Dept. of Medicine Faculty


Dept. Leadership

David L. Coleman, MD, Wade Professor and Chairman

Jay Orlander, M.D., M.P.H.
Vice Chair, Veterans Affairs
Emelia J. Benjamin, M.D., Sc.M.
Vice Chair, Faculty Development and Diversity
Barbara Corkey, Ph.D.
Vice Chair, Research
Jeffrey Samet, M.D., M.P.H.
Vice Chair, Public Health
Douglas Faller, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice Chair, Cancer Center
Karin Sloan, M.D.
Director of Clinical Quality
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Sections

 

Cardiovascular Medicine Hematology and Medical Oncology
Clinical Epidemiology Hypertension
Computational Biomedicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition
Infectious Disease Gastroenterology
General Internal Medicine Geriatrics
Genetics Program Nephrology
Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology Pulmonary, Critical Care & Allergy Medicine
Rheumatology Vascular Biology
 

 

 
 
 

 

 

Cardiovascular Medicine

Wilson S. Colucci, MD Section Chief
Eric H. Awtry, M.D.
Gary J. Balady, M.D.
Emelia J. Benjamin, M.D.
Clifford J. Berger, M.D.
Sheilah Bernard, M.D.
Advay G. Bhatt, M.D.
John B. Cadigan, III, MD
Subrata Chakrabarti, PhD
Richard Cohen, M.D.
Chester Conrad, MD, PhD
Ravin Davidoff, M.D.
Joseph L. DiCola, MD
David R. Dobroski, M.D.
Jill Downing, M.D.
Robert Eberhardt, M.D.
Jane F. Freedman, M.D.
Noyan Gokce, M.D.
Irina Gorshkova, PhD.
Naomi M. Hamburg, M.D.
Robert H. Helm
Victoria Herrera, MD
Claudia P. Hochberg, M.D.
Alice Jacobs, M.D.
Jacob Joseph, M.D.
Satish Kenchaiah, MD, MPH, PACC
Michael D. Klein, M.D.
Andrew L. Kriegel, MD
Bruce J. Kriegel, MD
Ravi M. Lala, M.D.
Chang-seng Liang, M.D.
David A. Litvak, M.D.
Jared W. Magnani, M.D.
Michael J. Mazzini, M.D.
Hans Meier-Ewert, M.D.
Edward J. Miller, M.D., PhD
Kevin M. Monahan, M.D.
Zoran Nedeljkovic, M.D.
Ashvin N. Pande, M.D.
George J. Philippides, M.D.
David R. Pimentel, M.D.
Farouk A. Pirzada, MD
Philip J. Podrid, M.D.
Fuzhong Qin, MD, PhD
Khether E. Raby, M.D.
Richard R. Ress, M.D.
Alisa B. Rosen, M.D.
Frederick L. Ruberg, M.D.
Nelson Ruiz-Opazo, PhD
Nicholas A. Ruocco, MD
Thomas J. Ryan, M.D.
Flora Sam, M.D.
Kenneth J. Silverman, M.D.
Deborah A. Siwik, PhD
Carl J. Turissini, MD
Joseph A. Vita, M.D.
Kenneth Walsh, PhD
George A. Waters, M.D.
Ellen O. Weinberg, PhD
Donald A. Weiner, M.D.
Deborah Whalen, MSN, MBA
Benoy Zachariah, M.D.
Tong Zhu, M.D., PhD

Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit

David Felson, MD, MPH Unit Chief
Saralynn Allaire, ScD
Kristin Baker, PhD
Hyon K. Choi, MD, DrPH
Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Uyen-Sa D. T. Nguyen, D.Sc., MPH
Jingbo Niu, DSc
Steven C. Vlad, MD

Bin Zhang, DSc
Yuqing Zhang, PhD

Computational Biomedicine

Avrum Spira, M.D., M.Sc. Section Chief
Jennifer Beane-Eben, Ph.D.
W. Evan Johnson, Ph.D.
Marc Lenburg, Ph.D.
Honghuang Lin, Ph.D.
Gang Liu, Ph.D.
Stefano Monti, Ph.D.
Katrina Steiling, MD, MSc.

Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition, and Weight Management

Shalendar Bhasin, MD Section Chief
Sonia Ananthakrishnan, MD
Caroline Apovian, MD
Shehzad Basaria, MD
Eric Bachman, MD
Lewis Braverman, MD
Roberta Capelson, NP
Tai Chen, PhD
Andrea Coviello, MD, MSE, FACE
Marina Donahue, NP
Alan Farwell, MD
Susan Fried, PhD
Wen Guo, PhD
Patricia Hanrahan, NP
Michael F. Holick, PhD, MD
Yasuo Ido, MD, PhD
Nawfal Istfan, MD, PhD
Lalita Khaodhiar, MD
Philip Knapp, MD
Stephanie Lee, MD, PhD
Angela Leung, MD, MSc
Robert Levin, MD
Marie McDonnell, MD
Thomas Moore, MD
Elizabeth Pearce, MD
Sara Pietras, MD
Amanda Powell, MD
Vishwajeet Puri, PhD
Rahul Ray, PhD
James Rosenzweig, MD
Sayon Roy, PhD
Neil Ruderman, MD, PhD
Joshua Safer, MD
Asish Saha, PhD
Carlo Serra, PhD
Elliot Sternthal, MD
Thomas Storer, PhD
Thomas G. Travison, PhD
Lynn White, NP

Gastroenterology

David Nunes, MD Interim Section Chief
Uri Avissar, MD
Wanda Blanton, MD
Charles Bliss, Jr., MD
Michael Boylan, PhD
Audrey Calderwood, MD
Lizabeth Cline, NP
Barbara Corkey, PhD
Jude Deeney, PhD
Francis Farraye, MD, MSc
Albena Halpert, MD
Christopher Huang, MD
Brian Jacobson, MD
Robert Levine, MD
David. Lichtenstein, MD
Caroline Loeser, MD
Robert Lowe, MD
Hannah Lincoln Miller, MD
T. Carlton Moore, MD
Gustavo Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD
Ansu Noronha, MD
Gwynneth Offner, PhD
Marcos Pedrosa, MD
Angela Reffel, PA
Elihu Schimmel, MD
Paul Schroy, III, MD, MPH
Orian Shirihai, PhD, MD
Satish Singh, MD
Sharmeel Wasan, MD
David Waxman, PhD
H. Christian Weber, MD  Adjunct Faculty
Lynne Ahn, MD
Marvin Berman, MD
Daniel Mishkin, MD

General Internal Medicine

Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH Section Chief
Daniel Alford, MD, MPH
Janelle Baptiste, MD
Thomas Barber, MD
Tracy A. Battaglia, MD
Jonathan Berz, MD, MSc
Phyllis L. Carr, MD
Joel Caslowitz, MD
Chava Chapman, MD, MPH
Sheila Chapman, MD
Daniel Chen, MD, MSc
Debbie M. Cheng, ScD
Teresa Cheng, MD, MSc
Daniel Cottrell, MD
Sondra Crosby, MD
Julie Crosson, MD
Kathleen Crowley, MD, MPH
Gertha Dabady, NP
Irina Dauphinee, NP
Michele David, MD, MPH, MBA
Julien Dedier, MD, MPH
Melissa DiPetrillo, MD
Tara Dumont, MD
Ramesh Farzanfar, PhD
Jacob Feldman, MD
Cleopatra Ferrao, FNP
Patrick Fleming, MD
Marshall Fleurant, MD, MPH
Karen Freund, MD, MPH
Robert Friedman, MD
Sandra Gordon, MD
Jennifer Gutierrez McCarty, MD
Amresh Hanchate, PhD
John Hermos, MD
Warren Hershman, MD, MPH
James Hudspeth, MD
Jennifer Hughes, MD
Elaine Hylek, MD, MPH
Khelda Jabbar, MD, MPH
Angela Jackson, MD
Priya Joshi, MD
Alok Kapoor, MD, MSc
Theresa Kim, MD
Bernard Kreger, MD
Nancy Kressin, PhD
Vasken Kroshian, MD
Karen Lasser, MD, MPH

Henri Lee, MD
Jane Liebschutz, MD, MPH
Amy Linsky, MD, MSc
Karsten Lunze, MD, MPH
Eunice MacAllister, NP

Julia Matthews, NP
James Meisel, MD

Julita Mir, MD
Susan Morrissey, NP
Joanne Murabito, MD, MSc
Timothy Naimi, MD, MPH
Azadeh Nasseh, MD
Daniel Newman, MD
John Noble, MD
Craig Noronha, MD

Jay Orlander, MD, MPH

Fausto Ortiz, MD
Michael Paasche-Orlow, MD, MA, MPH
Christine Pace, MD
Felicia Patch, MD
Jaymin Patel, MD
Christine Phillips, MD
Susan Phillips, MD
Janice Quan, MD
Lisa Quintiliani, PhD
Sandhya Rao, MD
Catherine Rich, MD
Adam Rose, MD
Elizabeth Rourke, MD
Amy Rubin, PhD
Richard Saitz, MD, MPH
Jenny Siegel, MD
Christopher W. Shanahan, MD, MPH
Bonnie Sherman, PhD
Daniel Simpson, MD
Lisa Skowronek, MD
Robert Sokolove, PhD
Judith Tsui, MD, MPH
Alexander Walley, MD, MSc
Robert A. Witzburg, MD
Jason Worcester, MD
Laura Wung, MD
Xiu Huan Yan, NP

Genetics Program

Lindsay A. Farrer, Ph.D. Section Chief
Kenneth H. Albrecht, Ph.D
Clinton T. Baldwin, Ph.D.
Shoumita Dasgupta, Ph.D.
Robert C. Green, M.D., M.P.H.
Gyungah Jun, Ph.D.
Mark W. Logue, Ph.D.
Richard H. Myers, Ph.D.
Caryn Navarro, Ph.D.
Richard Sherva, Ph.D.
Sam Thiagalingam, Ph.D.

Geriatrics

Lisa B. Caruso, MD, MPH Interim Section Chief
Heidi P. Auerbach, MD
Gabriel H. Brandeis, MD
Adam B. Burrows, MD
Serena Chao, MD, MSc
Eric J. Hardt, MD
Angela Jefferson, PhD
Maha M.I. Khodeir, MD, MPH
Ilona Kopits, MD, MPH
Timothy L. Lash, DSc, MPH
Won Lee, MD
Sharon A. Levine, MD
Lisa E. Norton, MD
Daniel Oates, MD, MSc
Thomas T. Perls, MD, MPH
George Rosenthal, MD
Matthew Russell, MD, MSc

Rebecca A. Silliman, MD, PhD
Winnie Suen, MD, MSc
Kimberly Claude, APRN, BC
Katherine Concilio, APRN, BC
Katie Creedon, APRN, BC
Catherine Fabrizi, APRN, BC
Monica L. Hogan, APRN, BC
Patricia Kimball, MS, RN, BC
Julie Miller, APRN, BC
Maureen Russell, RN, MPH, BC
Julie Wentworth, RD, APRN, NP-C
Clare M. Wohlgemuth, GCNS – BC 

