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Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 and currently the #1 medical school in America, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report.

Located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill
Mission Hill, Boston, Massachusetts

Mission Hill is a 3/4 square mile neighborhood of approximately 18,000 people in Boston, Massachusetts.The neighborhood is roughly bounded by Columbus Avenue and the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the east, Longwood Avenue to the northeast and the Frederick Law Olmsted designed The Riverway/The Jamaicaway and the town of B...
 neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
, H.M.S. is home (as of Fall 2006) to 616 students in the M.D.
Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine is a Doctorate for physicians . The degree is granted from medical schools.It is a first professional degree in some countries, including the United States and Canada, although training is entered after obtaining at least 90 hours of university level work ....
 program, 435 in the Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
 program, and 155 in the M.D.-Ph.D program. HMS' M.D.-Ph.D program allows a student to receive an M.D.






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Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 and currently the #1 medical school in America, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report.

Located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill
Mission Hill, Boston, Massachusetts

Mission Hill is a 3/4 square mile neighborhood of approximately 18,000 people in Boston, Massachusetts.The neighborhood is roughly bounded by Columbus Avenue and the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the east, Longwood Avenue to the northeast and the Frederick Law Olmsted designed The Riverway/The Jamaicaway and the town of B...
 neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
, H.M.S. is home (as of Fall 2006) to 616 students in the M.D.
Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine is a Doctorate for physicians . The degree is granted from medical schools.It is a first professional degree in some countries, including the United States and Canada, although training is entered after obtaining at least 90 hours of university level work ....
 program, 435 in the Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
 program, and 155 in the M.D.-Ph.D program. HMS' M.D.-Ph.D program allows a student to receive an M.D. from HMS and a Ph.D from either Harvard or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
 (see Medical Scientist Training Program
Medical Scientist Training Program

Medical Scientist Training Programs are highly selective combined Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy Academic degree programs offered by a number of United States medical schools with Grant support from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences ....
).

The school has a large and distinguished faculty to support its missions of education, research, and clinical care. These faculty hold appointments in the basic science departments on the HMS Quadrangle, and in the clinical departments located in multiple Harvard
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
-affiliated hospital
Hospital

A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
s and institutions in Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
. There are approximately 2,900 full- and part-time voting faculty members consisting of assistant, associate, and full professors, and over 5,000 full or part-time non-voting instructors.

Prospective students apply to one of two tracks to the M.D. degree. New Pathway, the larger of the two programs, emphasizes problem-based learning
Problem-based learning

Problem-based learning is a student-centered instructional strategy in which students collaboratively solve problems and reflect on their experiences....
. HST, operated by the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Founded in 1970, the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, or HST, is one of the oldest and largest biomedical engineering and Medical Scientist Training Program in the United States and the longest-standing functional collaboration between Harvard and MIT....
, emphasizes medical research.

The current dean of the medical school is Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier, a diabetes specialist and the former Chief Academic Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Both an international and regional referral center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts is a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School....
.

History

The school is the third oldest medical school in the US and was founded by Dr. John Warren
John Warren (surgeon)

John Warren was a Continental Army surgeon during the American Revolutionary War and the younger brother of Joseph Warren.Warren was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts and studied at The Roxbury Latin School and medicine under his elder brother Joseph, later becoming a renowned doctor in Boston, Massachusetts....
 on September 19th, 1782 with Benjamin Waterhouse
Benjamin Waterhouse

Benjamin Waterhouse 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 United States, which he carried out on his own family....
, and Aaron Dexter. The first lectures were given in the basement of Harvard Hall and then in Holden Chapel
Holden Chapel

Holden Chapel is a small building in Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University. Built in 1744, it is the third oldest building at Harvard and one of the oldest college buildings in America....
. The first class, composed of 2 students, graduated in 1788.

It moved from Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
 to 49 Marlborough Street in Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
 in 1810. From 1816 to 1846, the school, known as Massachusetts Medical College of Harvard University, was located on Mason Street. In 1847, the school relocated to North Grove Street, and then to Copley Square in 1883. The medical school moved to its current location on Longwood Avenue in 1906, where the "Great White Quadrangle" with its 5 white marble buildings was established. The architect for the campus was the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge
Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge

Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge was a successful architecture firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, operating between 1886 and 1915, with extensive commissions in monumental civic and collegiate architecture in the spirit and style of Henry Hobson Richardson....
.

