Maha Reda Farhat MD
Critical Care Medicine, Pleural Disease
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Massachusetts General Hospital
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55 Fruit StMassachusetts General Hospital Bulfinch 148Boston, MA 02114
Phone+1 617-726-1721
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Education & Training
Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General Hospital/BIDMC/Harvard Medical SchoolFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2008 - 2012- Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 2005 - 2008
McGill University Faculty of MedicineClass of 2005
Certifications & Licensure
MA State Medical License 2007 - 2028
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine- American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Gene conversion is a key driver of diversity hotspots inantigens and virulence-associated loci.Maximillian G Marin, Natalia Quinones-Olvera, Hu Jin, Michael A Harris, Brendan M Jeffrey
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2026-10-27 - The structural context of mutations in proteins predicts their effect on antibiotic resistance.Anna G Green, Mahbuba Tasmin, Roger Vargas Jr, Maha Reda Farhat
Elife. 2026-10-09 - 3 citationsTuberculosis Disease Severity Assessment Using Clinical Variables and Radiology Enabled by Artificial Intelligence.Marwan Ghanem, Ratnam Srivastava, Yasha Ektefaie, Drew Hoppes, Gabriel Rosenfeld
The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2026-09-23
Journal Articles
- Gastrointestinal Complications in Critically Ill Patients with and Without COVID-19Maha Farhat, MD, JAMA
Press Mentions
Study Identifies Need to Improve Patient Retention in the National TB Elimination Programme, Highlights Patients’ Trust Relationship with Private ProvidersOctober 31st, 2021- Strain-Specific Behavior of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in A549 Lung Cancer Cell LineMarch 25th, 2021
- Late DetectionMarch 22nd, 2021
Grant Support
- Accelerating discovery of narrow-spectrum antibiotics for Lyme diseaseTUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON2026–2031
- An RNA Nanosensor for the Diagnosis of Antibiotic Resistance in M. TuberculosisHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL2023–2028
- Investigating bacterial contributions to TB treatment response: a focus on in-host pathogen dynamicsHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL2020–2025
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