NORCH Leadership
The Center is managed by an Executive Committee comprised of the Center Director, Associate Directors, Core Directors, and Statistical Consultant. An External Advisory Board advises Center Executives on major policy decisions and annually reviews Center progress.
Center Directors
Steven Grinspoon, MD
Center Director
Professor of Medicine
Chief of the Metabolism Unit
Executive Committee Member
MGH Endowed Chair in Neuroendocrinology & Metabolism
Christopher Duggan, MD
Center Associate Director for Enrichment
Executive Committee Member
Professor of Pediatrics
Elizabeth Lawson, MD
Center Associate Director for Research Translation
Executive Committee Member
Associate Professor of Medicine
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA
Director of Scholarly Engagement & Mentoring
Executive Committee Member
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Takara Stanley, MD
Center Associate Director for Junior Faculty Development
Director of Pilot & Feasibility Program
Executive Committee Member
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Lindsay Fourman, MD
Co-Director of Pilot & Feasibility Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Lipid and Metabolism Associates
Administrative Staff
Sophia Campbell
Program Manager
Conner Hill
Program Coordinator
Sophia Campbell
Program Manager
Executive Committee
Alessio Fasano, MD
Director of Genomics and Cell Biology Core
Allan Walker Chair of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition
Borek Foldyna, MD
Director of Metabolic Imaging Core
Executive Committee Member
Administrative Director of Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Robert Gerszten, MD
Co-Director of Metabolic Phenotyping Core
Herman Dana Professor of Medicine
Hang Lee, PhD
Statistical Consultant
Executive Committee Member
Associate Professor of Medicine
Emily Oken, MD
Executive Committee Member
Professor of Population Medicine
Bruce Rosen, MD, PhD
Co-Director of Metabolic Imaging Core
Laurence Lamson Robbins Professor of Radiology
Ruslan Sadreyev, PhD
Associate Director of Genomics and Cell Biology Core
Executive Committee Member
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Alex Soukas, MD, PhD
Director of Metabolic Phenotyping Core
Executive Committee Member
Associate Professor of Medicine
External Advisory Board
Caroline Apovian, MD, Harvard Medical School
Anthony W. Ferrante, MD, PhD, Columbia University
Steven Heymsfield, MD, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, LSU
Frank Hu, MD, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Suneil Koliwad, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Shana McCormack, MD, MTR, University of Pennsylvania
Ellen Schur, MD, MS, University of Washington
