Joel Naom Hirschhorn is an American human geneticist, pediatrician, and endocrinologist.
[3] Joel attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City.
He did his Ph.D. research on chromatin structure and transcription in yeast with Fred Winston.
After receiving his Ph.D., he did his postdoc on genetic association studies at the Whitehead Institute's Center for Genome Research with Eric Lander.
[7] In 2011, he received the Society for Pediatric Research's E. Mead Johnson Award.