Meet the Team
Dr. Josh Korzenik, MD, Director of the Crohn's and Colitis Center and the Resnek Family Center for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Korzenik earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College in 1980 and his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, in 1987. He was a resident at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston from 1987 to 1990 and fellow in gastroenterology and clinical epidemiology at Yale University School of Medicine Hospital from 1991 to 1994. He is currently an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Fernanda Quevedo
Fernanda graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 2016 with a degree in Neuroscience (B.S.A) and a minor in Psychology. She previously worked on memory retrieval in a hypoperfusion model of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the Monfils Fear Memory Lab at UT. As Program Manager, Fernanda works closely with our basic & translational collaborators and with internal teams to advance our biobanking efforts and physician-initiated clinical trials.
Marin Waddington
Marin graduated from Tufts University in 2022 with dual degrees in Biology (B.S.) and Community Health (B.A.) and a minor in Cultural Anthropology. Her prior research experience includes health equity research related to suicidality in youth, infectious disease and global health research, and precision medicine for autoimmune disorders. At the Resnek Center, Marin helps coordinate our upcoming clinical trials and supports our biobanking and translational research efforts.
Allie Roth
Allie graduated from Wheaton College (MA) in 2021 with a degree in Women’s and Gender Studies (B.A.) and minors in Public Health and Chemistry. Previously, she has worked both in cancer research and maternal healthcare. At the Resnek Center, Allie is the lead research coordinator for the STAAR Program, a psycho-social research initiative for patients with IBD. In addition, Allie helps coordinate our research study sponsored by Pfizer to better understand inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and its genetic influences.
Malav Dave
Malav graduated from Boston University in 2020 with a degree in Human Physiology (B.S), and minor in Public Health. Prior to joining the team, he has worked in cancer research, psychiatry research related to eating disorder treatment, and global/immigrant health advocacy. At the Resnek Center, Malav leads our team in sample processing and supports our PSC/IBD biorepositories and clinical trials.
Rayna Haque
Rayna is a recent graduate of Northeastern. Rayna majored in Health Science with minors in Global Health, Health Humanities and Society, and Biology. She’s currently working as a Health Equity Intern with the Institute of Health Equity and Social Justice Research, where she’s conducting independent research on the topic of disability in the Somali refugee community, and as part of the Health Equity Unit of the Academic Public Health Corps. Rayna is particularly interested in the intersection between the humanities, public health, and medicine, and will be going to medical school in 2023.
Katerina Gusarova
Sophia Griffin
Sophie is currently a fourth year Health Science major at Northeastern University. She has previously worked as an orthopedic medical assistant and interned with a clinical trial investigating a novel cancer treatment. She plans to attend medical school after graduating from NU in 2023 and hopes to be involved in clinical research as a physician. She is especially interested in rare diseases, as well as disparities in healthcare access and outcomes.
Danielle Thompson
Danielle is a pre-med candidate for a B.S. in Health Science/MPH and minor in Experience Design at Northeastern University. She previously worked as a newborn hearing screening technician at Mount Auburn Hospital, primary care research intern at Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, and an ENT medical scribe at the Vancouver Clinic. Her focused professional interests are health design thinking, health equity/literacy, and patient centered care. Additionally, she wants to deepen her knowledge about PSC and IBD. In the future, Danielle aims to go to medical school.