{{Short description|American physician (died 2021)}} {{Infobox person | name = Harris Berman | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!--only use if different from name--> | birth_date = {{birth date|1938|5|30}} | birth_place = Concord, New Hampshire, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|10|30|1938|5|30}} | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | other_names = | education = Harvard University (BA)<br />Columbia University (MD) | alma_mater = | occupation = Physician | spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Ruth E. Nemzoff|1964|<!--Omission, survived by spouse, per Template:Marriage instructions-->}}}} | known_for = Dean of Tufts University School of Medicine }}
'''Harris Alan Berman''' (May 30, 1938 – October 30, 2021) was an American physician who was the dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine.
==Early life and education== Berman was born on May 30, 1938 in Concord, New Hampshire.<ref>{{cite book |title=Biographical Directory of the American College of Physicians |date=1979 |publisher=Bowker |page=915 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g3ZQAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Berman,+Harris%22 |access-date=25 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Marquard |first1=Bryan |title=Dr. Harris Berman, HMO pioneer and former Tufts University School of Medicine dean, dies at 83 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/11/metro/dr-harris-berman-hmo-pioneer-former-tufts-university-school-medicine-dean-dies-83/ |access-date=25 April 2024 |work=The Boston Globe |date=November 11, 2021}}</ref> He completed his undergraduate education at Harvard College and graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1964.<ref name="Berman medical license">{{Cite web |url=http://profiles.massmedboard.org/MA-Physician-Profile-View-Doctor.asp?ID=2997 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415012013/http://profiles.massmedboard.org/MA-Physician-Profile-View-Doctor.asp?ID=2997 |archive-date=2012-04-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://profiles.massmedboard.org/MA-Physician-Profile-View-Doctor.asp?ID=2997 |title=Home - Medical Recruiting |access-date=2011-10-07 |archive-date=2020-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130150507/https://medicalrecruiting.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He completed his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious disease at Tufts Medical Center.<ref name="Berman medical license" /><ref name="Tufts Med Profile">[http://www.tufts.edu/med/phfm/faculty/berman-harris.htm Harris Berman Faculty] profile at Tufts</ref>
==Career== ===First contributions=== After finishing his fellowship, he and Jim Squires, a friend just out of his general surgery residency,<ref name="Named Medical Dean" /> along with three other physicians, co-founded the Matthew Thornton Health Plan,<ref name="Better81-">{{cite book|title=Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance|first=Atul|last=Gawande|author-link=Atul Gawande|publisher=Macmillan|year=2008|isbn=978-0-312-42765-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-EUba-LKZ04C&pg=PT81}}</ref> one of the first health maintenance organizations in New England.<ref name="Tufts Med Profile" /> The organization would grow to service 60,000 people by the mid-1980s;<ref name="Better81-" />
===Tufts=== In 1986, Berman left Matthew Thornton and joined Tufts University School of Medicine as a professor of public health and community medicine.<ref name="Named Medical Dean" /> At the same time, he became the chief executive officer of Tufts Health Plan,<ref name="Better81-" /> which grew from 60,000 members to over a million members in his 17-year tenure.<ref name="Tufts Med Profile" /> From 2003 to 2008, he served as the chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine,<ref name="Named Medical Dean" /> and eventually became the dean of public health and professional degree programs<ref name="Tufts Med Profile" /> before being appointed vice dean of the medical school in 2008.<ref name="Named Medical Dean" /> In December 2009, he was appointed ''dean ad interim'' for the School of Medicine and was formally appointed to the position of dean in October 2011.<ref name="Named Medical Dean">{{Cite web|url=http://now.tufts.edu/articles/harris-berman-named-medical-dean|title = Harris Berman Named Medical Dean|date = 6 October 2011}}</ref>
==Personal life== Berman died on October 30, 2021, at the age of 83. He was survived by his wife, Ruth E. Nemzoff, four children, eleven grandchildren, and a sister.<ref>[https://now.tufts.edu/articles/tufts-university-school-medicine-dean-emeritus-harris-berman-dies Tufts University School of Medicine Dean Emeritus Harris Berman Dies]</ref>
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