BRIGHAM HEALTH - Key Persons


Akshay S. Desai

Job Titles:
  • Attending Physician

Alison Pietras

Job Titles:
  • Physician Assistant, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women 's Hospital

Allyson Pulsoni

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment Specialist, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women 's Hospital

Anju Nohria

Job Titles:
  • Attending Physician

Candace Feldman

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Cynthia Weiffenbach

Cynthia Weiffenbach, RN, has been a nurse at BWH since 1981 and has been a cardiac nurse since 1992.

Daniel Solomon

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Danielle Lavey

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women 's Hospital

Deepak Rao

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Derrick Todd

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Dorene M. Rentz

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment / Associate Professor of Neurology, HMS Departments of Neurology, BWH, MGH

Elena Massarotti

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Ellen M. Gravallese

Job Titles:
  • Division Chief
  • Research Profile
Ellen M. Gravallese, MD, division chief and the Theodore Bevier Bayles Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is an internationally recognized and accomplished rheumatologist, immunologist and basic scientist. She completed her residency in internal medicine and pathology at the Brigham and served on the hospital's faculty from 1991 to 1998. After spending 13 years as chief of the Division of Rheumatology at UMass Medical School, she returned to the Brigham to lead our division in 2019. Dr. Gravallese's research on fundamental mechanisms of inflammation and joint destruction in inflammatory arthritis has changed our understanding of the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis and subsequent mechanisms of joint destruction in this disease. Among her many professional honors, she was the 2019-2020 president of the American College of Rheumatology and the 2019 recipient of the prestigious international Carol Nachman Prize for career achievements in rheumatology research.

Emily Sprague

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Assistant, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women 's Hospital

Gad A. Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Associate Medical Director of Clinical Trials, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, BWH, MGH / Assistant Professor of Neurology, HMS

Garrick C. Stewart

Job Titles:
  • Attending Physician

Hadley Hustead

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Assistant, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women 's Hospital

Heart Failure NP

Job Titles:
  • Nurse at BWH

I-Cheng Ho

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Jeffrey Neil Katz

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Jeffrey Sparks

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Joerg Ermann

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Joseph Merola

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Julia Charles

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Karen Costenbader

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Katherine Liao

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Kien Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Administrative Assistant, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women 's Hospital

Mandeep R. Mehra

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Center for Advanced Heart Disease / Medical Director, Heart & Vascular Center

Martha Vander Vliet

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Trials Nurse Manager, Brigham and Women 's Hospital

Maryclare Hickey

Maryclare Hickey, RN, has worked as a nurse at BWH for almost 27 years, and has been a cardiac nurse for eight years.

Michael M. Givertz

Job Titles:
  • Medical Director, Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program

Michael Weinblatt

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Nancy Coppelman

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director of Outreach, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women 's Hospital / Massachusetts Alzheimer 's Disease Research Center

Nancy Shadick

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Neal K. Lakdawala

Job Titles:
  • Attending Physician

Nicole Chan

Job Titles:
  • ProjectManager, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women 's Hospital

Nicole Tommasi

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Assistant, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women 's Hospital

Nicole Yang

Job Titles:
  • Research Faculty

Patricia Fraser

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Paul Dellaripa

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Peter Nigrovic

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Reisa A. Sperling

Job Titles:
  • Director, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment / Professor of Neurology, HMS Memory Disorders Unit, BWH, MGH Departments of Neurology, BWH, MGH

Samantha Kuney

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Assistant, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women 's Hospital

Sara Tedeschi

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Scott McGinnis

Job Titles:
  • Associate Neurologist, Brigham and Women 's Hospital Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Seth A. Gale

Job Titles:
  • Associate Neurologist, Brigham and Women 's Hospital, Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Simon Helfgott

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Sonali Desai

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Soumya Raychaudhuri

Job Titles:
  • Research Profile

Tia Hall

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Assistant, Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women 's Hospital