Graduate Program in Molecular Medicine

Herbert T. Cohen, MD
Program Director
John R. Murphy, PhD
Associate Director

Hematology/Oncology

David Seldin, M.D., Ph.D.
Section Chief
Full Time Faculty
Nancy Andrea, M.D.
Rita Blanchard, M.D.
Zhiyi Chen, PhD
David Chui, M.D.
Timothy Cooley, M.D.
Gerald Denis, Ph.D.
Omar Eton, MD
Isabel Dominguez, Ph.D.
Douglas V. Faller, M.D., Ph.D.
Amy Fallon, MD
Diane Feeney, NP
Gretchen Gignac, M.D.
Jianlin Gong, MD
Kevan Hartshorn, M.D.
Tien Hsu, Ph.D.
Adam Lerner, M.D.
Pam Larson, PhD
Hong-Yuan Lou, Ph.D.
Lillian McMahon, M.D.
Dorothy Medeiros, NP
John A. Meyers, Ph.D.
George J. Murphy, PhD
Richard Near, Ph.D.
Duyen Ngo, MD
Rosemary O’Connell, MD
Lauren Jean Oshry, MD
Emily Parker, NP
Susan P. Perrine, MD
Sujata Ramanurthy, MD
Carol Rosenberg, M.D.
Vaishali Sanchorawala, M.D.
Surinder Safaya, PhD
J. Mark Sloan, M.D.

Martin H. Steinberg, M.D.
Tesfaldet Tecle, PhD
Lewis R. Weintraub, M.D.
Alan Weitberg, MD
Lisa Yanarella, NP
Mark Yoder, NP
Ken S. Zaner, M.D., Ph.D.
Xuemei Zhong, PhD Boston VA Health System
Valia Boosalis, M.D.
Mary Brophy, M.D.
Louis Fiore, M.D.
Gary Gilbert, MD
Michelle Hankins
Daniel Jacobson, M.D.
Nikhil Munshi, MD
Carlos Vera, MD
Abraham Zimelman, M.D.  Adjunct or Part-time Faculty
Yan Dai, PhD
Sajal Ghosh, Ph.D.
Alfred I. Tauber, M.D
Lauren J. Oshry, M.D
Karen Quillen, M.D.

Hypertension

Haralambos Gavras, MD Section Chief
Aram V. Chobanian, MD
Irene Gavras, MD
Robert D. Lillie, MS, MD
Ekaterina Kintsurashvili, PhD
Athanasios Manolis, MD
Charles P. Tifft, MD

Infectious Diseases

Jerrold J. Ellner, MD Section Chief
Sabrina Assoumou, MD
Tamar F. Barlam, MD
M. Anita Barry, MD
Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MA
Ajit Bharti, PhD
Ioana Bica, MD
Philip Carling, MD, MPH
David L. Coleman, MD
Deborah Cotton, MD
Mari-Lynn Drainoni, PhD
Maura A. Fagan, MD
Jon D. Fuller, MD
Caroline Genco, PhD
Frank C. Gibson, PhD
Kalpana Gupta, MD
David Hamer, MD
Andrew J. Henderson, PhD
Natasha Hochberg, MD, MPH
C. Robert Horsburgh, MD
Robin R. Ingalls, MD
Edward C. Jones López, MD, MS
Benjamin Linas, MD, MPH
John Love, MD, PhD
Guillermo E. Madico, MD, PhD
Paola Massari, PhD
Monty Montano, PhD
John R. Murphy, PhD
Cassandra Pierre, MD, MPH
Manish Sagar, MD
Richard A. Serrao, MD
Carol A. Sulis, MD
Margaret M. Sullivan, MD
Richa Tandon, MD
David J. Thornton, MD
Thomas L. Treadwell, MD
Ellen O. Weinberg, PhD
Susan K. Weir, PhD
Lee M. Wetzler, MD
Gopal Yadavalli, MD

Nephrology

David J. Salant, MD Section Chief
Robert Hamburger, MD Section Head, VA Boston Health Services
Edward A. Alexander, MD
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD
Laurence H. Beck Jr., MD, PhD
Jasvinder Bhatia, MD
Ramon G.B. Bonegio, MD, MB, BCh
Steven Craig Borkan, MD
Joline Chen, MD
Vipul Chitalia, MD
Herbert T. Cohen, MD
Xueping Fan, PhD
Jean Francis, MD
Craig E. Gordon, MD, MS
Andrea Havasi, MD
James S. Kaufman, MD
Guangmu Li, MD
Weining Lu, MD

