Harrison “Hap” Farber, MD

The phaware® interview

Harrison “Hap” Farber, MD discusses ways Team PHenomenal Hope seeks to build community with those suffering from PH including the #LetMeBeYourLungs program. Dr. Farber is the Vice President of Team PHenomenal Hope.

Dr. Farber is considered an opinion leader and internationally recognized expert in the field of pulmonary hypertension. He is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and attends in the Medical Intensive Care Unit and on the Pulmonary Consultation Service at Boston Medical Center. He also oversees the care of all patients with Pulmonary Hypertension at Boston Medical Center.

I’m Hap Farber from Boston University. For those of you who don’t know, Team PHenomenal Hope is a charity that involves multiple things but mostly to increase awareness about PH done originally through endurance athletics, but now through any form of athletics. It also has other aspects. One is the Unmet Patient Need Fund in which we try and take grants from patients about things that they can’t get that aren’t covered by insurance. The thing that we’ve done the most recently…