Aviad Haramati, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of Education in the Departments of Physiology & Biophysics and Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Haramati’s research interests focus on two main areas: the regulation of renal and electrolyte physiology during growth; and the cardiovascular-renal-endocrine regulation of volume homeostasis in heart failure. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association and the National Kidney Foundation. Dr. Haramati has published over 150 scientific papers, book chapters and abstracts and his work has received honors from several organizations and foundations.

Dr. Haramati is principal investigator of a $ 1.7 million NIH grant that is funding a broad educational initiative aimed at incorporating complementary, alternative (CAM) and integrative medicine into the 4-year medical curriculum at Georgetown. The goal of the initiative is not to train practitioners of CAM, but rather to educate skillful, knowledgeable physicians who understand the role of CAM in healthcare and are capable of discussing these issues with their patients.

Dr. Haramati has taught medical and graduate students for over 25 years, and for the past decade has directed the medical school course in Human Physiology and a number of graduate school courses. He has also contributed to medical education in ways that extend beyond basic science and physiology. He is also the co-founder and co-director of Georgetown’s Mini-Medical School program for the lay public, which includes lectures on both conventional and alternative medicine.

His effectiveness in teaching has been recognized with numerous teaching awards during his tenure at Georgetown University School of Medicine and prior to that at Mayo Clinic. A winner of 5 Golden Apple Awards for excellence in teaching at Georgetown University, Dr. Haramati is now eligible for the award only once in 4 years. In 1997, he was selected for the Kaiser-Permanente Excellence in Teaching of the Basic Sciences, and in April 2000 was the eighth recipient of the Arthur C. Guyton Teacher of the Year award by the American Physiological Society. In November 2002, he received the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award at the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges.