Principal Investigator – Dr. Nancy Shadick

Dr. Nancy Shadick is the Director of the BRASS Registry and has been at Brigham’s Arthritis Center for 13 years. She divides her time between research, seeing patients and teaching aspiring doctors. She is an epidemiologist and health services researcher and sees patients with lupus and other bone and joint diseases. Before BRASS, she worked on several large Lyme disease research studies with thousands of subjects on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, and has published on lupus, RA and Lyme disease. Currently, she is the principal investigator of a Lyme disease prevention program for elementary school aged children. Dr. Shadick attended New York University for medical school and did her residency at Columbia—also her undergraduate alma mater. She is originally from New York. She lives with her husband, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Massachusetts, and her two children.

Principal Investigator – Dr. Michael E. Weinblatt

Dr. Michael E. Weinblatt, Co-Principal Investigator, has been at the Brigham for 27 years. His major research interest is therapeutic interventions in RA, and he has published over 130 articles and reviews, primarily focusing on RA. In 1997, he received the Arthritis Foundation Virginia P. Engalitcheff Award for Impact on Quality of Life for work on methotrexate. In 2005, he received the Carol Nachman Prize for his work on the development of methotrexate therapy for RA. He served as an Associate Editor of Arthritis and Rheumatism. In 2001, he was president of the American College of Rheumatology. Dr. Weinblatt is also an avid cyclist and has cycled across the U.S. twice.

BRASS Staff

Chinmayi Naik, MS- Project Manager

Vivi Feathers, MS – Sr. Programmer/data analyst II

Ruogu Li, MS/MPH–Programmer/data analyst I

Muibat Yussuf – Research Assistant II

Helen Early- Research Assistant I

Grace Carter- Research Assistant I

Romessa Alimoussa- Research Assistant I