The Harvard Medical School Dubai Center (HMSDC) Institute for Postgraduate Education and Research launched in 2004 through a joint effort by Partners Harvard Medical International and Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), HMSDC is part of the Government of Dubai’s mission to develop DHCC into a center of excellence for health care delivery, medical education, and research.

Major teaching affiliates


  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Both an international and regional referral center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts is a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School....
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Brigham and Women's Hospital is the largest hospital of Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Boston, Massachusetts and is directly adjacent to Harvard Medical School of which it is the second largest Teaching hospital....
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
    Massachusetts General Hospital

    Massachusetts General Hospital is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and a biomedical research facility in Boston, Massachusetts.It is owned and operated by Partners HealthCare ....


These three institutions are often referred to as the "Harvard Trinity" by students and faculty. This is because their affiliations have been in place for the greatest period of time and every department is directly affiliated with the medical school...

Teaching affiliates


  • Children's Hospital Boston
    Children's Hospital Boston

    Children's Hospital Boston is a children's hospital located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts.Located at 300 Longwood Avenue, Children's is adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute....
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is part of a Comprehensive Cancer Center designated by the National Cancer Institute. It is a major affiliate of Harvard Medical School and is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts....
  • Mount Auburn Hospital
  • Joslin Diabetes Center
    Joslin Diabetes Center

    Joslin Diabetes Center is the world?s largest diabetes research center, diabetes clinic, and provider of diabetes education. It is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston, Massachusetts....
  • Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
    Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

    Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, known locally as Mass. Eye and Ear, is a specialty hospital providing patient care for disorders of the eye, ear, nose, throat, head and neck....
  • McLean Hospital
    McLean Hospital

    McLean Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.It is noted for its clinical staff expertise and ground-breaking neuroscience research....
  • Cambridge Hospital
    Cambridge Hospital

    Cambridge Hospital is a 151-bed medical/surgical and psychiatric hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Located 1/2 mile from Harvard Square, it is one of three hospital campuses of Cambridge Health Alliance....
  • Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
    Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

    Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital is a physical medicine and rehabilitation hospital located in Boston, Massachusetts. It is affiliated with the Harvard Medical School....
  • The Forsyth Institute
    The Forsyth Institute

    Forsyth Institute is one of the leading centers for dental and craniofacial research in the world. It is located in the Fenway area of Boston close to the Museum of Fine Arts....
     Fsi
  • VA Boston Healthcare System
    VA Boston Healthcare System

    The VA Boston Healthcare System is a set of hospitals run by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in the Greater Boston area. It comprises nine campuses, with three major medical centers in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Brockton, Massachusetts....
  • Harvard Stem Cell Institute
  • Hansjorg Wyss Institute


Student life


Second Year Show

Every winter, second year students at HMS write, direct and perform a full length musical parody, lampooning Harvard, their professors, and themselves. 2007 was the Centennial performance as the Class of 2009 presented "Joseph Martin and the Amazing Technicolor White Coat" to sellout crowds at Roxbury Community College on February 22, 23 and 24.

Societies


Upon matriculation, medical and dental students at Harvard Medical School are divided into five societies named after famous HMS alumni, with the exception of HST
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Founded in 1970, the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, or HST, is one of the oldest and largest biomedical engineering and Medical Scientist Training Program in the United States and the longest-standing functional collaboration between Harvard and MIT....
. Each has a society master along with several associate society masters who serve as academic advisors to students. In the New Pathway program, students work in small group tutorials and lab sessions within their societies. Every year, the five societies compete in "Society Olympics" for the famed Pink Flamingo in a series of events (e.g. dance-off, dodgeball, limbo contest) that test the unorthodox talents of the students in each society. HST currently possesses the Pink Flamingo, having won it three years in a row.

  • Francis Weld Peabody
  • William Bosworth Castle
    William B. Castle (hematologist)

    William Bosworth Castle was an eminent American physician and physiologist who transformed hematology from a "descriptive art to a dynamic interdisciplinary science."...
  • Walter Bradford Cannon
    Walter Bradford Cannon

    Walter Bradford Cannon was an United States physiologist, Professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School, who developed the concept of homeostasis, and popularized it in his book The Wisdom of the Body, published in 1932 by W....
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
    Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

    Founded in 1970, the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, or HST, is one of the oldest and largest biomedical engineering and Medical Scientist Training Program in the United States and the longest-standing functional collaboration between Harvard and MIT....


