Tenley Albright ’61 Before becoming a surgeon, Tenley Albright became the first American woman to earn an Olympic gold medal in figure skating.
Kathryn Dorothy Duncan Anderson ’64 This physician became the first woman officer of the American College of Surgeons in 1992 and the first female president of the American Pediatric Surgery Association in 1999.
Stephen Bergman ’73 Using the pen name Samuel Shem, Stephen Bergman has written numerous novels, plays, essays, and works of nonfiction. He is best known for his 1978 novel The House of God.
JudyAnn Bigby ’78 The director of the Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, she is nationally known for her work educating physicians about substance abuse.
J. Michael Bishop ’62 Shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold Varmus for their discovery of a large family of genes that control the normal growth and division of cells.
Joe Brewster ’78 The Rada Film Group is a film production company whose body of work expresses its commitment to using the art of visual storytelling to give voice to communities of color around the world.
Harold J. Bursztajn ’76 A forensic psychiatrist offers expertise in legal medicine, as well as reflections
on his parents’ experience during the Holocaust.
Brian Camazine ’86 This general and thoracic surgeon reports on his main avocation: practicing surgery in third-world countries, including Nigeria, Bolivia, and Guatemala.
Scott Camazine ’78 The author of two nature books, the physician and photographer often accompanies his brother Brian on trips to provide volunteer surgical care.
Rafael Campo ’92 The award-winning poet has now authored seven books.
Lucy Candib ’72 Candib is the author of the 1995 book Medicine and the Family: A Feminist Perspective and is an advocate for improving physician-patient relationships.
Rita Charon ’78 In 1987, she became the first recipient of the Virginia Kneeland Frantz Award for Outstanding Woman Doctor of the Year.
Eliza Lo Chin ’93 A general internist with an interest in women's health, she authored the 2002 book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine.
Nicholas Christakis ’88 Nicholas Christakis focuses his research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity.
Raquel E. Cohen ’49 Raquel Cohen was one of twelve women in Harvard Medical School’s first coeducational graduating class.
Peter Diamandis ’87 His mission: To open the space frontier for humanity. His motto: The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!
Atul Gawande ’94 Atul Gawande is a surgeon, a staff writer for The New Yorker, a recipient of the MacArthur “genius award,” and the author of two bestsellers, Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science and Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance.
James S. Gordon ’66 Gordon is a psychiatrist who uses mind–body medicine to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological trauma.
Margaret Hamburg ’83 One of the youngest people ever elected to the Institute of Medicine, Hamburg is a highly regarded expert in community health and bio-defense, including preparedness for nuclear, biological, and chemical threats.
Bernandine Healy ’69 The current health editor for US News & World Report, Healy was the first woman to direct the National Institutes of Health and led the American Red Cross response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Jody Heymann ’88 For more than a decade, Jody Heymann has focused her research on working families and their children in the United States and around the world.
Mary Ann Hopkins ’92 Hopkins runs the clerkship for medical students at New York University, where she tries to instill in them what it means to be a compassionate and caring physician. Her own example: She volunteers for Doctors Without Borders.
Lisa Iezzoni ’84 Lisa Iezzoni focuses her work on answering the big questions in medicine today—questions of equality, efficiency, and ethics.
Nancy Jasso ’87 This dermatologist is one of the founding physicians of a laser tattoo-removal project for the San Fernando Valley Violence Prevention Coalition.
Paula Johnson ’84 In 1990 Johnson, a cardiologist, became the first woman in the history of Brigham and Women’s Hospital to be chosen as chief medical resident.
Perri Klass ’86 This pediatrician has written novels, memoirs, and books of medical advice.
Peter Kramer ’76 Serves as an introduction to Peter Kramer’s psychiatry practice, his books,
and his essays.
Charles Krauthammer ’75 The weekly columnist for the Washington Post writes about foreign and domestic policy and politics.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey ’79 As president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she is the first woman and first African American to hold that post.
Shirley Marks ’73 President of the Black Psychiatrists of America, Inc., Marks is nationally recognized for her efforts to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and for advocating parity in mental health treatment and access.
Barbara McNeil ’66 In 1988, she founded the department of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and was the first person to be appointed head of that department.
Daphne Miller ’93 In her family practice, Daphne Miller often prescribes whole foods rather than pharmaceuticals.
Joseph Murray ’43B Shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with E. Donnall Thomas ’46 for discoveries involving cell and organ transplantation. Murray pioneered transplantation of kidneys obtained from deceased persons and between twins.
Deborah Prothrow-Stith ’79 Prothrow-Stith is among the nation’s pre-eminent leaders in addressing violence as a public health issue. During her term as Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health, she established the nation’s first Violence Prevention Office at a state health department.
Yvette Roubideaux ’89 Herself a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe, she has dedicated her career to improving American Indian health care through teaching and research, focusing on diabetes as a pervasive chronic disease.
Bobby Satcher ’94 This physician and scientist is also a NASA astronaut.
Eleanor Shore ’55 Shore is dean for faculty affairs at Harvard Medical School and deputy director of the Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. She initiated the Fiftieth Anniversary Fellowship Program for Scholars in Medicine to promote gender equality in career development.
Brian Skotko ’06 Brian Skotko dedicates his professional energies toward children with cognitive and development disabilities. In 2001 he co-authored an award-winning book, Common Threads: Celebrating Life with Down Syndrome.
Mark Stoeckle ’91 With the goal of enabling a practical method for rapid identification of Earth’s species, he is currently helping collect DNA barcodes for approximately 10,000 species of birds.
Clifford Taylor ’78 The New Jersey-based psychiatrist specializes in bipolar disorder and depression and has authored a book on seasonal affective disorder.
E. Donnall Thomas ’46 Shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph Murray ’43B for their work in cell and organ transplantation. Thomas successfully transplanted bone marrow cells from one individual to another.
George Thibault ’69
This HMS professor of medicine is also president of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, a privately endowed philanthropy that supports programs designed to improve the education of health professionals in the interest of the health of the public, and to enhance the representation of minorities in the health profession.
Andrew Weil ’68 Billed as “The premiere resource for timely, trustworthy information on natural health and wellness, based on the insights of Andrew Weil, MD.”
Thomas Weller ’40 With John Enders and Frederick Robbins, he shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on the poliovirus.
Nanette Wenger ’54 This physician was among the first to focus on coronary heart disease in women and to evaluate the different risk factors and features of the condition in women and men.
Patricia Day Williams ’78 Offers individual coaching, organization development, and public workshops on a variety of subjects.
Samuel Wong ’88 Provides information about Samuel Wong’s dual careers as an orchestra conductor and an ophthalmologist, as well as a link to his Global Music
Healing Institute.
Terri Young ’86 The pediatric ophthalmologist researches the molecular genetics of myopia to help find better treatments for eye disorders.
