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The Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) last month named Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, as its new director, and Christine Seidman, MD, as its new co-director. Cynthia Morton, PhD, becomes past-director. Each leadership role serves two years as co-director, director and past-director, for a total of six years of service on the BRI’s executive committee.
Loscalzo has served on the BRI executive committee since 2005, first as vice director from 2005 to 2008 and then as co-director from 2008 to 2010. Seidman, who has served as a co-chair of the BRI Center for Human Genetics since 2006, will become the director of the BRI in 2012.
The BRI is led by the three rotating directors, senior vice president of Research, Barbara Bierer, MD, and the executive director, Jacqueline Slavik, PhD. As members of the BRI executive committee, these individuals are responsible for leading the BRI and for representing the BWH community inside and outside the institution.
Loscalzo also serves as chairman of the Department of Medicine and physician-in-chief at BWH, as well as Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Seidman is director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Center at BWH and is Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Morton is director of Cytogenetics at BWH and William Lambert Richardson Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecolgy and Reproductive Medicine and of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.