David Roach, MD, MBA has been recognized as the 2024 Innovator of the Year at IDWeek, hosted by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Dr. Roach’s groundbreaking innovation, BADLOCK, also earned him the People’s Choice award during the event’s highly competitive “Shark Tank”-style IDea Incubator competition. BADLOCK is a low-cost, paper-based diagnostic tool designed... Read More

Seth Bloom, MD, PhD was awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Grants Challenges Award for his work on Metabolite-Based Point-of-Care Diagnostics for Vaginal Microbiome Composition. With Margaret Kasaro, MBChB, MSc, he will validate metabolite biomarkers of clinically-relevant, vaginal microbiota community state types (CSTs) for development of diagnostics for research and clinical care. Different... Read More

Wilfredo Matías, MD, MPH was named a 2024 STAT Wunderkind for his work in expanding global access to medications for infectious diseases. Matías was inspired to pursue a career in medicine while growing up and watching his grandfather open up the first clinic in their small town in the Dominican Republic. While Matias’ family connection to... Read More

Robbie Goldstein, MD, PhD, was appointed Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in April 2023. Dr. Goldstein completed his MD and PhD at Tufts University, his residency at MGH, and the MGH/BWH Infectious Diseases Fellowship. In addition to being a faculty member in the Division of Infectious Diseases at MGH, Dr. Goldstein founded... Read More

Bisola Ojikutu MD, MPH will become the next Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission on September 1st. In this role, Bisola will bring to bear her deep expertise in clinical medicine, public health, and collaborative engagement of marginalized communities to achieve health for all Bostonians and greater health equity among vulnerable populations. No... Read More

Jacqueline Chu, MD has been chosen as the unit chief of the Charlestown Health Center Adult Medicine practice. She has also received one of the five 2021 Community Health/Health Equity grants awarded by the MGH Executive Committee on Community Health in support of her project “Implementing a Subspecialty Coordinated Care Model in the Community: Improving... Read More

Richelle Charles, MD has been selected for the 2020 Department of Medicine Stephen M. Krane, MD Lectureship Award. The Stephen M. Krane, MD Award was established in 2000 to recognize outstanding young faculty within the Department of Medicine and their contributions to clinical and/or basic research. Named after Dr. Stephen M. Krane, chief of the... Read More

Dr. Roby Bhattacharyya has been named a 2020 Department of Medicine Transformative Scholar. The Department of Medicine’s Transformative Scholars Program enables the MGH to support the most talented physician-scientists in taking on critical challenges facing health and health care today. With the support of visionary philanthropists, the Transformative Scholars program provides the opportunity for outstanding... Read More

Dr. Emily Hyle has been named the first Jerome and Celia Reich Endowed Scholar in HIV/AIDS Research. This philanthropic initiative honors Dr. Hyle as a pivotal leader in the field of HIV/AIDS in the Department of Medicine and provides her with flexible resources she can use for her research and teaching activities over a five-year... Read More

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