S. Mitchell Harman, MD, PhD

Sherman Mitchell (Mitch) Harman, M.D., Ph.D. is a recognized expert on the effects of aging on hormone regulation and on hormone treatment of older men and women. He is board-certified in internal medicine and endocrinology, is currently the Chief of the Endocrine Division at the Phoenix VA Health Care System (PVAHCS) where he is also chair of the Research and Development Committee. He is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Dr. Harman has authored or co-authored over 150 book chapters and research papers and has served as president of American Aging Association.

Dr. Harman graduated Miami Beach High School in 1960 and attended Emory University, where he graduated cum laude with a BS in biology in 1964. He completed a six-year M.D./Ph.D. program at the SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn in 1970 and a residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven in 1972. Dr. Harman was a commissioned officer in the United States Public Health Service from 1972-1999 doing his endocrinology fellowship a the National Institutes of Health (NIH) before founding a laboratory for the study of endocrine aging at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Baltimore where he also joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. While at the NIA, he was Chief of the Endocrinology Section in the Laboratory of Clinical Physiology (LCP), and also served as acting Chief of the LCP and acting Clinical Director of the NIA. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins in 1984.

In January 2000 Dr. Harman retired from the USPHS to become the founding Director of the Kronos Longevity Research Institute (KLRI) in Phoenix, AZ, a not-for-profit that conducted research on human aging. At KLRI he organized two multicenter clinical trials, investigating effects of hormone treatment of older men and women, results of which were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Annals of Internal Medicine. In 2012, Mitch moved to the Phoenix VA to become Chief of the Endocrine Division and has served temporarily as both interim Chief, and acting Associate Chief, of the Internal Medicine Service.

Dr. Harman and his second wife, Carol live in Scottsdale, AZ. They have six grandchildren and are currently raising their youngest grandchild, Krystal. He tries to stay active. At age 74 he was awarded a fourth dan black belt in Ninjutsu.

American Association for the Advancement of Science
The Endocrine Society
Gerontology Society of America
American Aging Association