Our Advisors
Daniel Lage, MD
Co-Founder
Dr. Lage is currently a fellow in medical oncology in the Massachusetts General Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute fellowship program at Harvard Medical School. A native of Miami, Florida and a first-generation Cuban-American, he did his undergraduate studies at Harvard College and received an MSc and MBA from the University of Oxford where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School. He then completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital before starting oncology fellowship. He is a member of the Cancer Outcomes Research and Education (CORE) program at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. Dr. Lage has a clinical focus in genitourinary oncology, and is passionate about improving the care provided to patients with advanced cancer, especially older adults and those at the end of life. He also serves on the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Ethics Advisory Committee and leads medical humanities initiatives for the Abigail Adams Institute.
Danilo Petranovich, PhD
Dr. Petranovich is the Director of the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Institute provides supplementary humanistic education to the Harvard intellectual community by exploring questions of deep human concern that cut across the boundaries of academic disciplines. Previously, Dr. Petranovich taught political science at Duke University and Yale University. His scholarly expertise is in nineteenth century European and American political and social thought. He is currently writing a book, contracted with Yale University Press, on nationalism and the North in antebellum America. He is frequently seen in Harvard’s Kirkland House, where he is a dedicated member of the Senior Common Room.
Elizabeth Gaufberg, MD MPH
Dr. Gaufberg is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of Professional and Academic Development at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and a Senior Consultant to the Association of American Medical Colleges FRAHME (Fundamental Role of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education) Initiative. Liz co-founded and co-directs the Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-based Health Professions Education Fellowship. From 2012-2018 Liz served as the Jean and Harvey Picker Founding Director of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Research Institute during which time she developed a community of practice of researchers, educators and advocates dedicated to advancing humanism in healthcare. For the past 18 years, Liz has led the Harvard Medical School Cambridge Integrated Clerkship Developing Physician Course. Her areas of professional interest include exploring assumptions about teaching and learning, developing innovative models of medical education and humanities and arts-based pedagogy.
Kevin Majeres, MD
Dr. Majeres has served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for the past decade, teaching cognitive behavioral therapy to psychiatrists-in-training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He trained in medicine and psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, and completed a fellowship in cognitive behavioral therapy at the Beck Institute in Philadelphia. He maintains a private practice in Harvard Square.
Margaret Chisolm, MD
Dr. Chisolm is Vice Chair for Education and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Medicine, at The Johns Hopkins University. Board-certified in both general psychiatry and addiction medicine, she has 3 decades of clinical experience in these fields. Dr. Chisolm has served as PI or co-investigator on multiple nationally funded research projects, and published over 100 scientific, clinical, and medical education papers on psychiatric disorders and humanistic medical practice, as well as articles (and one book) on the use of social media in medicine and a psychiatric textbook. She has provided mentorship to all levels of trainees, as well as junior faculty in psychiatry, internal medicine, and other fields locally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Chisolm is a member of the Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence and the Director of the Paul McHugh Program for Human Flourishing where she uses the arts and humanities to explore the ‘big questions’ - what it means to be human, to be a physician, and to lead a good life (for doctors and patients) - with medical learners.