Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business SchoolJohns Hopkins, Medical Mistakes, Organization, Organizational Change, Resilience, Risk Management, Uncertainty
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, PhD, is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Business and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Her research explores how organizations and their members cope with uncertainty and unexpected surprises, and how organizations can be designed to be more reliable and resilient. She is currently investigating these issues in healthcare as well as in wild-land firefighting, oil and gas exploration, and other dynamic high-risk industries. Her 2019 book, Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine, looks at how the health care industry has responded to medical errors over the last 20 years.
Assistant professor family medicine
University of WashingtonInspiration, Lung Cancer, Resilience
Morhaf Al Achkar is a family medicine physician at UW Medicine who has been living with stage 4 lung cancer since 2016. Like many with the disease, he has a genetic type of lung cancer. He is an amazing advocate on resilience. He gathered 40 stories of inspiration that were published in the book, 鈥淩oads to Meaning and Resilience with Cancer.鈥 Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths. In 2019, alone, it is expected that 228,150 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer, and more than 142,670 will die from it, according to the American Cancer Society. While a significant proportion of patients with lung cancer are diagnosed at advanced stages and have a survival rate of a few months, there are glimmers of hope. Al Achkar has a type of lung cancer has responded to treatment with targeted therapy in the form of pills he takes everyday. As a qualitative researcher, Al Achkar knew stage 4 lung cancer was a novel area of research. He said the need for such work is enormous as the experience of people with advanced lung cancer has been associated with stigma and blame. He wanted to break that cycle and help anyone dealing with a serious illness as well as inspire those he describes 鈥渨ith the gift of health.鈥
Disaster, Epidemiology, Outbreak Investigation, Resilience
Jennifer Horney is Professor and Founding Director of the Program in Epidemiology and Core Faculty at the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on measuring the health impacts of disasters, as well as the linkages between disaster planning and household actions related to preparedness, response, and recovery. Dr. Horney received her Ph.D. and MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her research focused on the role of social factors in decision making during disasters. She has served on a number of national committees and is currently a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Center for Preparedness and Response, a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Planning Committee on Exploring Best Practices in Integration of Public Health and Human Services Service Delivery and Assessment Following Large Scale Disasters, and a member of the Publications Board of the American Public Health Association. She has led interdisciplinary research projects funded by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Academies of Sciences, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal, state, and local agencies. Dr. Horney was a member of a team of public health practitioners who responded to Hurricanes Isabel, Charley, Katrina, Wilma, Irene, and Harvey where she conducted rapid assessments of disaster impact on the public health of individuals and communities. She has also provided technical assistance to public health agencies globally around disasters, emerging infectious disease outbreaks, and pandemic influenza planning and response.
Professor & Director of the Palo Alto University Trauma Program and Risk and Resilience Lab
Palo Alto UniversityAging, Resilience, Stress, Suicide, Trauma, Violence
Lisa M. Brown, Ph.D., ABPP is a tenured Professor, licensed clinical psychologist and director of the Trauma Program and the Risk and Resilience Research Lab at Palo Alto University. Dr. Brown specializes in geropsychology, which is the application of psychological knowledge and methods to understanding and helping older persons and their families maintain well-being, overcome problems and achieve maximum potential during later life. Her clinical and research focus is on trauma and resilience, global mental health, aging, and vulnerable populations. As a researcher, she is actively involved in developing and evaluating mental health programs used nationally and internationally, crafting recommendations aimed at protecting individuals and communities during catastrophic events, facilitating participation of key stakeholders, and improving access to resources and services. Dr. Brown鈥檚 current funded research is focused on developing a suicide assessment and treatment educational program for students at the Navajo Technical College and the development and evaluation of trauma and peace building interventions to reduce the likelihood of further escalation of conflict in Central African Republic. From 2007 to 2014, Dr. Brown served as the Assistant Clinical Director of Disaster Behavioral Health Services, Florida Department of Health where she helped write the state disaster behavioral health response plan, develop regional disaster behavioral health teams, and conduct program evaluations of SAMHSA and FEMA crisis counseling programs. From 2008 to 2011, Dr. Brown was appointed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary to the Disaster Mental Health Subcommittee of the National Biodefense Science Board Federal Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services where she contributed to the development of a national behavioral health response to disasters, terrorism, and pandemics. Her research experience and collaborative relationships with first responder groups and long-term care organizations led to the development of the 2nd edition of the Psychological First Aid Field Guide for Nursing Home Residents. Dr. Brown is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association Division 20, Gerontological Society of America, and a Senior Fellow of the Palo Alto University Institute of Global Mental Health. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Specialist awards with the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica (2014) and with Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand (2015).
