Christopher D. E. Willoughby, PhD, is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In 2016, he completed his PhD in history at Tulane University. He is the author of Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools (University of North Carolina Press, 2022), and with Sean Morey Smith, he edited the book Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery (Louisiana State University Press, 2021). He has published widely in popular and academic publications including The Washington Post and The Journal of the History of...

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Harold Amos Mentorship Lecture

A Journey Toward Equity

Thomas Sequist, MD, MPH, HMS ‘99, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School;  Chief Medical Officer, Mass General Brigham

Dr. Sequist will receive the 2022 Michael Shannon, MD, MPH, Excellence in Mentoring award at the event.

Dr. Sequist is a member of the Taos Pueblo tribe in New Mexico and has conducted influential health policy research to advance our understanding of...

Graduation is a day of ceremony and celebration at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. For the class of 2020 and 2021, graduates have been granted the MD and any other advanced degrees they earned and received their diplomas, but on May 29th, 2022, they will be celebrated and hooded.

Graduation traditionally consists of two parts: the Commencement Ceremony and Class...

Graduation is a day of ceremony and celebration at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. Students are granted the MD and any other advanced degrees they have earned, they are hooded and they receive their diplomas.

Graduation traditionally consists of two parts: the Commencement Ceremony and Class Day.

Harvard University’s Commencement will be held Thursday morning, May 26, 2022...

For the first time since 2019, Admitted Students Preview Days 2023 (the event formerly known as Revisit) will be hosted on campus! Admitted HMS MD and MD-PhD, as well as HSDM students, have registered to attend in-person event programming on academics, student life, and more!

Fabric is an annual event put on by the first-year HMS/HSDM class during Preview Days for incoming students. It originally began as a cultural showcase to celebrate the African diaspora and highlight the experiences of black students. Over...

Edward M. Barksdale, Jr., MD, FACS, FAAP, HMS ‘84, Professor and Chief Division of Pediatric Surgery, Robert J. Izant, Jr MD Endowed Chair & Surgeon-in-Chief, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital/University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine

Lessons from Longwood Avenue: A Journey from  Success to Significance

Dr. Barksdale works at the nexus of academia, clinical surgery, medical education, public health and social justice as a passionate advocate for child health and healthcare.  He endeavors...

Match Day is an annual nationwide event at which students learn which residency program they will be attending. It is coordinated by the...

Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership (DICP) is hosting the 2021-2022 Alvin F. Poussaint, MD Visiting Lecture on featuring keynote speaker: Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD, Dean and Professor at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.

You must register to receive the Zoom link: Register here.

Speakers:

Edjah K. Nduom, MD,
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Monik Jimenez, ScD,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health;
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Moderator:

Alden Landry, MD, MPH
Assistant Dean, Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor,...