Harlan Krumholz

Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM is a leading cardiologist, health services researcher, and the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, where he has been on faculty since 1992. He is Editor-in-Chief of JACC and founding director of the Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation. A pioneer in outcomes research, his work has transformed how we measure and improve healthcare quality, equity, and efficiency. A strong proponent of preprint servers in medicine, he is a co-founder of medRxiv, a preprint server for clinical research launched in 2019. Dr. Krumholz has received the American Heart Association’s Distinguished Scientist Award, Clinical Research Prize, and Distinguished Achievement Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and served on the NIH Director’s Advisory Committee. In 2014, he received China’s Friendship Award, the country’s highest honor for foreign experts contributing to social progress.