MGH Consultants

Robert Hallisey, MS
Mr. Hallisey currently serves as Drug Therapy and Clinical Coordinator of the Massachusetts General Hospital Pharmacy Department. He has also served as Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Northeastern University and the MGH Institute of Health Professions. He has extensive practice experience as a clinical pharmacist, liaison with pharmaceutical company activities and with the MGH Disaster Medical Team Level I Trauma Unit. He has published work in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Adverse Drug Events and Systems Analysis. Mr. Hallisey will act a project consultant in relation to pharmaceutical industry promotional activities.

Diane Mahoney, PhD, APRN
Diane Mahoney PhD, APRN is the Mohr Professor of Nursing Research and a Principal Investigator of an NIH and a foundation grant supporting geriatric informatic intervention research. She conducted the first national study of NP and MD prescribing appropriateness in '89, and her publications and expert testimony influenced state and national APN prescribing regulations. She has established research based prescribing guidelines and a case study that will be included as part of the module content. Besides offering content development consultation in Year 1, she will add her extensive skills in informatic intervention development and implementation. In Year 2 she will provide consultation on methodological issues and participate in the manuscript writing.

Margery Chisholm, PhD, RN
Dr. Chisholm, an experienced nursing education administrator, is Director of the Graduate Program in Nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. This program focuses on the preparation of nurse practitioners for seven specialty areas: family, adult, pediatric, women’s health, psychiatric-mental health, geriatric nursing and acute care nursing. She has experience in grant development and management of large training grants. Additionally she has extensive program and curriculum development experience for both degree granting programs and continuing education offerings. Dr. Chisholm is dually licensed as a psychiatric nurse and a clinical psychologist, having achieved the status of Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in the area of family psychology. She has held national office in several national professional organizations. She will provide consultation on overall implementation of the grant, assisting in the direction and content development, fiscal management, compliance with grant intent, oversight of progress, submission of final report, and issues of sustainability of grant outcomes.

Denis Stratford, MS
Denis Stratford is the Chief Information Officer and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies within the Institute. He has been an information technology executive in education for over 25 years, the last four here at the Institute. As CIO he is responsible for planning, implementing and supporting learning, information and technology resources available to students, faculty and staff to affect learning and promote process innovation. He has recently completed the development of the Institute’s first information and technology plan. While at the Institute he has implemented: classroom, lab and presentation technologies; an integrated information system; and healthcare simulation resources. He is facilitating the planning and development of a new graduate program healthcare informatics and an information literacy initiative. He is primary architect of Iware, the Institute’s and courseware platform, which supports onsite, online, hybrid and self-directed learning modalities. Mr. Stratford will oversee the interface of the information technology aspect of the program.

Karen Wolf, PhD, RN
Dr Wolf has taught nursing for more than 25 years, at graduate, undergraduate levels as well as in and continuing education programs. She has extensive experience in curriculum development and evaluation, including web based teaching. She was the recipient of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioners electronic poster award in 2004 for her educational offering on TB prevention and control for NP faculty. She has lectured and published widely on professional issues in nursing. Her most recent book, A History of Nursing Ideas, was just released by Jones & Bartlett Publishes. Dr. Wolf a practicing Adult Nurse Practitioner at the Cambridge Health Alliance Senior Health Center, A Harvard Teaching Site, where she was honored in 2004 for clinical excellence.