Dr. Elmira Esmaeilzadeh

Assistant Professor

Biography

Elmira Esmaeilzadeh is a rheumatology fellow at Yale. She gained her medical degree from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. She then served in underserved areas while working as a scientific researcher in rheumatology, allergy, and immunology at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Iran. Afterwards, she joined the Department of Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow. Her research focused on the study of the humoral immune system and its role in HIV/AIDS. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Yale and is now continuing her fellowship in rheumatology at Yale. She is interested in precision and predictive medicine in the field of rheumatology.

Research Interests

Experience

Rheumatology Fellow
2025-08-11 — Present

Yale School of Medicine • New Haven, CT

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
— Present

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School •

Worked in the Department of Infectious Diseases, focusing on the humoral immune system and its role in HIV/AIDS.