Harvard Health Experts and Contributors

Molly Wanner, MD

Contributor

Dr.Molly A. Wanner is a board-certified dermatologist and an Instructor in dermatology at Harvard Medical School. She practices at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)’s Dermatology Laser and Cosmetic Center, one of the leading laser and cosmetic centers in the world. Dr. Wanner received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. She completed her dermatology residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where she served as chief resident in her last year. Afterward, she completed a clinical and research fellowship at the Wellman Center of Photomedicine at MGH. Professionally, she is a member of several associations including the American Academy of Dermatology, American Society of Dermatologic Surgery, Women’s Dermatologic Society, and American Society of Laser Surgery and Medicine. She has co-authored several medical publications, is an invited guest speaker, and is frequently used a clinical expert source for news articles on lasers and light therapy such as cellulite and removal. Her expertise includes acne treatments, general dermatology, chemical peels. dermatologic surgery, cosmetic dermatology, fillers, facial rejuvenation, laser hair removal, lasering of brown spots, blood vessels (red spots), and removal of spider veins.

Janice Ware, PhD

Contributor

Janice Ware, PhD, is Director of the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program; Director of the Child & Parent Program; and Senior Psychologist in the Developmental Medicine Center at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is also an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Developmental Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ware specializes in the neurodevelopmental assessment and follow-up of young children with complex medical histories. She is known for her work in the fields of autism, cognitive and learning disabilities, congenital heart disease, early detection of severe mental health conditions, extreme prematurity, parent-infant mental health, school placement for children with special education needs, and velo-cardiofacial syndrome.

Jon Warner, MD

Contributor

Dr. Jon “J.P.” Warner is co-chief of the shoulder service at Massachusetts General Hospital, vice chair for quality and safety, professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, and founder of the Boston Shoulder Institute. He is past president of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society, and current president of the San Diego Shoulder Institute. He founded the Codman Shoulder Society, a value-based health care group. He is a serial entrepreneur and graduate of Harvard Business School.

Lindsay Warner

Content Licensing Editor, Harvard Health Publishing

Lindsay Warner is the content licensing editor for Harvard Health Publishing. She’s been a journalist for close to 20 years, with bylines in publications including Wirecutter, Forbes, The Washington Post, National Geographic, EatingWell, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dwell, and Outside magazine. Lindsay has spent more than a decade as a health and wellness editor and writer in the content licensing space, and has served as editorial director for various health and wellness publications.

Haider Warraich, MD

Contributor

Dr. Haider Warraich is a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, associate director of the heart failure program at VA Boston Healthcare System, and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of the just published The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain.

Gregory Waryasz, MD, CSCS

Contributor

Dr. Gregory Waryasz is a triple fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon who specializes in injuries and conditions of the foot and ankle, and serves as the director of foot and ankle sports medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Waryasz's goal is to improve the quality of life of his patients by integrating his unique background in sports medicine, strength and conditioning, and foot/ankle training. Dr. Waryasz currently is the head team orthopaedist for Northeastern University and is a team physician for Boston Public Schools. He also serves as an orthopedic consultant for several collegiate athletic programs including Boston College, Merrimack College, and Curry College, as well as for the Boston Fleet PWHL hockey team.

Stephanie Watson

Former Executive Editor, Harvard Women's Health Watch

Stephanie Watson was the Executive Editor of the Harvard Women’s Health Watch from June 2012 to August 2014. Prior to that, she worked as a writer and editor for several leading consumer health publications, including WebMD, A.D.A.M. (MedlinePlus), BabyCenter, Momentum magazine, and Lupus Now magazine. She also served as executive editor for Focus on Healthy Aging, a publication of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Stephanie has written and edited more than two dozen books, including Understanding Obesity: The Genetics of Obesity and Scientific American Critical Perspectives on Pollution. She is a graduate of Boston University, with a degree in mass communications and English. Before embarking on her medical writing career, she was a writer/producer for The Travel Channel and Weather.com.

Amy Watts, OD

Contributor

Dr. Amy Watts is the director of the optometry and contact lens service and the vision rehabilitation service at Mass Eye and Ear in Boston Massachusetts. She is an instructor in ophthalmology for Harvard Medical School. She also oversees the Mass Eye and Ear optometric residency program. Dr. Watts attended Bowdoin College, where she majored in biology, and then New England College of Optometry for her doctorate degree and residency training. Her clinical interests include general optometric care and advanced contact lens care for patients with corneal disease.

