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Meet the Team
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S. Jean Emans, M.D., Faculty Director of the Office of Faculty Development, is Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at the Children's Hospital Boston; Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Department of Medicine; and Co-Director of the Center for Young Women's Health. She is the Program Director of one of the seven Maternal Child Health Bureau (MCHB/HRSA) Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Training Programs in the U.S. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Adolescent Medicine and as President of the North American Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Gynecology. She was one of eight members of the first SubBoard of Adolescent Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Internal Medicine. She currently serves on three committees of the American Board of Pediatrics. She is the author of several textbooks, including Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (5th edition); three websites, www.pedicases.org, www.bostonleah.org and www.youngwomenshealth.org; a three volume Bright Futures Case Studies for primary care clinicians; and more than 150 articles that have focused on medical education, reproductive endocrinology, and gynecology. She directs two Harvard CME courses: Adolescent Medicine, and Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. She co-directs the annual HMS Leadership Development Course for Physicians and Scientists. She has lectured extensively on pediatric and adolescent gynecology and adolescent medicine nationally and internationally, including keynote addresses in Melbourne - Australia, Tokyo, and Buenos Aires; she has also consulted to university and hospital programs on faculty development initiatives. She has been named one of the Best Doctors in America and was honored with the 2006 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Adele Dellenbaugh Hofmann Adolescent Health Award.
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Maxine Milstein, M.B.A., Administrative Director of the Office of Faculty Development, has an extensive background in higher education, healthcare and teaching. Maxine worked recently at Boston University as the Director of the Educational Resource Center, an academic support center serving more than 3000 undergraduate and graduate students. Prior to this position, she was the Associate Director of Graduate Programs at Boston University's School of Management where she oversaw the doctoral program. Maxine has also worked at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and at the Royal Victoria and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals in Montreal, Quebec. She brings broad expertise in strategic goal setting, operational planning, and project management. Maxine earned her MBA, with High Honors, from Boston University where she was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.
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Jill Dobriner, Ph.D., is the Program Coordinator for the Office of Faculty Development, assisting in communications, event planning, and program development. Prior to coming to Children's, she earned a Ph.D in English and American Literature from Brandeis University, taught 19th-century American Literature and Women's Studies in Oklahoma, and worked for other non-profits in the Boston-area.
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Valerie Ward, M.D., M.P.H., is a faculty radiologist at Children's Hospital Boston, an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and serves as the Diversity and Cultural Competency Council Faculty Director, with the support of the Office of Faculty Development. Dr. Ward's training includes a fellowship in pediatric radiology at Children's, an HMS health services research fellowship, and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She was one of three academic radiologists in the U.S. selected for a prestigious General Electric Association of University Radiologists Radiology Research Academic Fellowship (2002). She has contributed to research in pediatric imaging technology assessment using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and low radiation dose fluoroscopy. She won a Society for Pediatric Radiology's John A. Kirkpatrick Young Investigator Award. More recently, she has undertaken research in health care disparities and co-authored a Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation grant with members of the DCCC to create an in-patient satisfaction initiative Pathways to Culturally Competent Care. In 2004, she was awarded the Children's Hospital sponsorship to the Fellows Program of The Partnership, Inc., an organization committed to workplace diversity and inclusion through professional and organizational development. Dr. Ward received the hospital-wide 2008 Black Achievers' Award. Dr. Ward is highly regarded for her mentoring roles in the HMS community and has been a valued research mentor to junior faculty and fellows and a mentor to premedical college students.
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Alan Leichtner, M.D., is the Associate Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Children's Hospital, Boston, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and supports Office of Faculty Development initiatives as the Medical Education Director.
Dr. Leichtner has a long-standing clinical and research interest in childhood inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease, and is the Director of the Center for Celiac Disease and Celiac Support Group at Children's Hospital Boston. He has authored more than 70 original publications and chapters on various topics in pediatric gastroenterology. In his tenure at CHB, Dr. Leichtner has been a highly regarded teacher and advisor of the pediatric residents. In addition, he has mentored more than 100 fellows in pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition and is currently the Chairman of the Training Committee of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition. Dr. Leichtner is an active member of the Academy at Harvard Medical School. As Medical Director of the Office of Faculty Development, he has spearheaded the launching of the new hospital-based academy for medical educators. The Academy at Children's Hospital Boston is designed to foster innovative teaching, educational research, and recognition of excellent teachers. Dr. Leichtner's own educational projects include production of a novel series of patient education videos, which are modular and filmed in a documentary style, with patients and their family members as narrators. He has also developed a web-based tool for creating clinical algorithms.
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Mary Clark, Ph.D., is a consultant on all aspects of academic appointments to departments and faculty in several hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Dr. Clark meets individually with Children's faculty to discuss professional development, career trajectory, and CV preparation. In addition, she meets with department chairs to discuss internal faculty promotions and will provide presentations for hospital seminars on a variety of topics pertaining to academic appointments. Dr. Clark was Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Harvard Medical School from 1990 to 2004, and was responsible for managing the academic appointments process for all faculty appointees in the Faculty of Medicine.
Dr. Clark received her B.Sc. in chemistry from Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and her Ph.D. in endocrine chemistry from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School of London University. She came as a postdoctoral fellow to the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and subsequently joined the Dean's office in 1979.
To make an appointment to meet with Dr. Clark, email Office of Faculty Development
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