An Interview with James Thrall, MD

James H. Thrall, MD, is the chief of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Juan M. Taveras Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He serves as a trustee of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization. He has led Mass General’s efforts to track, mitigate and reduce radiation exposure for patients. Under his guidance, the Webster Center for Advanced Research and Education in Radiation was founded in 2010 through the philanthropic support of the late Edward (Ted) W. Webster, PhD, a former member of the Department of Radiology at Mass General.

An Interview with David Judge, MD

Employees of Massachusetts General Hospital were asked in the spring if they wished to become patients of a new clinic called the Ambulatory Practice of the Future ( APF), a pilot project that aims to solve some of the challenges facing primary care. The APF, which opened in June, is led by David Judge, MD, an internist at the Bulἀnch Medical Group at MGH, where he is assistant medical director; he is also co-program leader in Clinical Systems Innovation at the Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT).

An Interview with Rev. Angelika Zollfrank

At Mass General, chaplains work alongside healthcare providers striving to create, sustain and renew a compassionate and caring environment. Reverend Angelika Zollfrank, the Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) supervisor, talks to about how healthcare chaplains influence patient care and the Mass General Clinical Pastoral Education program

An Interview with Timothy G. Ferris, MD, MPH

Timothy G. Ferris, MD, MPH, is medical director of the Mass General Physicians Organization (MGPO) at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Together with a handful of other Mass General physicians and administrators and nurses, he is spearheading a project whose goal is to identify creative ways to reduce the cost of care for high risk, chronically ill patients while still providing top-notch treatment, using small groups of such patients as pilots.

An Interview with Ronald E. Kleinman, MD, and Joseph P. Vacanti, MD

As co-chiefs of MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Drs. Kleinman and Vacanti together run a hospital-within-a-hospital that serves 170,000 children every year at the Boston campus and in 15 community locations throughout the area. Its 375 clinical staff work in 60 subspecialties.

Dr. Kleinman, who is physician-in-chief of MGHfC, is also unit chief for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and chief of Partners Pediatrics. Dr. Vacanti, who is MGHfC surgeon-in-chief, is also deputy director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine, where he is principal investigator at its Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Lab.