Research Team


Current Members

Li Zhou, MD, PhD

Li is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Lead Investigator at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She earned her PhD in Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University and then served …

Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MS

Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MSc is an Allergist/Immunologist and clinical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a Co-Principal …

Elizabeth Phillips, MD

Elizabeth J. Phillips, MD, FIDSA, FAAAAI is the John A. Oates Chair in Clinical Research and Director of the Center of Drug Safety and Immunology and Professor of Medicine, Dermatology, Pathology, …

Santiago Alvarez, MD

Dr. Santiago Alvarez-Arango, MD, is a board-certified Internal Medicine and Allergy and Immunology Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is the …

Suzanne Blackley, MA

Suzanne is an Applications Analyst at Mass General Brigham and is currently coordinating saliva sample collection for this study. She has implemented NLP and information extraction solutions across a …

Allen Judd, BS

Allen is a Sr. Clinical Research Coordinator for the Clinical Epidemiology Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Neurobiology from Harvard University, where …

Ying-Chih (Paul) Lo, MD, PhD

Paul is a research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Due to his background as a nephrologist with a PhD in biomedical informatics, he is enthusiastic about the …

Abby Salem, BS, BA

Abby is a research assistant for the team and works on participant recruitment, screening, and survey collection for the study. She received a BS in Applied Mathematics and a BA in Computational …

Upeka Samarakoon, PhD, MPH

Upeka is a Senior Clinical Research Program/Project Manager in the Division of Rheumatology Allergy and Immunology and the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital. She oversees Dr. …

Liqin Wang, PhD

Liqin is a research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She has research interests in data mining of large clinical and biomedical literature datasets, clinical natural …

Chantal Lemoine Soto

I was born and raised in Venezuela, where I went to medical school, but living and practicing medicine in the US was always my dream. After graduating from medical school, I moved to the USA, and I …

Former Members

Fatima Bassir, MPH

Ramya Botta, MBBS, MPH

Erin MacPhaul, MS

Geneva Mehta, MD

Carlos Ortega, BS

Sheril Varghese, BA

Sharmitha Yerneni, BS

Shijia Zhang, MBI