Our Team

Executive Director, Osher

Melinda R. Ring, MD, FACP, ABOIM

Executive Director, Osher Center for Integrative Health; Tina Trott Professor of Integrative Health; Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine (General Internal Medicine), Medical Social Sciences (Intervention Science)

Director, Research

David Victorson, PhD

Professor of Medical Social Sciences; Director of the Flourishing in Society and Health Research Lab in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University; Director of Integrative Oncology at the Cancer Survivorship Institute at the Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Co-Associate Director, Education

Anna Balabanova Shannahan, MD, ABOIM, FAWM

Assistant Professor of Family & Community Medicine; Family Medicine

Co-Associate Director, Education

Lori Walsh, MD, FAAP, ABOIM

Medical Director, Center for Health & Integrative Medicine, Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital; Medical Director, Pediatric Integrative Medicine, Advocate Children’s Hospital; Clinical Assistant of Professor, Division of Community Based Pediatrics, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

Planetary Health Specialist

Ann Vertovec, MD, FACEP, ABOIM

Emeritus Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Co-chair of the Osher Collaborative Planetary Health Task Force

Contact:
avertovec@nm.org

Director, Osher Center For Integrative Health Clinic

Mary Ella Blair Wood, DO

Family Medicine

Contact:  
Osher Clinic 
312-926-3627

Senior Practice Manager, Osher Clinic

Kalinda Marshall, MPH, BSN, RN

Director, Program Development

Isra Hassan

Contact:
isra.hassan@northwestern.edu

Associate Director, Marketing; Senior Program Coordinator

Vanessa Hughes