- Dean Ornish
Dean Ornish , M.D. Author of Love and Survival and Dr. Dean Ornish 's Program for the Reversal
- Judah Folkman
Dr. Judah Folkman (b. 1933) is an American cellular scientist best known for his research on angiogenesis and vasculogenesis. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Folkman attended Ohio State University and then Harvard Medical School. After his graduation, he worked at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he rose to the rank of chief resident in surgery. During this time, Folkman worked on liver cancer and atrio-pacemakers. His work earned him the Boylston Medical Prize, …
- Paul Farmer
Dr. Paul Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American professor and physician, currently the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. His medical specialty is Infectious Diseases. Farmer is one of the founders of Partners In Health (PIH), an international health and social justice organization.
- George Church
George Church (1954-) is an American molecular geneticist. He is currently Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences & Technology at Harvard and MIT. With Walter Gilbert he developed the first direct genomic sequencing method in 1984 and helped initiate the Human Genome Project in 1984 while he was a Research Scientist at newly-formed Biogen Inc. He invented the broadly-applied concepts of molecular multiplexing and tags, …
- Marcia Angell
Marcia Angell , M. D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine on June 30, 2000. A graduate of Boston University School of Medicine, she trained in both internal medicine and anatomic pathology and is a board-certified pathologist.
- Jerome Groopman
Jerome Groopman has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for "The New Yorker" since 1998. He is also the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of four books. He has published approximately 150 scientific articles and has written several Op-Ed pieces on medicine for the "New York Times", the "Washington Post", …
- Jerry Avorn
Jerry Avorn , M.D., is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. An internist, geriatrician, and drug researcher, he is the author of more than two hundred papers in the medical literature on medication use and its outcomes, and one of the most frequently cited researchers in the fields of social science and medicine.
- Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker magazine and the online magazine "Slate." He has also written for "New England Journal of Medicine".
- Robert Stickgold
Robert Stickgold is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. A preeminent sleep researcher, Dr. Stickgold dedicated his life to understanding the relationship between sleep and learning. He is also a very active educator. His multiple articles in the popular press are intended to illustrate the dangers of sleep deprivation. Dr. Stickgold lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has four children.
- Eric Lander
Eric Steven Lander (b. February 3, 1957) is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member of the Whitehead Institute, and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career toward realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1974 and then attended Princeton University.
- John Ratey
John J. Ratey, M.D., is associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the coauthor of "Driven to Distraction", "Answers to Distraction", "Delivered form Distraction" (2005), and "Shadow Syndromes". In 2001 he published the book "A User's Guide to the Brain," in which he describes the human brain as a flexible muscle, which works on a "use it or lose it" basis.
- Jim Yong Kim
Dr. Jim Yong Kim is an American physician. He is a Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of the Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and a former director of the World Health Organization HIV/AIDS department.
- Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone (born 7 August 1961 Valencia, Spain) is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, with which he has been affiliated since 1997. He is the Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr.
- Alvin F. Poussaint
Alvin Francis Poussaint (b. May 15, 1934 in East Harlem, New York) is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. As a youth, Poussaint took ill with rheumatic fever, which left him unable to engage in the physical activities of his peers. The academic pursuits that characterized his early years led him to acquire an M.D from Cornell University, and postgraduate training from the University of California, Los Angeles, …
- Anthony Atala
Anthony Atala, M.D., is the Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Chair of the Department of Urology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in the state of North Carolina in the United States. Regenerative medicine is "a practice that aims to refurbish diseased or damaged tissue using the body's own healthy cells." Atala was born in Peru in 1958, grew up in Boca Raton, Florida, and comes from a large family..
- Mehmet Toner
Mehmet Toner is Professor of Surgery (Biomedical Engineering) at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and is the founding director of the NIH BioMEMS Resource Center. Dr. Toner was born in Istanbul, Turkey in July 1958. Dr. Toner received a Bachelor of Science degree from Istanbul Technical University in 1983 and an M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1985, both in Mechanical Engineering.
- Timothy Johnson
Dr. G. Timothy Johnson, frequently called Tim Johnson, is the current main medical editor/contributor for ABC News. He provides on-air medical ABC's "World News Tonight", "Nightline" and "20/20". He also appears on "Good Morning America". Johnson is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital. Johnson received his undergraduate degree from Augustana College, …
- Philip Leder
Philip Leder (b. November 19, 1934) is an American geneticist. He was born in Washington, D.C. and studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1960. In 1964, he graduated from Harvard Medical School. He is known for his early work with Marshall Nirenberg for working on the genetic code and the Nirenberg and Leder experiment. Since that landmark experiment, he has made many seminal contributions in the fields of molecular genetics, …
- David Reich
David Reich is a geneticist and professor in the department of genetics at the Harvard Medical School, and an associate of the Broad Institute, whose research studies comparing human DNA with that of chimpanzees has generated controversy. Dr. Reich's genetics research focuses primarily on finding complex genetic patterns that cause susceptibility to common diseases among large populations, rather than finding specific genetic flaws associated with relatively rare illnesses.
- Sidney Farber
Sidney Farber (1903-1973) was a pediatric pathologist. He was born in 1903 in Buffalo, N.Y., the third oldest of a family of 14 children. He was a graduate of the University of Buffalo in 1923. He took his first year of medical school at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany. He entered Harvard Medical School as a second-year student and graduated in 1927. He was married to Norma C. Farber (formerly Holzman), a children's author.
- Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas (November 25 1913 - December 3, 1993) was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. He became Dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He was invited to write regular essays in the "New England Journal of Medicine", …
- R. Rox Anderson
R. Rox Anderson, is an interdisciplinary researcher in photomedicine, the combination of the physics of light with medicine. Anderson is the director of the "Wellman Center for Photomedicine" at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, and faculty at the Harvard Medical School in the department of Dermatology. His contributions include laser hair removal, photodynamic therapy (use of light-activated localized drugs for cancer and macular degeneration), …
- Ali Khademhosseini
Ali Khademhosseini (born October 30, 1975) is a 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 biomaterials. He has developed a number of methods for controlling the stem cell microenvironment using novel microscale devices and to engineer biomaterials for tissue engineering.
- Julius Richmond
Dr. Julius B. Richmond was the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus at Harvard University. From 1983 to 1988 he was Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education at Harvard University. He served as Professor of Child Psychiatry and Human Development at the Harvard Medical School as well as Chairman of Psychiatry at Children's Hospital and Director of the Judge Baker Children's Center from 1971-77.
- Leon Eisenberg
Dr. Leon Eisenberg (born 1922), Child Psychiatrist and Medical Educator, is credited with a number of "firsts" in medicine and psychiatry - in child psychiatry, autism, and the controversies around autism, RCTs, social medicine, global health, affirmative action, and evidence-based psychiatry.
- William Sears
William Sears (born c. 1940) is an American pediatrician, the author or co-author of more than 30 parenting books, most notably several in the "Sears Parenting Library." He is a frequent guest on television talkshows, where he goes by the name Dr. Bill. He and his wife Martha Sears, R.N., are among the leading proponents of the attachment parenting philosophy.
- Denise Faustman
Denise Faustman, is a U.S. physician and medical researcher. An associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, her work specializes in Diabetes mellitus type 1 (formerly called juvenile diabetes). She has worked at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston since 1985.
- Robert Whitaker
Robert Whitaker, the author of "Mad in America", has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science. In the past few years, he has won the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and a National Association for Science Writers’ Award for best magazine article (which appeared in "Fortune").
- Arnold S. Relman
Dr. Arnold S. Relman, M.D. is a professor emeritus of medicine and of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. He is a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine (1977-91) and writes extensively on medical publishing and reform of the U.S. health care system.
- Rakesh Jain
Dr. 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 of Herceptin, an anti-tumor cell pharmaceutical compound produced by Genentech, as an inhibitor for blood vessel growth necessary for tumor growth.
- Rafael Campo
Rafael Campo (poet) (1964) is an openly gay, Cuban-American poet, doctor, and author. He was born in New Jersey. He graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Medical School. He practices medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. His writing focuses on themes that promote equality and justice for gays, people of color, and working-class individuals.
- Thomas Michel
Dr. Thomas Michel is a Professor of 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 awards for all three modalities. He is widely considered to be on the "long list" for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of eNOS, a key regulator of vascular tone.
- 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 the research group that in 1969 isolated the first gene from a bacterial chromosome. Following this discovery, he has made important contributions to the study of bacterial genetics.
- Paul Dudley White
Paul Dudley White, M.D. (June 6, 1886 - October 31, 1973) was a pioneering cardiologist, and a founding member of the American Heart Association. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts and attended the Roxbury Latin School, from which he graduated in 1903. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1911.
- Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton (February 27,1869 - September 22,1970) was the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard Medical School and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health. She was a pioneer in the field of toxicology, studying occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and chemical compounds on the human body. Alice Hamilton was born in 1869 to Montgomery Hamilton and Gertrude Hamilton (nee Pond), in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel is a noted NIH bioethicist, and a leading opponent of state-assisted suicide. Currently Emanuel is Director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. He graduated from Amherst College and received his MSc from Oxford University in Biochemisty. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Political Philosophy from Harvard University. He also is a brother of Hollywood-based superagent Ari Emanuel, …
- Elliott P. Joslin
Elliot Proctor Joslin, M.D. (June 1869 - 28 January 1962) was an American diabetologist, and founder of the Joslin Clinic. He was born in Oxford, Massachusetts and educated at Leicester Academy, Yale College and Harvard Medical School. While still a medical student, he wrote the work that was to later be published as "The Pathology of Diabetes Mellitus", which became a mainstay of diabetes treatment. His postgraduate training was at Massachusetts General Hospital, …
- Soma Weiss
Soma Weiss was born in Bestereze, 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. After initially working at Cornell University, Weiss moved to Harvard Medical School, and in 1939 became physician-in-chief and professor at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
- Ernest Gruening
Ernest Henry Gruening (February 6, 1887-June 26, 1974) was an American journalist and Democrat who was the Governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from Alaska from 1959 until 1969. Born in New York City, Gruening graduated from Harvard University in 1907 and from Harvard Medical School in 1912. He then forsook medicine to pursue journalism. Initially a reporter for the "Boston American" in 1912, …
- Bryan Bergeron
Bryan Bergeron, MD, is an author of numerous books in the fields of medicine, computers, biotechnology, and business. He teaches in the HST Division of Harvard Medical School and MIT and is president of Archetype Technologies, Inc.