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.
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Meet Our Directors
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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 170 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
Zachary S Wallace, MD, MSc, Rheumatology
Zachary Wallace, MD, MSc is a Rheumatologist and Clinical Epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His clinical and research interests are in vasculitis, IgG4-related disease, and COVID-19 in patients with rheumatic disease. He is the Co-Director of the Rheumatology Vasculitis Program in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research has been funded by the NIH, Rheumatology Research Foundation, industry, philanthropy, and Mass General Hospital. He is a member of the Finance Committee of the American College of Rheumatology and a former Chair of RheumPAC.
Dr. Wallace’s publications can be found here.
Email: zswallace@mgh.harvard.edu
Twitter: @zach_wallace_md
Our Rheumatology Researchers
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April Jorge, MD
Research focus: Lupus
Dr. Jorge publications can be found here.
Email: ajorge@mgh.harvard.edu
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Chio Yokose, MD, MSc
Research focus: Gout
Dr. Yokose publications can be found here.
Email: cyokose@mgh.harvard.edu
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Hyon Choi, MD, DrPH
Research focus: Gout
Dr. Choi publications can be found here.
Email: hchoi@mgh.harvard.edu
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Natalie McCormick, PhD
Research focus: Gout
Dr. McCormick publications can be found here.
Email: nmccormick@mgh.harvard.edu
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Naomi Patel, MD, MPH
Research focus: Vasculitis, Steroid Toxicity
Dr. Patel publications can be found here.
Email: njpatel@mgh.harvard.edu
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Guy Katz, MD
Research focus: IgG4-realted disease, Vasculitis
Dr. Katz publications can be found here.
Email: gkatz@mgh.harvard.edu
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Yuqing Zhang, DSC
Director of Epidemiology and Biostatistical Methods
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Sharan Rai, PhD
Research focus: Gout
Rheumatology Research Fellow
Email: rai1@mgh.harvard.edu
Our Allergy Researchers
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Sara Barmettler, MD
Research focus: Immunodeficiency
Dr. Barmettler publications can be found here.
Email: sbarmettler@mgh.harvard.edu
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John Accarino, MD
Research focus: Drug allergy
Dr. Accarion publications can be found here.
Email: jaccarion@mgh.harvard.edu
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Ingrid Salciccioli, MBBS, MPH
Research focus: Allergy
Allergy/Immunology Research Fellow
Email: isalciccioli@mgh.harvard.edu
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Chantal Lemoine Soto, MD
Research focus: Drug allergy
Dr. Lemoine Soto publications can be found here.
Email: clemoinesoto@mgh.harvard.edu
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Marielle Young, MD, MPH
Research focus: Drug allergy
Allergy/Immunology Fellow
Email: myoung25@mgh.harvard.edu
Our Administrative Research Staff
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Ana Depina Fernandes, MA
Senior Research Program Manager
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Allen Judd, BA
Research Project Manager
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Lauren Skrajewski-Schuler, PhD
Research Project Manager
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Annika Johnson, BA
Staff Assistant
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
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Bohang Jiang, MBBS, MPH
Data Analyst
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Lingxiao Zhang, MPH
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.
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Maddy Eippert, CRC I
B.A. in Biology & Environmental Science from Colby College
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Dylan Norton, CRC I
B.A. in Health & Societies from University of Pennsylvania
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Saiajay Chigurupati, CRC I
B.A. in Molecular & Cellular Biology from Harvard University
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David O’Dea, CRC I
B.S. in Biology from Carleton College
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Cole Johnson, CRC I
B.A. in Biochemistry from Hamilton College
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Liam Smith, CRC I
B.S. in Psychology & Biology from UMass Amherst
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Shruthi Srivatsan, CRC II
B.A. in Neuroscience from Swarthmore College
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Kiara Tan, CRC II
B.A. in Biology from Williams College
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Zach Williams, CRC II
B.A. in Politics & Public Health from Brandeis University
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Andrew Pak, CRC I
B.X. in XXXX from XXXXX
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Buuthien Hang, CRC I
B.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Madi Negron, Senior CRC
B.A. in Psychology from University of Cincinnati