Mark Gebhardt, M.D., is the Chairman and Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Frederick W. and Jane M. Ilfeld Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and principal clarinet of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra. His work focuses on limb-sparing surgery of musculoskeletal tumors, for patients who might otherwise need amputation. He is the Chair of the Orthopaedic Surgeons Committee of the Children’s Oncology Group, a multi-center national research study group for the advancement of treatment of pediatric cancers. He enjoys taking care of patients with tumor problems, as well as the challenge of leading an academic department and helping young orthopaedic surgeons start their career.

 Heidi Greulich, Ph.D., a cellist with the Longwood Symphony since 1995, received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and Ph.D. in molecular biology from The Rockefeller University. She is a senior scientist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is doing research in cancer genomics at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

Daniela S. Krause, M.D., Ph.D., flutist in the Longwood Symphony, is a senior resident in Clinical Pathology and a leukaemia researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital. In July 2008 she will start a fellowship in transfusion medicine. In particular, she works on the improvement of cellular therapy, such as haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, for the leukaemias and is currently investigating the role of the bone marrow microenvironment in leukemia. She received her medical degree from the Free University Berlin and   did her internship in haematology/oncology at the Charité in Berlin. She came to the US in 2000 in order to do basic research on leukaemias and lymphomas. Dr. Krause began playing the recorder at age 3 and switched to the flute and piccolo at age 10. She has played in many orchestras in Berlin, England and Boston and is an active chamber musician in different ensembles, mostly in flute quartets and in ensembles for flute and piano.

Denise Lotufo, PT, DPT, OCS, is a pianist and cellist. She is a physical therapist at Harvard University Health Services as well as a Board Certified Orthopaedic Specialist through the American Physical Therapy Association. She received her Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Northeastern University. Dr. Lotufo has been a member of the LSO for eight years.

Susan P. Pauker, M.D., FACMG, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, is Chief, Medical Genetics Department, Harvard Vanguard Med. Assoc., and Geneticist for the Cancer Genetic Risk Assessment Center. She trained in pediatrics and genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital, and is a Founding Fellow and Director of the American College of Medical Genetics. For 17 years, she has found playing violin with the Longwood Symphony an inspiring source of healing and service to the community.

Thomas Sheldon, M.D., oboe, graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine and the Harvard Joint Center for Radiation Therapy. He served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, the staff of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and New England Deaconess Hospital. There he studied combined chemotherapy/radiotherapy for lung caner, breast cancer and testicular cancer. Since moving to New Hampshire, he has been active in the American Cancer Society, and with Margaret Lamb, RN, coauthored a landmark study on the sexual adaptation of women after treatment for uterine cancer. Dr Sheldon, after 25 years in oncology practice, remains inspired by the strength and dignity that patients display when challenged with a life threatening medical diagnosis.

Nicholas E. Tawa, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., violist, is a surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who specializes in the management of melanoma, breast cancer, sarcoma, and gastrointestinal malignancies, while also performing basic research seeking to understand why muscle wasting occurs in disease states such as the cachexia of cancer. Dr. Tawa has been a violist in the LSO for 7 years and joined the Board of Trustees in 2004. He finds his experiences with the LSO to be uplifting, as an alternative to the emotional rigors of the clinic and as a way to share the spiritual values inherent in good music.

Lisa M. Wong, M.D., violin and viola, graduated from Harvard University and NYU School of Medicine. She trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a pediatrician at Milton Pediatric Associates, Clinical Associate in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and school physician at Milton Academy. Dr. Wong has held the position of President of the Longwood Symphony since 1991 and was instrumental in launching the orchestra’s Healing Art of Music Program. Dr. Wong is a passionate advocate of arts education through Young Audiences of Massachusetts and the New England Conservatory of Music.

Stephen C. Wright, M.D. is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Hepatology on the Harvard Services at Boston City Hospital. Since completion of training, he has been on the staff at Faulkner Hospital, becoming Chief of Medicine there in 1995. Dr Wright has faculty appointments at Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. He is also Chief Medical Officer of the Faulkner Hospital in its membership in Partners Healthcare. Major hospital responsibilities include supervision of medical students and combined program internal medicine residents on rotation from the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Clinical interests include functional bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, and chronic hepatitis C. In addition to playing the bassoon, outside interests include bee-keeping, sailing, swimming, gardening, landscaping and reading. Steve and his wife Annie have three adult children and two irresistible grand-daughters.

Leonard Zon, M.D., Ph.D., has played trumpet with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra since 1984; his 25 year history with the organization is almost as old at the Symphony itself. He has been the first trumpet of the LSO for the last 25 years. Aside from playing the Trumpet, Dr. Zon is also the Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Director of the Stem Cell Program at Children's Hospital Boston. His research focuses on two major developing areas: modeling human diseases in zebrafish, and stem cell biology.