Nurit Katz MD, LLB

Dr. Nurit Katz is an American board-certified physician in internal medicine. She completed her medical training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem and received her Doctor of Medicine degree in 2011.

Upon return to the United States, Dr. Katz started medical residency in internal medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) in 2015. After the successful completion of her residency, Dr. Katz started a position as an attending physician at St Elizabeth's medical center and was appointed clinical assistant professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. She participated in a physician leadership program led by the American College of Physicians and The American Association for Physician Leadership and was awarded a certificate in physician leadership for hospital medicine in 2022.

Dr. Katz focused on quality improvement early on in her career, working for several years as a medical consultant in the quality and risk management unit of Inbal, a monitoring company of public hospitals in Israel. This encouraged her to obtain a Bachelor of Law (L.L.B) at Ono Academic College, where she graduated with honors while focusing on law and medicine.

Since 2021 she has been a clinical and research nephrology fellow at the BWH/MGH joint program. She is currently a 2nd-year fellow, focusing on one-nephrology research, drug toxicities, and adverse events in cancer populations. Additional areas of interest include autoimmunity, lupus, and the microbiome. Her research has been presented in conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. She plans to continue focusing her clinical and research efforts on once-nephrology and contribute to the evolving field of personalized medicine.

Dr. Katz is an experienced clinician educator; she has held many educational roles in and outside the medical field and continues teaching residents and medical students through Harvard Medical School.