The CATCH Team

Meet the members of the Center for Assessment Technology & Continuous Health (CATCH) at Massachusetts General Hospital.

CATCH Team

Dennis Ausiello, MD

• CATCH Co-Founder and Director
• Jackson Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Physician in Chief (Emeritus), Department of Medicine, Mass General
• Director, Pfizer

Stanley Shaw, MD

• CATCH Faculty, Co-Founder & Co-Director
• Co-Director, Chemical Biology, Mass General Center for Systems Biology
• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Associate Member, Broad Institute, Harvard & MIT

Michael Cima, PhD

• CATCH Faculty 
• David H. Koch Professor of Engineering, MIT
• Faculty Director of the Lemelson-MIT Program
• Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

J. Benjamin Crocker, MD

• CATCH Faculty
• Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Medical Director, Ambulatory Practice of the Future, Mass General

G. William Dec, MD

• CATCH Faculty
• Roman Desanctis Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Chief (Emeritus), Division of Cardiology, Mass General

David Edwards, PhD

• CATCH Advisor
• Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Idea Translation, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Co-founder, Wyss Institute

Jamie Heywood

• CATCH Advisor
• Co-Founder and Chairman, PatientsLikeMe

Gigi Hirsch, MD

• CATCH Advisor
• Executive Director, Center for Biomedical Innovation, MIT
• Co-Founder and Director, New Drug Development ParaDigmS (NEWDIGS) program, MIT

George Kassabgi

• CATCH Advisor, Co-Founder 
• Co-Founder Keas.com 
• Mentor, Rock Health
• Mentor, Northeastern Health Science Entrepreneurs Program
• Advisor, Docphin, CipherHealth, Breakthrough

Robert Langer, ScD

• CATCH Advisor 
• Institute Professor, MIT
• David H. Koch Institute Professor, MIT
• Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
• Recipient, U.S. National Medal of Science 
• Recipient, U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Martha Laposata, MBA

• Administrative Director, CATCH

Herbert Y. Lin, MD, PhD

• CATCH Faculty
• Director, Translational Research, Division of Nephrology, Mass General
• Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS

Scott Lipnick, PhD

• Scientific Director, CATCH
• Associate in Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University

Chirag Patel, PhD

• CATCH Faculty
• Assistant in Bioinformatics, Department of Medicine, Mass General
• Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, PhD

• CATCH Faculty
• Member US National Academies, World Economic Forum Councils
• Advisory Board Telefonica, Google, Nissan 
• Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
• Director, Human Dynamics Lab, MIT
• Director, Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program

Todd Reid, ScD, MPH, MBA, MSc

• CATCH Faculty
• Epidemiologist, Senior Scientific Investigator and Lecturer, MIT

Marc Semigran, MD

• CATCH Faculty
• Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Medical Director (Emeritus), Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program

David A. Shaywitz, MD, PhD

• CATCH Co-Founder; West Coast Innovation Lead
• Chief Medical Officer, DNAnexus

Pete Szolovitz, PhD, FACMI

• CATCH Faculty 
• Professor of Computational Science at MIT EEC
• Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
• Director, Clinical Decision Making Group, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Samuel O. Thier, MD

• CATCH Advisor 
• Professor, Harvard Medical School 
• President, Massachusetts General Hospital, Emeritus

Thomas Unger, PhD

• CATCH Advisor
• Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Naia Limited
• Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, New Drug Development ParaDigmS (NEWDIGS) program, MIT

Deborah Wexler, MD, MPH

• CATCH Faculty 
• Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Ramnik Xavier, MD, PhD

• CATCH Faculty 
• Chief, Mass General Gastroenterology Division
• Kurt Isselbacher Chair in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Director, Genes to Drugs Initiative, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT