Faculty Affairs

July 2025 Faculty Promotions

Congratulations to the following BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty on their recent appointment or promotion.

Clinical Professor

Ashish Upadhyay, MD, medicine/nephrology, serves as director of the nephrology fellowship and director of research for the internal medicine residency. Previously, he led evidence review teams for international nephrology clinical practice guidelines (2009-2012), was associate director of the internal medicine residency (2012-2018), and director of the nephrology clerkship (2018-2025). His scholarly contributions spanning clinical nephrology and medical education have been cited over 5,500 times. He also is an investigator in multiple kidney disease-related clinical studies, a member of AAMI’s Renal Disease and Detoxification Committee, and chair of the school’s Committee on Appeals. Dr. Upadhyay received Boston Medical Center’s 2021 Program Leadership Award and the department of medicine’s 2022 Evans Special Recognition Teaching Award.

Associate Professor

Devin Steenkamp, MBChB, medicine/endocrinology, diabetes, nutrition & weight management, is an endocrinologist with a particular interest in type 1 diabetes, atypical diabetes phenotypes and the application of diabetes technologies in care. He is director of the clinical diabetes program in the section of endocrinology, diabetes and nutrition and weight management and established the diabetes technology program, specifically focused on caring for underserved adults living with diabetes. Dr. Steenkamp has been an investigator on multiple multi-center clinical trials and translational projects and is currently a co-I on two NIH-funded R01 clinical studies investigating diabetes technology in novel populations (underserved adults with type 1 diabetes and non-diabetic members of the longitudinal Framingham Heart Study).

Alysse Wurcel, MD, medicine/GIM, specializes in implementation science and carceral health with a robust research portfolio examining health disparities. Dr. Wurcel has delivered clinical care as an infectious diseases physician at various institutions, including Tufts Medical Center, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Beverly Hospital and several Massachusetts county jails. She has more than 20 years of experience as a clinician and researcher working with communities of color, people with HIV, people who use drugs and people who have experienced incarceration. She is a member of the leadership team of the Academic Consortium for Criminal Justice Health and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Correctional Health Care.