About
Dr. Anthony L. Komaroff is the Simcox/Clifford/Higby Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Physician at Brigham & Women's Hospital. He maintained a general internal medicine practice from 1970-2015, and remains active as a teacher and investigator.
Dr. Komaroff has held several leadership positions, including:
- Director of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care within the Department of Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital (1982-1997);
- Vice President for Management Systems, Brigham & Women's Hospital (1982-1987);
- Founding Editor of NEJM Journal Watch General Medicine, a publication of the Massachusetts Medical Society/New England Journal of Medicine (1987-today);
- Co-Director, Program in Clinical Effectiveness, a training program in non-laboratory investigation (clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy, etc.) which trains approximately 300 fellows per year from institutions around the world;
- Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Health Publications Division of Harvard Medical School, responsible for all Harvard Medical School’s consumer health publishing—including books, newsletters, magazine and newspaper columns and Internet content (1997-2015);
- Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Health Letter (2000-current);
- Author of a daily newspaper column syndicated by United Features Syndicate in 450 newspapers in North America (2011-2017).
Dr. Komaroff has published over 270 research articles and book chapters and 2 books. In the past 20 years, his publications have been primarily focused on myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and the biology and clinical consequences of infection with human herpesviruses 6A and 6B.
Dr. Komaroff has served on:
- The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Coordinating Committee of the United States Department of Health and Human Services;
- The Review Committee on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
- The Advisory Committee on Adverse Health Outcomes of the Gulf War for the U.S. Institute of Medicine/ National Academy of Sciences.
- The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
- A member of the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council Working Group for ME/CFS Research
Dr. Komaroff is a Project PI on one of the NIH-funded ME/CFS Research Centers and served as closing keynote speaker at the two-day NIH Conference on ME/CFS in April 2019.
In recognition of his contributions, Dr. Komaroff has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Physicians, and the Association for Health Services Research.