Aki Morikawa MD, PhD

Dr. Morikawa joined the faculty in August 2014. She earned her BMus and MMus in Piano Performance at the Boston University School of Arts. She then completed an MPH in Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the Boston University School of Public Health, followed by a Ph.D. in Epidemiology, and her MD from Emory University in Atlanta.

Dr. Morikawa completed her Internal Medicine residency at Emory University followed by a Medical Oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York. She has already earned numerous honors, most recently the ASCO/Conquer Cancer Foundation Career Development Award in 2016. Dr. Morikawa’s research interest is metastatic breast cancer with a special focus in the brain and leptomeningeal metastases. She is treating breast cancer patients in the Rogel Cancer Center.