Gary R. Epler
professor in Harvard Medical college
Gary Epler is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, author, and speaker.
Education
Epler entered Tulane University School of Medicine in 1967 where he was a class officer and president of the Student American Medical Association (SAMA). During his second year, he established an evening clinic in New Orleans 9th Ward. He did his internal medicine internship at Harlem Hospital in New York City. From 1972 to 1974, he served in the United States Public Health Service in the Tuberculosis Branch as a Lieutenant Commander medical officer stationed in Hawaii; National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Epler was the Indian Health Service physician at Eagle Butte, South Dakota and the Area Project Director of a Nutritional Study in Upper Volta, Africa. He completed his internal medicine residency and pulmonary fellowship at the University Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in 1978. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine.
Professional and academic career
Epler was an Associate Clinical Professor at Boston University and has been an Associate Clinical Professor at Harvard Medicinal School since 1998. He was Visiting Professor at Kyoto University School of Medicine in Kyoto, Japan.
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