Leadership
Read Pukkila-Worley, MD, is the director of the Finberg PSTP, associate director of the Medical Scientist (MD/PhD) Training Program, and professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology of the Department of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School.
Research interests: host-pathogen interactions; innate immunity
Admissions committee
Alan Mullen, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and academic chief of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine
Research interests: liver fibrosis; long non-coding RNAs; stell cell biology; gene regulation
Lindsey Bazzone, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Department of Medicine
Research interests: bacterial, viral and fungal pneumonias; critical care; plural disorders
Shyam Patel, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine
Research interests: clinico-genomic profiling and clonal dynamic modeling of myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia
Steering committee
Ann Marshak-Rothstein, PhD, professor of medicine, Rheumatology, Department of Medicine
Research interests: Mechanisms of autoinflammation in disease pathogenesis
Roberto Caricchio, MD, the Myles J. McDonough Chair in Rheumatology, professor of medicine, and chief of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine
Research interests: systemic lupus erythematosus; pathogenesis and mechanisms of organ damage in systemic autoimmunity
Allan Walkey, MD, professor of medicine and chief of Health Systems Sciences, Department of Medicine
Research interests: sepsis; acute lung injury; atrial fibrillation occurring during critical illness
Kevin Donahue, MD, the David J. and Barbara D. Milliken Professor of Preventive Cardiology, professor of medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine
Research interests: defining mechanisms for abnormal heart rhythms and developing new therapies