Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School, 2009
Established	September 19, 1782 (1782-09-19)
Type	Medical school
Parent institution	Harvard University
Academic affiliation	See list for affiliations
Location	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dean	Jeffrey S. Flier
Academic staff	12,426
Doctoral students	Totals: MD - 726 PhD - 803 DMD - 145 MMSc - 127 DMSc - 37
Alumni	9,813
Website	hms.harvard.edu

Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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-affiliated hospitals and institutions in Boston. 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.

The current dean of the medical school is Jeffrey S. Flier, an endocrinologist and the former Chief Academic Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who succeeded neurologist Joseph B. Martin, M.D., Ph.D on September 1, 2007.

History

Massachusetts Medical College at Mason St. (Old building)

Harvard Medical School quadrangle in Longwood Medical Area.

The school is the third-oldest medical school in the United States (after Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) and was founded by John Warren on September 19, 1782, with Benjamin Waterhouse, and Aaron Dexter. The first lectures were given in the basement of Harvard Hall and then in Holden Chapel. The first class, composed of two students, graduated in 1788.

It moved from Cambridge to 49 Marlborough Street in Boston 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 school moved to its current location on Longwood Avenue in 1906, where the "Great White Quadrangle" or HMS Quad with its five white marble buildings was established. The architect for the campus was the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge.

The four major flagship teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School are Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Teaching affiliates

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Boston Children's Hospital
• Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Cambridge Health Alliance
• Center for Engineering in Medicine [1]
• Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
• The Forsyth Institute
• Joslin Diabetes Center
• Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Massachusetts Mental Health Center
• McLean Hospital
• Mount Auburn Hospital
• Schepens Eye Research Institute
• Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
• VA Boston Healthcare System
• Hebrew Senior Life

Curriculum

In 2015, Harvard introduced the new Pathways curriculum, an approach which combines the problem based learning approach developed at McMaster University Medical School, with more student centered electives after core clerkship. Prior to 2015, Harvard had utilized the New Pathway curriculum, which was mainly centered around problem based learning.

Student life

Second-year show

Every winter, second year students at HMS write, direct, and perform a full-length musical parody of Harvard, their professors, and themselves. The year 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 students at Harvard Medical School are divided into five societies named after famous alumni. Each society has a 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" trophy in a series of events (e.g., dance-off, dodgeball, limbo contest) that test the unorthodox talents of the students in each society. The most recent champions are London (Class of 2015), London (Class of 2014) and Cannon (Class of 2013). London (HST) has won the competition most frequently.

• Francis Weld Peabody
• William Bosworth Castle
• Walter Bradford Cannon
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Irving M. London (Health Sciences and Technology, HST)

Partners Harvard Medical International

Harvard Medical School (HMS) has a medical-consulting arm, Partners Harvard Medical International (PHMI). PHMI has long-standing collaborative relationships with medical faculties at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut, Lebanon. Other long-standing relationships include PHMI's work with Asan Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, and Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan. In 2007 PHMI began a 10‑year collaboration with Lebanese American University; in October 2009 LAU opened a new medical school with assistance from PHMI.

