MESH Core 2026

Somerville, MA US

Our two-day intensive, in-person, hands-on healthcare innovation course in the mecca of biomedical innovation - greater Boston - is designed on decades of cutting-edge innovation on the fringes.Suitable for startups, physicians, researchers, investors, allied health professionals, MBAs, students, executives, and the public. A combination of lectures, hands-on cases, extensive networking, lively panels, and startup pitch sessions.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for physicians & allied health professionals, researchers & academic innovators, startups & entrepreneurs in healthcare, early-career professionals in healthcare innovation, and students.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Apply innovative strategies and emerging technologies like AI and digital health to address healthcare challenges.
  2. Integrate interprofessional disciplines to enhance teamwork in biomedical innovation, ensuring successful cross-disciplinary collaboration.
  3. Improve Patient Outcomes: Analyze new healthcare solutions and learn to employ these solutions to exemplify high quality patient care and outcomes.

Additional Information

Provided by: 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 16.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 16.25 Participation
Course opens: 
05/04/2026
Course expires: 
06/20/2026
Cost:
$0.00
Mass General Brigham, Assembly Row
399 Revolution Drive
Somerville, MA 02145
United States

Keynote Speakers & Faculty

Marc Succi, MD - Founder and Executive Director, MESH Incubator; MESH Core Course Director; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Chris Coburn - Chief Innovation Officer, Mass General Brigham

Jason Kelly, PhD - Co-Founder and CEO at Ginkgo Bioworks; former Chair of the US National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology

Pete Clardy, MD - Director, Clinical Enterprise, Google Health; Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician

Ben Robbins, MD, MBA - General Partner, Google Ventures

Ian Chiang, MBA - Partner, Flare Capital Partners

Shantanu Gaur, MD - Co-Founder & CEO at Allurion 

Jill Kravetz, MBA - Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director, Harvard Innovation Labs

Andrew W. Lo, PhD - Professor of Finance & Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT Sloan School of Management

Amitabh Chandra, PhD MBA - Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Katie Coffman, PhD - Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Ken Itrato, JD - Partner, Crowell & Moring

Ian Johnston, PhD - Vice President of Tech Translation and Ecosystem Development, MIT The Engine

Thomas Eisenmann, PhD, MBA - Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs, Faculty Co-chair of HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School

Liz Kwo, MD, MBA, MPH - President, Vanna Health

Leo Anthony Celi, MD, MS, MPH - Senior Research Scientist, MIT Clinical Research Director, Laboratory of Computational Physiology; Co-Director, MIT Sana; Associate Professor of Medicine, Part-time, Harvard Medical School

Keith J. Figlioli, MBA MPH - Managing Partner, LRVHealth

James Stanford, MBA - Managing Director, Fitzroy Health

Ken Zolot - Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Richard Berenson, JD, MBA - Managing Director , Venzyme Catalyst, LLC; Executive Committee, Mass Medical Angels

Lesley Solomon, MBA - Founder and CEO, Veda Clinical Trials

Melissa Palchak Opraseuth, PharmD - CEO, par8o

Suzy McKinney, MD - Chief Medical Officer, V1ewpoint

Roger Kitterman, MBA - Senior Vice President, Venture, Business Development and Licensing, Mass General Brigham Innovation

Mike Freni, MBA - Vice President of Business Development, Mass General Brigham Innovation

Angela Shen, MD, MBA - Vice President, Head of Regulatory, Gene and Cell Therapy Institute at Mass General Brigham

Nimra Taqi - Vice President of Business Development and Licensing, Mass General Brigham Innovation

Brian Zamarron, PhD - Director, Business Development & Licensing, Mass General Brigham Innovation

Omar Y Kudsi, MD, MBA - Surgeon, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Gerald Hefferman, MD - Neuroradiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Sherene Shenouda, PhD - Director, Business Development & Licensing, Mass General Brigham Innovation

In support of improving patient care, Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
 

Credit Designation Statements

AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM
Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 14.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 16.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 16.25 Participation

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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