Here are six things to know about the physician president, according to his bio:
- Dr. Garber served as provost and chief academic officer from 2011 before being appointed interim president.
- Dr. Garber received his PhD in economics from Harvard and his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto.
- Dr. Garber holds healthcare-focused faculty positions as the Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and as a professor of health policy and management in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
- Dr. Garber also teaches as an economics professor in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a public policy professor in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
- Dr. Garber is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians and the National Academy of Medicine.
- Dr. Garber is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians.
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