Notable Faculty and Alumni
- Paul Zoll, first to describe technique of electrical cardioversion in humans. Eponym for the Zoll defibrillator.
- Roderick MacKinnon, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels"
- Stephen Bergman, aka Samuel Shem, author of The House of God
- Mark Josephson, chairman of cardiology, one of the most influential figures in the history of electrophysiology
- Joel Mark Noe, MD, pioneering reconstructive plastic surgeon, in 1977 created burn unit and argon laser program
- John W. Rowe, former chief of geriatrics, CEO of Aetna
- Jerome Groopman, chief of experimental medicine, author of Anatomy of Hope, How Doctors Think
- James B. Aguayo-Martel MD MPH, developer of MR microscopy and deuterium spectroscopy.
- Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, noted neuroscientist and one of the pioneers in the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Sanjiv Chopra,MD, MACP, Professor of Medicine and Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Consultant in Hepatology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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