Lael Yonker, MD

Dr. Yonker is a pediatric pulmonary physician-scientist, committed to improving the care of children with cystic fibrosis. Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, she has led the Pediatric COVID-19 Biorepository at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has helped shape our understanding of how SARS-CoV-2 effects newborns, infants, children, and young adults. She is investigating the impacts of viral load and immune responses in children with SARS-CoV-2 infection or the late COVID-19-related inflammatory illness, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. She is also studying how people with CF respond to the COVID-19 vaccine.