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Howard H. Hiatt (1925-), M.D., 1948, Harvard Medical School, joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 1955, was the first Herrman L. Blumgart Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician-in-Chief at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1963 to 1972, and Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health from 1972 to 1984. From 1988 to 1990, he was the Head of the Center for Policy and Education, Harvard AIDS Institute. Hiatt specialized in oncology and internal medicine, molecular biology, and biochemistry. He was also known for his public speeches and essays on the human consequences of nuclear war. During his tenure as Dean, the Harvard School of Public Health introduced teaching and research focused on molecular and cell biology, initiated programs in health policy and management, and biostatistics. Hiatt also integrated Harvard School of Public Health’s teaching and research programs with those in other Harvard University faculties, in an attempt to encourage cross-disciplinary research to bring together medicine and social science in the curriculum.

Howard Haym Hiatt was born in Patchogue, New York in 1925. He enrolled in Harvard College in 1944, and after two years, entered Harvard Medical School as part of an accelerated program to supply doctors to the armed services. He received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1948, and, no longer having to serve in the army, was able to pursue postdoctoral training directly at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital, New York Hospital, and Cornell Medical College, followed by a faculty appointment as Assistant in Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospital from 1952 to 1953. After working as an Investigator for the National Institutes of Health from 1953 to 1955, Hiatt accepted an appointment as an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School in 1955.

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