Alumna is Harvard System’s first woman chief of medicine
Soheyla Gharib, will oversee multi-site facility serving 30,000 patients
November 15, 2004 | For more information: George Stamatis 216-368-3635
 Soheyla Gharib, M.D., a 1979 graduate of the Case Western Reserve University (Case) School of Medicine, will become the first woman to serve as chief of medicine of Harvard University Health Services (HUHS), effective Nov. 15.
The medical service at Harvard is a multi-site facility serving 30,000 patients, including faculty and staff who choose the Harvard University Group Health Plan for their health care as well as undergraduate and graduate students. In her new position, Gharib will oversee all family and primary care physicians at HUHS, as well as nurse practitioners, medical specialists, urgent care, and the Stillman Infirmary. “The other part of my job is to really be a liaison to the university community in health matters, to serve almost a public health function,” providing the community with information regarding the health topics that affect them most and playing a preventive role in major health concerns, she told the Harvard University Gazette.
Gharib, an internist with expertise in endocrinology, co-founded the Women’s Health Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1995 and had been its medical director since 1998. An assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, she lectures internationally on women’s health and has developed a series of guidelines on women’s health issues that is used by other physicians in the Partners Healthcare System.
Gharib also is a 1976 undergraduate alumna of Case Western Reserve University (Western Reserve College). Her late father, Ali Gharib, M.D., was an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the Case School of Medicine, affiliated with University Hospitals of Cleveland, for almost three decades. Her sisters also attended what is now known as Case Western Reserve University; Mohtaram Gharib Shojania attended Flora Stone Mather College in the 1960s; Simin Gharib is a triple alumna of the university (Flora Stone Mather College and the School of Graduate Studies), and Susie Gharib, co-anchor of PBS’ “Nightly Business Report,” is a 1972 alumna of Flora Stone Mather College.
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