Elliot Israel

Elliott Israel, MD, is Director of the Respiratory Therapy Department, Director of Clinical Research in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, and the Gloria M. and Anthony C. Simboli Distinguished Chair in Asthma Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. 

Dr. Israel received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He then completed residency programs in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He also completed fellowships in pulmonary disease and allergy and immunology at BWH. He is board-certified in allergy and immunology, critical care medicine, internal medicine, and pulmonary medicine. 

Dr. Israel’s research interests include therapeutic interventions to alter asthmatic airway hyperactivity and the role of arachidonic acid metabolites in airway narrowing. He has written more than 120 peer-reviewed publications and currently leads a team researching novel asthma treatments funded by the National Institutes of Health. He is the recipient of the HMS Daniel D. Federman Outstanding Clinical Educator Award, and was named one of “Boston’s Best in Pulmonary Medicine” by Boston Magazine.