Joel Thorp Katz MD

Joel T. Katz, MD, is the director of the Harvard Medical School course “Training the Eye: Improving the Art of Physical Diagnosis,” which helps medical students improve their skills in physical diagnosis by studying the fine arts.
He is a graduate of Earlham College and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Joel T. Katz, MD, is an infectious diseases consultant, director of the internal medicine residency program, and vice chair for education at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is the Marshall A. Wolf Chair in Medical Education. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Formerly a commercial artist, Dr. Katz has an interest in utilizing the humanities to improve medical education. He is the director of the Harvard Medical School course “Training the Eye: Improving the Art of Physical Diagnosis,” in which students hone their physical diagnosis acumen through the study of fine arts at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.