Associate Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
John A. Branda, M.D., received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 2000. He completed residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), followed by a fellowship at MGH in Medical Microbiology. He joined the MGH Pathology faculty in 2004 and is currently an Associate Pathologist and Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboraories. He is an Associate Professor of
Pathology at Harvard Medical School with research interests including development of diagnostic tests and utilization management of laboratory tests and antimicrobial agents. He has a special interest in diagnostic tests for tick-borne illnesses, such as borreliosis, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, and Powassan virus.