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Amel Karaa

Amel Karaa, MD

Clinical Genetics

Highlights

Age Groups Seen

  • Adults
  • Geriatrics

Languages

  • German
  • French
  • Arabic
  • English

Gender

Female

About Amel Karaa

Amel Karaa, MD is a Board-certified internist and medical geneticist, who dedicated her professional life to treating patients with complex medical conditions by providing excellent clinical care, and therapeutics opportunities for those with mitochondrial and lysosomal disorders. She has established a specialized program evaluating hundreds of national and international patients.

Dr. Karaa is the 2013 United mitochondrial disease foundation (UMDF) fellow, a site investigator for the NIH North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium (NAMDC), on the scientific/medical board of the UMDF, medical board of the national advocacy group MitoAction, multiple medical boards for different lysosomal storage disorders and as of June 2018, the elected president of the Mitochondrial Medicine society (MMS).

Locations

  1. Massachusetts General Medical Genetics
    • 55 Fruit Street, Yawkey Building, 6th Floor, Suite 6C, Boston, MA 02114
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Expertise

Education

  • Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Genetics, 2013
  • Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital (for MD/DO), Genetics, 2013
  • Internship: Mount Auburn Hospital, Internal Medicine, 2010
  • Medical Education: Faculte de Medecine de Tunis, 2003

Board Certifications

  • Clinical Genetics (MD): American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics, 2013

Insurance

This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown. Please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Search plans
  • 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 ME
  • Medicaid NH
  • Medicaid RI
  • Medicaid VT
  • Medicare
  • Medicare ACO
  • Multiplan
  • Senior Whole Health
  • TriCare
  • Tufts Health Plan
  • Tufts Medicare Preferred
  • United Health Care
  • Wellpoint
  • WellSense
  • WellSense NH

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