Alumni
MD-PhD Program Alumni Updates Spring 2010
Darren B. Orbach, MD '98, PhD '97 is currently serving as the full-time Director of the Department for Neurointerventional Radiology in the Neuroradiology Division of Harvard's Children's Hospital Boston, MA. darren.orbach@childrens.harvard.edu
Karl H. Kim, MD '00, PhD '99 has taken a position as Medical Director for early clinical development with Theravance, Inc. in San Francisco, CA. Theravance, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule medicines across a number of therapeutic areas including respiratory disease, bacterial infections and gastrointestinal motility dysfunction. khskim@gmail.com
Daniel A. Lim, MD '02, PhD '01 is currently an Assistant Professor and Director of Restorative Neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco. His laboratory, the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, has suddenly grown in size and was recently awarded the NIH New Innovator Award. LimD@neurosurg.ucsf.edu
Leslie A. Castelo-Soccio, MD '05, PhD '04 is currently a Clinical Instructor and Postdoctoral Fellow in Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania. castelol@uphs.upenn.edu
Joshua Silverman, MD '05, PhD '04 is joining the faculty of the Department of Radiation at New York University Medical Center in Fall 2010. He will be a clinician-scientist working in the laboratory of Dr. Michele Pagano. silverman.joshua@gmail.com
Jennifer M. Nunez, MD '06, PhD '05 just got a temporary position as a Laboratory Specialist at the University of North Carolina. This summer she will work as a research specialist at Duke University and will go back and finish her three clinical years of general surgery residency in 2011. jennifer.m.nunez@gmail.com
Jonathan H. Zippin, MD '06, PhD '05 was recently awarded the 2010 Dermatology Foundation Physician Scientist Career Development Award. The Dermatology Foundation's highly competitive award provides the best and brightest investigators with hard-to-find research funding that helps bridge the gap between residency/fellowship and independent funding. The research funding will cover a good portion of Dr. Zippin's salary for the next few years. He has also won the American Skin Association Research Award and the La Roch Posay North American Foundation Research Award. jhzippin@nyp.org
Svetlana Gorokhova-Devred, MD'07, PhD '06 is enjoying her French "quality of life" as a postdoc in the south of France. She just got a grant for 2 more years which allows her to finish her postdoc projects. svetka@gmail.com
