Alumni
2024 MD/PhD Graduates
Since the University of Rochester began training MD/PhD physician-scientists in 1958, the program has progressively grown and innovated. As of May 2024, the program boasts over 220 graduates and produces an average of eight new physician-scientists each year. The 2023-2024 academic year will mark our 51st consecutive year of MSTP funding and 66th year training physician-scientists.
Most of our graduates continue on in residency training and ultimately remain in academic medicine. Of 159 MSTP trainees graduating from the University of Rochester between 1978 and 2012, at least 100 remain in the academic track, with 70 currently holding faculty appointments at the Assistant Professor or higher level and 28 still in fellowship or residency training.
Alumni are invited to keep the program abreast of their personal and career successes through the MSTP office. Please also consider getting involved with our program through teaching our students in the MSTP curriculum, participating in symposia and retreats, hosting our students and alumni interviewing for residency and fellowship, and more. Finally, alumni are invited to support the continued success and growth of our program by making a gift to the program.
Distinguished Alumni
- Jennifer H. Anolik (1996)
Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
Associate Chair, Research, Department of Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry; Member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (2015) - Bradford Berk (1981)
Former Chief Executive Officer & Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center
Professor, Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and Department of Pharmacology & Physiology
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry - Alison Bertuch (1993)
Assistant Dean for Curriculum, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Director, Bone Marrow Failure Program
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Molecular and Human Genetics, and Program in Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine - Robert Colbert (1987)
Senior Investigator, Pediatric Translational Research Branch, NIH - John DiPersio (1980)
Deputy Director, Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center
Samuel J. Goldman Endowed Professor of Oncology
Washington University School of Medicine - Leonard Dragone (1996)
Chief Medical Officer, Sonoma Biotherapeutics
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatric Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco - Richard Gallo (1986)
Distinguished Professor and Founding Chair, Division of Dermatology
Professor, Department of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
University of California San Diego School of Medicine - Ronnie Guillet (1980)
Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology)
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry - Marc Halterman (2002)
Chair, Department of Neurology
Stony Brook Medicine - Paul Love (1987)
Head, Section on Cellular & Developmental Biology
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - David Mathews (2003)
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Biophysics and Biostatistics & Computational Biology
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry - Edward Maytin (1985)
Section Head of Molecular Dermatology, Department of Dermatology
Assistant Staff, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland Clinic - Randy Rosier (1978)
Professor Emeritus and former Chair, Department of Orthopaedics
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry - Edward Rubin (1980)
Chief Scientific Officer, Metabiota - Akiko Shimamura (1991)
Director, Bone Marrow Failure and Myelodysplastic Syndrome Programs
Professor, Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School - Stephen Thom (1981)
Professor, Emergency Medicine; Director Of Research, Emergency Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine - David Waldman (1988)
Professor & Chair of Imaging Sciences
Professor, Department of Surgery (Cardiac)
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry - Virginia Winn (1996)
Associate Professor, Obstetrics/Gynecology (Reproductive and Stem Cell Biology) Stanford School of Medicine