Susan Koven, MD

Suzanne Koven was born and raised in New York City. She received her B.A. in English literature from Yale and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins. She also holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. After her residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital she joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and practiced primary care internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for over 30 years and now holds the Valerie Winchester Family Endowed Chair in Primary Care Medicine at Mass General. In 2019 she was named inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Mass General. She also co-directs the Media and Medicine certificate program and serves on the faculty of the Media, Medicine, and Health masters program, at Harvard Medical School.