List of Harvard Medical School alumni

Harvard Medical School is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts.

Academia Founders Lewis Hackett, 1913, founder of the School of Malariology in Nettuno, Italy and first editor of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Nathan Smith, 1811, co-founded Dartmouth Medical School, the University of Vermont College of Medicine, the Medical School of Maine, and the Yale School of Medicine

Chancellors and university presidents Aram Chobanian, president of Boston University John Call Dalton, president of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons William Henry Danforth, chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis David W. Fraser, 1969, president of Swarthmore College Paula Johnson, 1985, president of Wellesley College Nancy Ip, 1983, president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Jim Yong Kim, 1991, president of Dartmouth College and president of the World Bank Anthony Monaco, 1987, 13th president of Tufts University Joseph E. Nyre, president of Seton Hall University and Iona College Chase N. Peterson, president of the University of Utah Calvin Plimpton, president of Amherst College and American University of Beirut Daniel K. Podolsky, 1978, president of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Valerie Montgomery Rice, 1987, president and dean of Morehouse School of Medicine Judith A. Salerno, 1985, president of the New York Academy of Medicine Jay P. Sanford, president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Samuel L. Stanley, 1980, president of Stony Brook University M. Roy Wilson, 1980, president of Wayne State University

Provosts and vice-chancellor Ezekiel Emanuel, 1988, vice provosts for global Initiatives and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Harvey V. Fineberg, 1971, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and provost of Harvard University Melissa L. Gilliam, provost of Ohio State University and the incoming president of Boston University Gerald T. Keusch, 1963, associate provost for global health at Boston University Medical Campus Daniel H. Lowenstein, 1983, executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, San Francisco Alexander Margulis, 1950, associate chancellor and chairman of radiology at University of California, San Francisco and professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College John Long Wilson, 1939, administrator at the American University of Beirut and acting vice president and dean of the Stanford University School of Medical

Deans James B. Aguayo-Martel, associate dean of graduate medical education in California Northstate University College of Medicine, chair of surgery at the Mercy San Juan Medical Center, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School and Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute Nancy Andrews, 1987, dean of the Duke University School of Medicine and biologist and physician noted for her research on iron homeostasis R. Palmer Beasley, 1962, dean of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health Francis Gilman Blake, 1913, immunologist and dean of the Yale University School of Medicine Henry Pickering Bowditch, 1868, dean of the Harvard Medical School Steven J. Burakoff, dean for cancer Innovation and chief of pediatric oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine and professor of cancer medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center Martin D. Burke, 2005, associate dean of research in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine and professor for chemical innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign George Q. Daley, 1991, dean of the Faculty of Medicine and professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School Leo M. Davidoff, associate dean and chairman of the departments of surgery and neurological surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Benjamin L. Ebert, 1999, chair of medical oncology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute Daniel Federman, 1953, endocrinologist and dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School Henri Ford, 1984, dean of the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami and chief of surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles Phyllis Gardner, 1976, dean of education and professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine Richard Gorlin, 1948, dean for clinical affairs and chair of the Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine Howard Hiatt, 1948, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health Edward M. Hundert, 1984, dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School Anya Hurlbert, 1990, professor of visual neuroscience and dean of advancement at Newcastle University J. B. S. Jackson, 1829, dean of Harvard Medical School and first curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum Ashish Jha, 1997, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator and dean of the Brown University School of Public Health Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at University of Texas at Austin Rainu Kaushal, senior associate dean of clinical research and chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine Mark G. Lebwohl, 1978, Chairman Emeritus of the department of dermatology and the dean for clinical therapeutics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Seeley G. Mudd, 1924, professor and dean at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California Richard S. Ross, 1947 dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Mark Schuster, 1987, dean and Founding CEO of the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine Nathan R. Selden, 1993, dean of the School of Medicine and executive vice president, Oregon Health & Science University Lewis Thomas, dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, essayist, poet, and winner of the National Book Awards in two categories Carl F. Nathan, 1972, dean of the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University and chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine Thomas D. Pollard, 1968, professor of cell biology and molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University and dean of Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Deborah Prothrow-Stith, 1979, physician; dean and professor at Charles R. Drew University College of Medicine Carmen Puliafito, 1978, ophthalmologist and dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC Dominick P. Purpura, dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Farrokh Saidi, 1954, dean of Medical School, Pahlavi University School of Medicine and under-secretary for Medical Education and Health Services of Iran Alfred Sommer, 1967, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Lamar Soutter, dean of the University of Massachusetts Medical School David Humphreys Storer, dean of the faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and naturalist Isaac M. Taylor, dean of the Medical School of the University of North Carolina

Department chairs Kamal Badr, professor of medicine and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the American University of Beirut Ben Barres, 1990, chair of the Neurobiology Department at Stanford University School of Medicine Earl P. Benditt, 1941, pathologist and chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington Robert M. Berne, 1943, textbook author, journal editor, and chair and the founder of cardiovascular research at the University of Virginia Azad Bonni, 1996, professor of neuroscience and chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis Nancy J. Brown, 1981, chair and physician-in-chief of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Reinhard Busse, head of the Department of Healthcare Management at the Faculty of Economics and Management at Technische Universität Berlin Walter Bradford Cannon, 1900, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School who coined the term fight or flight response Dennis Choi, 1978, chair of the department of neurology at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University as well as director of the Neurosciences Institute David Glendenning Cogan, 1930, chair of Harvard Medical School's ophthalmology department and chief of neuro-ophthalmology at the NIH's National Eye Institute Albert Coons, 1937, chair of the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology and Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School John W. Crawford, professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry at the Chicago Medical School and of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Rutgers Medical School Vincent Cryns, 1987, chair of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Jayanta Debnath, 1998, chair of the University of California, San Francisco department of pathology Paul Farmer, 1990, chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School Don W. Fawcett, 1938, pioneer of electron microscopy and chair of the Department of Anatomy at Cornell Medical School Josef E. Fischer, professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, chair of the Department of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School Stephen J. Galli, 1973, chair of its pathology department and as a professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine William Francis Ganong Jr., chairman of the physiology department at the University of California, San Francisco Sid Gilman, chair in research neurology at t Columbia University and chair and chief of service of neurology at the University of Michigan Medical School Melvin J. Glimcher, chair in orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School Julia Haller, professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University Eve Higginbotham, 1979, chair of the ophthalmology department at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, 1994, chair of genetics and metabolism at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Renee Hsia, associate chair of health services research at the University of California, San Francisco Charles A. Hufnagel, surgeon who invented the first artificial heart valve and chairman of the department of surgery at Georgetown University Reshma Jagsi, chair in the department of radiation oncology at Emory University T.R. Johns, clinical researcher on myasthenia gravis and founding chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Virginia Samuel Katz, professor and chairman of pediatrics at Duke University Dimitri Krainc, chairman of the Ken & Ruth Davee Department of Neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Gustaf Lindskog, 1928, chair of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, best known for having participated in the first pharmaceutical treatment of cancer Irving London, founding chair of the department of medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine John E. Mack, 1955, head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who won the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Prince of Our Disorder on T. E. Lawrence Robert McCarley, 1964, chair and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School John S. Meyer, chairman of Neurology at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Baylor College of Medicine Mark Moss, professor and chair of anatomy and neurobiology at the Boston University School of Medicine Stuart Mudd, 1920, head of the department of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School