Jeffrey S. Flier became the 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University on September 1, 2007. Flier, an endocrinologist and an authority on the molecular causes of obesity and diabetes, is also the Carolyn Shields Walker Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Previously he had served as Harvard Medical School Faculty Dean for Academic Programs and Chief Academic Officer for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard teaching affiliate.

Biography of Jeffrey Flier

Strategic Planning Site

Focus coverage of the strategic planning process

Alumni Day Address, June 6, 2008

Commencement Address, June 5, 2008 (text)

The 2008-09 Dean's Report (pdf**)

Town Forum Remarks, October 30, 2007:
    video (25:41*)
    text version (pdf **)

Initial Greetings to the HMS Community (video, 7:30)

Recent Papers

Gut Check: Testing a Role for the Intestinal Microbiome in Human Obesity

By Jeffrey S. Flier and John J. Mekalanos
Science Translational Medicine. November 11, 2009.

Offices of the Deans