In fiction


In Samuel Shem
Samuel Shem

Samuel Shem is the pen-name of the United States psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman . His main works are The House of God and Mount Misery, both fictional but close-to-real first-hand descriptions of the training of doctors in the United States....
's book, The House of God
The House of God

The House of God is a satirical novel by Samuel Shem , published in 1978. It portrays the psychological harm done to Residency during the course of Residency in the early 1970's....
, the medical school and its students are referred to as BMS (Best Medical School/Students). The novel is set in the famed Beth Israel Deaconess hospital in Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
 where the author spent his internship year.

In Erich Segal
Erich Segal

Erich Wolf Segal is an United States author, screenwriter, and educator....
's book, Doctors, the main plot is set in Harvard Medical School (HMS) where the main characters attend.

In the movie 21
21 (2008 film)

21 is a 2008 in film drama film from Columbia Pictures. It is directed by Australian director Robert Luketic and stars Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Jacob Pitts, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Aaron Yoo and Liza Lapira....
, Ben Campbell's goal is to attend Harvard Medical School (HMS) with proper funding.

Notable alumni

  • John R. Adler
    John R. Adler

    John R. Adler, Jr. is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University who specializes in the treatment of brain and spinal tumors. His primary area of academic interest involves the development of minimally invasive computerized tools for surgery....
     - academic
  • Robert B. Aird
    Robert B. Aird

    Robert Burns Aird , an United States educator and physician, founded the department of neurology at the University of California at San Francisco....
     - academic
  • Tenley Albright
    Tenley Albright

    Tenley Emma Albright, M.D. became the first United States female skater to win a figure skating Olympic gold medal, at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy....
     - figure skater
  • William French Anderson
    William French Anderson

    William French Anderson, M.D. is a United States physician, geneticist and molecular biology. He is considered a pioneer of gene therapy. He graduated from Harvard College in 1958 and from Harvard Medical School in 1963....
     - geneticist
  • Christian B. Anfinsen
    Christian B. Anfinsen

    Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. was a biochemist and a 1972 Nobel Prize laureate for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation ....
     - chemist
  • Paul S. Appelbaum
    Paul S. Appelbaum

    Paul Stuart Appelbaum is an American psychiatrist, and an expert on legal and ethical issues in medicine and psychiatry....
     - academic
  • Jerry Avorn
    Jerry Avorn

    Jerome "Jerry" Lewis Avorn, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women?s Hospital....
     - academic
  • Herbert Benson
    Herbert Benson

    Herbert Benson is an United States cardiologist and founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute near Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Wesleyan University and Harvard School of Medicine....
     - cardiologist
  • Thomas Bollier
    Thomas Bollier

    Thomas Bollier is a neurologist, philanthropist, and father of two. He was the first neurologist to perform brain surgery on a civilian watercraft. He operates out of a private clinic in Nova Scotia....
    - Neurologist and philanthropist
  • Roscoe Brady
    Roscoe Brady

    Roscoe O. Brady M.D., is a senior investigator at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a part of the National Institute of Health, USA, where he is currently the chief of the Developmental and Metabolic Neurology Branch....
     - biochemist
  • Henry Bryant
    Henry Bryant

    Henry Bryant was an United States physician and natural history. He was the grandfather of Henry Bryant Bigelow....
     - physician
  • Rafael Campo
    Rafael Campo (poet)

    Rafael Campo is an United States poet, doctor, and author.He was born in New Jersey. He graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Medical School....
     - poet
  • Ethan Canin
    Ethan Canin

    Ethan Andrew Canin is an United States educator, author, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.Canin was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan while his parents were vacationing from Iowa City, where his father taught violin at the University of Iowa....
     - author
  • Walter Bradford Cannon
    Walter Bradford Cannon

    Walter Bradford Cannon was an United States physiologist, Professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School, who developed the concept of homeostasis, and popularized it in his book The Wisdom of the Body, published in 1932 by W....
     - physiologist
  • William B. Castle
    William B. Castle (hematologist)

    William Bosworth Castle was an eminent American physician and physiologist who transformed hematology from a "descriptive art to a dynamic interdisciplinary science."...
     - hematologist
  • George C. S. Choate
    George C. S. Choate

