A graduate of the University of Illinois School of Medicine, Strom went on to receive training in medicine at the University of Illinois Hospitals, at the former Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and at Boston’s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, where he later became medical director of the hospital’s kidney transplant program. Strom is currently Professor of Medicine and Surgery at Harvard Medical School, where he has been teaching for more than three decades.

Throughout his career, Strom has contributed to more than 600 publications and has been honored with numerous awards including the Lilly Lectureship of the Royal College of Physicians (London), the 1997 Sandoz Transplant Established Investigator Award of the American Society of Transplant Physicians, and the 2001 Roche American Society of Transplantation Distinguished Achievement Award. A member of more than 15 professonal societies, Strom presently serves as a Councilor for the Cell Transplant Society. He is a past-president of the American Society of Transplantation, the Clinical Immunology Society and Councilor of the International Society of Nephrology.