Jamil R Azzi, MD, PhD

Jamil R Azzi, MD, PhD

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Specialties

Affiliation

Mass General Brigham

Provider Locations

  • Boston, MA

Jamil Azzi is an Associate Physician at the Renal Transplant Division at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Program, Director of the Kidney Transplantation Fellowship Program and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on understanding the immune-regulatory arm of the immune system in transplantation, autoimmunity and cancer with the goal of developing more targeted and safer therapeutic strategies. A major focus currently is regulatory T cells and their activation induced cell death in addition to engineering cell therapies. Dr. Azzi’s laboratory is also exploring multiple genomics and proteomics approaches to develop biomarkers that noninvasively detect rejection in kidney transplant recipients and measure the immune function of immunosuppressed patients.

Education & Training

  • Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Nephrology, 2011
  • Residency: Staten Island University Hospital, Internal Medicine, 2007
  • Internship: Lebanese University Faculty of Medical Sciences, Transitional, 2004
  • Medical Education: Lebanese University, 2003

Board Certifications

  • Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
  • Nephrology, American Board of Internal Medicine

Languages Spoken

  • French
  • Arabic
  • English

Age Group Treated

  • Adults

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Accepted Insurance

  • Tufts Medicare Preferred
  • Wellpoint
  • Medicaid ME
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  • Beech Street
  • Medicare
  • WellSense
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • TriCare
  • Cigna
  • Railroad Medicare
  • Mass General Brigham Health Plan
  • Senior Whole Health
  • Aetna
  • Medicaid CT
  • Medicaid NH
  • MassHealth
  • Tufts Health Plan
  • Medicaid RI
  • Commonwealth Care Alliance
  • Humana
  • Fallon Health
  • United Health Care
  • Coventry
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
  • Multiplan