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 The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, United States. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Fra ...

since 2013.

Life

Boxer completed a bachelor's degree in chemistry at

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

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

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.

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