Fellowship Director and Site Leader

Elizabeth A. Rider, MSW, MD, FAAP, FACH,

Director, Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School Interprofessional Leadership

and Humanism & Professionalism Faculty Fellowships

Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics

Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Carlton Horbelt Senior Fellow and former Medicine Academy Chair, National Academies of Practice

Associate Editor, Patient Education and Counseling

Senior Author, A Practical Guide to Teaching and Assessing the ACGME Core Competencies

Founding member and Management Committee, International Consortium for Communication in Healthcare

Dr. Rider, a pediatrician and medical educator, is founder and director, Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School Faculty Fellowships in Humanism and Professionalism and Interprofessional Leadership; director of the international course, Difficult Conversations in Healthcare; and faculty for the Harvard Macy Institute. She served as director of Academic Programs at the former Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice for 12 years. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Rider brings her dual background as a physician and former child / family therapist to her leadership, teaching and research roles.

Dr. Rider has received various teaching awards including the Morgan–Zinsser Fellow in Medical Education Award; Medical Educator Award for Innovative Scholarship in Medical Education; the Platinum Medal for Excellence in Person-Centered Healthcare from the European Society for Person-Centered Healthcare; the National Academies of Practice Nicholas Cummings Award for “extraordinary contributions to interprofessional healthcare education and practice”; and the Community Pediatrician of the Year award from Boston Children’s Hospital. In 2014, she was appointed to the Global Compassion Council, a global advisory body for the Charter for Compassion.

Dr. Rider is past Vice President of Partnerships and Networking and former Chair of the Medicine Academy of the National Academies of Practice, and a founder of the International Consortium for Communication in Healthcare. An Associate Editor for Patient Education and Counseling, she is lead author of the book A Practical Guide to Teaching and Assessing the ACGME Core Competencies.

Dr. Rider has been recognized internationally for her work to restore attention to core values and skilled communication in healthcare. She has been an invited speaker and consultant in the US, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, UK, Poland, Germany, Australia, Brazil, and Singapore. Her current research includes national projects on professional identity formation, humanistic medical/ interprofessional education, values, relational learning, and humanistic leadership and organizational culture change to mitigate burnout and enhance wellbeing.

Publications: https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/57910

Session Co-facilitator  (2025 - )

Session Co-facilitator - Emeritus (2016-2023)

Deborah Navedo, PhD, CPNP, FNAP, CHSE-A

Former Director of Education

STRATUS Simulation Center

Department of Emergency Medicine

Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Dr. Navedo is a clinician educator and administrator, with a pediatrics and emergency care background. Her academic preparation includes degrees in psychology, nursing, and a PhD in higher education administration, with a research focus on reflective learning. As the founding director of the Master of Science in Health Professions Education degree program at the MGH Institute, she brings a wealth of educational program development experience and expertise to the programs at STRATUS.

Building on her diverse clinical background as well as teaching experience across professions, she has developed many highly regarded programs in interprofessional learning. Dr. Navedo was recently recognized at the Canadian Royal College Simulation Summit with the Research Award for her mixed methods approach to faculty development needs assessments. Dr. Navedo has authored multiple chapters in key simulation education texts and in education journals. Dedicated to bringing health professions educators together within BWH, across Partners, and from around the world, Deb Navedo is committed to promoting patient safety through effective simulation-based approaches to teaching and learning for all clinicians.