Meet the Staff

Graduate Medical Sciences administration is an indispensable part of the BUSM community. Our staff supports the education, success and well-being of over 900 graduate students and postdocs throughout their career at Boston University School of Medicine. Please visit our office or use the directory below.

GMS Leadership

Deborah J. Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD Associate Provost/Dean ad interim Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Contact Kimberly for an appointment

Dr. Stearns-Kurosawa joined Boston University School of Medicine in 2008 as assistant professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. Prior to that she was an assistant member at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and chief research scientist at a pharmaceutical corporation in Tokyo. She received a BS from Pennsylvania State University, a PhD in chemistry from Cleveland State University with graduate research at the Cleveland Clinic, and completed post-doctoral training in an Howard Hughes Medical Institute-funded laboratory at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. She holds multiple patents and for two decades has continuously served as principal investigator or co-investigator of numerous NIH and organizational grants investigating host-pathogen interactions and complications of coagulation abnormalities.  She teaches immunology and pathology to medical, graduate and dental students. She also serves on numerous BU, School of Medicine and GMS committees.

Assistant Deans

	Theresa A. Davies, PhD Assistant Dean, Graduate Affairs Director, MS Oral Health Sciences Program Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences & Education
	Andrew Henderson, PhD Assistant Dean, Doctoral Programs Professor of Medicine
	Barbara Schreiber, PhD Assistant Dean, Alumni Affairs Associate Professor of Biochemistry
	Gregory A. Viglianti, PhD Assistant  Dean, Operations Associate Professor of Microbiology

Directors

	Gwynneth Offner, PhD Director,  MS Medical Sciences Program Associate Professor of Medicine
	Fadie Coleman, MA, PhD Director, BLCS Program Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences & Education
	M. Isabel Dominguez, PhD Director, Summer Training as Research Scholars Assistant Professor of Medicine
	Brigitte Ritter, PhD Director, Data Tracking & Grant Support Assistant Professor of Biochemistry

Student Services

	Millie Agosto Registrar

Graduate Affairs

	Kimberly Arena Associate Director, Graduate Student Affairs Executive Assistant to the Associate Provost
	Shuchita Rao, MS Data Administrator

Finance

Israel De La Cruz Budget Manager

Post-Doctoral Affairs

	Sarah Hokanson, PhD Assistant Provost, Professional Development and Postdoctoral Affairs

Administrative Staff

	Farrah Belizaire, MS Associate Director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
	Jorge Fortin PhD Program Coordinator
	Nancy Ferrer-Tatkowska Program Coordinator
	Ying-Ju Lai, MFA MAMS Program Coordinator