Peter Angelos, MD, PhD
Symposium Panelist
Linda Kohler Anderson Professor of Surgery and Surgical Ethics
Director; MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS, MAMSE, HEC-C is the Linda Kohler Anderson Professor of Surgery and Surgical Ethics; Chief of Endocrine Surgery; and Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Angelos completed his undergraduate degree, medical school, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Boston University. After a General Surgery residency at Northwestern University, he went on to complete fellowships in Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago and in Endocrine Surgery at the University of Michigan. Dr. Angelos has over 300 peer-reviewed publications and has authored or co-authored over 50 book chapters.

He is a former Governor of the American College of Surgeons, member of the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators of the American College of Surgeons, Councilor of the American Board of Surgery, Chair of the Complex Surgical Oncology Board, member of the Board of Directors of the American Thyroid Association, and past President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons.

Michaella Baker, JD, MBA, MPH
Symposium Moderator
Behavioral Health Specialist,
McKinsey & Company; 
2023 FASPE Business Fellow

Michaella Baker is a Behavioral Health Specialist at McKinsey & Company, where she is combining her policy, innovation, and public health expertise by leading teams within the McKinsey Health Institute. She received her JD-MBA at Northwestern, where she focused her time on international human rights and health tech. She was previously a CDC Public Health Law Program Fellow and worked on the General Counsel team at NOCD, a mental health startup. A graduate of Yale College and Yale School of Public Health, she began her career at Global Health Strategies, an NYC-based global health advocacy and policy firm. 

Karla Childers
Symposium Panelist
Head, Bioethics-based Science & Technology Policy,
Office of the Chief Medical Officer, 
Johnson & Johnson 

Karla Childers joined Johnson & Johnson (J&J) in October 2013 in the Office of the Chief Medical Officer where her primary responsibility has been leading and coordinating ethics-based, science and technology policy projects. Her longest running responsibility has been the support and coordination of J&J’s Clinical Trial Data Transparency Initiative, including the management of the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project data sharing collaboration.  

Ms. Childers is the Chair of the J&J Bioethics Committee, which serves as an internal forum providing advice on bioethical questions. She is responsible for the management and conduct of that committee and relevant consultations. She serves as a bioethics subject matter expert for internal and external science and technology policy work and coordinates the internal bioethics educational program sponsored by the Office of the Chief Medical Officer.  

Nathaniel Hibner, PhD
Symposium Panelist
Senior Director of Ethics,
Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA)

Nathaniel Blanton Hibner, PhD is the Senior Director of Ethics at the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), where he plays a pivotal role in shaping the ethical direction of nearly 700 acute care facilities and over 1,600 other care sites across the country. With expertise in Catholic moral tradition and bioethics, Nathaniel conducts research and provides strategic recommendations to help CHA member organizations address complex ethical challenges. In addition to his leadership at CHA, Nathaniel serves as the editor of Health Care Ethics USA.

Nathaniel earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in theology from Boston College and his PhD in health care ethics and moral theology from Saint Louis University.

Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP
Symposium Lecturer and Panelist
Physician and Associate Professor of Health Policy and Economics,
Weill Cornell Medical College;
2012 FASPE Medical Fellow

Dhruv Khullar is a contributing writer at The New Yorker covering medicine, health care, and politics. He is a practicing physician and an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he serves as the director of the Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership. He is also an associate director of the Cornell Health Policy Center. His research, which focusses on value-based care, health disparities, and medical innovation, has been published in JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine. Khullar began his work in journalism in 2013, and has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. He earned his medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine and completed his medical training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also received a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a fellow at the Center for Public Leadership.

Michelle Kramer, MD, MPH
Symposium Panelist
Vice President, Cross Therapeutic Area Delivery Unit Global Development Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Currently the Head of the Cross Therapeutic Area Delivery Unit, Michelle began her career at Johnson & Johnson in 2001 working on late-stage neuroscience programs, transitioning in 2007, to support early development compounds in neuroscience, immunology, and cardiovascular disease. In 2010 she moved to Tokyo, Japan as Vice President, Head of the Clinical Science Division, where she led departments providing critical medical, scientific, and strategic input for clinical research across multiple disease areas, as well as representing Johnson & Johnson in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Mental Health Initiative for several years.

Michelle returned to the United States in 2013 and led US Neuroscience Medical Affairs, returning to Research & Development in 2021 initially as Global Head of Clinical Development for Neuroscience, and moving into her current role in 2023. She has been a member of the Johnson & Johnson Bioethics Committee since 2021.

Michelle earned her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, completed her psychiatry residency and psychopharmacology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center and holds a Master of Public Health from Drexel University.

Eric Larson
Symposium Panelist
Chairman, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Tilia Holdings

Eric Larson, Tilia’s Chairman, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, has spent four decades in the private investment industry and is the founder of three different firms.

• Tilia Holdings – founded in 2017 – invests in companies in the food supply chain positioned at the intersection of Food + Health + Environment.

• Linden Capital Partners – founded in 2001 – is one of the country’s largest (and first) private equity firms focused on the healthcare/life science industry.

• First Chicago Equity Capital – an investment unit Eric helped start within First Chicago Corporation in 1991. The firm invested in corporate carve-outs and made early investments in food, healthcare and life sciences.

Eric started his private equity career in the mid-1980s with First Chicago Venture Capital, now Madison Dearborn Partners. Outside of Tilia, Eric and his wife focus their support on science-related organizations, including the T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, the National Geographic Society, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and the Institute of Design. Eric has an undergraduate degree in Biology + Biochemistry from Harvard College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Jay Malone, MD, PhD, HEC-C
Symposium Panelist
Associate Professor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine,
Washington University School of Medicine;
Medical Director of Ethics, Saint Louis Children’s Hospital;
FASPE Medical Faculty

Jay Malone, MD, PhD, HEC-C, is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Malone leads the ethics program at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, where he is the medical director of ethics and chair of the clinical ethics committee. He earned bachelor’s and medical degrees from the University of Oklahoma, where he also completed pediatric residency and chief residency. He completed his fellowship training in critical care medicine at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. He holds a master’s degree in health care ethics from Creighton University, and earned a PhD in health care ethics from St. Louis University, where he is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Care Ethics. He is a Faculty Member for the FASPE Medical Fellowship.

William F. Parker, MD, PhD
Symposium Panelist
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago; Assistant Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics; 2010 FASPE Medical Fellow

William F. Parker, MD, PhD is an assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences and an assistant director of the MacLean Center at the University of Chicago. He is a pulmonary and critical care physician, clinical medical ethicist, and health services researcher who studies the allocation of scarce medical resources. In addition to co-directing the UChicago Medicine clinical medical ethics consult service, he runs an NIH and Greenwall Foundation-funded quantitative bioethics lab focused on absolute scarcity problems, where demand greatly exceeds supply, and healthcare systems triage patients for treatment using algorithms.

His lab’s work on deceased donor organ allocation policy, life-support tirage under crisis standards of care, and the allocation of novel scarce therapeutic has been published in top clinical journals such as JAMA, AJRCCM, and JACC and Dr. Parker’s normative analysis has been featured in The Hastings Center Report, Health Affairs, USA Today, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. He has been recognized with national young investigator awards from the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Thoracic Society.

Brian Peckrill
Symposium Panelist
Executive Director,
William G. McGowan Charitable Fund

Brian Peckrill is executive director of the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, leading all operations of the Fund. He previously served as the fellows program director, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of this forward-thinking, ethics-focused experience for top MBA students, as well as fostering an active and engaged alumni community of young business leaders as they embark on and manage their careers.

Prior to joining the McGowan Fund, Brian served as vice president of WorldChicago, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization focused on engaging the world in person-to-person exchange-based, capacity building projects. He oversaw all aspects of program planning and business development, designing and executing leadership training programs across the globe, from Chicago to Ukraine, North Macedonia, and Japan.

Outside of the McGowan Fund, Brian has taken on various leadership roles. He serves on Independent Sector’s public policy committee; is an advisory board member of for the Golub Capital Board Fellows Program, and the chair of WorldChicago’s leadership council.

He has a bachelor’s degree in English from Wheaton College, as well as an MPA from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

Victor Roy, MD, PhD
Symposium Panel Moderator
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania;
2015 FASPE Medical Fellow

Victor Roy is a physician, sociologist, and author of Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines. His research investigates the influence of the financial sector in our healthcare system and its impacts on patients. A practicing family physician, he is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania and directs the Health and Political Economy Project, a field catalyst initiative aiming to build a just and inclusive economy for health. He is a FASPE 2015 Medical Fellow. 

