Understand the Medical Field through Storytelling

Neal Baer, M.D. is an award winning show runner, television writer/producer, physician, author and a public health advocate and expert. Dr. Baer was Executive Producer of two of television’s most popular network series - “Law & Order: SVU” and “ER.” He most recently was EP and showrunner of the critically acclaimed new season of "Designated Survivor" and he was also Executive Producer of the hit CBS series “Under the Dome” and the medical drama “A Gifted Man,” also for CBS. Dr. Baer is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and did his internship in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, California while he was a showrunner on “ER” and “SVU." He has teaching appointments at the Yale School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, where he is also on Harvard Medical School’s Board of Fellows. Dr. Baer is the co-author of two novels, “Kill Switch” and “Kill Again.”
Suzanne Koven, received her B.A. in English literature from Yale and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins. She also holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. After her residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, she joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and has practiced primary care internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital for over 30 years. She is an associate professor of medicine at HMS and holds the Valerie Winchester Family Endowed Chair in Primary Care Medicine at Mass General. In 2019 she was named inaugural Writer in Residence at Mass General. Her essays, articles, blogs, and reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, NewYorker.com, Psychology Today, The L.A. Review of Books, The Virginia Quarterly, STAT, and other publications. Her monthly column “In Practice” appeared in The Boston Globe and won the Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Writing from the American Medical Writers Association in 2012. Dr. Koven co-directs the Media and Medicine certificate course at HMS and speaks to a wide variety of audiences on literature and medicine and the role of women in medicine. Her essay collection, Letter to a Young Female Physician, was published by W.W. Norton & Co. in 2021.