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Meet the Team
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Jordan Kreidberg, MD, PhD
Dr. Kreidberg received his MD and PhD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency and at Children's Hospital Boston and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Whitehead Institute.
Dr. Kreidberg is Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Faculty Director of the Children's Office of Fellowship Training; and Director of Development and Stem Cell Research, Division of Nephrology, Children's Hospital Boston. He is a principal member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
Jordan Kreidberg's principal research focuses on the understanding of the genetic mechanisms of organogenesis, with a focus on the urogenital system. The long term goal of this research is to devise stem cell-based regenerative therapies for kidney disease.
Dr. Kreidberg founded and serves as Faculty Director of the Office of Fellowship Training (OFT) at Children's Hospital Boston, which assists fellows to access resources through career development seminars and social functions and by identifying opportunities. As Faculty Director of the OFT, Dr. Kreidberg leads seminars in successful fellowships, basic science job search, basic research funding, and basic research publishing, makes recommendations on policy change for postdocs, and serves as mentor to Children's 450 postdoctoral research fellows.
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Fern Remedi-Brown, M.Ed.
Ms. Remedi-Brown got her Master's of Education with a specialization in teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Boston University. She taught ESL to adults, mostly in the workplace, with a particular emphasis on healthcare institutions, for 17 years. During this time, she had her own business for eight years, running an onsite training program, providing ESL to local companies and was Assistant Director and Instructor for three years at the Unlicensed International Medical Graduates Program at Lawrence General Hospital. Her transition to working in the Longwood Medical Area began as assistant to the Director of Cardiovascular Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant to the Director of the Pediatric Transplantation Research Program at Children's Hospital Boston.
Since 2004, she has coordinated the Office of Fellowship Training (OFT), which provides over 750 Children's research and clinical fellows with career development tools, information about resources in the area, and opportunities to get to know each other in an informal atmosphere. Four hundred and fifty (450) fellows are postdoctoral research fellows and approximately two-thirds (2/3) come from countries outside of the United States.
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