LEADERSHIP
Principal Investigator
Vikas Sukhatme M.D., Ph.D. is an extraordinarily accomplished physician-scientist widely respected for his research in the areas of vascular biology, cancer and kidney disease, Dr. Sukhatme is a long-standing member of the BIDMC faculty. Over the past 15 years, beginning with his appointment as Chief of the Renal Division in 1992, he has held numerous key leadership positions in scientific and clinical arenas throughout the Department of Medicine, including Vice Chair for Interdepartmental and Translational Programs, Chief of the Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, and Associate Program Director of the BIDMC
CRC.
Dr. Sukhatme holds a doctorate in theoretical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and attended the Harvard MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology before graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1979. Following clinical training in internal medicine and nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital, he was awarded an immunology fellowship at Stanford University and was a Howard Hughes investigator at the University of Chicago before joining BIDMC in 1992. He is currently the Victor J. Aresty Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Program Direction
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D., Program Director,
Professor of Neurology, has overall administrative and scientific responsibility for the operation of the Beth Israel Deaconess
CRC. He also serves as a resource for investigators seeking to do research in the CRC. Dr. Pascual-Leone holds appointments as a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Adjunct Professor in Psychiatry and Neurobiology at Boston University, and in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University. He is a member of the Division of
Behavioral Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In addition to his role in the CRC, Dr. Pascual-Leone is Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation. His clinical research interest is in understanding neural plasticity at a systems level as the reason for development and learning, the cause of disease, and as a mechanism of functional recovery of the nervous system. Dr. Pascual-Leone’s work explores the possibility of using non invasive modulation methods such as TMS and tDCS for clinically relevant therapeutic effects in neuropsychiatry and neurorehabilitation.
The CRC Program Director is responsible for the day-to day administration of the CRC. He is assisted in his role by an Associate Program Director,
Steven D. Freedman, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, and by two Assistant Program Directors, Janet Mullington, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology,
and Christos Mantzoros, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine.
CRC Scientific Advisory Committee
The CRC Scientific Advisory Committee prospectively reviews projects for CRC use based on scientific merit, study design and appropriateness for
CRC use. The SAC is responsible for ensuring that NIH-funded clinical research is conducted in accordance with existing NIH and CRC policies. The
SAC also oversees CRC operations and provides input to CRC administration on the day-to-day functioning of the CRC.
Mitchell T. Rabkin,
MD chairs the CRC Scientific Advisory Committee. Dr. Rabkin was previously the Principal Investigator for our
CRC. Noted for writing the first patient bill of rights in the United States while he was president of Beth Israel Hospital, Dr. Rabkin is ideally suited to chair the
SAC. In addition to his role on
SAC, Dr. Rabkin is Distinguished Institute Scholar of the Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at the medical center.
Lachlan Forrow, MD Associate Professor of Medicine
Murray Mittleman, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
The
Harvard-Thorndike CRC is funded by Grant M01 RR01032 from the NCRR, NIH
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