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Howard Forman, MD, MBA, FACR

Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, of Economics, of Management and of Public Health (Health Policy)
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Additional Titles

Director of MD/MBA Program at Yale

Director, MBA for Executives (Healthcare Focus Area); SOM

Director, Health Care Management Program; YSPH

Faculty Director of Finance; Department of Radiology; YSM

Contact Info

Radiology & Biomedical Imaging

PO Box 208042, Tompkin's East 2

New Haven, CT 06520-8042

United States

About

Titles

Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, of Economics, of Management and of Public Health (Health Policy)

Director of MD/MBA Program at Yale; Director, MBA for Executives (Healthcare Focus Area); SOM; Director, Health Care Management Program; YSPH; Faculty Director of Finance; Department of Radiology; YSM

Biography

Howie Forman is a Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Public Health (Health Policy), Management, and Economics at Yale University. He came to Yale as a practicing diagnostic radiologist and remains an active clinician in the YNHH Emergency Room, where he also functions as the deputy operational chief for Radiology. Since 1998, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on healthcare policy, economics, finance, and leadership. He is the faculty director and founder of Yale’s MD/MBA program and the Healthcare focus area of the Executive MBA program. Since 2011, he has been the director of the Health Care Management (HCM) Program at the YSPH. He is actively involved in patient care and issues related to financial administration, healthcare compliance, and quality improvement. He has worked in the US Senate, as a health policy fellow, on Medicare legislation. Throughout the COVID pandemic, he has been a constant proponent of evidence-based mitigation strategies, while tracking outbreaks throughout the world. He has worked, actively, against misinformation campaigns and has been widely quoted and interviewed in national, international, and local media.

Since September 2021, he has co-hosted the weekly Health And Veritas Podcast with Harlan Krumholz.

Appointments

Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

Fellow
Institute of Medicine (2002)
Fellow
University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA (1996)
MBA
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Finance (1996)
Resident
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis, MO (1994)
MD
SUNY at Stonybrook (1989)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Costs and Cost Analysis; Economics, Hospital; Economics, Medical; Economics, Pharmaceutical; Global Health; Health Care Economics and Organizations; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Health Care Sector; Health Services Administration; Internship and Residency; Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; Public Health; Quality Assurance, Health Care; Quality Improvement; Quality of Health Care; Radiation; Radiology; Telemedicine

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Howard Forman's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • activity

    Clinical Imaging (Journal)

  • activity

    Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation

  • activity

    Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA)

  • activity

    American Journal of Roentgenology

  • honor

    Regent's Award

Clinical Care

Overview

Howard Paul Forman, MD, is part of the Emergency Radiology Program in the Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging. He is passionate about his work, helping to diagnose health conditions for people who come to the emergency room at Yale New Haven Hospital.

“As radiologists in the emergency room, we are problem solvers and will work with our patients and our clinical colleagues to help patients at what is often their time of greatest and acutest need,” he says.

Dr. Forman is also a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging and the director of the MD/MBA program at Yale School of Medicine, where he helps train future radiologists.

“My favorite part of the job,” he says, “is working with passionate people with a shared vision to deliver excellent, accessible imaging services at any time, any day or night.”

Clinical Specialties

Radiology & Biomedical Imaging

Fact Sheets

Board Certifications

  • Diagnostic Radiology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Radiology
    Original Certification Date
    1994

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Contacts

Academic Office Number
Appointment Number
Clinic Fax Number
Mailing Address

Radiology & Biomedical Imaging

PO Box 208042, Tompkin's East 2

New Haven, CT 06520-8042

United States

Locations

  • Tompkins East Building

    Academic Office

    789 Howard Avenue, Ste 2 204

    New Haven, CT 06519

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