# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-krein
# Generated: 2026-09-01T07:43:08.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-krein"
name: "Howard Krein"
slug: "howard-krein"
description: "Howard David Krein is an American otolaryngologist, and business executive. He married Ashley Biden, daughter of former U.S. president Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, in 2012 and she filed for divorce during 2025. He is a professor of otolaryngology at Thomas Jefferson University and is a founding partner and co-director of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's Facial Aesthetic and Reconstructive Center. Krein is the chief medical officer at StartUp Health, a venture capital and health technology firm. He served on the Biden Cancer Initiative's board of directors from 2017 to 2019. Krein advised the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign on its COVID-19 pandemic response in an unofficial role."
tagline: "American otolaryngologist, plastic surgeon, and business executive and assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson University"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Krein_(cropped_from_wedding_portrait).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.189690124529395
  historical:           8.444306666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/KreinMD"
    handle:    "KreinMD"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/h_krein_md/"
    handle:    "h_krein_md"
sources:
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    title: "هوارد كيرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هوآرد کراین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Krein"
    title: "Howard Krein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "하워드 크레인"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Крейн, Говард"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump