Harris A. Berman, MD, is Vice Dean for Academic and Clinical Affairs, and Dean for Public Health and Professional Degree Programs, Tufts University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the medical school, Dr. Berman served as chief executive officer of Tufts Health Plan for 17 years, a position he retired from in June 2003. Tufts Health Plan, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a leading non-profit managed care company in New England. During Dr. Berman's leadership as CEO, the health plan grew from 60,000 to more than 1,000,000 members.

Before joining Tufts Health Plan, Dr. Berman co-founded the Matthew Thornton Health Plan in Nashua, NH, one of the first HMOs in New England. He served initially as the HMO's medical director beginning in 1971, then as its executive director. In 1995 he co-founded Tufts Health Care Institute, and he continues to serve as the Institute's Co-Chairman. He also serves as chairman of the Bank of America Celebrity Series of Boston, and as a board member of the National Quality Forum, and the Tufts-New England Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Berman has international experience as a Peace Corps physician and a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development in several countries.

A graduate of Harvard College, Dr. Berman received his medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, followed by residency training at the Harvard Medical Service of Boston City Hospital and New England Medical Center and an Infectious Disease fellowship at New England Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and holds the Morton A. Madoff Professorship in Community Health at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Mr. Roosevelt joined Tufts Health Plan in 1999 as senior vice president and general counsel and held that position until June 2005, when he became president and chief executive officer. As the general counsel, he presided over the legal department and the company's compliance, privacy and government relations functions.

Before joining Tufts Health Plan, Mr. Roosevelt was the associate commissioner for Retirement Policy for the Social Security Administration in Washington, D.C. He has also served as chief legal counsel for the Massachusetts Democratic Party and is co-chair of the Rules and By-laws Committee of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Roosevelt spent 10 years as partner at Choate, Hall and Stewart in Boston. He is past chairman of the board of trustees for the Massachusetts Hospital Association, past president of the American Health Lawyers Association and past chairman of the board of trustees for Mount Auburn Hospital. Currently, Mr. Roosevelt serves as chairman of the board of directors for Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, and as a member of the board of directors at America’s Health Insurance Plans, Emmanuel College and the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center. He is also co-chair of the board of directors for the Tufts Health Care Institute. In November 2008, President-elect Barack Obama appointed Mr. Roosevelt to his transition team to co-chair a review of the Social Security Administration.

Mr. Roosevelt received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his A.B. with honors in government from Harvard College. He has also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Dean for Educational Affairs,
Tufts University School of Medicine

Scott K. Epstein, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Dean for Educational Affairs at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM).  He is board certified in internal, pulmonary and critical care medicine. A graduate of Brown University and TUSM, Dr. Epstein has been a devoted educator of Tufts students and residents for nearly two decades. Prior to returning to TUSM as Dean for the Office of Education Affairs, Dr. Epstein served as Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at Caritas-St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center as well as the Vice Chairman for Educational Affairs, Department of Medicine, and Director of Medical Education.  As Dean for Educational Affairs at TUSM, Dr. Epstein is responsible for the centralized management and administration, and comprehensive evaluation of the medical school curriculum.  He oversees the pre-clinical curriculum, working with faculty to develop innovative curricular programs and processes. He works closely with Dean Kuhlik on the clinical curriculum.

Associate Professor of Surgery Tufts University School of Medicine
Vice Chairman of Surgery and Director of Graduate Medical Education
Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center

Dr. Hackford is the Vice Chairman of Surgery and the Chief of the section of colon and rectal surgery at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston. St. Elizabeth’s is a principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine, and is the tertiary teaching hospital of the six-hospital Caritas Christi Health Care System. Dr. Hackford served on the surgical faculty at the Tufts Medical Center from 1984 to 2003, was the Director of OR operations from 1996 to 2003, and was made Vice Chairman of the Department in 2002. During that period he was the recipient of the resident teaching award several times. The opportunity to become more deeply involved in surgical education presented itself in 2003 when Dr. Hackford assumed the Associate Program Director in Surgery position at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. In 2005 he became the Program Director and in 2007 he was appointed the Director of Graduate Medical Education at St. Elizabeth’s, with oversight responsibility for all of its residency and fellowship programs. In addition to his passion for graduate medical education, Dr. Hackford is well recognized for his expertise in colon and rectal surgery and has established one of the region’s first multidisciplinary pelvic floor centers. He was cited as one of Boston’s best doctors in 2003 and 2005 and was elected to Best Doctors in America in 2007-2008. He is currently serving as the Vice President of the New England Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Caritas Physician network and is currently on the board of the Tufts Health Care Institute.

