Selected Trainees
Caitlin Burk, MD (MGH)
Research Fellow in Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology
Project: Evaluating the role of GPR15+ CD4+ T cells in gastrointestinal adverse events during peanut oral immunotherapy
Primary Mentor: Wayne Shreffler, MD, PhD
Ezgi Caliskan Guzelce, MD (BWH)
Clinical Fellow in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension
Project: The effect of physiological stress such as hypoglycemia or ACTH stimulation on the expression of LSD1
Primary Mentor: Gail Adler, MD, PhD
Alissa D’Gama, MD, PhD (BCH)
Clinical Fellow in Newborn Medicine
Project: Advancing molecular genetic diagnosis in early onset epilepsy
Primary Mentor: Annapurna Poduri, MD, MPH
Francesca Galbiati, MD (BWH)
Clinical Fellow in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension
Project: Characterizing and diagnosing oxytocin deficiency using oral estrogen in women with central diabetes insipidus
Primary Mentor: Elizabeth Lawson, MD
Victoria Grunberg, PhD (MGH)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychiatry
Project: Defining perinatal resiliency: A structural equation model to explain maternal and child outcomes
Primary Mentor: Joshua Roffman, MD
Rachel (Youngjun) Kim, MD, PhD (MGH)
Instructor in Psychiatry
Project: Molecular mechanisms of anorexia nervosa
Primary Mentor: Roy Perlis, MD
Regan Lemley, MD (BWH)
Clinical Fellow in Neurology
Project: The role of the microbiome in drug resistant epilepsy
Primary Mentor: Howard Weiner, MD
Jennifer Li, MD (MGH)
Clinical Fellow in Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology
Project: Intestinal permeability in food allergy
Primary Mentor: Wayne Shreffler, MD, PhD
James Luccarelli, MD, PhD (MGH)
Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry
Project: The diagnosis and monitoring of catatonia using quantitative electroencephalography
Primary Mentor: Gregory Fricchione, MD
Nathan Raines, MD, MPH (BIDMC)
Research Fellow in Internal Medicine
Project: Niacinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD+) metabolism in Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Events and early chronic disease among individuals at risk for Chronic Kidney Disease of Nontraditional Cause (CKDnT)
Primary Mentor: David Friedman, MD
Natalya Surmachevska, MD (BIDMC)
Clinical Fellow in Rheumatology
Project: Understanding the association of frailty with late onset vs early onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Primary Mentor: Devyani Misra, MD, MS
Alyssa Thomas, MD (BCH)
Clinical Fellow in Newborn Medicine
Project: Non-invasive detection of tissue oxygen deprivation in premature infants receiving blood transfusions for anemia
Primary Mentor: John Kheir, MD
Yan Emily Yuan, MD (BWH)
Research Fellow in Endocrinology
Project: Investigating the link between life’s simple 7 and the associations with specific cardiovascular biomarkers and social determinants of health
Primary Mentor: Ellen Seely, MD
David Ziehr, MD (MGH)
Research Fellow in Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care
Project: Understanding the role of lactate transport inhibition in fibroblast metabolism and as a therapeutic target in pulmonary fibrosis
Primary Mentor: William Oldham, MD, PhD
Athanasios Bikas, MD, PhD (BWH)
Clinical Fellow in Medicine
Project: Association of metabolic and genetic profile in thyroid cancer
Primary Mentor: Erik Alexander, MD
Afroditi Boulougoura, MD (BIDMC)
Clinical Fellow in Medicine
Project: Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling in T regulatory cells in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Primary Mentor: George Tsokos, MD
Jacqueline Clauss, MD, PhD (MGH)
Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry
Project: Evaluating the peripersonal space monitoring network as a potential mediator of polygenic risk on psychosis clinical risk in children.
Primary Mentor: Daphne Holt MD, PhD
Christina Manice, MD (BCH)
Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics
Project: Evaluating effectiveness of pediatric antimicrobial stewardship practices
Primary Mentor: Mari Nakamura, MD
Gregory McDermott, MD (BWH)
Research Fellow in Medicine
Project: Identifying clinical and molecular risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis-associated lung diseases in the MGB biobank.
Primary Mentor: Jeffrey Sparks, MD
Margaret Ong, MD (BCH)
Clinical Fellow in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Project: Human milk oligosaccharides for growth and brain development in preterm neonates
Primary Mentor: Mandy Belfort, MD
Jonathan Paolino, MD (DFCI)
Fellow in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Project: BCL-2 pathway inhibition for pediatric patients with recurrent or refractory langerhans cell histiocytosis
Primary Mentor: Andrew Place, MD, PhD
Kevin Scully, Mb.Bch,Bao (BCH)
Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics
Project: A pilot study to test the safety and tolerability of a low glycemic load dietary intervention in adults with cystic fibrosis
Primary Mentor: Melissa Putman, MD
Lydia Shook, MD (MGH)
Clinical Fellow in Medicine
Project: Exploring placental and neonatal cord blood immunoreactivity in the context of maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection
Primary Mentor: Andrea G. Edlow, MD
Samuel Snider, MD (BWH)
Instructor in Neurology
Project: Structural and functional MRI to predict recovery from traumatic coma
Primary Mentor: Michael Fox, MD, PhD and Brian Edlow, MD
Heather Ward, MD (McLean)
Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry
Project: A circuit-based approach to pathophysiology of nicotine dependence in psychotic disorders
Primary Mentor: Roscoe Brady, MD, PhD
Marc Weinberg, MD, PhD (MGH)
Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry
Project: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization effects on biomarkers of inflammation/immune response and Alzheimer’s disease
Primary Mentor: Steven Arnold, MD
Janewit Wongboonsin, MD, MS (BWH)
Clinical Fellow in Medicine
Project: Kidney genomics discovery using electronic health record-linked population-based biobanks
Primary Mentor: Matthew Sampson, MD