Yet, she can hide behind the Harvard Medical School teaching title that she maintains.
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Hartzband and Groopman are on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
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For years, Ted Kaptchuk performed acupuncture at a tiny clinic in Cambridge, a few miles from his current office, at the Harvard Medical School.
He is the chief operating officer of Six Seconds, The Emotional Intelligence Network, and the chair of the NexusEQ Conference at the Harvard Medical School Conference Center.
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After some prodding, Google put me in touch with Eli Peli, a professor of ophthalmology at the Harvard Medical School and a senior scientist at the Schepens Eye Research Institute.
The good news is that there are people like Dr. Block (she is also the Co-director for the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care) who are trying to educate us.
Joseph Kvedar of Partners Telemedicine, who is also a professor at the Harvard Medical School, suggests that insurance companies might, for example, offer free phone minutes to customers who go for a walk every day.
In seeing different specialists, I met one doctor Dr. Steven Zeitels from the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center who is really excited about the potential to improve vocal cord nerve function.
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"Malaria and dengue fever are two of the mosquito-borne diseases most likely to spread dramatically as global temperatures head upward, " said the Harvard Medical School's Paul Epstein in Scientific American in 2000, in a warning typical of many.
"There are strong indications that a disturbing change in disease patterns has begun and that global warming is contributing to them, " said the report's author, Dr. Paul Epstein, Associate Director of the Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment.
In 1991 Buck left Columbia and set up her own lab in the department of neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School, where she and her team raced against Axel's lab at Columbia to figure out how all those receptors that she and Axel had identified actually work.
Dr. Paul Farmer, the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is the founder of Partners In Health.
Dr. Steven Berglas spent 25 years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School's Department of Psychiatry.
Cannon, the cardiologist at Harvard Medical School who is heading up Prove-It, dismisses concerns that his study isn't powerful enough.
In the late 1970s Harvard Medical School researcher Joel Habener serendipitously discovered a hormone in monkfish called GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide).
Researchers from the Stanford Prevention Research Center and Harvard Medical School selected the first 50 ingredients they found in randomly chosen cookbook recipes, including meats, fish, vegetables, dairy products, bread and spices.
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Among the signees are medical professionals from the Harvard School of Public Health, American Cancer Society and University of Illinois at Chicago Division of Pathology Research.
Perhaps the most striking moment of the symposium came when Gottfried Schlaug of Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center revealed the results of an approach he has developed, called auditory-motor mapping training, using pitch and rhythm to heal autistic children who are incapable of speaking.
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She said, for instance, that U.S. studies, including the big Nurses Health Study at Harvard Medical School, have demonstrated the benefits of the diet in a U.S. population.
"Of course, a lot of people would like to hear that it's no problem that they are overweight or obese, " said Walter Willett, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chair of the Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Nutrition.
One conclusion emerging from the research, says Irving Kirsch, a professor at Harvard Medical School who wrote the preface to the volume, is that the effect is strongest for those disorders that are predominantly mental and subjective, a conclusion backed by a meta-analysis of placebo studies that was carried out in 2010 by researchers at the Cochrane Collaboration, an organisation that reviews evidence for medical treatments.
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In the first, "Fetal Origins of Obesity, " researchers from Harvard Medical School looked at the growing field of in utero and early infancy programming the notion that what happens, nutritionally and otherwise, to the expectant mother and, later, to the newborn, has profound consequences in predicting chronic illness.
In the study, researchers at Harvard Medical School analyzed a national database of cancer statistics in which nearly 350, 000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer between 1979 and 2004 were followed for a year after receiving their diagnosis.
Yet perhaps the most fascinating results in placebo research most recently examined by Ted Kaptchuk and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School, in the context of irritable-bowel syndrome is that the effect may persist even if patients are told that they are getting placebo treatments.
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From the onset, the Personal Genome Project, set up by Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics George Church, has warned participants of the risk that someone someday could identify them, meaning anyone could look up the intimate medical histories that many have posted along with their genome data.
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Keynote speakers include American economist Jeffrey Sachs (by video) who will present the investment and productivity argument for ECCE, Jack Shonkoff, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child in the United States, who will speak on brain research and child development, and Danny Faure, Vice-President of the Seychelles.
The drug giant convened the ten-member panel, headed by Eugene Braunwald of Harvard Medical School in Boston, to examine the safety of heart-failure treatment Natrecor.
In a June article in The New England Journal of Medicine, Jerry Avorn, a pharmacologist at Harvard Medical School, painted torcetrapib as the unhappy result of the drug industry's role as the sole funder of most pricey pharmaceutical research.
"The implications are huge, absolutely huge, " says Harvard Medical School's Christopher Cannon, who led the Lipitor-versus-Pravachol study.
He convinced then- chairman of DuPont, Edward Jefferson, to make the first donation for a new Division on Addictions at Harvard Medical School, which would integrate substance abuse into the curriculum.
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