By Randy Fox
The HST 55th Anniversary Celebration featured a Friday night fireside chat moderated by HMS Dean George Q. Daley, right, with Harvard University President Alan Garber and MIT President Sally Kornbluth. Image: Justin Knight Photography
Harvard University President Alan Garber greets attendees following the fireside chat that concluded Friday’s programming on the MIT campus. Image: Justin Knight Photography
MIT President Sally Kornbluth speaks with an attendee following the fireside chat. Image: Justin Knight Photography
At the fireside chat, from left: HST Director Collin M. Stultz, Harvard University President Alan Garber, MIT President Sally Kornbluth, clinician-scientist and innovator Chiang Li, and HMS Dean George Q. Daley. Image: Justin Knight Photography
Former HST directors, from left, David E. Cohen, Martha Gray, Michael Rosenblatt, Emery Brown, and Wolfram Goessling partake in a Friday panel discussion moderated by current HST Director Collin M. Stultz (not pictured). Image: Justin Knight Photography
David E. Golan, right, HMS dean for research initiatives and global programs, moderates a Friday panel discussion featuring HST alumni, from left, Raphael Bueno, Ann Celi, Catherine Corrigan, David Page, and Jay Schnitzer. Image: Justin Knight Photography
Former HST Director Wolfram Goessling delivers the keynote lecture during the Saturday morning session of the HST 55th Anniversary Celebration. Image: Gretchen Ertl
HST Associate Director Junne Kamihara, left, moderates a student panel discussion as part of Saturday programming at HMS. Panel members, from right, are Kayton Rotenberg, Samuel Zinga, Adam Berger, Diana Grass, and Mariale Vicent. Image: Gretchen Ertl
Saturday’s programming included an open house at the HST offices in the Tosteson Medical Education Center (TMEC). Image: Gretchen Ertl
Former HST Director Michael Rosenblatt connects with current HST students during a networking lunch in the TMEC atrium. Image: Gretchen Ertl
HMS Dean for Medical Education Bernard S. Chang speaks at the Saturday night celebratory dinner, where he presented awards to former HST directors. Image: Gretchen Ertl
HST Director Collin M. Stultz addresses the crowd at the Saturday night celebratory dinner. Image: Gretchen Ertl
Since 1970, the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) has educated physician-scientists—individuals who study the causes of disease and translate research findings into patient care. Through this cross-university partnership, students take classes at both Harvard and MIT, gaining early and repeated exposure to quantitative and computational approaches to medicine, including AI, while integrating biomedical science with social determinants of health through a recently launched, highly innovative patient-centered curriculum.
Alumni of the program are responsible for numerous groundbreaking innovations, including the drug regimen that transformed HIV/AIDS into a treatable disease and the first non-invasive technology for observing the brain in action. In recognition of these achievements and the ongoing impact of the HST community, the program recently marked its 55th anniversary with a series of events.
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The HST 55th Anniversary Celebration featured programming designed to cultivate and strengthen connections within the HST community. Held on Friday, Nov. 7, and Saturday, Nov. 8, at MIT and Harvard Medical School, respectively, the event featured scientific talks and social gatherings, culminating in a celebratory dinner at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It was sponsored by the J.W. Kieckhefer Lectures in Health Sciences and Technology and the Chiang J. Li MD Family Foundation.
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