Joel Katz

Joel T. Katz, M.D., is a primary care physician, infectious diseases specialist, and medical educator at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he serves as the inaugural Designated Institutional Official and the Senior Vice President for Education. In that capacity, he oversees a broad portfolio of interprofessional cancer educational efforts across the Institute. Katz was previously the internal medicine residency program director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for 22 years and before that at Allegheny General Hospital for 3 years. He is associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). In addition to his clinical practice and administrative roles, Katz has championed the use of visual arts and humanities to improve medical education and patient care. He is the director of the HMS course “Training the Eye: Improving the Art of Physical Diagnosis,” in which students hone their physical examination acumen through the careful observation of visual arts at the Museum