James E. Kirby, MD D(ABMM)
Dr. Kirby is an NIH-funded Principal Investigator in the Experimental Pathology Division of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at BIDMC; He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the founding Program Director of the Medical Microbiology Fellowships at BIDMC, Board Certified in Clinical Pathology, and a Diplomat of the American Board of Medical Microbiology. From 2009-2012, he was the President of the Northeast Branch of the American Society of Microbiology. He is a member of the Harvard Committee on Microbiological Safety (COMS). and served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Applied and Environmental Microbiology,
Dr. Kirby received his B.S. degree from Yale College with a major in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics (MB&B). He interrupted his medical school training at the University of Pennsylvania for a two year stint at the National Institutes of Health as part of the NIH/HHMI Research Scholars Program. There he performed bacterial genetics research in the laboratory of Dr. Susan Gottesman in the National Cancer Institute. It was during this time that his interest in anything bacterial was firmly imprinted. On completion of medical school, he moved to Boston for a Clinical Pathology Residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he also served as Clinical Pathology Chief Resident. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in bacterial pathogenesis in the Molecular Microbiology Department at the Tufts University School of Medicine in the laboratory of Dr. Ralph Isberg. On completion of his fellowship, he joined the faculty of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Kirby received his B.S. degree from Yale College with a major in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics (MB&B). He interrupted his medical school training at the University of Pennsylvania for a two year stint at the National Institutes of Health as part of the NIH/HHMI Research Scholars Program. There he performed bacterial genetics research in the laboratory of Dr. Susan Gottesman in the National Cancer Institute. It was during this time that his interest in anything bacterial was firmly imprinted. On completion of medical school, he moved to Boston for a Clinical Pathology Residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he also served as Clinical Pathology Chief Resident. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in bacterial pathogenesis in the Molecular Microbiology Department at the Tufts University School of Medicine in the laboratory of Dr. Ralph Isberg. On completion of his fellowship, he joined the faculty of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.