Haider warraich
Author | Cardiologist | Researcher | Speaker
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ABOUT
As a physician, writer, researcher and policy maker, Dr. Haider Warraich wears many hats. He writes frequently for the New York Times and the Washington Post, and has more than 150 peer-reviewed research papers including multiple papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. He has written the books Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life and State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science and Future of Cardiac Disease. In his latest book, The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain, Dr. Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience. He has appeared on CNN, Fox, CBS, PBS, and on NPR shows like Fresh Air with Terry Gross and The Diane Rehm Show to speak about his writings and research.
Professional Portfolio
After graduating from medical school in 2009 from the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, Dr. Haider Warraich joined the internal medicine residency program at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, affiliated with Harvard Medical School. After three years of training and a year practicing hospital medicine there, Dr. Warraich moved to join Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, where he completed training in cardiology and advanced heart failure and transplantation over 4 years.
In 2019, after completing his training, Dr. Warraich returned to Boston to join the VA Boston Healthcare System, where he would become Director of the Heart Failure Program. He also began working as a faculty member practicing at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. In Sept 2023, he joined the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a Senior Clinical Advisor for Chronic Disease to the FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf. In this role, Dr. Warraich works closely with FDA leadership, its Centers, other federal agencies and various stakeholders to shape policy across drugs, devices, nutrition, tobacco and AI as it pertains to chronic disease. Dr. Warraich continues to work clinically at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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LATEST
“In this insightful and humane book about pain, suffering and survival, Haider Warraich once again braids history, and personal history to confront questions both ancient and contemporary. It is a marvelous read.”
— Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, Author of The Emperor of All Maladies
In The Song of Our Scars, Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience. He weaves a provocative history from the Renaissance, when pain transformed into a medical issue, through the racial legacy of pain tolerance, to the opiate epidemics of both the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, to the cutting edge of present-day pain science. The conclusion is clear: only by reckoning with both pain’s complicated history and its biology can today’s doctors adequately treat their patients’ suffering. Trenchant and deeply felt, The Song of Our Scars is an indictment of a broken system and a plea for a more holistic understanding of the human body.