May Y. Choi
Associate Professor
Rheumatologist
Associate Director, Translational Research
Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Lupus Fellowship
Adult Rheumatology Fellowship
Residency, Internal Medicine
MD
Contact information
Preferred method of communication
Please contact Dr. Choi’s assistants Katherine Buhler for research inquiries and Danielle Giesbrecht for clinical inquiries.
Areas of focus
Research areas
- Diagnostics biomarkers for autoimmune diseases
- Autoantibodies
- Epidemiology
- Machine learning
- Lupus
Biography
Dr. May Choi is a graduate of the Cumming School of Medicine’s Adult Rheumatology training program. She’s also the Associate Director of MitogenDx and the Associate Director of Translational Research at the Lupus Centre of Excellence. Dr. Choi completed her Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) degree at the University of Calgary in 2010, her Doctor of Medicine at the University of Alberta in 2014 and Internal Medicine training at the University of Calgary in 2017.
In 2019, she began a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology Program at Harvard University and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Lupus Fellowship under the supervision of Dr. Karen Costenbader.
Her recent publications and current research interests are focused on biomarker discovery and validation for the prediction of clinical outcomes in early onset lupus, as well as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) epidemiology.
Current research projects:
- Longitudinal Examination of ANA and Novel Autoantibodies in SLE
- In collaboration with Harvard and MIT.
- COVID-19 Biomarker Projects in SLE Patients
- Nurses Health Study for SLE and Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Models in SLE
- Hydroxychloroquine Toxicity in Autoimmune Patients