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Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is currently ranked first among American research medical schools by U.S. News and World Report.
Located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, H.M.S. is home (as...
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Fred Rosen
Fred S. Rosen (May 25, 1930 – May 21, 2005) was a paediatrician and immunologist at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Center for Blood Research, and Children's Hospital of Boston. He was also an expert in antique furniture.
Rosen discovered, early in...
Jon Beckwith
Jonathan Beckwith is a prominent American microbiologist and geneticist. He is currently the American Cancer Society Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Beckwith led...
Mehmet Toner
Mehmet Toner, PhD is a Turkish born American biomedical engineer. A professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School and professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Toner first gained...
Lewis T. Williams
Rusty Williams is the founder of FivePrime, serves as its Executive Chairman and leads its research and development efforts. Prior to founding FivePrime, Dr. Williams was Chief Scientific Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Chiron...
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Benjamin Waterhouse
Benjamin Waterhouse (March 4, 1754, Newport, Rhode Island - October 2, 1846, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. He is most well known for being the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the...
Samuel R. Nussbaum
Dr. Samuel Nussbaum is executive vice president, clinical health policy and chief medical officer for WellPoint, Inc.
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Dennis A. Ausiello
The Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1996. President of the Association of American Physicians in 2006. Member of the Institute of Medicine of...
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Victor J. Dzau
Victor J. Dzau, M.D., was elected a director of PepsiCo in 2005. Dr. Dzau is chancellor for health affairs at Duke University and President and CEO of the Duke University Health System since July 2004.
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William B. Castle
William Bosworth Castle (October 21, 1897 — August 9, 1990) was an eminent American physician and physiologist who transformed hematology from a "descriptive art to a dynamic interdisciplinary science."
William B. Castle discovered gastric intrinsic...
Jim Kim
Jim Yong Kim (Korean: 김용) is a Korean-American physician, and 17th President of Dartmouth College. He has been a Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at in Health along with Dr....
Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health. He is also an associate...
Judah Folkman
Moses Judah Folkman, M.D. (February 24, 1933 – 14 January 2008) was an American medical scientist best known for his research on angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence. His work...
Paul Farmer
Paul Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American anthropologist and physician, the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in...
Paul Dudley White
Paul Dudley White (June 6, 1886 – October 31, 1973), American physician and cardiologist, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Herbert Warren White and Elizabeth Abigail Dudley. White's interest in medicine was sparked early in life, when...
Harvey Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing, M.D. (April 8, 1869 - October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery. He is widely regarded as the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century and often called the "father of modern neurosurgery"....
Derek Denny-Brown
Derek Ernest Denny-Brown OBE (1901 – 20 April 1981) was a neurologist. Working in Oxford, London and Boston, he made major contributions to the field of neurology, such as the development of electromyography, physiology of micturition and the...
Frederick R. Bieber
Frederick Robert Bieber (born February 9, 1950) is a Medical Geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a member of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University, and a Consultant at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Children's Hospital...
Steven C. Hebert
Steven C. Hebert, M.D., (b. 1946 in Rockford, Illinois—d. April 15, 2008), a board certified nephrologist, was the chair and C.N.H. Long Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and professor of medicine at Yale University, beginning in 2000....
Mary Ellen Wohl
Mary Ellen Beck Wohl, M.D. was chief of the division of respiratory diseases at Children's Hospital Boston (a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School), where she is still active as associate director of the general clinical research center....
Edward Kravitz
Edward Arthur Kravitz, Ph.D. (born December 19, 1932) is the George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Early in his scientific career Ed and colleagues demonstrated that gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) functions as a...
M. Charles Liberman
Dr. Michael Charles Liberman, PhD (July 17, 1952) was born to Alvin Liberman and Isabelle Liberman in Storrs, Connecticut. He is now Director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, MA and Harold...
Sanford Palay
Sanford Louis "Sandy" Palay (b. 23 September 1918, Cleveland, Ohio, USA – d. 5 August 2002, Concord, Massachusetts, USA) was an American scientist and educator.
Palay received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College. Upon graduation in 1940, he...
