Founder & Executive Director
Marc Succi, MD
Dr. Succi is a radiologist, entrepreneur, inventor, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School whose work spans innovation, business, and artificial intelligence. He has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science and Healthcare list, won the MIT Data Prize, awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal of Canada, and is the only person to win the Massachusetts Medical Society Information Technology Award twice in its 20+ year history. He has delivered keynote talks on his research and on business/innovation in the USA, Canada, Italy, China, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Thailand, Mexico and more. For his mentorship of early career doctors and innovators, he was recently awarded the Thrall Mentorship Award in 2025.
At MIT as a student, he invented technology licensed to industry in regenerative medicine. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Medically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare (MESH) Incubator at Mass General Brigham, the first innovation incubator in a hospital. MESH transforms frontline clinical problems into patentable and licensable products. Dr. Succi is the creator and course director for the popular MESH Core national and MESH Core International courses, inlcuding in the USA, Europe, China and the Middle East and North Africa region .
Dr. Succi is the Principal Investigator of MESH IO, the center’s research arm, which published the first and among the highest cited original papers to date on clinical decision support using generative AI models. Dr. Succi directs the fundamental healthcare innovation course for Mass General Brigham staff, and regularly directs and teaches executive education courses at Harvard for pharmaceutical companies as well as AI courses for healthcare executives. He frequently consults and serves on advisory boards for companies in AI and digital health. Dr. Succi completed medical school at Harvard Medical School, undergraduate studies at McMaster University in Canada, and was a researcher in the Langer Lab at MIT while attending Harvard.
MESH Incubator Leadership
Marc Succi, MD | Founder & Executive Director; Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School
Arya Rao | Chair, MESH IO AI Division
MESH Core Boston Education Division
Marc Succi, MD | Course Director, Chair of Education
Diana Schwartzstein | Strategic Director, Education
Anu Gupte | Senior Program Manager, Education
Peter Choi | Managing Director
Casey Frazier | Engagement Lead
Maggie Hastings | Project Coordinator
Kaitlyn Khoury | Project Coordinator
MESH Core International Education Division
Marc Succi, MD | Course Creator, Director
MESH Innovation & Operations Research Group (MESH IO)
Marc Succi, MD | Principal Investigator
Kathy Andriole, PhD | Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
James Brink, MD | Chair of Radiology, Mass General Brigham
Joshua Hirsch, MD | Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Sanjay Saini, MD | Professor, Harvard Medical School
David Whitehead, MD MBA | Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Michael Hood, MD | Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Joel Samuel, MD | Clinical Fellow, Mass General Brigham
William Marks, PhD MBA | Operating Partner, Snowbridge Partners
Arya Rao | Chair, MESH AI subgroup; Harvard Medical School
Alexander King | Harvard Medical School
Ali Ebada | UT Southwestern Medical Center
Andrew Mu | Harvard Medical School
Cameron Young | Harvard Medical School
Chinemerem Ihejirika | Harvard Medical School
Christian Rivera | Harvard Medical School
David Liu | Harvard Medical School
David Xiang | Harvard Medical School
Ethan Bott | Harvard Medical School
Irene Antony | Harvard Medical School
Jasleen Gill | Harvard Medical School
John Kim | Harvard Medical School
Kaiz Esmail | Harvard Medical School
Kimia Heydari | Harvard Medical School
Luzy Zhao | Harvard Medical School
Margarita Krylova | Harvard Medical School
Mercy Mazurek | Harvard Medical School
Michael Pang | Harvard Medical School
Praneet Khanna | University of Missouri – Kansas City
Qiao Jiao | Harvard Medical School
Richard Lee | Harvard Medical School
Sarah Wagner | Harvard Medical School
Selena Zhang | Harvard Medical School
Siona Prasad | Harvard Medical School
Soham Ghoshal | Harvard Medical School
Winston Lie | Harvard Medical School
MESH Innovation Teams
Peter Choi | Managing Director
Marina Oria
Simran Deol