Highlights
Age Groups Seen
- Adults
- Geriatrics
Languages
- English
Gender
FemaleAbout Aleena Banerji
Dr. Banerji is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Director of the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit at MGH. Dr. Banerji is an Allergist and Immunologist with a special interest in drug allergy and angioedema. She has a national reputation as an expert in these fields, with invited talks in both areas at regional, national and international conferences. Dr. Banerji has built a formal drug allergy program in the outpatient allergy clinic at MGH to better manage patients with drug hypersensitivity reactions. She leads the inpatient desensitization program for patients with reactions to chemotherapeutics and monoclonal antibodies. As part of this drug allergy program, she collects standardized data on all patients we evaluate for drug hypersensitivity in order to identify risk factors for true hypersensitivity and improve drug allergy diagnosis with skin testing and challenges. In 2013, Dr. Banerji was invited to participate in an NIH workshop geared towards developing a prioritized research agenda on drug allergy and a summary of this meeting was published in August 2015 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. As an angioedema expert, Dr Banerji has collaborated with industry on multiple novel agents for hereditary angioedema and has published >50 peer-reviewed manuscripts including national and international guidelines for the management of angioedema. Dr. Banerji has actively participated as an investigator on multiple large clinical trials in hereditary angioedema, several of which were investigator initiated studies and including one study published by the NEJM in 2017 and another in JAMA in 2019 as a first author.
Locations
- Massachusetts General Allergy and Immunology Clinic
- 52 Second Avenue, Blue Building, 2nd Floor, Suite 2600, Waltham, MA 02451
- Get Directions
- phone: 781-487-3838
- fax: 781-487-3899
- Massachusetts General Allergy and Immunology Clinic
- 55 Fruit Street, Yawkey Building, 4th Floor, Suite 4B, Boston, MA 02114
- Get Directions
- phone: 617-726-3850
- fax: 617-724-0239
Expertise
Education
- Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, Allergy /Immunology, 2005
- Residency: Case Western Reserve University Hospital, Internal Medicine, 2002
- Medical Education: Northwestern University Medical School, 1999
Board Certifications
- Allergy and Immunology: American Board of Allergy and Immunology, 2005
Insurance
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid NY
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Ratings & Reviews
4.9 out of 5
80 ratings, 32 reviewsThe Patient Satisfaction Rating is an average of all responses to the care provider related questions shown below from our survey. Patients that are treated in outpatient or hospital environments may receive different surveys, and the volume of responses will vary by question.
- Reviewed on 2/2/2026
love using Zoom for appointments like this that are just check ins.
- Reviewed on 2/1/2026
She is very knowledgeable and has excellent bedside manner.
- Reviewed on 12/22/2025
Dr.Banerji is an excellent physician who knew how to treat my allergies.I have been suffering with for 15 years. She concluded that I wasn't allergic to these things and treated me accordingly.She is fantastic!!
- Reviewed on 12/20/2025
Professional and friendly. Good listener and answered all my questions.
- Reviewed on 12/16/2025
Everyone at MGH that we have come in contact with have been excellent! I am in testing to receive a donor kidney.
- Reviewed on 11/20/2025
My experience was great. The doctor was excellent. I was very happy with everything at the hospital and with her. Couldn't have been better. Thank you.
- Reviewed on 11/17/2025
Calm, reassuring, respectful, knowledgeable.
- Reviewed on 11/16/2025
I was well taken care of and my concerns were valued and answered knowledgeably.
- Reviewed on 11/8/2025
Dr. Banerji is thoughtful, very knowledgeable and thoroughly a pleasure to meet with. She listened to what my health goal is made a recommendation to my medication plan that I will follow.
- Reviewed on 10/27/2025
I have been seeing this doctor for over 2 decades, and she is wonderful, I have learned a lot from her regarding my allergies, and how to handle them. I have pollen and also environmental and food allergies, that I have had all my life. She has put me in a very good place.
- Reviewed on 10/21/2025
Exceptional experience Highly professional and accessible
- Reviewed on 10/15/2025
She listened to me, actively listened to what my symptoms were and in 20 minutes told me exactly what was wrong with me and explained how I should handle the situation. She gave me something to read, to take with me, then answered some questions. Also, I highly recommend her and I really appreciate what she did. Thank you.
- Reviewed on 9/29/2025
Dr. Banerji is most professional in that she listens to you and explains everything to you with compassion and understanding. The appointment was made to accommodate an issue that I had and it was easy to navigate and discuss on Zoom. Dr. Banerji has been my doctor for 18 years and I appreciate our relationship and her skills.
- Reviewed on 9/29/2025
The provider was attentive, visited me numerous times during my allergy test. She kept current to the results and met with me to explain these results at the end of my test. I was very happy and comfortable has her as the attending physician.
- Reviewed on 9/18/2025
Excellent provider
- Reviewed on 9/12/2025
I am pleased that I have a continued relationship with her
- Reviewed on 9/8/2025
Very caring.
- Reviewed on 9/8/2025
Dr. Banerji continues to be a wonderful practitioner. Her skill, care and kindness are exemplary. She has been my allergist for over 20 years.
- Reviewed on 9/5/2025
Great experience, no issues
- Reviewed on 9/4/2025
Excellent. The only trouble was when I was in Hawaii and could not reach her to write a prescription.
- Reviewed on 8/10/2025
I received excellent care from the doctor during my visits annually I am in good health.
- Reviewed on 7/29/2025
She is caring, knowledgeable and well informed.
- Reviewed on 7/21/2025
Dr.Banerji fully understood my condition and helped me with strategies to live a better life.
- Reviewed on 7/21/2025
Dr. Banerji is an exceptionally brilliant and kind doctor! The best of the best!!!
- Reviewed on 7/23/2025
Yeah, Dr. Banerji was great. You know, the fact that I only see her once a year and not barely even that, she seemed like she knew everything about what was going on, was very familiar with me and my situation. It's just great. So, yeah.
- Reviewed on 7/21/2025
why do you have to follow up every appointment with these pointless questions
- Reviewed on 6/21/2025
Great to work with, and flexible with scheduling when needed!
- Reviewed on 6/19/2025
Dr. Banerji is very kind. She listens well. She's encouraging, and I would suggest her to anyone.
- Reviewed on 5/26/2025
Dr. Banerji is a amazing doctor. She cares greatly for her patients well being. I am so very pleased she is my doctor.
- Reviewed on 5/19/2025
Dr Banerji is very knowledgeable about my medical issues, empathetic and very understanding.
- Reviewed on 5/12/2025
She was patient and attentive
- Reviewed on 5/8/2025
Dr. Ban, he was fantastic as always, very thoughtful, thorough and covered everything needed to be covered and walked through every potential scenario. Just an amazing provider. Can't recommend her highly enough.