Anthony L. Komaroff

Anthony Komaroff
Born June 7, 1941
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Citizenship American
Fields General internal medicine, Clinical epidemiology
Institutions Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Alma mater Stanford University (A.B.), University of Washington (M.D.)
Spouse Lydia Villa-Komaroff

Anthony L. Komaroff (born June 7, 1941 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American physician, clinical investigator, editor and publisher.

Biography

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. Following medical school, he attended Harvard Medical School for training in internal medicine, and then joined the faculty.[1]

He has published extensively in areas relating to the development of clinical algorithms,[2][3] cost-effectiveness analyses of primary care practices,[4] clinical research on common respiratory and urinary infections,[5][6] and is well known for his research on chronic fatigue syndrome.[7][8][9] He has been part of the field of experts in this disease for decades.[10][11] He has published over 230 articles and book chapters and 2 books.

Komaroff was the Director of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston MA, from 1982–1997, and built one of the world’s renowned academic general medicine units. From 1982-1987, he was the vice president for management systems of Brigham and Women's Hospital. 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 all Harvard Medical School’s health information for the general public.[12]

Komaroff was the Editor in Chief of the best-selling book, the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide,[12] the founding editor of NEJM Journal Watch, a publication of the Massachusetts Medical Society/New England Journal of Medicine, and is author of a daily newspaper column, Ask Doctor K, that is syndicated by United Media.

Currently, Dr. Komaroff serves as the Simcox-Clifford-Higby Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.[13]

Honors

References

  1. ↑ Spotlight, Gather.com
  2. ↑ Komaroff, AL; Black, WL; Flatley, M; Knopp, RH; Reiffen, B; Sherman, H (1974). "Protocols for physician assistants. Management of diabetes and hypertension". The New England journal of medicine 290 (6): 307–12. doi:10.1056/NEJM197402072900605. PMID 4148936.
  3. ↑ Greenfield, S; Komaroff, AL; Pass, TM; Anderson, H; Nessim, S (1978). "Efficiency and cost of primary care by nurses and physician assistants". The New England journal of medicine 298 (6): 305–9. doi:10.1056/NEJM197802092980604. PMID 23495.
  4. ↑ Berwick, DM; Komaroff, AL (1982). "Cost effectiveness of lead screening". The New England journal of medicine 306 (23): 1392–8. doi:10.1056/NEJM198206103062304. PMID 6804866.
  5. ↑ Komaroff, A.; Aronson, M.; Pass, T.; Ervin, C.; Branch, W.; Schachter, J (1983). "Serologic evidence of chlamydial and mycoplasmal pharyngitis in adults". Science 222 (4626): 927–9. doi:10.1126/science.6415813. PMID 6415813.
  6. ↑ Komaroff, Anthony L.; Friedland, Gerald (1980). "The Dysuria-Pyuria Syndrome". New England Journal of Medicine 303 (8): 452–4. doi:10.1056/NEJM198008213030808. PMID 6893073.
  7. ↑ Komaroff, Anthony; Cho, Tracey (2011). "Role of Infection and Neurologic Dysfunction in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". Seminars in Neurology 31 (3): 325–37. doi:10.1055/s-0031-1287654. PMID 21964849.
  8. ↑ Buchwald, D; Cheney, PR; Peterson, DL; Henry, B; Wormsley, SB; Geiger, A; Ablashi, DV; Salahuddin, SZ et al. (1992). "A chronic illness characterized by fatigue, neurologic and immunologic disorders, and active human herpesvirus type 6 infection". Annals of internal medicine 116 (2): 103–13. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-116-2-103. PMID 1309285.
  9. ↑ Dr. Komaroff’s summary of the 2011 IACFS/ME meeting
  10. ↑ Llewellyn King (June 2, 2011). "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is Misunderstood". Real Clear Science. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  11. ↑ Suzanne Vernon (Fall 2009). "Looking Back, Looking Ahead". Solve CFS: The Chronicle of the CFIDS Association of America. Charlotte, North Carolina: The CFIDS Association of America. p. 5. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Health Books
  13. ↑ HMS Faculty Profile

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