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Moderator

Dan Notterman
Senior Research Scholar, Molecular Biology; Senior Advisor to the Provost for Biomedical Affairs; Professor of the Practice in Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Panelists

Christopher A. Hart ’69 *71
Founder, Hart Solutions LLC

Eric Paul Goosby ’74
Professor of Medicine, UCSF Medical School

Caitlin Zulla ’99
Chief Executive Officer, Optum Health East

Ganga Bey ’09
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Moderator

Dan Notterman
Senior Research Scholar, Molecular Biology; Senior Advisor to the Provost for Biomedical Affairs; Professor of the Practice in Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Daniel Notterman is a physician and a scientist. He trained as a pediatrician, with further training in pediatric critical care (his clinical specialty) and pharmacology. He later completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Arnold Levine at Princeton. There, he and Levine were the first to explore the role of gene expression monitoring in solid cancer. Prior to joining Princeton’s faculty in 2014, he was dean for research and graduate studies at Penn State College of Medicine. He leads several NIH-funded projects, including the Future of Families Cardiovascular Health Project, a national study examining early cardiovascular disease in minority youth, and lab-based projects that study the effects of head trauma and novel approaches to treat serious viral infections. Notterman teaches the introductory molecular biology course (MOL 214) and the very popular senior seminar “Diseases in Children: Causes, Costs and Choices” (MOL 460).

Panelists

Christopher A. Hart ’69 *71
Founder, Hart Solutions LLC

Christopher Hart’s career was largely dedicated to transportation safety, including as chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. Since retiring from the NTSB in 2018, he has worked as a safety consultant and a safety conference speaker in several contexts, including aviation, railroads, subways, driverless cars, cruise ships and urban air mobility. Recently, Hart also began to focus on health care safety. It is estimated that as many as 250,000 to 400,000 people die annually in U.S. hospitals due to medical error, and many processes that have made aviation safety so exemplary are transferable to improving health care safety. Hart’s Princeton degrees are in mechanical and aerospace engineering.

Eric Paul Goosby ’74
Professor of Medicine, UCSF Medical School

After Eric Goosby graduated with an A.B. in biology, he continued his studies at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, specializing in internal medicine and infectious diseases. His career in public health has taken him to more than 120 countries and allowed him to impact millions of lives. As founding director of the Ryan White CARE Act, the largest federally funding HIV/AIDS program in the U.S., he established HIV-dedicated clinics in 52 U.S. cities. Goosby’s work then moved to international sites, setting up the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which has brought lifesaving therapies to 26 million HIV positive people in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe; this program also has prevented 5.6 million orphans and vulnerable children from becoming HIV positive.

Caitlin Zulla ’99
Chief Executive Officer, Optum Health East

Caitlin Zulla oversees health care delivery in 10 states and establishes partnerships with providers to advance value-based care in her role as CEO of Optum Health East. She is responsible for the experience of nearly 5.6 million patients and more than 18,000 team members. Prior to this role, Zulla has been chief executive officer, chief financial officer, chief administrative officer and senior vice president of revenue cycle operations at SCA Health, as well as senior vice president of revenue cycle services at MedAssets, senior consultant at CBIZ, Inc. and managed care analyst at Atlantic Health System. Zulla serves on the board of directors for the nonprofit One World Surgery, was named a 2022 Top Woman to Watch by Modern Healthcare and earned an A.B. from Princeton, a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University and a master’s in health care delivery science from Dartmouth College.

Ganga Bey ’09
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

As a social epidemiologist, Ganga Bey draws on her love for social science, centering on advancing theoretical frameworks for health disparities research through strengthening the integration of social, social psychological and biological approaches in epidemiologic methods. Her research, funded by a National Institute on Aging Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00), currently focuses on understanding psychosocial and epigenetic mechanisms that influence disparate aging rates between dominant-status and marginalized persons with the goal of identifying novel points of intervening on the health consequences of structural inequity. Bey majored in anthropology and African American studies at Princeton before receiving her Master of Public Health from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Massachusetts.