Howard K. Rabinowtiz, MD

Howard.Rabinowiz@jefferson.edu

Dr. Rabinowitz received his MD degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine after earning a baccalaureate degree at Rutgers University. He completed his pediatric residency training at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Between 1972 and 74 he served as Medical Director of the Sacaton Indian Health Service Hospital on the Pima Indian Reservation. Board certified in family medicine and pediatrics, Dr. Rabinowitz has been on the faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University since 1976. He is currently Professor of Family Medicine, and Director of Jefferson's Physician Shortage Area Program, a special admissions and educational program that has been successful in increasing the number of family physicians in rural areas, as detailed in publications in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and The New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Rabinowitz is a past-President of the American Board of Family Practice (1992-93), and a former member of the Step II Committee on Public Health and Preventive Medicine of the United States Medical Licensure Examination (USMLE). From 1993-94, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the Office of Senator John D (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D, W. Va.). Dr. Rabinowitz is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. From 1992-2000, he was a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Generalist Physician Initiative. Currently, Dr. Rabinowitz is national Project Co-Director of HRSA's (Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services) $8 million "UME-21" project (Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21st Century), a program to help teach medical students how to provide quality medical care in the changing healthcare environment.