Our Team

Director

Melinda R. Ring, MD, FACP, ABOIM

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

312-926-3627

Director of Research

Judith T. Moskowitz, PhD
Professor of Medical Social Sciences
judith.moskowitz@northwestern.edu
312-503-7712

Associate Director of Education

Anna Balabanova Shannahan, MD
Assistant Professor of Family & Community Medicine
anna-balabanova@northwestern.edu
312-926-3627

Associate Director of 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

Lori.Walsh@aah.org

Director, Program Development

Isra Hassan
isra.hassan@northwestern.edu

Senior Program Coordinator

Vanessa Hughes
vanessa.hughes@northwestern.edu

Director of Research, 2025 Successor Elect

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.

d-victorson@northwestern.edu

Internship Director