Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
Sonia Friedman, MD, FACG, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She is an adjunct Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. Dr. Friedman completed her undergraduate degree in biology at Stanford University and her MD at Yale Medical School. She did her medical internship and residency at University of Pennsylvania and her gastroenterology fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. She specialized in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) during her fellowship and now has a large IBD practice in the gastroenterology division of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has been at Brigham and Women’s for the past 22 years and is Director of Women’s Health at the Center for Crohn’s and Colitis. Dr. Friedman’s research interests include reproductive health and the safety of medications taking during conception and/or during pregnancy in patients with IBD. Her clinical interests are the care of patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Dr. Friedman is the Deputy Editor of the journal Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and is on the Gastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Digestive Diseases and Sciences editorial boards. She is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Assessment of NIH Research on Autoimmune Diseases as well as the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Unbiased Peer Review Task Force. She is a member of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Clinical Research Alliance and is a member of the organizing committee of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Congress. She has received a recent Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Senior Research Award, as well as an ACG Clinical Research Award to continue her work on reproductive health in IBD.
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