Andrew Chandler, MD, MHSA
Primary Care Physician - Family Practice Group, P.C.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Andrew Chandler has been a practicing primary care physician for several years in greater Boston. He has an interest in patient and physician well-being, and he has developed several successful institutional frameworks and programs to reduce provider
burnout. He serves on the Massachusetts Medical Society — Massachusetts Hospital Association Joint Task Force on Physician Burnout and has been working in this capacity on health systems-level strategies for well-being and eliminating barriers for
physicians seeking self-care.
Dr. Chandler graduated from University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was honored to have received the Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award. He completed his residency in family medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance. He also has a master
of health services administration from the University of Michigan and completed a fellowship in hospital administration at Newton-Wellesley Hospital.
In his spare time, Dr. Chandler enjoys spending time with friends and family, and enjoys a variety of activities — carpentry, playing and listening to music, and cycling and many other types of exercise.
Margarita Alegría, PhD
Chief, Disparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine & the Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital
Harry G. Lehnert, Jr. and Lucille F. Cyr Lehnert Endowed Chair, Mass General Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor, Departments of Medicine & Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Margarita Alegría is the Chief of the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Mongan Institute, the Harry G. Lehnert, Jr. and Lucille F. Cyr Lehnert Endowed Chair at the Mass General Research Institute and a Professor in the
Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has spent her career examining how to reduce health disparities for populations of color, immigrants, and linguistic minorities. Dr. Alegría is currently the PI of three National
Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research studies: Building Infrastructure for Community Capacity in Accelerating Integrated Care, Building Community Capacity for Disability Prevention for Minority Elders and Latino Youths Coping with Discrimination:
A Multi-Level Investigation in Micro- and Macro- Time. She is also PI of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant assessing opportunities to establish institutional, policy and systemic changes to increase racial/ethnic diversity in academic health
sciences.
Dr. Alegría has published over 300 papers, editorials, intervention training manuals, and several book chapters. In October 2011, she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in acknowledgement of her scientific contributions to her
field. She has also been a recipient of notable awards such as the Simon Bolivar Award by the American Psychiatry Association (2009), the Rema Lapouse Award by the American Public Health Association (2020) and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Latino
Behavioral Health Research by the National Latino Behavioral Health Association (2021). Most recently, Dr. Alegría received the 2022 Inclusive Voices Award by the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Dr. Alegría obtained her B.A. in Psychology
from Georgetown University in 1978 and her PhD from Temple University in 1989.
Sandra DeJong, MD, MSc
Associate Professor, Part-Time, Harvard Medical School
Sandra M. DeJong is a national leader in education and training in child and adolescent psychiatry. Since 2004, she has worked as a clinician-educator at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA)/Harvard Medical School, where she served as training director and
division chief. She is past president of the Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT), past editor of the Child Psychiatry Residency In-Training Examination (Child PRITE), and chair of the PRITE Commission. She served at
the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education on the development of Child Psychiatry Milestones 1.0 and 2.0 and General Psychiatry 2.0 workgroups. She is a director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (effective January 2023)
and serves as secretary of the American Psychiatric Association. In addition, she has had a private practice for over 20 years.
Dr. DeJong’s educational interests are in setting standards in clinical care, defining competencies and developing curricula in areas of need such as e-professionalism, child psychiatry ethics, addictions, and pediatric telepsychiatry, for which she received
an ABPN Faculty Innovation in Education Award. She has worked clinically in a variety of hospital and outpatient settings and supervised medical students, psychiatric residents, and child psychiatry fellows. She has presented and published widely,
including a book on e-professionalism (2014).
Dr. DeJong has garnered multiple awards including the Outstanding Psychiatrist Award from the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society (2016) and the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (2020). She is a Distinguished Fellow
of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the American College of Psychiatrists.
Jessica Isom, MD, MPH
Attending Psychiatrist and Chief Information Officer, Codman Square Health Center
Clinical Instructor, Yale University
Owner and Lead Consultant, Vision for Equity LLC
Jessica Isom provides expertise on antiracist transformation of staff and programming, focusing on the opioid use disorder services at Codman. She is an experienced community psychiatrist, public speaker, medical educator and consultant for diversity,
equity, inclusion, and antiracism projects. Dr. Isom is also a faculty track consultant leader for the Social Justice, and Health Equity Curriculum for Yale’s psychiatry residency program. Currently, she is expanding her consulting company, Vision
for Equity LLC, into a nationally sought team of antiracism coaches and organizational trainers.
Dr. Isom received an MD and MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as chief resident in Yale’s Department of Psychiatry. At the American Psychiatric Association Assembly, Dr. Isom represents Early Career Psychiatrists, highlighting
the need for health equity in organized psychiatry. She is also a Councilor for the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, working to improve the care provided to marginalized populations in the state.
