Anthony L. Komaroff

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Anthony Komaroff
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Anthony L. Komaroff (born June 7, 1941) is an American physician, clinical investigator, editor, and publisher. He serves as the Distinguished Simcox-Clifford-Higby Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Early life

Anthony L. (Tony) Komaroff was raised in

Los Angeles, California. He attended college at Stanford University and medical school at the University of Washington
in Seattle.

Career

Following medical school, he received training in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and then joined the faculty.

Komaroff was the Director of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at

Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston MA, from 1982 to 1997, and built one of the world’s renowned academic general medicine units. From 1982 to 1987, he was the vice president for management systems of Brigham and Women's Hospital, with oversight of the Hospital's computer systems. From 1997 through January 2015, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Health Publications Division (HHP) of Harvard Medical School, the division responsible for publishing all of the School's health information for the general public—books, newsletters, Internet content and doctors' office information. The information is published in multiple languages, in countries around the world [1]
.

Komaroff has published over 280 research articles and book chapters, and two books. His early publications cover the development of clinical algorithms,

chronic fatigue syndrome[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] and also on human herpesvirus 6.[13][14][15]

Komaroff was the Editor in Chief of the best-selling book, the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide;

New England Journal of Medicine [2]; is the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Health Letter, a newsletter from Harvard Medical School for the general public [3]; and from 2011-December 2016 was the author of a daily newspaper column, Ask Doctor K, that was syndicated by United Media and appeared in over 400 newspapers in North America. In these publications, and in medical journals, he describes the latest developments in biological science and medical research to both practicing health professionals and the general public.[17][18][19][20][21]

Finally, Komaroff also served as editor of the autobiographies of two biomedical scientists, Nobel Laureates

Thomas H. Weller.[23]

Komaroff serves as the Distinguished Simcox-Clifford-Higby Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston [4].

Honors

References

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  6. PMID 26075760
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  7. PMID 28811366
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  8. S2CID 195805355
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  9. PMID 29968805
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  10. S2CID 235354169
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  11. PMID 34400495
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  12. PMID 33537329
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  13. PMID 20212114
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  14. PMID 33177186
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  15. PMID 33841432
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  16. ^ Komaroff, Anthony L. (1999). Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide. Simon & Schuster.
  17. S2CID 5078210
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  18. PMID 28796848
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  19. S2CID 219548603
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  20. S2CID 234747224
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  21. S2CID 237608592
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  22. ^ Murray, Joseph E. (2001). Surgery of the Soul. Science History Publications USA.
  23. ^ Weller, Thomas H. (2004). Growing Pathogens in Tissue Cultures. Science History Publications USA.

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