HMS logoBanner

For decades, Harvard Medical School alumni have returned to the Quad for Alumni Week. The event features the annual lunch meeting of the HMS Alumni Association, an Alumni Council meeting, the annual leadership dinner, and the Alumni Day program, which includes the Alumni Association’s business meeting and a symposium on Social Medicine.

 


SAVE THE DATES!

Alumni Week will be held June 5th – 8th, 2008.

Alumni Day 2008 is on Friday, June 6th and will be on the Quadrangle under the tent. The event will feature the annual business meeting of the Alumni Association, the Alumni Day Symposium, and the State of the School address by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine followed by lunch.

Programs and registration cards will be sent out in early 2008. Please see below for past programs (2006, 2007), including videos of the Alumni Day symposia.

For more information on Alumni Week, contact HMS Alumni Relations at 617-384-8520 or hmsalum@hms.harvard.edu.


Alumni Day Symposium — Friday June 9, 2006

Nobel Conversations:
Personal Reflections on Life and Career Influences

Click on a name below to watch & listen using RealPlayer™

Moderator | George E. Thibault, MD'69
Daniel D. Federman, MD Professor of Medicine & Medical Education
Director of Alumni Relations

David Hubel, MD
John Franklin Enders University | Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus Harvard Medical School
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1987

Bernard Lown, MD
Professor of Cardiology, Emeritus | Harvard School of Public Health
Accepted the Nobel for Peace Prize on behalf of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), 1985

Dr’s Hubel & Lown: Q&A Session

Thomas Weller, MD ’40
Professor of Tropical Public Health, Emeritus | Harvard School of Public Health
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1954

Joseph E. Murray, MD ’43 B
Professor of Surgery, Emeritus | Harvard Medical School
Co-Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1990

 


 

The 2007 Alumni Day speakers included HMS alumni and faculty member Jim Yong Kim, M.D. ’86, Ph.D.’91 former head of the World Health Organization’s Africa AIDS treatment campaign who is working with poor people living in the developing world to improve their access to health care.

Alumni Day Symposium — Friday June 8, 2007

Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Click on a name below to watch & listen using RealPlayer™

Business Meeting Alumni Day 2007
Moderator | George E. Thibault, MD '69
Director of Alumni Relations
Daniel D. Federman, MD Professor of Medicine & Medical Education
Harvard Medical School

David Walton, MD '03
Instructor in Medicine | Harvard Medical School

Sonya Shin, MD '97
Assistant Professor of Medicine| Harvard Medical School

Jim Yong Kim, MD '86
Professor of Social Medicine | Harvard Medical School

State Of The School Alumni Day 2007
Joseph Boyd Martin, M.D., Ph.D.
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine| Harvard Medical School