MassAITC hosted the 2025 a2 National Symposium in Boston, MA on April 3-4, 2025. We invite you to watch the opening remarks from MassAITC Co-Principal Investigator, Niteesh Choudhry, MD, PhD and from Rose Li, PhD, MBA who leads the AITC Coordinating Center.
Dr. Rose Li, PhD, MBA has more than 30 years of experience in science management and research administration, including federal government contract management experience managing and supporting research, scientific peer review, project management, policy development, fundraising, committee management, staff recruitment and development, meeting planning and organizing, and writing and editing. She directs a number of projects, interacting directly with clients, and contributes to the substantive content of deliverables as well as running the company. She currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the National Institute on Aging (NIA)-funded (U24) Coordinating Center for the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories for Aging Research program. The U.S. Small Business Administration named Dr. Li the 2024 Small Business Person of the Year for Maryland. She was also honored in 2024 to receive small business leadership awards from the International Leadership Foundation and the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce.
Prior to founding RLA, Dr. Li served the National Institutes of Health in leadership roles, including as Senior Policy Advisor to the NIH Office of Extramural Research, Special Assistant for Policy Development with the NIH Office of Communication and Public Liaison, Chief of the Population and Social Processes Branch within the NIA Division of Behavioral and Social Research, and Health Scientist Administrator with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She earned her BA in economics and MBA in finance and international business, both from the University of Chicago, and her PhD from Princeton University in public and international affairs, with a concentration in population policy. She completed postdoctoral research in demography, epidemiology, and economics of aging in Asia at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Li was appointed by Governor Larry Hogan to the Maryland Commission on Aging in 2015, named its Chairperson in September 2016, and renewed for a second 4-year term as chairperson beginning in 2022. By appointment of Governor Hogan, she also served on the Maryland State Board of Education (2016-2021), and has been serving since 2021 as an inaugural member on the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future Accountability and Implementation Board Nominating Committee. She is the recipient of the 2019 Award for Service to Princeton, past President of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (2010-2012), and Co-Chair of the Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton (A4P)—DC Region (since 2012).
Niteesh Choudhry, MD, PhD, Center Director for the Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and Professor, Harvard Medical School; Executive director for the Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
About: Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Executive Director for the Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he also a practicing hospitalist. He is also Director of Implementation Research and Education and Associate Director for Postgraduate Education in Clinical and Translational Science for Harvard Catalyst.
Much of Dr. Choudhry’s research deals with design and evaluation of novel strategies to increase the use of evidence-based therapies for common conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. He is particularly interested in changing patient and provider behavior and his work draws inspiration from a broad range of fields including clinical medicine, economics, cognitive psychology, epidemiology and biostatistics. His largest ongoing projects seek to combine approaches from behavioral science and machine learning in order to develop scalable solutions for health quality improvement. He and his research team are funded by a variety of public and private sources including the National Institutes of Health, health insurers, pharmaceutical manufactures and private foundations.
Dr. Choudhry attended McGill University, received his M.D. and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto and then served as Chief Medical Resident for the Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospitals. He earned his Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University with a concentration in Statistics and the Evaluative Sciences. His research has been widely published in leading medical and policy journals and has won numerous awards for excellence in research, teaching and mentorship.