Fr. Michael Rozier, SJ, PhD
Symposium Panel Moderator
Department Chair of Health Management and Policy,
Saint Louis University;
2012 FASPE Medical Fellow

Michael Rozier is an associate professor and department chair of Health Management and Policy at Saint Louis University. Rozier received his B.A. in chemistry from Saint Louis University in 2003 and upon graduation, he entered the Jesuits, an order of Roman Catholic priests. During his Jesuit formation, he earned graduate degrees in philosophy from the University of Toronto, in international health from Johns Hopkins University, and in moral theology from Boston College. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 2014 and in 2018, he earned his Ph.D. in Health Management and Policy from University of Michigan. His research focuses on the use of moral rhetoric in health policy, geospatial location’s effect on health-related privacy, and the relationship between moral imagination and social structures.

Noemi Spinazzi, MD, FAAP
Symposium Panelist
Primary Care Physician; Medical Director, The Down Syndrome Clinic, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - Oakland; 2011 FASPE Medical Fellow

Noemi Spinazzi, MD is a primary care physician at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland and an associate professor at the UCSF School of Medicine.  She provides primary care services within the context of a federally qualified health center. She has a special interest in children with complex care needs and developmental disabilities, and she founded a specialized clinic serving patients with Trisomy 21.  She works closely with California Children's Services (CCS) and with the East Bay Special Needs Committee. She is also the director of the developmental and behavioral pediatrics resident rotation at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. Dr. Spinazzi is very involved in medical education, and she is passionate about mentoring the next generation of healthcare providers. Dr Spinazzi has participated in multiple research endeavors focused on developmental disabilities and equitable care. She was recognized by UCSF by being awarded the Chancellor's Diversity Award for Disability Service in 2022. Dr. Spinazzi identifies as an immigrant. Her work with children and families from all over the world motivates her to be an advocate for immigrant rights and immigrant health. She was born and raised in Milan, Italy and moved to the United States when she was 15 years old.

She received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She completed her residency at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, where she was the Chief Resident. She is a 2011 FASPE medical alumna.

Thorsten Wagner
Symposium Lecturer
Executive Director for Academics,
FASPE

Thorsten Wagner is the Executive Director for Academics at FASPE and has been involved with the organization since its beginnings in 2009. He is a German historian, who grew up in Denmark and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and
his graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Technische Universität Berlin, and the Freie Universität Berlin, earning his MA from the TU Berlin in 1998. Living in Berlin for about two decades, Thorsten worked as a research fellow at the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and started teaching at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2010-2019, he held a permanent position as Associate Professor at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad/University of Copenhagen.

Having authored numerous academic publications in the fields of Modern German and European Jewish History, antisemitism, Holocaust studies, cultures of memory, and Israeli history and society, he also worked as the historical consultant for the acclaimed documentary “Germans and Jews”, dealing with contemporary Germany, its relationship to its Nazi past and the reemergence of Jewish life.

Matt Walsh, MHA
Symposium Panelist
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer,
Rush University System for Health

Matt Walsh is executive vice president and chief operating officer at
Rush University System for Health since January 2024. He is
responsible for operations across Rush, including Rush University
Medical Center, Rush Oak Park Hospital, Rush Copley Medical Center
and Rush Medical Group. He also has responsibility for corporate
services including: Quality, IT, HR, Strategy/Communications, Facilities,
Security, Pharmacy, and Lab operations across the system.

In this role, Walsh focuses on achieving key initiatives related to financial strength, quality, equity and employee engagement and advancing RUSH-wide strategies.

Rush has set the nation's standard in health care quality and safety, modeled excellence in clinical leadership both regionally and nationally, and maintained its deep and long-standing commitment to health equity. Rush believes in serving its patients and communities by addressing the root cause of disease through strong partnerships and innovative research. Vizient ranked Rush University Medical Center No. 2 among 107 academic medical centers for quality and accountability in 2023 and has ranked Rush in the top 5 for 10 consecutive years. The medical center has earned a spot on the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll five consecutive years.

Walsh previously served as executive vice president and chief operating officer at Geisinger in Pennsylvania. At Geisinger, Walsh co-led its clinical enterprise of 3,200 providers, 11 hospital campuses and over 250 outpatient clinics and surgery centers. He also led corporate services including IT, facilities, the patient contact center and the transformation office. Prior to that, he spent nearly 20 years with the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan in multiple leadership
roles. 

Walsh earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and his Master of Health Administration degree from the University of Phoenix and is one of Becker’s COOs to Know in 2023 and 2024. Walsh is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago and serves on the Illinois Hospital Association’s PAC Board of Directors.