Kenneth Kaushansky
Dean, School of Medicine and Senior Vice President of Health Sciences
Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, MACP, is Dean of the
School of Medicine and Senior Vice President of Health Sciences at Stony Brook University. He earned
his BS and MD degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed
his Internal Medicine Internship, Residency and Chief Medical Residency, and Fellowship
in Hematology at the University of Washington. He joined the faculty at the University
of Washington as an Assistant Professor in 1987, was promoted to Associate Professor
in 1991 and to Professor in 1995. Following his service as Hematology Section Chief
at the University of Washington Medical Center, Dr. Kaushansky was named Helen M.
Ranney Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at UC San Diego in February
2002. More recently, Dr. Kaushansky was named Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
and Dean, School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. During his career Dr. Kaushansky
has been a successful teacher, clinician and biomedical researcher. His laboratory
work has lead to several significant discoveries, for which he received the Dameshek
Award from the American Society of Hematology, awarded annually to the scientist who
has provided the most seminal insight into the pathophysiology of hematological disorders,
and the Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Society for Medical Research,
the most prestigious award of the Society.
Dr. Kaushansky is a past-president of the American Society of Hematology (2007-2008),
the American Society for Clinical Investigation (2004–2005) and the Western Society
for Clinical Investigation (1998–1999). He also served a 5 year term as Editor-in-Chief
of the journal
Blood (1998-2002) and as a major reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and many
major scientific periodicals. Dr. Kaushansky has been recognized for his scientific
and clinical contributions by election as a Master of the American College of Physicians,
and to several honor societies and organizations, including the American Society for
Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Institute of Medicine
of the National Academies of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Kaushansky has conducted seminal research on the molecular biology of blood cell
production. His team has cloned several of the genes important in the growth and differentiation
of blood cells, including thrombopoietin, a key regulator of stem cell and platelet
production. In recent years his group has established that thrombopoietin exerts a
profound influence on hematopoietic stem cells, affects the expression of a number
of transcription factors that influence stem cell fate decisions (HoxB4, HoxA9, c-Myb,
HIF-1a) and has unraveled the pathobiology of several congenital disorders of thrombopoiesis.
He is an accomplished clinician, and he has been a champion of the need to train more
physician-scientists who can bridge the gap between the laboratory and the clinical
arena, translating research discoveries into improved treatments and technologies
for the prevention, diagnosis and management of disease.
CONTACT:
Shaneen Washington
Executive Assistant
Phone: 631.444.8234
L4-225 Health Sciences Tower
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8430
