Annual Educational Summit

We hope you can join us for the 2019 Annual Educational Summit, Resilience in Education: Effective Tools for Overcoming Obstacles at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, presented by the Resilience Project Team.

Date:
Friday October 25, 2019 

Schedule of Events:
8:00am: Registration
8:30am-12:00pm: Guest Speakers
12:00pm: Lunch provided
12:30-1:30pm: Panel discussion and Q+A with audience

Where:
Newton-Wellesley Hospital 
2014 Washington St.
Newton, MA 02462
Shipley auditorium, 2 South

Speakers:

Anthony Rao, Ph.D
Dr. Anthony Rao holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Vanderbilt University. For 20 years, Dr. Rao worked in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Children's Hospital where he served as instructor at Harvard Medical School - supervising psychologists and physicians in their training. His first book, The Way of Boys: Promoting the Social and Emotional Development of Young Boys, (HarperCollins) is an expose about the crisis in American boyhood and teaches us to raise boys with respect for their natural development right from the start. Dr. Rao (Tony) speaks at conferences and workshops throughout the country and appears on news segments pertaining to childhood issues. He has been the featured expert on documentaries for MTV and the Arts & Entertainment channel. His opinions have appeared in multiple publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, and Scientific American.

Paul Napper, Psy.D.
Dr. Paul Napper applies psychological principles to help individuals and organizations realize their full potential. He works with leaders of Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, universities, as well as start-ups. Dr. Napper earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania in International Relations and pursued his master’s degree in the same field at the University of Chicago. He launched his career as a Wall Street analyst in New York, but after several years made the decision to pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology from the William James College in Boston.Upon earning his doctorate, Dr. Napper merged his two very different areas of study and founded a management psychology practice in Boston in 1998, which he leads today.

Daniel Jackson, Ph.D
Dr. Daniel Jackson is a Professor of Computer Science and MacVicar teaching fellow at MIT, and Associate Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He conducts research in software design, with a focus on usability and safety. Dr. Jackson is also a landscape and portrait photographer and recently published the book Portraits of Resilience, a collection of images and stories about finding joy in the face of depression and anxiety. He continues to explore this topic in his monthly blog, Postcards of Resilience.

Contact Info:
Phone: 617-243-5497
Email: NWHResilienceproject@partners.org

Please reply by: October 18, 2019.