Leadership

GMS DEI Program Team

	Farrah Belizaire, MS Associate Director of Diversity & Inclusion, GMS
	Fadie T. Coleman, MA, PhD Assistant Professor, Medical Sciences & Education Director, Biomedical Laboratory and Clinical Sciences (BLCS) Program Co-Director, BU PREP
	Maria Isabel Dominguez, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Director, Summer Training as Research Scholars (STaRS) Program
	Andrew Henderson, PhD Professor, Department of Medicine Assistant Dean, Doctoral Programs Co-Director, BU PREP

GMS DEI Steering Group

The goal of the GMS Diversity Steering Group is to improve diverse representation across GMS Master’s and PhD programs, and to provide a strategic and goal-focused forum to expand access to academic and professional opportunities for groups historically underrepresented in the biomedical sciences.

	Chair: Farrah Belizaire, MS Associate Director of Diversity & Inclusion
	Christopher Andry, MPhil, PhD Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Family Medicine Chief and Chair, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
	Chioma Anyanti MS Student Nutrition
	Linda Barnes, MTS, MA, PhD Professor, Family Medicine Program Director, MS in Medical Anthropology & Cross-Cultural Practice
	Esther Bullitt, PhD Associate Professor, Physiology & Biophysics
	Jennifer Snyder-Cappione, PhD Assistant Professor, Microbiology
	Fadie T. Coleman, MA, PhD Assistant Professor, Medical Sciences & Education Director, Biomedical Laboratory and Clinical Sciences (BLCS) Program Co-Director, BU PREP
	Shoumita Dagupta, PhD Professor, Department of Medicine, Biomedical Genetics Section Department of Medical Sciences and Education Director of Graduate Studies, Genetics and Genomics
	Theresa A. Davies, PhD Assistant Professor, Medical Sciences & Education Assistant Dean, Graduate Medical Sciences Director, MS in Oral Health Sciences
	Maria Isabel Dominguez, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Director, Summer Training as Research Scholars (STaRS) Program
	Andrew Henderson, PhD Professor, Department of Medicine Assistant Dean, Doctoral Programs Co-Director, BU PREP
	DJ King Marketing & Communications Specialist, GMS
	C. James McKnight, PhD Associate Professor, Physiology & Biophysics Admissions Director, Program in Biomedical Sciences (PiBS)
	Keshia Pitt PhD Student Department of Microbiology
	Brigitte Ritter, PhD Assistant Professor, Biochemistry Director, Data Tracking & Grant Support
	Shelley Russek, PhD Professor, Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics Director, Graduate Program for Neuroscience
	Karin Schon, PhD Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiologu
	Barbara Schreiber, PhD Associate Professor of Biochemistry Director, Program in Biomedical Sciences (PiBS)
	Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Associate Provost/Dean ad interim, GMS
	Sean Tallman, PhD Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology Core Faculty, MS in Forensic Anthropology
	Joseph Zaia, PhD Professor, Biochemistry