The finalists include an internal candidate, a New York Times best seller, and a Harvard Ph.D.
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- Dr. David McManus: McManus is a UMass Chan professor and the chair of its Department of Medicine at the T.H. Chan School of Medicine. He is responsible for launching the university’s AI Assurance Lab and is the founding director of the school’s Program in Digital Medicine. He graduated from UMass Chan with his master’s and medical degrees.
- Dr. Steven Goldstein: Goldstein is the vice chancellor of health affairs at the University of California, Irvine, where he helped increase the institution’s annual revenue from $1.8 billion to $5.5 billion in seven years. He has more than 30 years of experience as a physician-scientist and administrator. Goldstein earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brandeis University in Waltham and graduated with his medical degree and Ph.D. from Harvard University in Cambridge.
- Dr. Frances Jensen: Jensen works at the University of Pennsylvania, serving as a professor of neurology and co-director of Penn Medicine Translational Neuroscience Center. She has written more than 175 manuscripts on her research and is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Teenage Brain” published in 2016. She graduated with her bachelor’s degree from Smith College in Northampton and her medical degree from Cornell University in New York.
