Tanuja Chitnis MD

Tanuja Chitnis M.D. is an Associate Professor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She is the Medical Director of the MS Natural History study (CLIMB study) at the Partners MS Center, at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which follows over 2000 MS patients with annual clinical evaluations, neuroimaging, biomarker studies and genetics, with the goal of better understanding the pathogenesis, disease course and treatment response. She heads a research team including biostatisticians, database staff and clinical research fellows.
She is also the Founding Director of the Partners Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital, established in 2004, which is the first clinic in New England addressing the clinical care needs of children with multiple sclerosis and related demyelinating disorders, and her Center is a Pediatric MS Centers of Excellence designated by the National MS Society. She is also the elected Chair of the International Pediatric MS Study Group (IPMSSG), which has a membership of over 150 clinicians worldwide from 40 countries, and leads an initiative to provide guidelines for the consideration and formulation of clinical trials in children with MS.