Wednesday, October 18, 2017
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (ET)
Ladd Hall 307
Event Type
Information Session
Contact
Department
Career Development Center
Link
http://ems.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=18777
Interested in a career in scientific
research?
Wondering what it's like to be a physician?
Ever consider a career in academia, at a place like Harvard?
Hear from Skidmore alumnus and Board of Trustee member, Dr. Joshua Boyce
'81. He will discuss his career, answer questions, and provide
information on opportunities at his lab. Read about his research at: https://physiciandirectory.brighamandwomens.org/Details/998
Joshua A. Boyce, M.D., is the Albert L. Sheffer Professor of Medicine in
the Field of Allergic Diseases at Harvard Medical School in Boston,
Massachusetts. He is the Director of the Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for
Allergic Disease Research and the Associate Chief of the Division of
Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy at the Brigham and Women’s
Hospital. He leads one of the nation’s largest and most successful
Allergy research and training programs. He is the principal investigator
on one of only nine Asthma and Allergic Disease Cooperative Research
Center grants awarded in the US by the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). He has published over 100 original articles in peer-reviewed
scientific journals dealing with the immunologic basis of asthma and
over 50 reviews and textbook chapters. More than 20 of his former MD and
PhD trainees are full-time faculty at US medical schools, as well as
comparable institutions in Europe and Japan. He has served as the
Chairman of the Expert Panel that drafted the 2010 and 2016 versions of
the NIH-sponsored guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food
Allergy, and in an advisory capacity to the NIH on several committees.
He has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical
Immunology, the premier journal in the specialty, since 2003. He also
serves on the board of directors of the American Board of Allergy and
Immunology. He has been named faculty Teacher of the Year by the
Residents at both the University of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts
General Hospital, and has twice been recognized by Boston Magazine as
one of Boston’s best physicians.
After graduating from Skidmore in 1981, Dr. Boyce obtained his M.D. from
the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he also did his
residency in Pediatrics. After serving as Chief Resident, he spent two
years practicing general Pediatrics before returning to academia to do
fellowships in Pediatric Pulmonology at the Massachusetts General
Hospital, and Allergy and Immunology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He
joined the Harvard Medical School faculty in 1996. He has been a strong
advocate for the sciences at Skidmore and for its students. Since
starting his research program twenty years ago, he has employed 18
Skidmore graduates as full-time research assistants in his lab, almost
all of whom went on to M.D. or Ph.D. programs. He has also sponsored
payed summer lab internships for 12 Skidmore undergraduates, and has
hosted several students as part of Skidmore’s Career Development Center
Job Shadowing program. He is a regular participant in the Skidmore
Career Jam program.
Co-sponsored by the Career Development Center & the Health
Professions Advising Committee (HPAC)