    George Cheyne Shattuck Choate was a physician and the founder of St. Paul's School ....
     - physician
  • Aram Chobanian
    Aram Chobanian

    Aram V. Chobanian was president ad interim of Boston University from 2003 until June 9, 2005, when, in recognition of Chobanian?s work, the Board of Trustees voted to remove ?ad interim? from his title and designate him the ninth president of Boston University....
     - President of Boston University (2003-2005)
  • Stanley Cobb
    Stanley Cobb

    Stanley Cobb was a neurologist and could be considered "the founder of biological psychiatry in the United States".Cobb's childhood and education were affected by his stammer, which it is suggested led him to study the neurosciences in an attempt to understand its cause....
     - neurologist
  • Ernest Codman
    Ernest Codman

    Ernest Amory Codman, M.D., was a U.S. physician. He was an advocate of hospital reform and is the acknowledged founder of what today is known as outcomes management in patient care....
     - physician
  • Michael Crichton
    Michael Crichton

    John Michael Crichton, Doctor of Medicine , was an United States author, film producer, film director, and physician, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and techno-thriller genres....
     - author
  • Harvey Cushing
    Harvey Cushing

    Harvey Williams Cushing was an American neurosurgery 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"....
     - neurosurgeon
  • Elliott Cutler
    Elliott Cutler

    Elliot Carr Cutler was an United States surgeon and medical educator. He was Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Surgeon-in-Chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1932 to 1947....
     - surgeon
  • Yellapragada Subbarao
    Yellapragada Subbarao

    Yellapragada Subbarao was an Indian scientist who made important contributions to the treatment of cancer. Most of his career was spent in the United States....
     Biochemist
  • Fe del Mundo
    Fe del Mundo

    Fe del Mundo is a Philippines pediatrics. Possibly the first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School, she founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines....
     - pediatrician, first Filipino and possibly first woman admitted to HMS (1936)
  • Allan S. Detsky
    Allan S. Detsky

    Allan Steven Detsky is a Canadian physician and health policy expert.He is currently Physician-in-Chief at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Professor of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist, Division of Clinical Investigation and Human Physiology, Toronto General Research Institute....
     - physician
  • James Madison DeWolf
    James Madison DeWolf

    Dr. James Madison DeWolf was an acting assistant surgeon in the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment who was killed in the Battle of the Little Big Horn....
     - soldier; physician
  • Peter Diamandis
    Peter Diamandis

    Dr. Peter H. Diamandis of Greece immigrant parents, is considered a key figure in the development of the personal spaceflight industry, having created many space-related businesses or organizations....
     - entrepreneur
  • Daniel DiLorenzo
    Daniel DiLorenzo

    Daniel John DiLorenzo is a medical device entrepreneur and physician-scientist. He is the inventor of several technologies for the treatment of neurological disease and is the founder of several companies which are developing technologies to treat epilepsy and other medical diseases and improve the quality of life of afflicted patients....
     - entrepreneur; neurosurgeon; inventor
  • Thomas Dwight
    Thomas Dwight

    Thomas Dwight was an anatomist and teacher. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dwight became a Catholic in 1856, and graduated from the Harvard Medical School, 1867; after studying abroad, he was instructor in comparative anatomy at Harvard College, 1872-1873, he also lectured at Bowdoin College, and succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr....
     - anatomist
  • Edward Evarts
    Edward Evarts

    Edward Vaughan Evarts was the neuroscientist who pioneered single-unit recordings from the brains of awake, behaving monkeys. Evarts received his undergraduate degree at Harvard College and an M.D....
     - neuroscientist
  • Sidney Farber
    Sidney Farber

    Sidney Farber was a pediatric pathologist. He was born in 1903 in Buffalo, New York, the third oldest of a family of 14 children. He was a graduate of the University of Buffalo in 1923....
     - pathologist
  • Paul Farmer
    Paul Farmer

    Paul Farmer is an United States anthropology 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 Boston, Massachusetts....
     - infectious disease physician; global health
  • Harvey V. Fineberg
    Harvey V. Fineberg

