Charalampia Koutsioumpa, MD, PhD
Hospital Resident
Chara has studied the developmental mechanisms of specification of skin-innervating mechanosensory neurons and researched the role of p53 in motor neuron death in a mouse model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). She has also performed neuropsychiatric behavioral studies on patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) using cognitive neuroscience assays. She was an organizing committee member for the World Hellenic Biomedical Summer School and an executive board member and communications chair of Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (HGWISE). She has held several teaching roles. She enjoys baking, flow yoga and learning new languages.
Medical School: University of Ioannina
PhD: Harvard University