Dr. Blumenthal is an allergist/immunologist and nationally-recognized drug allergy researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also the Co-Director of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology’s Clinical Epidemiology Program and faculty in the MGH Mongan Institute. Dr. Blumenthal performs drug allergy research using methods of epidemiology, informatics, economics, and decision science and has more than 90 peer-reviewed publications to date. Dr. Blumenthal graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Economics. She studied medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, before training at the Massachusetts General Hospital for Internal Medicine and Allergy and Immunology. She completed a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
A selection of Dr. Blumenthal's scientific publications
- Blumenthal KG, Freeman EE, Saff RR, Robison LB, Wolfson AR, Foreman RK, Hashimoto D, Banerji A, Li L, Anvari S, Shenoy ES. Delayed Large Local Reactions to mRNA-1273 Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2. N Engl J Med. 2021. Online ahead of print.
- Glover RE, Urquhart R, Lukawska J, Blumenthal KG. Vaccinating Against COVID-19 in People Who Report Allergies. BMJ. 2021. 372:n120.
- Robinson LB, Fu X, Bassett IV, Triant VA, Foulkes AS, Zhang Y, Camargo CA Jr, Blumenthal KG. COVID-19 Severity in Hospitalized Patients with Asthma: A Matched Cohort Study. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2021;9(1):497-500.
- Yang J, Wang L, Phadke NA, Wickner PG, Mancini CM, Blumenthal KG, Zhou L. Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Model for Detection of Allergic Reactions Using Safety Event Reports Across Hospitals. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(11):e2022836.
- Blumenthal KG, Harkness T, Phillips EJ, Ramsey A, Banerji A, Samarakoon U, Stone C, Fu X, Khan DA, Otani I, Camargo CA, Zhang Y, Donelan K, USDAR Study Team. Patient characteristics and concerns about drug allergy: A report from the United States Drug Allergy Registry. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2020;8(9):2958-2967.
- Blumenthal KG, Kuper K, Schulz LT, Bhowmick T, Postelnick M, Lee F, Walensky RP. Association Between Penicillin Allergy Documentation and Antibiotic Use. JAMA Intern Med. 2020;180(8):1120-1122.
- Blumenthal KG, Huebner EM, Banerji A, Long AA, Gross N, Kapoor N, Blumenthal DM. Sex Differences in Academic Rank in Allergy/Immunology. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2019;144(6):1697-1702.e1.
- Blumenthal KG, Li Y, Hsu JT, Wolfson AR, Berkowitz DN, Carballo VA, Schwartz JM, Marquis KA, Elshaboury R, Gandhi RG, Lambl BB, Freeley MM, Gruszecki A, Wickner PG, Shenoy ES. Outcomes from an Inpatient Beta-Lactam Allergy Guideline Across a Large US Health System. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019;40(5):528-535.
- Shenoy ES, Macy E, Rowe T, Blumenthal KG. Evaluation and Management of Penicillin Allergy: A Review. JAMA. 2019;321(2):188-199.
- Blumenthal KG, Peter JG, Trubiano JA, Phillips EJ. Antibiotic Allergy. Lancet. 2019; 393(10167):183-198.
- Blumenthal KG, Lu N, Zhang Y, Li Y, Walensky RP, Choi HK. Risk of Meticillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile in Patients with a Documented Penicillin Allergy: Population Based Matched Cohort Study. BMJ. 2018;361:k2400.
- Blumenthal KG, Wickner PG, Lau JJ, Zhou L. Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Patients in an Integrated Allergy Repository of a Large Health Care System. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2015;3(2):277-280.e1.
- Blumenthal KG, Li Y, Banerji A, Yun BJ, Long AA, Walensky RP. The Cost of Penicillin Allergy Evaluation. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2018;6(3):1019-1027.e2.
- Blumenthal KG, Shenoy ES, Wolfson AR, Berkowitz DN, Carballo VA, Balekian DS, Marquis KA, Elshaboury R, Gandhi RG, Meka P, Kubiak DW, Catella J, Lambl BB, Hsu JT, Freeley MM, Gruszecki A, Wickner PG. Addressing Inpatient Beta-Lactam Allergies: A Multihospital Implementation. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2017;5(3):616-625.e7.