Howard M. Haft, MD, MMM – CONMED Founder & Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Haft has been licensed to practice medicine since 1974. He was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey.  He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Rhode Island, attended Medical School at Pennsylvania State University, and took post-graduate Internship and Residencies at Brown University. Dr. Haft is Board Certified as a specialist in both Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine. Following his residency at Brown, he held an academic position at the University of California, Davis as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry. He has a Master’s degree from Tulane University in Medical Management (MMM). He is recognized by the American Board of Physician Executives as a Certified Physician Executive (CPE) and as a Fellow of the ACPE. He serves as an Adjunct Professor in the McDonough Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Haft was the Founder and the Chief Medical Officer of Conmed Healthcare Management, a publically traded company providing a full complement of health care services to inmates in county detention centers nationally. He also serves as the President of Maryland Healthcare, a multispecialty clinic in Southern Maryland and as President of the Maryland Foundation for Quality Healthcare, a non-profit, American Diabetes Association (ADA) recognized healthcare education organization and as Medical Director and Board member of Health Partners, Inc., a free clinic serving Charles County, Maryland.

Dr Haft lives in La Plata with his wife and six children. He enjoys motorcycling, skiing, surfing and sailing.