了解我们的团队

IPEP's leadership team, associate faculty, and collaborators are a talented group of experts in the field of medical communication, education, and bioethics. These individuals offer the blend of knowledge and experience necessary to the education of healthcare practitioners, one that integrates the patient experience, family perspective, empathy, the everyday ethics of clinical practice.

Robert Truog, MD, MA, FCCM
Co-founder of IPEP, Executive Director

Stephen D. Brown, MD
Director

Donna Luff, PhD
Associate Director

David M. Browning
MSW, LICSW
Co-founder of IPEP, Senior Scholar Emeritus

Sigall K. Bell, MD
Director of Quality and Safety Initiatives

Elizabeth A. Rider, MSW, MD, FAAP
Clinician and Content Expert Faculty, Director of Academic Programs

Megan Barrett, MPH
Administrative Director

Sylvia Lewinstein, MPA
Program Administrative Manager

Anderson Lamberto
Workshop and Rounds Coordinator

Clinician and Content Expert Faculty

IPEP's course faculty is comprised of a multidisciplinary and distinguished group of expert clinicians that represent a wide variety of specialty areas. Both their individual and collective input into the pedagogy and curriculum development of our courses offers participants a world class and unparalleled learning experience.

Stephen A. Brown, MD
Radiology and Ethics

Michael Callahan, MD
(profile coming soon)
放射科

Robert Graham, MD
危重病医学科

Anne Hansen, MD
Neonatal Intensive Care

Christine Rachwal, RN
Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care Nursing

Elizabeth Rider, MD, MSW, FAAP
Pediatrics

David Urion, MD
神经内科

Family Faculty

Our cadre of family faculty bring their first hand experience and perspectives on the patient-family-clinician dynamic. This highly respected, experienced, and professional team add their invaluable input and teaching that elevates the learning experience of our course participants.

Meg Comeau, MHA
Catalyst Center, Boston University School of Public Health

Suzanne Morse Fortier, LICSW
Psychotherapist, Private Practice

Pam Varrin, PhD*
Cotting School

Ellen Waddill, MEd
The Professional Center for Child Development

Erin Ward, MsEd, CAS
TrachCare, Inc.

*Pam Varrin acts as one of IPEP's psychosocial faculty in addition to her role as a family faculty member