Katharine R. Clapham, MD

Katharine Clapham, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. She obtained her A.B. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College in 2008, and her M.D. through the Health Sciences and Technology joint MIT-Harvard program at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Clapham completed her residency in Internal Medicine in 2015 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, and fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease in 2018 at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT. During her subsequent work in a vascular biology lab while on faculty at Yale, she developed an interest in pulmonary vascular disease. This led Dr. Clapham to pursue additional training via the Burke Advanced Fellowship in Pulmonary Heart Disease at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, which she completed in 2022. Her clinical and research interests include pulmonary vascular disease and genetics. She is currently engaged in research at the Broad Institute studying common and rare genetic variants that contribute to pulmonary vascular disease in the UK Biobank and Million Veteran Program.