Ali Khademhosseini
Ali Khademhosseini (born October 30, 1975) is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He is internationally known for his research in the area of biomedical microdevices and...
Ann Kiessling
Dr. Ann A. Kiessling (born March 29, 1942) is an American reproductive biologist and is currently one of the leaders in human parthenogenic stem cell research at The Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation. She also has an appointment in the...
Carola Eisenberg
Carola Blitzman Eisenberg, MD, now retired but actively involved in human rights work through Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and elsewhere, is the former Dean of Students of MIT (the first woman to hold that position at MIT), Dean of Students...
Thomas Michel
Thomas Michel is a Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School interested in the intracellular pathways regulating the endothelial isoform of nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). He is an active clinician, researcher, and educator, and has won numerous...
Leon Eisenberg
Leon Eisenberg (1922 – September 15, 2009) was a child psychiatrist, social psychiatrist and medical educator who "transformed child psychiatry by advocating research into developmental problems" (David DeMaso). He was credited with a number of ...
Harrison "Skip" Pope Jr.
Dr. Harrison Graham Pope Jr. "Skip" (b. 1947, Massachusetts), MD, MPH is an American professor and physician, currently Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician at McLean Hospital. He is also the Director,...
Soma Weiss
Soma Weiss (1898-1942) was born in Beszterce, Transylvania, then part of Hungary. He studied physiology and biochemistry in Budapest. Immediately after the end of World War I, he emigrated to the United States and qualified in medicine in 1923....
Rakesh Jain
Rakesh K. Jain is the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jain primarily researches tumor pathophysiology. His work on cancer therapies led to discovery of an alternate use...
Leon S. Robertson
Leon S. Robertson is a retired injury epidemiologist.
From 1978 to 1998, Robertson occupied various positions in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University. He previously...
Henry Kronenberg
Henry Kronenberg (fl. 2000s) is an American physician and academic. As of 2006 he is Division Head of Endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA and a Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He is noted for his...
Marcia Angell
Marcia Angell, M.D. (born 1939) is an American physician, author, and the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). She currently is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard...
Terry Cline
Terry L. Cline is an American psychologist and public health policy specialist, and is currently the Oklahoma State Health Commissioner. From December 2006 through August 2008 he served as the administrator of the federal Substance Abuse and Mental...
John Garcia
John Garcia (born June 12, 1917) is an American psychologist, most known for his research on taste aversion learning. Garcia studied at the University of California-Berkeley, where he received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in 1955 at the age of...
Alvin F. Poussaint
Alvin Francis Poussaint (b. May 15, 1934 in New York City) is a noted professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the author of numerous books on child psychiatry, with a particular focus on the raising of African American children....
William Berenberg
William Berenberg, M.D. (October 29, 1915 – September 14, 2005) was an American physician, Harvard professor, and pioneer in the treatment and rehabilitation of cerebral palsy.
Berenberg was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts to immigrant parents....
Timothy Johnson
G. Timothy Johnson (born 1936) is an American academic, minister, physician, television journalist and writer who, as "Dr. Tim Johnson", is best known to television viewers as the longtime chief medical correspondent for ABC News on the ABC...
Lester Grinspoon
Dr. Lester Grinspoon was born June 24, 1928 in Newton, Massachussetts. He is married and the father of 3 children. Dr. Grinspoon is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the author or co-author of several drug...
Fritz Albert Lipmann
Fritz Albert Lipmann (June 12, 1899 – July 24, 1986) was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded half the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in...
Robert Stickgold
Robert Stickgold is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. A preeminent sleep researcher, Dr. Stickgold has dedicated his life to understanding the relationship between sleep and...
Samuel O. Thier
Samuel O. Thier (born 1937) is professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard University. He previously served as the president of Brandeis University from 1991-94 and the president of the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1994-97.
Thier...
Baruj Benacerraf
Baruj Benacerraf (born 29 October 1920) is a Venezuelan immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the...
Phyllis Jen
Dr. Phyllis Jen was the medical director at Brigham and Women's Hospital - a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School - in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Jen was killed in a head-on collision in Needham, Massachusetts, on April 21, 2009 at about 5...
