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Joseph A. Majzoub attended the University of Michigan Honors College and Stanford University School of Medicine. These were followed by internship, residency, and chief residency at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and a postdoctoral fellowship in endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Majzoub joined the Division of Endocrinology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1981, where he remained until moving to Boston Children’s Hospital in 1989 as Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, a position he held for over 29 years until stepping down in 2018 to become the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Majzoub is the Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research concerns how stress influences health and disease. He is the scientific founder of three biotech companies focused in molecular diagnostic, therapeutic, and genetic engineering domains. Dr. Majzoub is a mentor to many medical students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty throughout the United States, and has received several teaching and mentoring awards from Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Technology Program. He has been married to Katherine Morgan Majzoub for almost 40 years and they have three adult children, a physician, a nurse practitioner, and a software engineer.