Joel T. Katz
M.D., M.A.C.P.
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine
Marshall A. Wolf Distinguished Chair in Medical Education
Marshall A. Wolf Distinguished Chair in Medical Education
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Joel T. Katz, M.D., M.A.C.P.is a primary care physician, infectious diseases specialist, Director Emeritus of the internal medicine residency program, and Vice Chair for Education at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is the Marshall A. Wolf Distinguished Chair in Medical Education. He is associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School.
In addition to his clinical practice and administrative roles, a former biomedical illustrator, Dr. Katz has championed the use of visual arts and humanities to improve patientcare and medical education. He is the director of the HMS course “Training the Eye: Improving the Art of Physical Diagnosis,” in which students hone their physical diagnosis acumen through the study of fine arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He serves on the FacultyExecutive Committee of the Arts and Humanities Initiative at HMS. He is the Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Medicine’s Center for Arts in Healthcare.