Administrator
Bryan Steitz, PhD
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
Eric J. Thomas, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center Houston
Jennifer L. Wolff, PhD
Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor of Health Policy & Management.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Advisory Board
The members of our Advisory Board have decades of experience in patient care, health information technology, and advocacy.
Eric Buehrens
Consultant and senior advisor to healthcare and higher education, and Instructor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH
Dr. Cooper is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and a member of President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). She is an internationally renowned general internist whose research has focused on patient-centered strategies for improving outcomes and overcoming racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.
Dave deBronkart, e-Patient Dave
Known on the internet as “e-Patient Dave” (empowered, engaged, equipped, enabled), brings to OpenNotes the insights of one of the world’s leading advocates for patient engagement, with a particular focus on access to personal health data.
Alex Drane
Co-founder and CEO of Rebel Health and ARCHANGELS and co-founded and led the Eliza Corporation (acquired by HMS Holdings Corp: HMSY).
James A. Guest, JD
Lawyer, consumer advocate, and politician. From 2001 to 2014, Guest was the president and chief executive officer of Consumer Reports.
John D. Halamka, MD, MS
Internationally recognized for his numerous contributions to health information technology. An emergency physician by training, Dr. Halamka spent over 20 years at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he introduced one of the first patient portals in the country.
Jeffrey Rayport, PhD
Award-winning educator at Harvard Business School. He teaches entrepreneurial techniques that include strategic applications of digital, social, and mobile media, and strategies to deepen consumer engagement and competing in a service economy.
Mark Wietecha
President and CEO of Children’s Hospital Association (CHA), based in Washington, DC, representing over 200 children’s hospitals and major pediatric programs with a mission to improve child health through innovation in care, education and research.