Harry Oken is an internal medicine physician in practice in Howard County and an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1983 and completed internal medicine training there from 1983 to 1987, including a year as chief resident.
He taught ambulatory medicine to internal medicine residents for twenty-eight years as a clinical professor of medicine, and he served for fourteen years as chairman of medicine at Howard County General Hospital. He has been medical director for the Columbia Association since 2007.
Oken has been recognized as a Best Doctor in America and as a Baltimore magazine "Top Doc." He has published articles in professional journals and is the coauthor of BOOM: Boost Our Own Metabolism.
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