    Harvey Fineberg is President of the Institute of Medicine. He served as Provost of Harvard University from 1997 to 2001, following thirteen years as Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health....
     - academic administrator
  • John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald - Mayor of Boston (1906-08; 1910-14)
  • Thomas Fitzpatrick - dermatologist
  • Judah Folkman
    Judah Folkman

    Dr. Moses Judah Folkman was an United States Medicine scientist best known for his research on angiogenesis and vasculogenesis, processes where tumors generate tiny blood vessels to nourish themselves....
     - scientist
  • Bill Frist
    Bill Frist

    William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr., M.D. is an American physician, businessman, and politician. Frist served two terms as a United States Senate where he became the United States Republican Party Majority Leader from 2003 until his retirement in 2007....
     - U.S. Senator (1995-2007)
  • Atul Gawande
    Atul Gawande

    Atul Gawande 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....
     - surgeon, author
  • George Lincoln Goodale
    George Lincoln Goodale

    George Lincoln Goodale was an United States Botany, born at Saco, Maine, Maine. He graduated at Amherst College in 1860 and at Harvard Medical School in 1863, after which he practiced at Portland, Maine, Me., until 1867; became professor of natural science and applied chemistry at Bowdoin College; and at Harvard University was appointed ins...
     - botanist
  • Ernest Gruening
    Ernest Gruening

    Ernest Henry Gruening was an United States journalist and United States Democratic Party who was the List of Governors of Alaska of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senate from Alaska from 1959 until 1969....
     - Governor of the Alaska Territory (1939-53); U.S. Senator (1959-69)
  • I. Kathleen Hagen - academic
  • Dean Hamer
    Dean Hamer

    Dr Dean Hamer is an United States genetics. Hamer is the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute ....
     - geneticist
  • Alice Hamilton
    Alice Hamilton

    Alice Hamilton was the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health....
     - first female faculty member at Harvard Medical School.
  • Michael R. Harrison
    Michael R. Harrison

    Michael R. Harrison, M.D. served as division chief in Pediatric Surgery at the Children?s Hospital at the University of California, San Francisco for over 20 years, where he established the first Fetal Treatment Center in the U.S....
     - pediatrician
  • Bernadine Healy
    Bernadine Healy

    'Bernadine Patricia Healy' is a cardiologist and a former head of the National Institutes of Health and the American Red Cross. She is a senior writer for U.S....
     - Director of the National Institutes of Health (1991-93); CEO of the American Red Cross (1999-2001)
  • Ronald A. Heifetz
    Ronald A. Heifetz

    Ronald A. Heifetz is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership, co-founder of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F....
     - academic
  • Lawrence Joseph Henderson
    Lawrence Joseph Henderson

    Lawrence Joseph Henderson was a physiologist, chemist,biologist, philosopher, and sociologist. He became one of the leading biochemists of the first decades of the 20th century....
     - biochemist
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifetime, he was one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century and is considered a member of the Fireside Poets....
     - physician; poet
  • Yang Huanming
    Yang Huanming

    Dr. Yang Huanming, also known as Dr. Henry Yang, is one of China's leading genetics researchers. Yang directs the Beijing Genomics Institute, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China....
     - academic
  • William James
    William James

    William James was a pioneering American psychology and philosophy trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religion experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism....
     - philosopher
  • Mildred Fay Jefferson
    Mildred Fay Jefferson

    Mildred Fay Jefferson is an United States Physician and activist, born in Texas. Her father was a Methodist minister. Growing up in the Jim Crow laws era, she nevertheless became the first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School in 1951....
     activist; first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School.
  • Elliott P. Joslin
    Elliott P. Joslin

    Elliott Proctor Joslin, M.D. was the first doctor in the United States to specialize in diabetes and was the founder of today?s Joslin Diabetes Center....
     - diabetololgist
  • Nathan Cooley Keep
    Nathan Cooley Keep

    Dr. Nathan Cooley Keep was a pioneer in the field of dentistry, and the founding Dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.Biography...
     - dentist
  • Jim Kim
    Jim Kim

    Dr. Jim Yong Kim is a Korean American physician. He is a Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of the Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rig...
     - physician, global health leader
  • Melvin Konner
    Melvin Konner

    Melvin Konner, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy, is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University....
     - author and biological anthropologist
  • Charles Krauthammer
    Charles Krauthammer

