Co-Directors
Roy W.A. Peake, PhD, DABCC
Telephone: 617-355-4182
Fax: 617-730-0383
Email: roy.peake@childrens.harvard.edu
Mark D. Kellogg, PhD, MT(ASCP), DABCC
Telephone: 617-355-7484
Fax: 617-730-0383
Email: mark.kellogg@childrens.harvard.edu
Address:
Department of Laboratory Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Affiliated Institutions
Boston Medical Center, Tufts Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Faculty and Research Interests
| Carlo Brugnara, MD | Boston Children’s Hospital | Sickle cell disease, regulation of cell volume and transport of ions across the cell membrane |
| Michele Burns, MD | Boston Children’s Hospital | Clinical toxicology |
| Christina Ellervik, MD, PhD | Boston Children’s Hospital | Bio-banking, clinical research study design, statistics |
| Nicholas Heger, PhD, NRCC | Tufts Medical Center | Laboratory automation, toxicology, therapeutic drug monitoring |
| Gary Horowitz, MD | Tufts Medical Center | Immunoglobulins, protein electrophoresis, diagnostic errors, quality management, laboratory informatics |
| Petr Jarolim, MD, PhD | Brigham & Women’s Hospital | Biomarkers of acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and cardiorenal syndrome |
| Yachana Kataria, PhD, DABCC | Boston Medical Center | General clinical chemistry, clinical epidemiology |
| Mark Kellogg, PhD, DABCC | Boston Children’s Hospital | Clinical utilization of mass spectrometry, pediatric clinical chemistry, nutritional modulation of performance, clinical endocrinology |
| Stacy Melanson, MD, PhD | Brigham & Women’s Hospital | Toxicology, pain management, therapeutic drug monitoring, point of care testing, patient safety and laboratory process improvement. |
| Roy Peake, PhD, FACMG | Boston Children’s Hospital | Inborn errors of metabolism, application of chromatography- mass spectrometry to the study of metabolic disorders |
| Nader Rifai, PhD, DABCC | Boston Children’s Hospital | Biomarker validation, editorial activities/publishing, education and e-learning in laboratory medicine |
Program Listing
Level(s) of training: Postdoctoral
Number of position available per year: 1-2
Duration of program: 2 years
Approximate annual salary or stipend: $58,000 (2019)
Source of funding: Departmental
Current number of trainees: 2
Number of past graduates: 14
Application Procedures
Prerequisites
MD or PhD in physical or biological sciences. Preference given to those individuals with previous experience in laboratory medicine
Satisfactory completion of a minimum of 30 semester hours in undergraduate and/or graduate level chemistry or biochemistry courses prior to admission to the program.
Procedures
Submit curriculum vitae, copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts, selected first author publications for initial consideration.
- Transcripts received from academic institutions outside the U.S. or Canada will require evaluation by a credentials evaluation service. See the American Board of Clinical Chemistry website for more information.
Selected applicants may be invited to an interview that includes a seminar presentation and to submit 3 letters of reference.
Deadline
September 1st for application to positions starting August 1st the following year.
Program Description
The program mission is to train individuals with a PhD in analytical chemistry, biochemistry or related field or a MD with interests in clinical biochemistry for a career in academic clinical chemistry that includes service, teaching and research. The minimum period of the fellowship is two years.
Upon completing the fellowship, individuals will be proficient in the clinical utilization and interpretation of laboratory tests, be knowledgeable in the latest research applications of clinical biochemistry, and have experience in education and management related to laboratory medicine. It is the goal of the program that each trainee rotate through sections of the laboratory at either Boston Children’s Hospital or the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Tufts Medical Center and Boston Medical Center, attend weekly clinical pathology lectures, seminars, participate in endocrine and toxicology rounds and attend didactic sessions with faculty. Trainees will participate in teaching medical technologists, medical students and hospital staff. They will be expected to conduct a research project and present data at national meetings. The experience will provide the opportunity to gain bench experience in the laboratory and provide consultation to laboratory technical staff, nurses, residents and hospital medical staff.