Speakers & Panelists

Dr. Roberto Caricchio, MD, Director of the Lupus Center at UMass Chan Medical School, Myles J. McDonough Chair in Rheumatology, Chief of the Division of Rheumatology in the Department of Medicine, and Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School.Dr. Karen Costenbader, MD, MPH, Director of the Lupus Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Chair of the Medical-Advisory Council of the Lupus Foundation of America, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, and is an editor for The International Journal of Clinical Practice and Arthritis and Rheumatology. She specializes in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, and is board certified in internal medicine and rheumatology. 
Kristi Ericson

Dr. Rebecca Gaffney, MD, instructor in dermatology at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Bullous Disease and Connective Tissue Disease clinics at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She graduated from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed dual training in internal medicine and dermatology at the Harvard Combined Residency Program. Her clinical and research interests include inflammatory and autoimmune skin diseases.Michelle Harrington is a lifelong Boston resident and community activist, and an "accidental yogi." She is a breast cancer survivor who discovered yoga after the tragic death of her sister. In June 2021, she completed her first 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training with the Yoga Liberation Front led by David Vendetti, and completed her second 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training in April 2022 at the age of 56. She was then certified as a Pilates Instructor in September 2022.

Ivy Tran

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