Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School Director, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology
Chief of Gastroenterology Division, Mass General Hospital
Wolfram Goessling grew up in Germany playing piano and trumpet. He met Helle while they were both members of their regional youth symphony orchestra, “Junge Sinfoniker”. The first piece they played together was Liszt’s “Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne”, but he really won Helle over while accompanying her in Mozart’s Adelaide Violin Concerto. Wolfram has been a member of Longwood Symphony since 1993. He received his MD and doctorate from the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany. Wolfram trained in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, served as Chief Medical Resident, and completed fellowship training in Hematology/Oncology at the combined Dana-Farber/Partners program and in Gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Today, Wolfram is the Robert H. Ebert Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an oncologist and gastroenterologist who treats patients with chronic liver disease and liver cancer. In his laboratory, Wolfram seeks to identify the molecular signals that regulate liver development, regeneration and cancer formation using zebrafish and other model systems. He is the HMS Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Chief of the Gastroenterology Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he holds the Jules L. Dienstag, MD and Betty and Newell Hale Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology.
Helle Sachse, JD, PhD
Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, MA Attorney General’s Office
Deputy Director, Police Accountability Unit
HELLE SACHSE is an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office and deputy director of the office’s Police Accountability Unit. After graduating from Boston College Law School she served as law clerk to the Honorable Paul A. Suttell, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and the Honorable R. Marc Kantrowitz of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Before embarking on her legal career, Helle received a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany. Helle started playing violin at age five and piano at age twelve. She and Wolfram met in Germany while playing in the same youth orchestra and have enjoyed playing together in the Longwood Symphony Orchestra for over twenty-five years. They live in Brookline and have four children who followed in their mother’s footsteps by playing string instruments.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
SYMPHONY SPONSOR - $20,000
OVERTURE SPONSOR - $5,000
Dr. Susan Pauker
Drs. Leonard Zon and Lynda Schneider
ARIA SPONSOR - $3,000
Lia & William Poorvu
Dr. Thomas Sheldon & Lisa Kennedy-Sheldon
CADENZA SPONSOR - $1,000
Dr. Ronald Arky
Joan & Kevin Donahue
Dr. Stuart & Roslyn Orkin
For more information about the 2024 Longwood Symphony Gala, including opportunities to sponsor the event or to honor Wolfram & Helle, please contact Executive Director Bridget Brazeau at bridget@longwoodsymphony.org or 617-987-0100.