Faculty
The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School is a faculty-initiated and faculty-organized school with a mission to train the next generation of science leaders, teachers and advocates. In doing so, our students:
• engage in leading edge research advancing our understanding of human biology in health and disease
• translate discovery into treatments that transform the practice of medicine
• build the knowledge, skills, professional network and experience to reach their career objectives
The faculty are nationally and internationally renowned for their research, as demonstrated by their prominence on national committees, boards and review panels, by their service as editors and reviewers for scientific journals, and by their numerous publications in scientific and educational journals. The faculty have created a transformative research education experience based on problem-solving, inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches to biomedical research that strongly emphasize the scientific method, quantitative approaches to science, the development of strong communication skills and self- and team-directed approaches to learning, research and professional development. As a result, the research undertaken by our students and faculty spans the full spectrum of contemporary health sciences from the study of single, isolated molecules to population genomics and health outcomes.
The faculty in the GSBS are appointed within fifteen academic programs. The faculty hold their primary academic appointment in the School or Medicine or Graduate School of Nursing.
Below is a searchable database of faculty with appointments in one or more of the three schools: School of Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and Graduate School of Nursing.
Faculty List

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Ronald N Adler MD
- Associate Professor
- Family Medicine and Community Health
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- Tufts University
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
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- 508-334-8830
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Jeremy T Aidlen MD, FACS
- Associate Professor
- Surgery
- Pediatric Surgery
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- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
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- 508-856-2128
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Karim Alavi MD
- Associate Professor
- Surgery
- Colon And Rectal Surgery
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- George Washington University
- George Washington University School of Medicine
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Matthew James Alcusky PhD, PharmD, MS
- Assistant Professor
- Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
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- University of Rhode Island
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- University of Rhode Island
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- 774-455-4691
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Mark Alkema PhD
- Professor
- Neurobiology
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- University of Amsterdam
- University of Amsterdam
- University of Amsterdam
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- 508-856-6158
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Jeroan J Allison MD, MS
- Chair And Professor
- Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
- Health Informatics And Implementation Science
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- Samford University
- Harvard University School of Public Health
- University of Alabama, Birmingham
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Laura Cristina Alonso MD
- ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- Medicine
- Diabetes
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- Harvard University
- University of Pennsylvania Pereleman School of Medicine
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- 646-962-5476
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Victor R Ambros PhD
- Professor
- Program in Molecular Medicine
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- 508-856-6380
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Christelle Anaclet PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Neurobiology
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- Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
- Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
- Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Harvard Medical School
- Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Harvard Medical School
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Frederick Arthur Anderson PhD
- Professor
- Surgery
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- Tufts University
- Tufts University
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Raffi Van Aroian PhD
- Professor
- Program in Molecular Medicine
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- California Institute of Technology
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- 508-856-8169
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Neil Aronin MD
- Professor
- Medicine
- Endocrinology & Metabolism
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- Duke University
- University of Pennsylvania Pereleman School of Medicine
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- 508-856-3239
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Arlene S Ash PhD
- Professor
- Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
- Biostatistics And Health Services Research
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- Harvard University
- Washington University in St Louis
- University of Illinois, Chicago
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- 508-856-8922
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David Ayers MD
- Chair And Professor
- Orthopedics and Physical Rehabilitation
- Arthroscopy
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- Tufts University
- University of Rochester School of Medicine
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- 508-334-7928
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Ingolf M Bach PhD
- Professor
- Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
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- Konstanz University of Applied Sciences
- Konstanz University of Applied Sciences
- Paris Diderot University
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- 508-856-5627
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Eric H Baehrecke PhD
- Professor
- Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
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- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Texas A&M University College Station
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
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- 508-856-6733
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Jong Gyu Baek PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
- Biostatistics And Health Services Research
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- University of Iowa
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Richard E Baker PhD
- Associate Professor
- Microbiology and Physiological Systems
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- College of William and Mary
- Pennsylvania State College of Medicine
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- 508-856-6046
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Linda Bandini PhD
- Professor
- Pediatrics
- Development & Behavioral Pediatrics
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- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- 774-455-6520
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Bruce A Barton PhD
- Professor
- Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
- Biostatistics And Health Services Research
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- Dickinson College
- Pennsylvania State University
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Pittsburgh
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Samuel M Behar MD, PhD
- Professor
- Microbiology and Physiological Systems
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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- 774-455-3682
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Jennifer A Benanti PhD
- Associate Professor
- Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
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- University of California, San Diego
- University of Washington
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- 508-856-1773