Peter Wayne

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Peter Wayne, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Research for the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, jointly based at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also author of The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi.

Susan Weaver, MD, MPH

Contributor

Dr. Susan Weaver graduated from Stanford University, completed a combined MD/MPH program at Tufts University School of Medicine, and then graduated from the primary track internal medicine program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School. She has practiced internal medicine over 20 years, 15 years as a primary care internist and four as a hospitalist, and served in quality assurance leadership roles at Atrius and Bowdoin Street Community Health Center. She is currently an attending primary care physician and instructor in medicine at Health Care Associates, and is interested in patient experience in complex health care systems, quality improvement, and women's health.

Cecil R. Webster, Jr., MD

Contributor

Dr. Cecil R. Webster, Jr. is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist in Boston. He is a lecturer in psychiatry at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and consultant for diversity health outreach programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, Dr. Webster is a candidate in child and adult psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. His areas of expertise include identity formation and related influences such as sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and intercultural experiences in psychotherapy. He enjoys the intersection of film and psychiatry, applying psychoanalytic techniques in understanding portrayals of mental illness in film.

Bobbi Wegner, PsyD

Contributor

Dr. Bobbi Wegner is a supervising clinical psychologist at Boston Behavioral Medicine and an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dr. Wegner writes and speaks nationally on modern families, stress, and coping. She writes the Perfectly Imperfect Parenting column for Psychology Today, is a parenting expert on NBC News Learn, and is on the Today Show Parenting Team. She also writes and reviews medical content for Buoy Health, an AI-powered healthcare navigation program.

Peter Wehrwein

Contributor, Harvard Health

Peter Wehrwein was the editor of the Harvard Health Letter from 1999 to May 2012. He is currently a freelance writer and editor, and contributes to the Harvard Health blog and HarvardProstateKnowledge.org. Before editing the Health Letter, he was editor of the Harvard Public Health Review and director of development communications at the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to working at Harvard, Wehrwein was a reporter for newspapers in Albany, N.Y., Union City, N.J., Brooklyn, N.Y., and Big Lake, Minn. He has written for Newsweek, The Lancet, Managed Care, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Wehrwein was a journalism fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1993-94. He earned a B.A. in history from Yale University in 1980.

Edward N. Wei, MD

Contributor

Dr. Wei is a member of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School, where he specializes in the treatment of spine disorders and musculoskeletal medicine. He is board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation. After graduating from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, he completed his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Tufts Medical Center and a fellowship at the Penn Spine Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wei specializes in the nonoperative treatment of spine disorders and works with a team of physicians and therapists to help each patient regain the ability to function to the fullest extent possible. Dr. Wei focuses on patient education, exercise therapy, medications, and minimally invasive spine and musculoskeletal injections for the restoration of function.

Scott Weiner, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM

Contributor

Scott G. Weiner, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM, an attending emergency physician and assistant clinical director in the department of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is the director of B-CORE: The Brigham Comprehensive Opioid Approach and Education Program. Dr. Weiner completed his residency training at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and master of public health degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is on the executive board of the Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians. His research focuses on technological innovations that improve the care of ED patients presenting with pain, including usage and optimization of online prescription drug monitoring programs and tablet-based screening tools.

Gerald Weinhouse, MD

Contributor

Dr. Gerald Lawrence Weinhouse is the clinical director of ambulatory services for Mass General Brigham's division of pulmonary and critical care, and the medical director of the respiratory care services department at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He received his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now part of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences). He then completed a residency in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center), followed by a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (now the Perelman School of Medicine). He is board certified in pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine, and sleep medicine. Dr. Weinhouse has clinical expertise in the pulmonary complications of cancer treatment. His research interest is in the role of sleep in the recovery of intensive care unit patients. Dr. Weinhouse has been listed as one of the region’s top doctors by Castle Connolly.

Carol Weitzman, MD

Contributor

Dr. Carol Weitzman is a developmental behavioral pediatrician and the co-director of the Autism Spectrum Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, and director of the CT Center for Developmental Pediatrics. She is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and professor emeritus of pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. Nationally, she is a past president of the Society for Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics (SDBP), and a past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics. She is a member of the American Board of Pediatrics Sub-Board.

