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Dr. Katz is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School and the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. Dr. Katz completed his pediatric residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., and received his Doctor of Medicine from the Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. and a B.A. degree from Hamilton College in upstate New York.
Following his residency at Hopkins, Dr. Katz served as a Captain in the US Army Medical Corps at Tripler Army Hospital where he developed a large primary care pediatric practice and a pediatric endocrine consultation service for the military, and also served as senior faculty for the Army’s pediatric residency training program. After leaving the Army, Dr. Katz entered fellowship training in pediatric endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Katz returned to Johns Hopkins where he continued his combined interests in patient care, teaching and research, and became the founding physician of the Hopkins’ innovative health care delivery system, the Columbia Medical Plan, in Columbia, Md. During his 16-year tenure, Dr. Katz was Chief of Pediatrics and Associate Medical Director of the Medical Plan, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrine Attending at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
In Columbia, Dr. Katz continued his pediatric practice and was actively involved in the community as a Day Care and Early Childhood Education consultant, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on Adoption, and a member of the Howard County Commission for the handicapped.
In 1985, Dr. Katz accepted a position as Health Center Medical Director for the Harvard Community Health Plan, and moved to Boston joining the Harvard faculty. Dr. Katz is active in local and national continuing medical education for physicians and nurses. He is deputy director of Pri-Med, the nationally recognized Harvard continuing medical education conference in primary care medicine. He teaches medical students in their primary care clerkship and lectures nationally on primary care, telephone medicine and pediatric endocrine topics. Dr. Katz has multiple publications, and is the author of the widely used book on telephone medicine, Telephone Medicine: Triage and Training.
Dr. Katz’s wife teaches English as a second language in the public school system. He has three children and one grandchild.
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