Harvard Medical School

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.

HMS is home (as of Fall 2006) to 616 students in the M.D. program, 435 in the Ph.D. 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 (see Medical Scientist Training Program). 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. HST, operated by the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, emphasizes medical research.

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. HMS is currently ranked first among American research medical schools by U.S. News and World Report, and ranked 21st among research medical schools in the amount of competitive grants received from the NIH.

The current dean of the medical school is Dr. 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. Sanjiv Chopra, M.B.B.S, MACP is the Faculty Dean for the Continuing Education Department.

History
The school is the third oldest medical school in the U.S. and was founded by Dr. 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 medical 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 three major flagship teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School are Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Teaching affiliates

 * Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 * Brigham and Women's Hospital
 * Cambridge Hospital
 * Center for Engineering in Medicine
 * Children's Hospital Boston
 * Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
 * The Forsyth Institute
 * Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
 * 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

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 students at Harvard Medical School are divided into five societies named after famous HMS 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 in a series of events (e.g. dance-off, dodgeball, limbo contest) that test the unorthodox talents of the students in each society. In 2010, Cannon Society possessed the Pink Flamingo temporarily, seemingly finally breaking HST's long winning streak. HST, however, proved to still be The Best society on May 6, 2011, at the Class of 2014 Society Olympics.


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

In fiction
In Erich Segal's book, Doctors, the main plot is set in Harvard Medical School (HMS), where the main characters attend.

In the movie 21, Ben Campbell's goal is to attend Harvard Medical School (HMS) with proper funding.

In ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Dr. Lexie Grey Graduated from Harvard Medical School before being accepted in Seattle Grace's Intern Program.

In the TV Series Drake and Josh, Drake Bell impersonates an illustrious Harvard Medical School graduate.

Notable alumni

 * John R. Adler - academic
 * Robert B. Aird - academic
 * Tenley Albright - figure skater
 * Harold Amos - microbiologist
 * William French Anderson - geneticist
 * Christian B. Anfinsen - chemist
 * Paul S. Appelbaum - academic
 * Jerry Avorn - academic
 * Herbert Benson - cardiologist
 * Ira Black (1941–2006) - neuroscientist and stem cell researcher who served as the first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.
 * Roscoe Brady - biochemist
 * Henry Bryant - physician
 * 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 - 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 U.S. 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
 * 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.
 * 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 activist; first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School.
 * Elliott P. Joslin - diabetolologist
 * Nathan Cooley Keep - dentist
 * Jim Kim - physician, global health leader
 * Melvin Konner - author and biological anthropologist
 * Charles Krauthammer - 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
 * Randell Mills - scientist
 * 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
 * Alexander Rich - biophysicist
 * Oswald Hope Robertson - medical scientist
 * Wilfredo Santa-Gómez - author
 * Alfred Sommer (ophthalmologist) - academic
 * Philip Solomon (psychiatrist) - academic
 * Paul Spangler - Naval surgeon and record setting Senior Long distance runner
 * Felicia Stewart - physician
 * Lubert Stryer - academic
 * Yellapragada Subbarao Biochemist
 * Mahnooor Khan - Pediatrician
 * James B. Sumner - chemist
 * Helen B. Taussig - cardiologist
 * 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
 * Paul Dudley White - cardiologist
 * Patrisha Zobel de Ayala - Chairman of World Medical Association, surgeon, anesthesiologist, neurologist, medical researcher, physician
 * Charles F. Winslow-early atomic theorist
 * Leonard Wood - Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army ; Governor-General of the Philippines
 * Louis Tompkins Wright - researcher, practitioner, first black Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Chairman of NAACP
 * David Wu - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999–present)
 * Jeffries Wyman - anatomist
 * Yang Huanming - academic

Fictional alumni

 * Eleanor Abernathy, the Crazy Cat Lady that toss living cats to everyone in The Simpsons
 * Abbey Bartlet - First Lady of the United States on The West Wing
 * Dr. John Becker - character on the sitcom Becker
 * Ben Campbell - a member of the MIT Blackjack Team in the movie 21 (film)
 * Father Damien Carrass in "The Exorcist". Psychologist trained at Harvard.
 * Colleen Cooper, a character from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
 * Dr. Frasier Crane, a character on Cheers, and its successful spin-off, Frasier.
 * Paris Geller - character on Gilmore Girls, commits to attending the school at the end of the series after her term as an undergraduate from Yale
 * Lexie Grey - character on Grey's Anatomy, who begins her internship at Seattle Grace Hospital after graduating.
 * Wilbur Larch - an obstetrician at The St. Cloud's orphanage in John Irving's classic novel The Cider House Rules. Adapted into film.
 * Dr. Adam Mayfair - character on Desperate Housewives
 * Bernard Nadeau in Francoeur, as a French-Canadian doctor who becomes the mayor of Orleans, Ontario.
 * Dr. Elliot Nussbaum from Drake & Josh graduated at age 13 and was published in The New England Journal of Medicine at the age of 15.
 * Amelia Shepherd - character on Private Practice, who graduated top of her class at Harvard Medical School.
 * Major Charles Emerson Winchester III - character on M*A*S*H
 * Violet Turner - A shrink on Private Practice