Ian R. Rifkin, MD, PhD
John H. Schwartz, MD
Lauren Stern, MD
Ashish Upadhyay, MD
Zhiyong Wang, MD
Kei Yasuda, PhD
Mina Zhou, PhD

Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology

Vasan S. Ramachandran, MD, DM, FACC, FAHA
Section Chief
Primary Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Andrea Coviello, MD, MSE, FACE
R. Curtis Ellison, MD, MS
Nicole L. Glazer, PhD
Satish Kenchaiah, MD, MPH, FACC
Devin M. Mann, MD, MS
Lynn L. Moore, DSc
Vanessa Xanthakis, PhD
Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FACC, FAHA
Daniel Levy, MD, FACC
Jane Liebschutz, MD, MPH
Joanne E. Murabito, MD, ScM
Philip A. Wolf, MD

Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine

David M. Center, MD Section Chief
Joseph Mizgerd, Sc.D. Director, The Pulmonary Center
Ronald Goldstein, MD Section Head, BVAMC
Xingbin Ai, Ph.D.
Christina Anderlind, M.D.
John Berk, M.D.
Jeffery Berman. M.D.
John Bernardo, M.D.
Jerome Brody, M.D.
Christine Campbell-Reardon, M.D.
YuXia Cao, M.D.
Wellington Cardoso, M.D., Ph.D.
Hassan Chami, M.D. M.Sc.
Felicia Chen, M.D.
Ting-Hsu Chen, M.D.
William Cruikshank, Ph.D.
Denise Curran, N.P.
Susan Doctrow, Ph.D.
L. Jack Faling, M.D.
Harrison Farber, M.D.
Alan Fine, M.D.
Daniel Gottlieb, M.D.
Arjun Guha, Ph.D.
Terese Hammond, M.D.
Helen Hollingsworth, M.D.
Michael Ieong, M.D.
Jyh Chang Jean, Ph.D.
Matthew Jones, Ph.D.
Martin Joyce-Brady, M.D.
Joel Karlinsky, M.D.
Igor Kramnik, M.D.
Hasmeena Kathuria, MD
Elizabeth Klings, M.D.
Darrell Kotton, M.D.
Frédéric Little, M.D.
Jining Lü, Ph.D.
Jaime P. Murphy, M.D.
Claire Murphy, MSN NP-C
George O’Connor, M.D.
Laertis Oikonomou, Ph.D.
Lee Quinton, Ph.D.
Maria Ramirez, Ph.D.
Jussi Saukkonen, M.D.
Frank M. Schembri, M.D.
Karin A. Sloan, M.D.
Avrum Spira, M.D., M.Sc.
Katrina Steiling, M.D., M.Sc.
Ross Summer, M.D.
Jean-Bosco Tagne, Ph.D.
Arthur Theodore, M.D.
Catherine Valentine, M.D.
Allan Walkey, M.D.
Renda Wiener, M.D.
Mary Williams, Ph.D.
Andrew A. Wilson, M.D.
Kevin Wilson, M.D.

Rheumatology

Robert W. Simms, MD Section Chief
Maria Trojanowska, PhD Center Director
Hyon Choi, MD, DrPH
Romy Christmann, M.D., Ph.D.
Alessandra Farina, MD, PhD
David Felson, MD, MPH
Rafael Kieval, MD
Eugene Kissin, MD
Robert Lafyatis, MD
Caryn Libby, MD
Peter A. Merkel, MD, MPH
Paul Monach, MD, PhD
Tuhina Neogi, MD, FRCPC
Burton Sack, MD
Martha Skinner, MD
Steven Vlad, MD
Michael York, MD
Amy Wasserman, MD

Vascular Biology

Richard A. Cohen, MD Section Chief
Markus Bachschmid
Reiko Matsui
Mark McComb
Francesca Seta, PhD
XiaoYong Tong, MD, PhD
Mengwei Zang, PhD