Leah Ratner, MD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Global Health Equity

Leah Ratner MD MS DTM&H, is a Physician-Scientist at the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston MA. Her clinical focus is in adult CF and is working with Drs. Brian Cuneo and Emil Oweus to open an independent adult CF center in Washington DC, where she currently lives. Lastly she recently co-founded the Pan-African Cystic Fibrosis Research network with Drs. Marco Zampoli and Hugues Abriel, which aims to advance our collective understanding of CF on the African continent. (www.CysticFibrosisAfrica.org). She is honored to be a Harry Schwachman Clinical Research Awardee 2025 and a PACE awardee in 2024.

Presentation(s):

• W02.5- Building a Pan-African collaborative network for cystic fibrosis: Early lessons and shared priorities

  Thursday, October 23, 2025
  7:45 AM - 9:45 AM PDT

• W18--Bringing Health Equity into Care

  Friday, October 24, 2025
  10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

• LL11--Systemic Challenges to Care & Workarounds

  Saturday, October 25, 2025
  12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PDT