Search

For many years, the placebo effect was considered to be no more than a nuisance variable that needed to be controlled in clinical trials. Only recently have researchers redefined it as the key to understanding the healing that arises from medical ritual, the context of treatment, the patient...

Aging research is critically important for medicine and public health with the anticipated surge in the older population with the aging of the Baby Boom generation. Investigators within the Division are conducting studies designed to improve our understanding and management of acute and chronic...

The Division's research has had a longstanding focus on understanding health disparities across the continuum of care. The Division's portfolio includes work that identifies groups at risk for health disparities and studies that try to understand the mechanisms that underlie these disparities. This...

The Harvard Medical School Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine is a NIH-funded three-year joint program of Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals. The program accepts a diversity of postdoctoral candidates including physicians, neuroscientists, molecular biologists...

Coronary heart disease and stroke rank first and third among causes of death for Americans. The Division has an important emphasis on investigating the role of lifestyle factors, pharmaceuticals, biomarkers, and genetics in primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention. Dr. Ken Mukamal has studied...

The Division of General Medicine at BIDMC offers the following Fellowship programs: Harvard Medical School Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care​​ Harvard Medical School Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine​​​ Hinohara Primary Care Fellowship