Notable alumni

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
John R. Adler	1980	academic
Robert B. Aird		academic
Tenley Albright		figure skater
David Altshuler		geneticist
Harold Amos		microbiologist
William French Anderson		geneticist
Christian B. Anfinsen		biochemist, Nobel laureate
Paul S. Appelbaum	1976	academic
Jerry Avorn		academic
Babak Azizzadeh		Facial surgery specialist and surgeon for Mary Jo Buttafuoco after she was shot by Amy Fisher in 1992.
Arie S. Belldegrun		director of the UCLA Institute of Urologic Oncology and is Professor and Chief of Urologic Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine
Rebecka Belldegrun		ophthalmologist and businesswoman
Herbert Benson		cardiologist, author of The Relaxation Response
Ira Black		neuroscientist and stem cell researcher who served as the first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.
Roscoe Brady		biochemist
Eugene Brody	1944	psychiatrist
Henry Bryant		physician
Yōichi Takahashi		physician, music composer
Rafael Campo		poet
Ethan Canin		author
Walter Bradford Cannon		physiologist
William B. Castle		hematologist
George C. S. Choate		physician
Gilbert Chu		physician, biochemist
Aram Chobanian		President of Boston University (2003–2005)
Stanley Cobb		neurologist
Ernest Codman		physician
Albert Coons		physician, immunologist, Lasker Award winner
Michael Crichton		author
Harvey Cushing		renowned neurosurgeon
Elliott Cutler		surgeon
Hallowell Davis (1896–1992)		researcher of hearing, contributor to the invention of the electroencephalograph.
Martin Delany		One of the first African Americans to attend, and the first African-American field officer in the United States. He was expelled after a faculty vote to end the admission of blacks.
Fe del Mundo		pediatrician, first Filipino and possibly first woman admitted to HMS (1936)
Allan S. Detsky		physician
James Madison DeWolf		soldier; physician
Peter Diamandis		entrepreneur
Daniel DiLorenzo		entrepreneur; neurosurgeon; inventor
Thomas Dwight		anatomist
Lawrence Eron		infectious disease physician
Edward Evarts		neuroscientist
Sidney Farber		pathologist
Paul Farmer		infectious disease physician; global health
Jonathan Fielding		past president American College of Preventive Medicine; health administrator; academic
Harvey V. Fineberg		academic administrator
John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald		Mayor of Boston (1906–08; 1910–14)
Thomas Fitzpatrick		dermatologist
Judah Folkman		scientist
Bill Frist		U.S. Senator (1995–2007)
Atul Gawande		surgeon, author
Charles Brenton Huggins		physician; physiologist; Nobel laureate
George Lincoln Goodale		botanist
Robert Goldwyn		surgeon, editor-in-chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for 25 years
Ernest Gruening		Governor of the Alaska Territory (1939–53); U.S. Senator (1959–69)
I. Kathleen Hagen		Murder suspect
Dean Hamer		geneticist
Alice Hamilton		first female faculty member at Harvard Medical School.
J. Hartwell Harrison		surgeon - first kidney transplant, editor-in-chief of Campbell's Urology (4th ed.)
Michael R. Harrison		pediatrician
Bernadine Healy		Director of the National Institutes of Health (1991–93); CEO of the American Red Cross (1999–2001)
Ronald A. Heifetz		academic
Lawrence Joseph Henderson		biochemist
David Ho		infectious disease physician
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.		physician; poet
William James		philosopher
Mildred Fay Jefferson Pro		Life Activist; first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School.
Clay Johnston		Dean of the Dell Medical School at UT Austin
Elliott P. Joslin		diabetolologist
Nathan Cooley Keep		physician who founded the Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Jim Kim		physician, global health leader, current President of the World Bank
Melvin Konner		author and biological anthropologist
Peter D. Kramer	1976	psychiatrist
Charles Krauthammer	1975	columnist
Daniel Laing, Jr.		One of the first African Americans to attend, and one of the first African American physicians. He was expelled after a faculty vote to end the admission of blacks, but finished his degree elsewhere.
Philip J. Landrigan		epidemiologist and pediatrician
Aristides Leão		biologist
Philip Leder		geneticist
Simon LeVay		neuroscientist
Pam Ling		castmate on The Real World: San Francisco
Joseph Lovell		Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1818–36)
Karl Menninger		psychiatrist
John S. Meyer		physician
Randell Mills		scientist
Vamsi Mootha		systems biologist and geneticist
Siddhartha Mukherjee		physician, author
Joseph Murray		surgeon
Joel Mark Noe		plastic surgeon
Amos Nourse		U.S. Senator (1857)
David Page		biologist
Hiram Polk		academic
Geoffrey Potts		academic
Morton Prince		neurologist
Jayantibhai Patel		Cardiothoracic surgeon
Anurita Kapur		Neurosurgeon
Alexander Rich		biophysicist
Oswald Hope Robertson		medical scientist
Richard Starr Ross		Dean Emeritus of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, Former President of the American Heart Association.
Wilfredo Santa-Gómez		author
George E. Shambaugh, Jr.		Otolaryngologist
Alfred Sommer		academic
Shanil Keshwani		Canadian Intelligence
Philip Solomon (psychiatrist)		academic
Paul Spangler		Naval surgeon and record setting Senior Long distance runner
Samuel L. Stanley		5th President of Stony Brook University, academic, physician, biomedical researcher
Felicia Stewart		physician
Lubert Stryer		academic; coauthor of Biochemistry
Yellapragada Subbarow		biochemist
James B. Sumner		chemist
Helen B. Taussig		cardiologist; helped develop Blalock–Taussig shunt
John Templeton, Jr.		president of the John Templeton Foundation
E. Donnall Thomas		physician
Lewis Thomas		essayist
Abby Howe Turner		academic
Richard Urman		physician
George Eman Vaillant		psychiatrist
Mark Vonnegut		author; pediatrician
Joseph Warren		soldier
Andrew Weil		proponent of alternative medicine and integrative medicine
Paul Dudley White		cardiologist
Robert J. White		neurosurgeon (Performed first monkey head transplant in the 1970s)
Patrisha Zobel de Ayala		Chairman of World Medical Association, surgeon, anesthesiologist, neurologist, medical researcher
Charles F. Winslow		early atomic theorist
Leonard Wood		Chief of Staff of the United States Army ; Governor-General of the Philippines
Louis Tompkins Wright		researcher, practitioner, first black Fellow of the American College of Surgeons,
David Wu		Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999–2011)
Jeffries Wyman		anatomist
Yang Huanming		academic
Alfred Worcester		general practitioner

See also

• Harvard School of Dental Medicine
• List of Harvard University people
• List of Ivy League medical schools
• Longwood Medical and Academic Area
• University of Edinburgh Medical School
• McMaster University Medical School