    Charles Krauthammer , is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated Op-Ed and Pundit . His weekly column appears in the The Washington Post and is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers and media outlets....
     - columnist
  • Philip J. Landrigan
    Philip J. Landrigan

    Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc., is an United States epidemiologist and pediatrician and one of the world's leading advocates of children's health....
     - epidemiologist and pediatrician
  • Aristides Leão
    Aristides Leão

    Aristides de Azevedo Pacheco Le?o was one of the most noted Brazilian biologists and scientists, one of the founders of the Instituto de B?of?sica da Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the discoverer of spreading depression, an electrophysiology phenomenon of the central nervous system, wh...
     - biologist
  • Philip Leder
    Philip Leder

    Philip Leder is an United States geneticist. He was born in Washington, D.C. and studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1956. In 1960, he graduated from Harvard Medical School....
     - geneticist
  • Simon LeVay
    Simon LeVay

    Simon LeVay is an United States neuroscience known for his studies about brain structures and sexual orientation....
     - neuroscientist
  • Joseph Lovell
    Joseph Lovell

    Dr. Joseph Lovell was the 8th Surgeons General of the United States Army, ,Lovell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of James S. and Deborah Lovell....
     - Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1818-36)
  • Karl Menninger
    Karl Menninger

    Karl Augustus Menninger , born in Topeka, Kansas, was an United States psychiatrist and a member of the famous Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas....
     - psychiatrist
  • Randell Mills - scientist
  • Joseph Murray
    Joseph Murray

    Joseph E. Murray , United States of America surgeon, performed the first successful human Organ transplant from an adult to his identical twin....
     - surgeon
  • Amos Nourse
    Amos Nourse

    Amos Nourse was a medical doctor and U.S. Senator for a very short term from the state of Maine. Born in Bolton, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard College in 1812 and from Harvard Medical School in 1817....
     - U.S. Senator (1857)
  • David Page - biologist
  • Hiram Polk
    Hiram Polk

    Dr. Hiram C. Polk, Jr. is native of Jackson, Mississippi and alumnus of Millsaps College and the Harvard Medical School. He served as the Ben A....
     - academic
  • Geoffrey Potts
    Geoffrey Potts

    Geoffrey Franklin Potts, Ph.D., a Cognitive psychology, is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Rice University, in Houston, Texas.Potts earned his Ph.D....
     - academic
  • Morton Prince
    Morton Prince

    Morton Henry Prince was an American physician who specialized in neurology and abnormal psychology, and was a leading force in establishing psychology as a clinical and academic discipline....
     - neurologist
  • Wade Regehr
    Wade Regehr

    Wade Regehr, Ph.D. is a Professor of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School Dept of Neurobiology. Regehr's laboratory studies the implication of Calcium Ca2+ as it affects synaptic strength....
     - neurobiologist
  • Alexander Rich
    Alexander Rich

    Alexander Rich, Doctor of Medicine is a biologist and biophysicist. He is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School....
     - biophysicist
  • Oswald Hope Robertson
    Oswald Hope Robertson

    Oswald Hope Robertson was an England-born medical scientist who pioneered the idea of blood banks in the "blood depots" he established in 1917 during service in France with the Army Medical Department ....
     - medical scientist
  • Wilfredo Santa-Gómez
    Wilfredo Santa-Gómez

    Wilfredo Santa Gomez is a Puerto Rico author born in the city of Caguas, Puerto Rico and has written a total of five books in Spanish language on self help, short stories, and poetry....
     - author
  • Alfred Sommer (ophthalmologist)
    Alfred Sommer (ophthalmologist)

    Alfred Sommer is a prominent American ophthalmologist and academic at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health....
     - academic
  • Felicia Stewart
    Felicia Stewart

    Dr. Felicia H. Stewart, MD was a women's health physician and expert in the field of reproductive health....
     - physician
  • Lubert Stryer
    Lubert Stryer

    Lubert Stryer is the Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Research Fellow from 1961 to 1964 before initiating his own research pro?gram at Stanford....
     - academic
  • James B. Sumner
    James B. Sumner

    James Batcheller Sumner was an American chemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley....
     - chemist
  • Helen B. Taussig
    Helen B. Taussig

    Helen Brooke Taussig was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. Notably, she is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetrology of Fallot ....
     - cardiologist
  • John Templeton, Jr
    John Templeton, Jr

