Ayobami T. Akenroye, MBChB, MPH, PhD
Dr. Akenroye was born and raised in Ile Ife, Nigeria. She obtained her medical degree from Obafemi Awolowo University in 2008, where she graduated top of her medical school class. She obtained her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2011, internal medicine training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi, and subsequent fellowship in Allergy/Immunology from Johns Hopkins University. In addition, she has a PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
She is currently an Assistant Professor in Allergy and Immunology at Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician in the Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology and Associate Scientist in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her laboratory’s work on the utilization, safety, and comparative effectiveness of biologics in asthma continues to gather much interest across all stakeholders. She has received numerous funding from the National Institutes of Health and from top organizations involved in respiratory health. Her ultimate goal is that we can match the right patient to the right therapy- optimizing benefits and minimizing risks. Her approaches to science are deeply engrained in her love for statistics, broad research experience, training, skills, and her subject matter expertise.
Hobbies: dancing, spending time with family doing whatever, watching the NBA and professional tennis, and playing tennis (though Ayobami’s hand-eye coordination is like a 6-year-olds!).
Most unlikely attribute: I love driving! If cars could get to the moon, I’d be happy to drive there and return.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Allergy & Clinical Immunology
Associate Epidemiologist, Channing Division of Network Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Tanawin is a physician from Thailand and completed his MPH in Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is interested in the application of mixed-effect models, causal inference methodology, and machine learning techniques to clinically relevant questions. He considers his most significant accomplishment to date to be the application of generalized additive mixed models to longitudinal analyses of lung function trajectories. In the Drug USE Lab, he supports the PI and team in data analyses and in ensuring that work is efficient yet rigorous.
Hobbies: escape rooms, playing board games, watching soccer games
Most unlikely attribute: I am an ex-professional Esports player.
Alyson graduated from Wellesley College in May 2023 where she majored in Neuroscience. She is a clinical research coordinator in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and spends part of her time supporting clinical research activities in the Drug USE Lab. She plans to go to medical school in the future.
Hobbies: weightlifting, going to art museums.
Most unlikely attribute: can do 10 pull-ups.
Josephine is a 4th-year undergraduate student at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a biology major on the premed track. She has aspirations of going to medical school after attaining her Bachelor’s degree. She is an intern in the Allergy and Immunology department and has recently started reading up on Natural Language Processing and working to figure out how it can be used to efficiently extract the medical history of patients.
Hobbies: solving puzzles, cooking, sewing, singing
Most unlikely attribute: I speak 3 languages
Jiajun (Cassie) Ni, BA – Programmer
Ming-Li (Estella) Chen – Graduate Student/Intern | Now: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Medicine, Stanford University,