Harvard Prof. Dr. Howard Bleich Honored in Newton, Mass.
Dr. Howard Bleich, professor of medicine at Harvard, was honored by The Adams Street Shul in Newton, Mass. The orthodox congregation was also celebrating its centennial. Dr. Bleich pioneered a computer program to search the medical literature. Along with Dr. Warner Slack, he designed the computing systems at the Beth Israel Deaconess and Brigham and Women’s hospitals. Dr. Bleich and Dr. Herman Rosen, medical editor for Education Update, trained together as nephrology fellows in Boston.