Dr. Amy Barczak

Dr. Barczak is a physician-scientist and attending physician on the inpatient Infectious Diseases consult service at Massachusetts General Hospital. She serves as the Director of Research in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Barczak received her M.D. from Harvard Medical School and devoted two years during medical training to basic tuberculosis research as an NIH-HHMI Research Scholar in the Tuberculosis Research Section of the NIAID. She completed residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and fellowship in Infectious Diseases in the MGH/BWH joint program. Her laboratory at the Ragon Institute studies mechanisms of tuberculosis pathogenesis, with the overarching goal of identifying novel therapeutic targets for TB. Together with colleagues in the MGH and BWH ID divisions, she is a co-Principal Investigator for the POSITIVES cohort, which studies the longitudinal dynamics of viral infection and immune responses in individuals with COVID-19 infection.