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On Wednesday, June 4 from 1 to 3 p.m., Dr. David Ho, TIME magazine's 1996 "Man of the Year" will present the graduation address for the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) at the MIT Faculty Club. Dr. Ho, a 1978 graduate of the program, is currently the Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the prestigious Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York, and Professor at The Rockefeller University. Dr. Ho is widely known for his position at the forefront of AIDS research in this country.
The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) may be the best kept secret in the academic community. HST is an eminent graduate school, training the people who will be tomorrow's leaders in bio-medical research. Dr. Ho ranks with approximately 500 graduates of the country's only inter-institutional collaboration that joins M.D. training with Ph.D. training.
In 1970 HST was established to focus the resources of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University on resolving pressing problems in medicine. This prestigious division educates leaders in academic medicine, biomedical engineering and the biomedical sciences, and stimulates opportunities for unparalleled inter-institutional research programs. HST confers the M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School, the Ph.D. degree from MIT or Harvard, or combined degrees at both institutions.
HST's three co-directors, Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., (a 1986 HST graduate) MIT; Michael Rosenblatt, M.D., Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and Joseph V. Bonventre, M.D., Ph.D. (a 1976 HST graduate) Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, are each renown in their fields.
-- Each year HST receives approximately 500 applications for 30 positions.
-- HST's Medical Sciences program is the premier research-oriented M.D. training program in the world.
-- The Medical Engineering and Medical Physics Program (MEMP) is unique in providing clinical training to engineers and physicists interested in the biomedical sciences.
-- The HST faculty numbers 200 drawn from both Harvard and MIT.
-- 70-80% of HST M.D. graduates are actively involved in research 10 years after graduating from the program.
From its inception, HST's organizational structure "broke the mold" of the traditional academic department-centered approach. The fundamental objective of HST's multidisciplinary approach to education is to carry science or engineering "from bench to bedside."
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