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Steven C. Borkan, MDDr. Steven Borkan, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University and an attending physician in the Renal Section at Boston Medical Center. His interests include education of medical students and house staff, basic research on the cellular mechanisms of ischemic acute renal failure and the care of patients with both general medical and renal diseases. Dr. Borkan completed a three-year research fellowship in Nephrology at Boston Medical Center with Drs. John Schwartz (Renal Section) and Peter Brecher (Biochemistry) and then joined the Renal Section Faculty in 1989. Dr. Borkan is the senior author of almost 40 peer reviewed publications in the area of the cellular stress response to acute ischemia and has been a Principal Investigator for the NIH for about 20 years. Dr. Borkan has also received several awards for excellence in teaching from medical students, house staff and colleagues at Boston Medical Center. Most recently, he was elected as a faculty candidate to join the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha society. He was a finalist for the Metcalf Teaching Award at Boston University for full-time faculty and received the Grant V. Rodkey award from the Massachusetts Medical Society for significant contributions to medical student education and mentoring. As a teacher, Dr. Borkan is known for his ability to link challenging clinical problems with physiologic principles in manner that is memorable and enjoyable. Dr. Borkan assumed the role of co-director of the MD/PhD program along with Dr. Trinkaus-Randall in July 2016.Evans Biomedical Research Center, 650 Albany St, X-546, (617) 638-7330, sborkan@bu.edu |
Vickery Trinkaus-Randall, Ph.D.Dr. Vickery Trinkaus-Randall, Ph.D. is a Professor of Biochemistry and Ophthalmology. In addition to teaching and conducting research, she had mentored both master’s and doctoral students as well as students in the MD/PhD program. Dr. Trinkaus-Randall grew up in Massachusetts and attended Kenyon College. She earned her PhD at the University of Wisconsin in the Neurobiology Program. Dr. Trinkaus-Randall did her Post Doctoral Fellowship in Cornea/Vision Science at the Schepens Eye Institute/Harvard Medical School where she was trained in the laboratory of Dr. Ilene Gipson and in cornea with Dr. Dohlman. During her postdoctoral fellowship she was the recipient of the individual NRSA or current F32 along with a number of smaller postdoctoral fellowships. She arrived at BUSM in 1985 as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratories of Dr. Franzblau and Dr. Leibowitz in the Departments of Biochemistry and Ophthalmology respectively. She was the recipient of the Whitaker Fellowship working with Dr. Forbes Dewey at MIT. In 1985 she received her first RO1 and has been the recipient of continuous grants for over 29 years. Shortly after, she received a second RO1 on the design of a synthetic cornea and then received an SBIR to continue to work on it. This model was employed internationally and served as the basis for keratoprostheses for a number of years. Dr. Trinkaus-Randall has a love of imaging and has brought 4 confocals to BUSM, the most recent a Zeiss LSM 880 with Airyscan and a FAST module. She has served on numerous study sections at both the NIH and private agencies, and has taught grant writing courses to assist students in the process of applying. Dr. Trinkaus-Randall took over the current Cell and Molecular Biology Umbrella Graduate Program in 1998 and made it into one of the more competitive graduate programs at BUSM. She then became the Chair of Advising for the PiBS graduate program before assuming the role of Co-Director of the MD/PhD Program in July 2016.Room L-904, 617-638-5099 vickery@bu.edu |
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Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa- Associate Provost
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 principle investigator or co-investigator of numerous NIH and organizational grants investigating host-pathogen interactions and complications of coagulation abnormalities.
Dr. Stearns-Kurosawa was a core faculty member of the BU Faculty Innovation Network that supported development of the Innovate@BU initiative. A pioneering entrepreneurship resource for BU faculty, students and alumni, the university-wide program is designed to educate and provide resources regarding the nature of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial innovation, technology transfer and product development strategies.
She teaches immunology at BUSM to first-year medical students, and is director of GMS PA510 medical immunology and GMS PA810/811 Seminars in the Business of Science, co-director of SDM MD520/GMS OH700 General Pathology for dental and graduate students, and lecturer for several graduate and medical student pathology courses. She also serves on numerous School of Medicine and GMS committees.
Mildred Agosto, GMS Registrar
Sherill Ashe, GMS Financial Aid Administrator
Jorge Fortin , Administrative Coordinator
Additional GMS Staff in L317
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