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Claire Benard PhD
- ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- Neurobiology
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- McGill University
- McGill University
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Sheldon Benjamin MD
- Professor
- Psychiatry
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- University of Cincinnati
- University of Cincinnati
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Leslie J Berg PhD
- ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
- Pathology
- Academic Pathology
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- Harvard University
- University of California, Berkeley
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- 508-856-8371
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Andreas Bergmann PhD
- Professor
- Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
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- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
- Universitat Tubingen
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- 508-856-6423
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Osman S Bilsel PhD
- Associate Professor
- Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
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- University of Rochester
- Washington University in St Louis
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Steven B Bird MD
- Professor
- Emergency Medicine
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- Yale University
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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- 508-421-1400
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Diane R Blake MD
- Professor
- Pediatrics
- Adolescent Medicine
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- Smith College
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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- 508-856-0011
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Alexei A Bogdanov PhD
- Professor
- Radiology
- Nuclear Medicine
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- Moscow State University
- Moscow State University
- I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical Academy
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- 508-856-5571
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Milena Bogunovic MD, Phd
- Associate Professor
- Pathology
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- Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Russian State Medical University
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- 508-856-1664
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Daniel N Bolon PhD
- Professor
- Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
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- Duke University
- California Institute of Technology
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Daryl A Bosco PhD
- Associate Professor
- Neurology
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- State University of New York, Binghamton
- Brandeis University
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- 774-455-3745
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Edwin D Boudreaux PhD
- Professor
- Emergency Medicine
- Research
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- University of Louisiana
- Louisiana State University Baton Rouge
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- 508-334-3817
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Carol A Bova PhD, RN, ANP
- Professor
- Graduate School of Nursing
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- Salem State College
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- Boston College
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Edward Boyer MD, PhD
- ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- Emergency Medicine
- Toxicology
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- Vanderbilt University
- Columbia University
- Columbia University
- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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- 508-856-4101
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Adel Bozorgzadeh MD
- Professor
- Surgery
- Organ Transplantation
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- University of Massachusetts Boston
- George Washington University School of Medicine
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Abraham Louis Brass MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Medicine
- Gastroenterology
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- Colby College
- Pritzker School of Medicine
- University of Chicago
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- 508-856-4059
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Michael A Brehm PhD
- Associate Professor
- Program in Molecular Medicine
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- Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
- Pennsylvania State College of Medicine
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- 508-856-3130
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Robert Charles Brewster PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Microbiology and Physiological Systems
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- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- University of California, Los Angeles
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- 774-455-3695
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Michael H Brodsky PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- 508-856-1640
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Robert H Brown MD, DPhil
- Professor
- Neurology
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- Amherst College
- Harvard Medical School
- University of Oxford
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- 508-334-1271
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Vivian Budnik PhD
- Chair And Professor
- Neurobiology
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- University of Chile
- Brandeis University
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- 508-856-4341
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Nancy Byatt DO, MS, MBA
- Associate Professor
- Psychiatry
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- Lehigh University
- New York Institute of Technology
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
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- 508-334-7839
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Alexandra Catherine Byrne PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Neurobiology
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- University of Toronto
- Yale University
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- 508-856-8561
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Daniel R Caffrey PHD
- Assistant Professor
- Medicine
- Infectious Diseases And Immunology
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- National University of Ireland Dublin
- Trinity College
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Sharon B Cantor PhD
- Professor
- Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
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- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
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- 508-856-4421
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Dawn L Carpenter DNP, ACNP-BC
- Associate Professor
- Graduate School of Nursing
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- Mansfield University
- Syracuse University
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
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Anthony Carruthers PhD
- Professor Emeritus
- Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
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- University of Manchester
- University of London
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- 508-246-3307
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Suzanne B Cashman DSc
- Professor
- Family Medicine and Community Health
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- Tufts University
- Cornell University
- Harvard University School of Public Health
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- 774-442-2930
To view the faculty within the GSBS, please follow the links below:
Doctoral Degree Programs
- Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
- Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
- Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Clinical & Population Health Research
- Immunology & Microbiology
- Interdisciplinary
- MD/PhD
- Millennium PhD
- Neuroscience
- Translational Science
Master of Science Degree Program
Preparatory Programs
- Pathway to Graduate Study