We draw upon the nearly 12,000 faculty from Harvard Medical School to design and deliver the best programs in genetics, health care policy, advances in biomedical science, patient care and more
Our program faculty teams are comprised of academics and practitioners who are global leaders in their respective fields. In addition to the involvement of HMS faculty, programs are taught and led by scholars from Schools across Harvard University, and by business and science leaders at the forefront of breakthrough innovations in health care.
Learn about some of the great minds that teach in our programs:
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Genetics & Precision Medicine
George Church, PhD, Director of U.S. Department of Energy Technology Center; Director of National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Genomic Science; Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School
Justin Gainor, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Director of Targeted Immunotherapy, Massachusetts General Hospital
Wendy Garrett, MD, PhD Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard Medical School
Jeff Karp, PhD Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Principal Faculty Member, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Affiliate Faculty Member, Broad Institute and at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Sekar Kathiresan, MD Co-founder and CEO at Verve Therapeutics, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (former)
Calum MacRae, MD, PhD, Vice Chair for Scientific Innovation in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Member at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Principal Faculty Member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute; Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School
Matthew (Matt) Might, PhD, Director of the Hugh Kaul Personalized Medicine Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine; Hugh Kaul Endowed Chair of Precision Medicine; Professor of Internal Medicine and Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; Faculty in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
Arlene Sharpe, MD, PhD, Co-Director of Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital; Co-Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School; George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology; Leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center; Associate Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Ramnik Xavier, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital; Core Institute Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Co-Director of the Broad's Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program; Director of the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital; Co-Director of the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics at MIT; Kurt Isselbacher Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
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Data & Digital Health Tools
Andrew Beam, PhD Assistant Professor,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
John Brownstein, PhD, Chief Innovation Office at Boston Children's Hospital; Co-Investigator on the NIH-funded BD2K PIC-SURE Center of Excellence at Department of Biomedial Informatics at Harvard Medical School; Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
John Halamka, MS, MD, International Healthcare Innovation Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Executive Director, Health Technology Exploration Center, Beth Israel Lahey Health; Faculty Director for Innovation Programs, Office for Executive Education
Isaac (Zak) Kohane, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics; Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
Katherine Liao, MD, Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Rheumatology Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Clinical Investigator and Practicing Rheumatologist; Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
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Health Care Policy & Economics
Sree Chaguturu, MD, Vice President of Population Health Officer at Partners HealthCare; Chief Medical Officer of Medicare Pioneer Accountable Care Organization at Partners HealthCare; Internal Medicine and Primary Care Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital; Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School
Michael Chernew, PhD, Director of Healthcare Markets and Regulation (HMR) Lab in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School; Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School; Member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors and of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT); Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, Physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital; Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research; Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School
Ronald Kessler, PhD, Principal Investigator of the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS-R); Co-Director of the World Health Organization’s World Mental Health Survey Initiative; Principal Investigator of the Harvard Medical School site for Army STARRS; McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School
Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, Hospitalist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Zirui Song, MD, PhD, Internal Medicine Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Editor of Healthcare; Editorial Board Member of PLOS Medicine; Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Primary Care at Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School
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The Patient Experience & Real World Care
Mara Bloom, JD, Executive Director of Administration at Massachusetts General Cancer Center
Vincent Chiang, MD, Chief of Inpatient Services for the Department of Medicine (DOM) at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH); Associate Chief of Inpatient Medicine in the Division of General Pediatrics at BCH; Senior Associate Physician in Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine; Secretary-Treasurer for the Physicians' Organization at BCH; Hospitalist in the Emergency Department at BCH; Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Gene Green, MD, President and CEO of South Shore Health; Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Tufts University School
Margaret (Molly) Hayes, MD, Assistant Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC); Associate Program Director, BIDMC Internal Medicine Residency; Director, External Education, Carl J. Shapiro Institute of Education and Research; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Ted A. James, MD, MHCM, FACS Chief, Breast Surgical Oncology; Co-Director, Linsey BreastCare Center; Vice Chair, Academic Affairs, Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
David Levine, MA, MD, Practicing General Internist and Clinician-Investigator at Brigham and Women's Health and Harvard Medical School; Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Jim O'Connell, MD, President of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program; Editor of the Health Care of Homeless Persons: A Manual of Communicable Diseases and Common Problems in Shelters and on the Streets; Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Linnea Olson A Patient Advocate and Activist, who is outliving lung cancer
Carolyn R. Rogers-Vizena, MD Pediatric Plastic and Craniofacial Surgeon, Boston Children's Hospital and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School