Ana Onuchic-Whitford, MD

Ana is a physician-scientist who received her MD from the University of São Paulo in Brazil, where she also completed her residency in Internal Medicine. After relocating to the US, she repeated her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Connecticut and did her clinical fellowship in Nephrology in the joint Brigham and Women's Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital program. As a post-doctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, she studied the genetics and genomics of nephrotic syndrome and other genetic kidney diseases. In 2022, Ana started as an attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and as an instructor at Harvard Medical School, and is the Director of the Renal Genetics Clinic there. She is continuing her research in computational genomics in the Sampson Lab at Boston Children's Hospital.