Elisa Boden

Biography

 Dr. Boden received her undergraduate degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University. She graduated with honors from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine followed by a residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and specialty training in gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital. As a gastroenterology fellow, she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Scott Snapper studying oral tolerance and regulatory T cell (Treg) development in models of colitis. Following her fellowship, she received advanced clinical and research training as the Present-Levison fellow in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York. She worked in the laboratory of Dr. Lloyd Mayer studying Tregs in human inflammatory bowel disease and developing assays to test oral tolerance in human subjects. Dr. Boden is a member of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center of Excellence at Virginia Mason Medical Center and an affiliate clinical instructor of medicine at the University of Washington.

Research Interest

 Molecular biophysics and biochemistry