Joshua A. Boyce, MD, is the Albert L. Sheffer Professor of Medicine in the Field of Allergic Diseases at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the Chief of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Director of the Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research.
He leads one of the largest and most successful Allergy research and training programs in the United States. He is the principal investigator on several National Institutes of Health grants, including a MERIT award, a U19, and a T32. He is an internationally renowned expert in the role of mast cells and arachidonic acid-derived lipid mediators in the pathogenesis of asthma and innate immunity. He has published over 100 original articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals on the immunologic basis of asthma, and over 50 reviews and textbook chapters.
He has served as the Chairman of the Expert Panel that drafted the 2010 and 2016 versions of the NIH-sponsored guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy and has served in an advisory capacity to the NIH on several committees. He has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology since 2003. He previously served on the board of directors of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology.
Dr. Boyce has a long track record of accomplishment in the mentoring and education of trainees. More than 20 of his former MD and PhD trainees are full-time faculty at U.S. medical schools, as well as comparable institutions in Europe and Japan. He was the 2020 recipient of the Outstanding Mentor Award from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, and also received Teacher of the Year awards from the Pediatric Residents at both the University of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts General Hospital and has been recognized three times by Boston Magazine as one of Boston’s best physicians.
