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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.

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    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 Research Interests

    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

    Public Health Interests

    Health Insurance; Health Policy; Health Systems Reform; Environmental Health; Health Care Financing; Health Care Management; Health Care Quality, Efficiency; Health Economics; COVID-19; e-Health

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Howard Forman's published research.

    Publications

    2024

    2023

    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

    • activity

      Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation

    • activity

      Clinical Imaging (Journal)

    • 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

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    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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