Aviad Haramati, Ph.D. is a tenured Professor and Director of
Education in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at
Georgetown University School of Medicine. A graduate of
Brooklyn College, he received a PhD in Physiology from the
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and did post-doctoral
research training at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Haramati’s research
interests focus on two main areas: the regulation of renal and,
electrolyte physiology during growth; and the
cardiovascular-renal-endocrine regulation of volume homeostasis in
heart failure. His research has been supported by grants from
the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association and
the National Kidney Foundation. Dr. Haramati has published
over 150 scientific papers, book chapters and abstracts and his work
has received honors from several organizations and foundations.
Dr. Haramati has taught medical and graduate students for over 25
years, and for the past decade has directed the medical school
course in Human Physiology and a number of graduate school courses.
He recently completed a three-year term on the Physiology Test
Development Committee (USMLE Step 1) for the National Board of
Medical Examiners, and is currently Chair of the Examination Section
for the Certification Board of Nutrition Specialists (CBNS) of the
American College of Nutrition. His effectiveness in teaching
has been recognized with numerous teaching awards during his tenure
at Georgetown University School of Medicine and prior to that at
Mayo Clinic. Dr. Haramati is one of only 7 active faculty
members at Georgetown who received the Golden Orchard Award
(bestowed on those who won the Golden Apple Award on at least three
occasions and is now eligible for the award only once in 4 years).
In 1997, he was selected for the Kaiser-Permanente Excellence in
Teaching of the Basic Sciences, and in April 2000 was the eighth
recipient of the Arthur C. Guyton Teacher of the Year award by the
American Physiological Society. This past April 2002, he
received his 5th Golden Apple award.
Dr. Haramati has contributed to medical education in ways that
extend beyond basic science and physiology. He has been
involved in developing many of the major curricular initiatives at
Georgetown University School of Medicine in the past 10 years,
including serving as chair of the pre-clinical course directors
committee at Georgetown, and he headed the task force to evaluate
Problem-Based Learning at Georgetown. He is also the
co-founder and co-director of Georgetown’s Mini-Medical School
program for the lay public, which includes lectures on both
conventional and alternative medicine.
In June 2000, he was selected to attend the Program for Leaders
in Medical Education, sponsored by Harvard University and the Macy
Foundation, and since then has been invited to serve as a faculty
facilitator in that program. Currently, he serves as President
of the International Association of Medical Science Educators
(IAMSE).
Most recently, he is principal investigator of a $ 1.7 million
NIH grant that is funding a broad educational initiative aimed at
incorporating complementary, alternative (CAM) and integrative
medicine into the 4-year medical curriculum at Georgetown. The
goal of the initiative is not to train practitioners of CAM, but
rather to educate skillful, knowledgeable physicians who understand
the role of CAM in healthcare and are capable of discussing these
issues with their patients.
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