Linda Minium Boxer is an American hematologist and academic administrator serving as the vice dean and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor at

Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Francisco in 1858. This ...

since 2013.

Life

Boxer completed a bachelor's degree in chemistry at

Carleton College Carleton College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling ...

in 1973. She earned a M.D. and Ph.D. in biophysics from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 1981. Her dissertation is titled, ''Biochemical Studies of DNA Replication: I. A DNA polymerase from Mycoplasma Orale: II. A DNA-dependent Atpase from KB Cells''. David Korn was her doctoral advisor. She completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Stanford University followed by a hematology/oncology fellowship. From March 2004 to 2017, Boxer was chief of the division of hematology at the

. She was the senior vice chair of the department of medicine for one year and as the interim chair for two years. Boxer has served as the vice dean and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor since September 2013.

References

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