Howard Haym Hiatt (July 22, 1925 – March 2, 2024) was an American medical researcher involved with the discovery of messenger RNA.
[7] Hiatt was married for 60 years to Doris Bieringer, a librarian who co-founded a reference publication for high-school libraries.
Hiatt was the first Blumgart Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, as well as the physician-in-chief at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, from 1963 to 1972.
While he was dean from 1972 to 1984, the school strengthened and greatly broadened its work in quantitative analytic sciences, introduced molecular and cell biology into its research and teaching, began its program in health policy and management—the first in a public health school, and promoted integration of its teaching and research programs with those in other Harvard Faculties.
An accomplished physician, researcher, mentor, and teacher, and a leader in the field of human rights, his work was widely published and often appeared in both scholarly and lay publications.
(published in January 1989 by Harper & Row)[14] outlined methods for addressing some very basic problems of the American healthcare system.
[citation needed] Hiatt was married to Doris Bieringer, a librarian who co-founded a reference publication for high-school libraries, from 1947 until her death in 2007.