    John Marks Templeton, Jr is the elder son of the stock investor, businessman and philanthropist John Templeton and serves as the President of the Templeton Foundation and organizes its day-to-day running....
     - president of the John Templeton Foundation
    John Templeton Foundation

    The John Templeton Foundation was established in 1987 by the late investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton; the current president is his son John M....
  • E. Donnall Thomas
    E. Donnall Thomas

    Dr. Edward Donnall Thomas is an American physician, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center....
     - physician
  • Lewis Thomas
    Lewis Thomas

    Lewis Thomas 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....
     - essayist
  • Abby Howe Turner
    Abby Howe Turner

    Abby Howe Turner was a noted professor of Physiology and Zoology who founded the department of physiology at Mount Holyoke College. She specialized in colloid osmotic pressure and circulatory reactions to gravity....
     - academic
  • Richard Urman - physician
  • George Eman Vaillant
    George Eman Vaillant

    George Eman Vaillant, M.D. is an United States psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, ....
     - psychiatrist
  • Mark Vonnegut
    Mark Vonnegut

    Mark Twain Vonnegut is an United States pediatrician and writer. He is the son of the late writer Kurt Vonnegut and his first wife, Jane Cox. He is also the brother of Edith Vonnegut and Nanette Vonnegut....
     - author
  • Joseph Warren
    Joseph Warren

    Dr. Joseph Warren was an American doctor and soldier, remembered for playing a leading role in Patriot organizations in Boston, Massachusetts and for his death as a volunteer private soldier while also serving as chief executive of the revolutionary Massachusetts government....
     - soldier
  • Andrew Weil
    Andrew Weil

    Andrew Thomas Weil is an United States author and physician, best known for establishing and popularizing the field of Glossary of alternative medicine#Integrative_medicine....
     - proponent of alternative medicine
  • Paul Dudley White
    Paul Dudley White

    Paul Dudley White , United States physician and cardiologist, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Herbert Warren White and Elizabeth Abigail Dudley....
     - cardiologist
  • Patrisha Zobel de Ayala - Member of World Medical Association
    World Medical Association

    The World Medical Association , an international organization of physicians, was formally established on September 17, 1947, pursuant to the resolutions of the First General Assembly of WMA held in Paris, France....
    , surgeon, anesthesiologist, neurologist, medical researcher, physician
  • Charles F. Winslow
    Charles F. Winslow

    Charles Frederick Winslow was a physician, diplomat, and world traveler. He received his medical degree from Harvard in 1834. He is the author of "Force and Nature", an early work on atomic theory....
    -early atomic theorist
  • Leonard Wood
    Leonard Wood

    Leonard Wood was a physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba and Governor General of the Philippines....
     - Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army ; Governor-General of the Philippines
  • Louis Tompkins Wright
    Louis T. Wright

    Louis Tompkins Wright was an American surgeon noted for his work in Harlem. The Spingarn Medallist played a major role in investigating the use of Chlortetracycline as a treatment on humans....
     - World renowned researcher, practitioner, pioneer African American
    African American

    African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
    , Chairman of NAACP, among other distinctions
  • David Wu
    David Wu

    David Wu is a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon, representing the state's , which includes a small section of western Multnomah County, Oregon and all of Yamhill County, Oregon, Columbia County, Oregon, Clatsop County, Oregon and Washington County, Oregon Counties....
     - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999-present)
  • Jeffries Wyman
    Jeffries Wyman

    Jeffries Wyman was an United States Natural history and anatomist, born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts Wyman died in Bethlehem, New Hampshire of a pulmonary hemorrhage....
     - anatomist


Fictional alumni

  • Abbey Bartlet
    Abbey Bartlet

    Abigail Anne 'Abbey' Barrington Bartlet, M.D. is a fictional character played by Stockard Channing on the television Serial drama The West Wing ....
     - First Lady of the United States on The West Wing
    The West Wing (TV series)

    The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2006. It was produced/written by Sorkin and also produced by Thomas Schlamme....
  • Major Charles Emerson Winchester III - character on M*A*S*H
    M*A*S*H (TV series)

    M*A*S*H is an United States television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 in film feature film MASH . The series is a medical drama/black comedy that was produced by 20th Television Fox for CBS....
  • Dr. John Becker - character on the sitcom Becker
    Becker (TV series)

