2025 Symposia
Friday, June 13
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center Amphitheater, New Research Building (NRB)
Zirui Song, PhD ’12, MD ’14 (Class of 2010)
Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine, HMS
Internal Medicine Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Daniel Blumenthal, AB ’02, MBA ’11, MD ’11
Lecturer (part-time), Harvard Medical School
Clinical Associate in the Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Chief Quality Officer and Research Officer, Cardiovascular Associates of America
Founder, Novocardia
John E. McDonough, MPA ’90, DrPH
Professor of Practice, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Meredith Rosenthal, PhD ’98
C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Friday, June 13
10:30 a.m. – Noon
Auditorium, HSDM Research and Education Building (REB)
William V. Giannobile, DMSc ’96, PD ’96
Dean, HSDM
Catherine Hayes, DMD, SM ’89, DMSc ’93, PD ’93
Chair of the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, HSDM
Jacqueline Burgette, DMD ’10 (Class of 2008), PhD
Associate Director of Emerging Initiatives in the Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technological Innovation, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Associate Professor in the Department of Dental Public Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine
Former Co-Lead of the Mid-Atlantic Region, White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
Diplomate, American Board of Pediatric Dentistry
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Reunion 2025
Reignite the curiosity you enjoyed as a student, reconnect with your classmates, and rediscover the campus during your Reunion. Registration instructions and event details can be found on your class page.
Dr. Daniel Blumenthal, MD, MBA, is a practicing general cardiologist and the Chief Quality and Research Officer for Cardiovascular Associates of America (CVAUSA). CVAUSA is a comprehensive cardiology practice management organization dedicated to supporting entrepreneurial community cardiologists to revolutionize cardiovascular care and succeed under value-based care (VBC). CVAUSA works with 27 partner cardiovascular groups which employ 600+ cardiovascular specialists at 150+ locations in eight states, and collectively serve more than 1,000,000 unique patients annually.
Dr. Blumenthal previously founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Novocardia, a cardiology-focused management services organization and value-based care enabler of cardiology practices, which merged with CVAUSA in April, 2023. The Novocardia Division of CVAUSA is responsible for developing, testing, and scaling innovative care models and new value-based and risk-based contracting models that improve care quality and efficiency while lowering costs. Before founding Novocardia, Dr. Blumenthal held the roles of Associate Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director at Devoted Health, a Medicare Advantage health plan.
Dr. Blumenthal is also a practicing, board-certified, non-invasive cardiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston and a part-time lecturer at Harvard Medical School. He received his MD and MBA degrees from Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School and trained in internal medicine and cardiology at the MGH.
Dr. Blumenthal is a past recipient of the American Heart Association’s Laennec Young Clinician Award. His previous academic work has focused on innovations in payment model design, quality improvement in cardiology, and leadership development. Dr. Blumenthal has published over 60 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts with his wife, Kim, an Allergist and Epidemiologist, and their three sons.
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