Dr. Howard Forman

Howard Paul Forman, MD, MBA, FACR, is an emergency and trauma radiologist, health economist, and academic leader specializing in diagnostic radiology. He serves as Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine, with additional appointments at the Yale School of Management, Yale School of Public Health, and Yale College, and is Deputy Operational Chief for Radiology at Yale New Haven Hospital. His clinical focus includes emergency radiology, trauma imaging, and imaging workflow and care coordination in high-acuity hospital settings. Dr. Forman’s research centers on healthcare delivery and imaging efficiency, the use of AI and large language models in radiology and patient communication, and health policy and healthcare market regulation. He is the founder and faculty director of the Yale MD/MBA Program, faculty director for the healthcare focus area of the MBA for Executives, director of the Health Care Management Program, and faculty director of finance in radiology. His work has been recognized with the Annual Achievement Award from the Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research, the Yale School of Management Healthcare Track Teaching Award, the Leah Lowenstein Award, the Regent’s Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives, and the Distinguished Student Mentoring Award from Yale School of Public Health. He earned his medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, completed his diagnostic radiology residency at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis, and received an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed a health policy fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the Institute of Medicine.