| Edward M. Hundert | |
| Order: | 6th |
| President of the Case Western Reserve University | |
| Predecessor: | David H. Auston James W. Wagner (interim) |
| Successor: | Barbara Snyder Gregory L. Eastwood (interim) |
| Birth Place: | Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, US[1] |
| Education: | Yale University (BA) Oxford University (MA) Harvard University (MD) |
| Occupation: | Psychiatrist, ethicist, medical educator |
| Known For: | Dean for Medical Education, Harvard Medical School; President of Case Western Reserve University, 2002-2006 |
| Spouse: | Mary C. Hundert (married 1985) |
| Children: | 3 |
| Website: | HMS profile page for Edward M. Hundert, MD |
Edward M. Hundert is the Daniel D. Federman, M.D. Professor in Residence of Global Health and Social Medicine and Medical Education at Harvard Medical School,[2] where he is also Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at HMS http://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/center-leadership. He was the HMS Dean for Medical Education from 2014 until 2023.[3] Hundert is a member of the TIAA Board of Trustees of TIAA-CREF.
Born in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, Hundert graduated from Yale University, summa cum laude, in 1978 with a degree in mathematics and the history of science and medicine, receiving Yale's annual Russell Henry Chittenden Prize “to the graduating senior with highest standing in mathematics and the natural sciences.” He attended Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, earning a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics in 1980. He received his M.D. in 1984 from Harvard Medical School, where he remained to do his residency training in psychiatry at McLean Hospital.
Following the completion of his residency training, Hundert was appointed Director of Postgraduate and Continuing Medical Education at McLean Hospital and became involved in the development of the Harvard's New Pathway Curriculum. He then served as Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School from 1990 to 1997. After 1997, he left Harvard for a position at the University of Rochester, where he served as Dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry for five years until 2002 before going on to serve as the president of Case Western Reserve University from 2002 to 2006. Hundert stepped down as president in 2006 following a vote of no-confidence from the majority of faculty members in Arts and Sciences Department, largely due to mounting deficits at the university and a management style that many faculty members considered to be overly secretive.[4]
Following his stint as the president of Case Western Reserve University, Hundert returned to Harvard Medical School to serve as Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, implementing a new curriculum in medical ethics and professionalism. From 2014 to 2023 he was the Dean for Medical Education and led the development of Harvard's Pathways curriculum. Since 2023 he has been serving as a Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is also the Associate Director for the HMS Center of Bioethics.
Hundert's articles on education, ethics, psychiatry, and philosophy have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Psychiatry, Academic Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Education, and the Journal of Clinical Ethics. His books include Philosophy, Psychiatry and Neuroscience: Three Approaches to the Mind (Oxford University Press, 1989) and Lessons from an Optical Illusion: On Nature and Nurture, Knowledge and Values (Harvard University Press, 1995).