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Dr. Alan Abrams is assistant professor of medicine Harvard Medical School, director of the Harvard Geriatric Fellowship Program, is and is on the teaching faculty Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. Since 1995, he has also served as a part time medical director Evercare New England. (Evercare is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Health Group).

Dr. Abrams received his MPH from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, and received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Abrams completed an internship at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston and a residency at the Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition, his fellowship in geriatrics was completed at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Since Dr. Alan Abrams' geriatric fellowship training in 1979, he has continuously held an academic appointment through Harvard Medical School (HMS). In 1981, he was granted an HMS appointment as an instructor in medicine and began his geriatric teaching career. Over the last twenty-six years,  he has increased his  responsibilities as a leader in education at HMS affiliates including Cambridge Hospital (now Cambridge Health Alliance) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Over the years, his teaching activities have including the precepting of countless Harvard Medical students, medical residents and fellows at each institution with which he has been affiliated and the presentation of Grand Rounds and other didactic conferences covering such issues as coronary heart disease in elderly women and housecalls. He was also honored to present his work on housecalls nationally at the annual meetings of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Academy of Home Care Physicians.

His years of educational leadership culminated with an appointment as program director of the HMS Geriatric Fellowship Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2005. As program director, he is chiefly responsible for directing the educational pathways of ten first and second year geriatric fellows. In his current tenure, he has successfully recruited two classes of exceptional fellows from residency programs such as those at Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins and UNC. He also guided the program through the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recertification process, resulting in certification in good standing through 2009. While successfully fulfilling the administrative duties associated with his role as program director, he has continued to meet and exceed the teaching requirements of his position. He presents numerous didactic sessions to the fellows throughout the year on issues including, but not limited to, clinical care of the aging, nursing home care, housecall medicine, financing care of the elderly and others. As a result of his continued high level of teaching, he received the Mentor of the Year Award from the HMS geriatric fellows for the academic year 2005-2006.

In addition to his current direct teaching, he has also been clinically active with a large primary care geriatric practice at Cambridge Health Alliance, which have included nursing home, outpatient, inpatient, sub-acute, and a "housecall practice" for more than 20 years. At the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he serves as the inpatient geriatric and consult attending and takes clinical call for the Division of Geriatrics outpatient, nursing home, and assisted living practices.