Carola Blitzman Eisenberg, MD, now retired but actively involved in human rights work through Physicians for Human Rights

Physicians for Human Rights

Physicians for Human Rights was founded in 1986 by a small group of doctors who believed the unique scientific expertise and authority of health professionals could bring human rights violations to light and provide justice for victims...

 (PHR), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and elsewhere, is the former Dean of Students of MIT (the first woman to hold that position at MIT), then Dean of Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School

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 (HMS) (1978–1990). She has for a long time been Lecturer

Lecturer

Lecturer is an academic rank. In the United Kingdom, lecturer is a position at a university or similar institution, often held by academics in their early career stages, who lead research groups and supervise research students, as well as teach...

 in the newly-renamed Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS (formerly the Department of Social Medicine).