Jeremy Whyman, MD

Contributor

Jeremy Whyman, MD, is a geriatrician, palliative medicine physician and general internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is currently board certified in Geriatrics and Internal Medicine with completion of his third board certification in Palliative Medicine, anticipated in early January 2019. Dr. Whyman completed Internal Medicine residency training at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. During dual fellowship training in both Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC, he focused on preserving and improving quality of life for those with serious illness. As an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Whyman is a preceptor in the Practice of Medicine course, and is dedicated to teaching medical students. He is the director of outpatient education in the Division of Geriatrics at BIDMC. Dr. Whyman is actively involved in the recruitment, interview and selection process, as well as the training and mentoring of both Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine fellows and Internal Medicine residents at BIDMC. He received specialized training in medical education through the Harvard Macy Institute and Stanford Clinical Teaching Program. He now serves as a faculty member annually at the Harvard Macy Future Academic Clinician Educators Course.

Richard Wilk, MD

Contributor

Dr. Richard Wilk is the chief of the hip preservation service at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wilk earned his undergraduate degree from Emory University and then received his medical degree from the Sidney Kimmel School of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. He completed an orthopaedic residency and a fellowship in sports medicine at Tufts Medical Center. In addition to his expertise in managing hip conditions in young adults, Dr. Wilk treats complex knee and shoulder problems, along with general sports injuries.

Sarah Wilkie, MS

Contributor

Sarah Wilkie, MS, is a project manager in quality and patient experience at Mass General Brigham Integrated Health Care System. In this role, Sarah leads a team responsible for implementation of systemwide efforts in clinical and community-based health equity. Sarah received a master of science in health policy and administration from Pennsylvania State University.

Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH

Contributor

Dr. Walter C. Willett is professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Willett studied food science at Michigan State University, and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School before obtaining a masters and doctorate in public health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Willett has focused much of his work over the last 40 years on the development and evaluation of methods, using both questionnaire and biochemical approaches, to study the effects of diet on the occurrence of major diseases. Dr. Willett has published over 2,000 original research papers and reviews, primarily on lifestyle risk factors for heart disease, cancer, and other conditions, and has written the textbook Nutritional Epidemiology (published by Oxford University Press, now in its third edition). He also has written four books for the general public. Dr. Willett is the most cited nutritionist internationally. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and is the recipient of many national and international awards for his research.

Bill Williams

Guest Contributor

Bill Williams is a theater teacher, director, acting coach, and writer. He leads theater and improv workshops for teens and young adults in recovery from substance use disorder. Bill also works with the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, Friends of Recovery- New York , and the Addiction Policy Forum. He was awarded Advocate of the Year 2017 by the Addiction Policy Forum. You can read more of Bill Williams’ writing at: http://billwilliamsblog.blogspot.com/

Kim Willment, PhD

Contributor

Kim Willment, PhD, is a board-certified neuropsychologist in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital department of neurology. She founded and is now the director of the RENEW (REsilience through Neurological and Emotional Wellness) program. RENEW offers a range of neuropsychological rehabilitation groups to promote recovery and adjustment to neurologic illness/injury, and to support brain and emotional wellness for people with neurologic disorders. These group-based services provide education, cognitive skills training, therapeutic support, and enrichment services. RENEW also supports families and caregivers by offering dementia caregiving skills and wellness programs.

John Winkelman, MD, PhD

Contributor

Dr. John Winkelman is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and chief of the sleep disorders clinical research program in the department of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Winkelman received his PhD in psychobiology from Harvard University, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and completed both a residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in sleep medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Jacqueline Wolf, MD

Contributor

Dr. Jacqueline Wolf is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She is the author of A Woman’s Guide to a Healthy Stomach: Taking Control of Your Digestive Health, and is the co-founder of Foodicine Health, a food education nonprofit. Dr. Wolf received her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago Hospital, as well as a fellowship in gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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Harvard Health Experts and Contributors

List of Experts

Molly Wanner, MD

Janice Ware, PhD

Jon Warner, MD

Lindsay Warner

Haider Warraich, MD

Gregory Waryasz, MD, CSCS

Stephanie Watson

Amy Watts, OD

Peter Wayne

Susan Weaver, MD, MPH

Cecil R. Webster, Jr., MD

Bobbi Wegner, PsyD

Peter Wehrwein

Edward N. Wei, MD

Scott Weiner, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM

Gerald Weinhouse, MD

Carol Weitzman, MD

Jeremy Whyman, MD

Richard Wilk, MD

Sarah Wilkie, MS

Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH

Bill Williams

Kim Willment, PhD

John Winkelman, MD, PhD

Jacqueline Wolf, MD