Aviad Haramati, Ph.D. is a tenured Professor in the Departments of Physiology & Biophysics and Medicine 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 was director of the medical school course in Human Physiology for 10 years. He served 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. A winner of 5 Golden Apple Awards for excellence in teaching at Georgetown University, Dr. Haramati 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. In November 2002, he received the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award at the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

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. He is a past-president of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE).

Dr. Haramati was principal investigator of a $ 1.7 million NIH grant (through 4/06) that funded 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 was 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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