Joel T. Katz, MD, joined Dana-Farber in 2024 as Senior Vice President for Education. In addition to this new role, he serves as the Designated Institutional Official for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). Along with an interprofessional team of educators, his responsibilities include serving as the liaison between Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School for student educational matters and overseeing Dana-Farber’s residency and fellowship training programs, including those at affiliate institutions. He will also manage the coordination of continuing medical education activities to keep global providers and scientists up to date on cutting-edge developments in cancer care.

Katz received a BA from Earlham College and then went on to receive both an MA in Biomedical Illustration and an MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard Longwood infectious diseases fellowship that included Dana-Farber. Before joining the Institute, Katz was the internal medicine residency director and vice chair for education at the BWH Department of Medicine.