We have a team that includes students, trainees, research assistants, clinical research coordinators, a program manager, master’s level data analysts, a PhD-level epidemiologist and biostatistician. Our team has multi-disciplinary and far-reaching collaborations that have led to scientific advancements, as well as high impact, highly cited publications in JAMA, BMJ and others.

Meet Our Directors

Kimberly G. Blumenthal, MD, MSc, Allergy

Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MSc is an Allergist/Immunologist and clinical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is the Director of Research in the Center for Drug and Vaccine Allergy. Her research interests are drug and vaccine allergy which has been funded by the National Institute of
Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and foundations, including the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Foundation and CRICO, the risk management foundation of Harvard Medical School. She is internationally recognized for identifying the morbidity and mortality associated with unverified penicillin allergies and creating innovative approaches to the evaluation of penicillin and cephalosporin antibiotic allergies in diverse patient settings. She has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications including leading high-impact manuscripts to publication in journals such as NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, and the BMJ.

Dr. Blumenthal’s publications can be found here.
Email: kblumenthal@mgh.harvard.edu
Twitter: @KimberlyBlumen1

April Jorge, MD, Rheumatology

April Jorge, MD is a Rheumatologist and clinical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is the Director of the Lupus Program in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology at MGH. Her research interest is improving outcomes for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and other systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Her research focuses on identifying personalized approaches to SLE treatment and optimizing lupus care through comparative effectiveness research, clinical epidemiology, patient preferences elicitation, and clinical trials. Her work is funded by the NIH and the Rheumatology Research Foundation and has led to high-impact publications in journals including JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Arthritis & Rheumatology, and Lancet Rheumatology.

Dr. Jorge’s publications can be found here.
Email: ajorge@mgh.harvard.edu

Our Rheumatology Researchers

Chio Yokose, MD, MSc

Research focus: Gout
Dr. Yokose publications can be found here.

Email: cyokose@mgh.harvard.edu

Hyon Choi, MD, DrPH

Research focus: Gout
Dr. Choi publications can be found here.

Email: hchoi@mgh.harvard.edu

Sharan Rai, PhD

Research focus: Gout
Rheumatology Research Fellow
Email: rai1@mgh.harvard.edu

Natalie McCormick, PhD

Research focus: Gout
Dr. McCormick publications can be found here.
Email: nmccormick@mgh.harvard.edu

Naomi Patel, MD, MPH

Research focus: Vasculitis, Steroid Toxicity
Dr. Patel publications can be found here.

Email: njpatel@mgh.harvard.edu

Guy Katz, MD

Research focus: IgG4-realted disease, Vasculitis
Dr. Katz publications can be found here.

Email: gkatz@mgh.harvard.edu

Yuqing Zhang, DSC

Director of Epidemiology and Biostatistical Methods

Aakash Patel, MD

Our Allergy Researchers

Sara Barmettler, MD

Research focus: Immunodeficiency
Dr. Barmettler publications can be found here.
Email: sbarmettler@mgh.harvard.edu

John Accarino, MD

Research focus: Drug allergy
Dr. Accarino publications can be found here.
Email: jaccarino@mgh.harvard.edu

Ingrid Salciccioli, MBBS, MPH

Research focus: Allergy
Allergy/Immunology Research Fellow
Email: isalciccioli@mgh.harvard.edu

Ruchi Shah, MD

Research focus: Drug allergy
Dr. Shah publications can be found here.

Email: rshah30@mgh.harvard.edu

Our Administrative Research Staff

Ana Depina Fernandes, MA

Senior Research Program Manager

Our Data Analysts

Our data analysts receive, manage, and analyze large amounts of observational and experimental study data for dissemination.

Andrew King, MS

Senior Data Analyst

Bohang Jiang, MBBS, MPH

Data Analyst

Lingxiao Zhang, MPH

Data Analyst

Jiaqi Wang, MS

Data Analyst

Our Clinical Research Coordinators

Our CRCs help manage and conduct data to day activities including study recruitment, enrollment, data collection, literature review and data reporting.