Anthony L. Komaroff Explained

Anthony Komaroff
Birthname:Anthony L. Komaroff
Birth Date:June 7, 1941
Birth Place:Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Citizenship:American
Fields:General internal medicine, Clinical epidemiology
Workplaces:Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Alma Mater:Stanford University (A.B.), University of Washington (M.D.)
Spouse:Lydia Villa-Komaroff

Anthony L. Komaroff (born June 7, 1941) is an American physician, clinical investigator, editor, and publisher. He serves as the Distinguished Simcox-Clifford-Higby Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Early life

Anthony "Tony" Komaroff was raised in Los Angeles, California. He attended college at Stanford University and medical school at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Career

Following medical school, he received training in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and then joined the faculty.

Komaroff was the Director of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston MA, from 1982 to 1997, and built one of the world’s renowned academic general medicine units. From 1982 to 1987, he was the vice president for management systems of Brigham and Women's Hospital, with oversight of the Hospital's computer systems. From 1997 through January 2015, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Health Publications Division (HHP) of Harvard Medical School, the division responsible for publishing all of the School's health information for the general public—books, newsletters, Internet content and doctors' office information. The information is published in multiple languages, in countries around the world https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/66899.

Komaroff has published over 280 research articles and book chapters, and two books. His early publications cover the development of clinical algorithms,[1] [2] cost-effectiveness analyses of primary care practices,[3] and clinical research on common respiratory and urinary infections,.[4] [5] In recent decades, Dr. Komaroff’s research has focused on chronic fatigue syndrome[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] and also on human herpesvirus 6.[13] [14] [15]

Komaroff was the Editor in Chief of the best-selling book, the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide;[16] is the founding editor of NEJM Journal Watch, a publication of the New England Journal of Medicine https://www.jwatch.org; is the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Health Letter, a newsletter from Harvard Medical School for the general public https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/harvard_health_letter; and from 2011-December 2016 was the author of a daily newspaper column, Ask Doctor K, that was syndicated by United Media and appeared in over 400 newspapers in North America. In these publications, and in medical journals, he describes the latest developments in biological science and medical research to both practicing health professionals and the general public.[17] [18] [19] [20] [21]

Finally, Komaroff also served as editor of the autobiographies of two biomedical scientists, Nobel Laureates Joseph E. Murray[22] and Thomas H. Weller.[23]

Komaroff serves as the Distinguished Simcox-Clifford-Higby Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/66899.

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Notes and References

  1. 4148936 . 1974 . Komaroff . AL . Black . WL . Flatley . M . Knopp . RH . Reiffen . B . Sherman . H . Protocols for physician assistants. Management of diabetes and hypertension . 290 . 6 . 307–12 . 10.1056/NEJM197402072900605 . The New England Journal of Medicine.
  2. 23495 . 1978 . Greenfield . S . Komaroff . AL . Pass . TM . Anderson . H . Nessim . S . Efficiency and cost of primary care by nurses and physician assistants . 298 . 6 . 305–9 . 10.1056/NEJM197802092980604 . The New England Journal of Medicine.
  3. 6804866 . 1982 . Berwick . DM . Komaroff . AL . Cost effectiveness of lead screening . 306 . 23 . 1392–8 . 10.1056/NEJM198206103062304 . The New England Journal of Medicine.
  4. 10.1126/science.6415813 . Serologic evidence of chlamydial and mycoplasmal pharyngitis in adults . 1983 . Komaroff . AL. . Aronson . M. . Pass . T. . Ervin . C. . Branch . W. . Schachter . J . Science . 222 . 4626 . 927–9 . 6415813.
  5. 10.1056/NEJM198008213030808 . The Dysuria-Pyuria Syndrome . 1980 . Komaroff . AL. . Friedland . G . New England Journal of Medicine . 303 . 8 . 452–4 . 6893073.
  6. Komaroff. AL. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Real Illness. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2015. 162. 12. 871–2. 26075760. 10.7326/m15-0647. free.
  7. Komaroff . AL . Inflammation correlates with symptoms in chronic fatigue syndrome. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA . 2017 . 114 . 34 . 8914–6 . 10.1073/pnas.1712475114 . 28811366 . 5576849. free .
  8. Komaroff . AL . Advances in understanding the pathophysiology of chronic fatigue syndrome. . JAMA . 2019 . 322 . 6 . 499–500 . 10.1001/jama.2019.8312. 31276153. 195805355 .
  9. Nagy-Szakal. D. Insights into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome phenotypes through comprehensive metabolomics.. Scientific Reports. 2018. 8. 1. 10056. 10.1038/s41598-018-28477-9. 29968805. 6030047.
  10. Komaroff. AL. Insights from myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome may help unravel the pathogenesis of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome. . Trends in Molecular Medicine. 2021. 27. 9 . 895–906. 10.1016/j.molmed.2021.06.002. 235354169 . free. 8180841.
  11. Paul. B. Redox imbalance links COVID-19 and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 2021. 118. 34. e2024358118. 10.1073/pnas.2024358118. 34400495. 8403932.
  12. Komaroff. AL. Will COVID-19 lead to myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome? . Frontiers in Medicine. 2021. 7. 606824. 10.3389/fmed.2020.606824. 33537329 . 7848220 . free .
  13. Arbuckle. JH. The latent human herpesvirus-6A genome specifically integrates in telomeres of human chromosomes in vivo and in vitro.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 2010. 107. 12. 5563–8. 10.1073/pnas.0913586107. 20212114. etal. 2851814. free.
  14. Komaroff. AL. Human herpesviruses 6A and 6B in brain diseases: association versus causation. . Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 2020. 34. 1 . e00143-20. 10.1128/CMR.00143-20. 33177186 . 7667666 .
  15. Komaroff. AL. Human herpesviruses 6A and 6B in reproductive diseases. . Frontiers in Immunology. 2021. 12. 648945. 10.3389/fimmu.2021.648945. 33841432 . 8027340 . free .
  16. Book: Komaroff. Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide. 1999. Simon & Schuster.
  17. Komaroff. AL. The microbiome and risk for obesity and diabetes. . JAMA . 2017 . 317 . 4 . 355–6 . 10.1001/jama.2016.20099 . 28006047. 5078210 .
  18. Komaroff . AL . Gene editing using CRISPR: why the excitement? . JAMA . 2017 . 318 . 8 . 699–700 . 10.1001/jama.2017.10159 . 28796848.
  19. Komaroff. AL. Can infections cause Alzheimer disease? . JAMA. 2020. 324. 3 . 239–40. 10.1001/jama.2020.4085. 219548603 .
  20. Komaroff. AL. Does sleep flush wastes from the brain? . JAMA. 2021. 325. 21 . 2153–4. 10.1001/jama.2021.5631. 33999096 . 234747224 .
  21. Komaroff. AL. Breakthrough discovery in protein structure prediction and the promise of new treatments. . JAMA. 2021. 326. 14 . 1369–70. 10.1001/jama.2021.15728. 34554183 . 237608592 .
  22. Book: Murray. Joseph E.. Surgery of the Soul. 2001. Science History Publications USA.
  23. Book: Weller. Growing Pathogens in Tissue Cultures. 2004. Science History Publications USA.

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