Dr. Hackford received his ScB degree from Brown University and his MD from the University of Connecticut. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, and the American College of Gastroenterology.

Medical Director, Care Management, Tufts Health Plan

Dr. LoNigro joined Tufts Health Plan in 2000 as Medical Director for Commercial Care Management. He works closely with the Pharmacy Department to oversee the activities and management of high-cost injectable products and the conditions they treat, supporting relationships with PBM, SPP, and Rare Disease Management vendors. His time is additionally shared between the active growth, development, implementation and evaluation of programs across the Care Management, Case/Utilization Management, and High Intensity/Complex/Specialty Care Management.

As a provider, Dr. LoNigro has a combined 16 years of individual and group practice experience as a Board Certified Internal Medicine physician in both the Los Angeles and Boston Managed Care markets. In 1996 he co-founded the Primary Care, LLC provider network in Boston, leading 225 PCPs and 750 affiliated specialists through the growth stages of a fledgling "super IPA." He served as Primary Care, LLC's Medical Director for five years, leading all clinical integration and management efforts for all Commercial and Medicare+Choice (Medicare Advantage) products.

Dr. LoNigro has been speaking nationally on topics germane to Managed Care for the past twelve years.

Treasurer, Tufts Health Plan

Mr. Price is the Treasurer of Tufts Health Plan, where he is primarily responsible for corporate investments and financial risk management in addition to other corporate finance matters. Prior to joining Tufts Health Plan in 1995, Mr. Price held corporate finance and accounting positions with organizations in the hospitality and building material industries. Mr. Price received his MBA in Finance from Suffolk University.

Dr. Deeb Salem is the Chairman of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine as well as the Physician-in-Chief at the Tufts Medical Center, the principle teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine.  Dr. Salem has had a distinguished career as an academic cardiologist. In 1987, he was appointed Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.  He served as Chief of Cardiology at the Tufts Medical Center from 1987 to 1995. In January of 1999, Dr. Salem was appointed the Sheldon M Wolff Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.  Dr. Salem has been President of the New England Cardiovascular Society.  He was the founding President of the New England Affiliate of the American Heart Association.  His academic accomplishments include over one hundred and thirty scientific publications.  He is recognized as a national expert in coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure.  Dr. Salem received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University School of Medicine in 1998, the Distinguished Faculty Award from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1998, an American Heart Association Great Communicator Award in 1999 and an American Heart Association Distinguished Leadership Award in 2000.  He received the Massachusetts Physician Health Service Distinguished Service Award in 2003.  In 2007, Dr. Salem was the recipient of the American Heart Association’s Paul Dudley White Lifetime Achievement award.  In August of 2007, Dr. Salem received the Champions in Healthcare, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Boston Business Journal.  He is on the Executive Board of the Board of Trustees of Tufts Medical Center  and is an emeritus member of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Affiliate of the American Heart Association. Dr Salem is also a Board of Director of the Wang Chinatown YMCA, the Asian American Civic Association, the New England Quality Care Alliance, the Tufts Medical Center Physicians Organization, the Tufts Health Care Institute, and the Ray Tye Medical Foundation.   Dr. Salem is on the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine’s Board of Advisors in Boston.  He was elected to the Publications Committee of the New England Journal of Medicine in 2003.  In 2007, Dr. Salem became an Editor-in-Chief of the Images.MD Editorial Board.  He has repeatedly been listed in Boston Magazine as one of “Boston’s Best” physicians, most recently in November, 2007. 

Dr. Salem received his BA and MD from Boston University (six year medical program) in 1968.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, and the American College of Chest Physicians.