Herbert Leroy Abrams (August 16, 1920 – January 20, 2016) was an American medical doctor.
His parents, Morris and Freda Abrams, were Russian immigrants who ran a hardware store.
He was then the Philip H. Cook Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and was the chief radiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana–Farber Cancer Center.
[4] Co-founding International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), the organization that received the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for its attempts to prevent nuclear war, Abrams served as the organization's first vice president.
[9] Abrams authored The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment in the Aftermath of the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan (1992).