Cyber, Cybersecurity, Resilience, Supply chain security
Wen Masters drives MITRE鈥檚 corporate cybersecurity strategy. She oversees MITRE鈥檚 innovation centers in cybersecurity, leading a team of hundreds of professionals solving the country鈥檚 toughest cyber challenges. She leads MITRE's effort to arm the worldwide community of cyber defenders, giving them vital information to thwart network intruders, build resiliency against future attacks, and develop assurance to overcome possible vulnerabilities. Together, we are working to secure the nation鈥檚 critical cyber infrastructure and protect American intellectual property from cyber theft by foreign adversaries. Masters partners with MITRE鈥檚 federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs), including the National Cybersecurity FFRDC, extending our impact through industry using platforms such as the MITRE ATT&CK庐 framework and MITRE Engage. She also collaborates with the MITRE Accelerator and MITRE Engenuity, a foundation for public good, to drive success of industry-facing cyber initiatives, such as the Center for Threat Informed Defense. Before joining MITRE in 2021, Masters was deputy director of research at Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), and co-lead of the Commission on Research Next, developing a roadmap and comprehensive strategy for Georgia Tech鈥檚 research enterprise. She served as director of the Information and Cyber Sciences Directorate at GTRI, and as a principal research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech. Masters spent more than a decade in the Senior Executive Service at the Office of Naval Research. There, she led the Navy鈥檚 Integrated Science and Technology portfolio in Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. The Navy awarded Masters its Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, Superior Civilian Service Medal, and Meritorious Civilian Service Medal. She also served on the Army Science Board and the National Academy of Sciences Naval Studies Board. Prior to her civilian government service, Masters worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, where she was responsible for orbit determination for NASA鈥檚 deep space exploration missions, including Magellan, Galileo, and Cassini. Master鈥檚 was a member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, where she served as vice chair for the SIAM Imaging Science Activity Group and the Association for Women in Mathematics. She has published several articles in technical journals and conference proceedings, and edited a book, Mathematical Modeling in Optical Science.
Dean, College of Design; Professor, Planning, Public Policy and Management; Associated Faculty, History of Art and Architecture and Landscape Architecture
University of OregonClimate Change, COP27, Resilience, Unesco, Watersheds
Adrian Parr served as a UNESCO Water Chair from 2013-2021. Her 2016 documentary, 鈥淭he Intimate Realities of Water,鈥 won more than a dozen awards, including Best Documentary at the 2016 United International Independent Film Festival. She curated an extensive exhibition on Watershed Urbanism as part of the 2021 European Cultural Center's Venice Architecture Biennale. Parr has published ten books, the most recent, Earthlings: Imaginative Encounters with the Natural World is a transdisciplinary exploration of the myriad ways in which climate change and environmental degradation impacts all species on earth. The is the coordinator of the recently formed UNESCO international research network: UNITWIN on water and resilient human settlements.
Attending physician in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Children鈥檚 Hospital of Philadelphia, Founder & Program Director of the Center for Parent and Teen Communication
Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaParenting, Resilience, self-care, Teens, Trauma, Youth homelessness
, MD, MSEd, is a renowned expert in adolescent medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) where he is the Founder & Program Director of the , emphasizing the importance of building resilience in youth. His approach helps adolescents develop healthy coping skills through a range of empowering strategies in today’s digitally-oriented world. He appears regularly in national, local and online media to comment on hot topics impacting teens and their parents such as stress management, effective parenting and parent self-care, youth homelessness, resilience, trauma and more.
Ginsburg is also a Professor of Pediatrics at CHOP and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. His focus is on social adolescent medicine — with special attention to recognizing and preventing unique stressors impacting the emotional and physical well-being of developing teens today.
Additionally, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published his seven parenting books including, Congrats – You’re Having a Teen: Strengthen Your Family and Raise a Good Person, Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love with Expectations and Protection with Trust, Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings, and Letting Go with Love and Confidence. He is also the author of Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development, a comprehensive multimedia toolkit published by the AAP.Ginsburg lectures widely to national and international parent and professional audiences. He works closely with Covenant House International, The US Military and The Boys and Girls Club of America to deepen the role of resilience-building strategies in their programming. Learn more about his research