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First Dean for Education Named at HMS

Steve Gilbert Thomas Michel

Thomas Michel, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has been appointed the first dean for education at HMS. In his new position, he will hold the Federman Chair for Medical Education and will be a key adviser to Dean Jeffrey Flier on the broader aspects of education at HMS. He also will work with the School’s current educational leadership, including Jules Dienstag, dean for medical education, as well as other HMS leaders in graduate, global, and continuing medical education.

Michel will chair a newly formed HMS Education Council, which will bring together leaders of educational programs across Harvard, including the masters of the HMS academic societies, directors of the HMS graduate programs, hospital-based physician-educators, directors of the HST and MD–PhD Programs, and leading educators from Harvard College and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Under his leadership, the HMS Education Council will coordinate activities and develop new programs across Harvard University.

Michel has served as leader of the Strategic Advisory Group on Education within the School’s strategic planning initiative. At BWH, his laboratory studies signal transduction pathways in the cardiovascular system, and he sees patients as a practicing cardiologist and clinician–teacher at BWH. Michel has been active for many years in teaching undergraduates and graduate students at Harvard and is the director of the Harvard Program in Human Biology and Translational Medicine.

The creation of this new position stems from the recommendations that emerged from the strategic planning process, along with recognition of the need for better communication, coordination, and partnership among the different educational programs at HMS and across Harvard.

“With the advent of Harvard’s Allston campus and with the School’s evolving relationships with its outstanding teaching hospitals and with MIT, HMS has new responsibilities for coordinating educational programs that reflect its critical, internationally recognized role in medical and graduate education,” said Flier in a message to the community. “Thomas is charged with making this happen.”

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