    Becker is an television in the United States television sitcom that ran from 1998 in television to 2004 in television on CBS. Set in the New York City borough of The Bronx, the show starred Ted Danson as the title character, Dr....
  • Paris Geller - character on Gilmore Girls
    Gilmore Girls

    Gilmore Girls is a Creative Arts Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated, Television in the United States comedy-drama television program created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel....
    , commits to attending the school at the end of the series after her term as an undergraduate from Yale
  • Bernard Nadeau in Francoeur
    Francoeur

    Francoeur was a Canada television series, first aired by TFO in 2003. It was the first Franco-Ontarian t?l?roman. The series has produced 44 episodes to date....
    , as a French-Canadian doctor who becomes the mayor of Orleans
    Orléans, Ontario

    Orl?ans is a suburban area within the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the eastern part of the city along the Ottawa River, about 16 km from downtown Ottawa....
    , Ontario.
  • Lexie Grey
    Lexie Grey

    Alexandra Caroline "Lexie" Grey is a fictional character from the American Broadcasting Company television series Grey's Anatomy. The character is portrayed by Chyler Leigh, and was created by Shonda Rhimes....
     - character on Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey?s Anatomy is an American primetime medical drama. It debuted on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement for Boston Legal on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives....
    , who begins her internship at Seattle Grace Hospital after graduating.
  • Wilbur Larch - an obstetrician at The St. Cloud's orphanage in John Irving
    John Irving

    John Winslow Irving is an United States novelist and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978....
    's classic novel The Cider House Rules
    The Cider House Rules

    The Cider House Rules is a 1985 novel by John Irving. It has been adapted into a The Cider House Rules and a stage play by Peter Parnell....
    . Adapted into film.
  • Dr. Elliot Nussbaum from Drake & Josh
    Drake & Josh

    Drake & Josh was an United States Situation comedy that premiered on the Nickelodeon on January 11, 2004, that follows the lives of two step brothers Drake Parker and Josh Nichols ....
     graduated at age 13 and was published in The New England Journal of Medicine at the age of 15.
  • Dr. Frasier Crane
    Frasier Crane

    Frasier Winslow Crane, M.D., Ph.D. is a fictional character on American television sitcoms Frasier and Cheers. He was played by Kelsey Grammer for twenty years, tying the record for the longest-running character on prime-time American television, which was set by James Arness, who played Marshal Matt Dillon on the show Gunsmoke....
    , a character on Cheers
    Cheers

    Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles....
    , and its successful spin-off, Frasier
    Frasier

    Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
    .
  • Eleanor Abernathy, the Crazy Cat Lady that toss living cats to everyone in The Simpsons
    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
  • Father Damien Carrass in "The Exorcist". Psychologist trained at Harvard.
  • Edward Cullen
    Edward Cullen (Twilight)

    Edward Cullen is a fictional character from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. He features in the books Twilight , New Moon , Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, as well as the Twilight , and the as yet unfinished novel Midnight Sun - a re-telling of the events of Twilight from Edward's perspective....
    , (Edward Anthony Masen Cullen) vampire from the Twilight series
    Twilight Series

    The Twilight Series is a weekend of bicycle races and events that takes place every spring in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , United States. During the course of each Twilight weekend, competitive events in a variety of fields are staged, including BMX racing and trick contests, a Kids' Criterium, a mountain bike or 'Fat Tire' Criterium, and the...
     by Stephenie Meyer
    Stephenie Meyer

    Stephenie Meyer is an United States author, known for her romantic vampire series Twilight , which is aimed primarily at young teenage girls. The Twilight novels have sold over 40 million copies worldwide, with translations into 37 different languages around the globe....
  • Dr Adam Mayfair - character on Desperate Housewives


See also

  • Longwood Medical and Academic Area
    Longwood Medical and Academic Area

    Longwood Medical and Academic Area is a world-famous medical campus located in Boston, Massachusetts with a high density of internationally-renowned hospitals, colleges, and biomedical research centers....
  • List of Harvard University people
    List of Harvard University people

    The list of Harvard University people includes notable graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with Harvard University. For a list of notable non-graduates of Harvard, see notable non-graduate alumni of Harvard....
  • Harvard School of Dental Medicine
    Harvard School of Dental Medicine

    Harvard School of Dental Medicine is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is an American dental school located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston, Massachusetts....


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