The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Associate Professor of Biochemistry Keith Tornheim, PhD, is May’s Distinguished Faculty of the Month.
Tornheim received his PhD in biochemistry from Brandeis University. He began his career at BUSM in 1981 as an assistant professor.
His nominators say, “Dr. Tornheim has contributed for 40 years to the teaching mission of Boston University School of Medicine. He currently teaches or has taught in the Medical School, Dental School, PhD, and MS programs. He has an unrivaled expertise in metabolic pathways and disease, and enzymology … and he is a fixture at our departmental and student/post-doc seminars. I am certain he has the best total attendance record of any member of our department!”
The nominators continued, “Keith is an advocate of the arts at BUSM; he is a faculty advisor of the Creative Arts Society and has both managed and contributed as a poet and sculptor to Art Days celebration for many years. Everyone on campus looks forward to this annual event. It is amazing to see the varied talents of our community and Keith’s efforts are a significant reason why these days continue.”
The 2021 Art Days theme was Antiracism, highlighting the creative BUMC community’s resolve to oppose racial hatred, bias and oppression of marginalized groups while promoting allyship, continued education and discourse. Tornheim contributed poems including Persistence of Inequality, Skin Deep, and Slave Memories.