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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD

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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD

@allisonoconn

Heme/Onc Fellow @DanaFarber/@MassGeneralBrigham. Former @BrighamMedRes and @Georgetown MD/PhD. Passionate about true crime podcasts, reality TV, and Taco Bell.

Washington D.C.

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Joined December 2011

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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
Oct 29, 2025
I’m so excited to share my third and final first-author publication from my PhD!! We discovered NK cells express fibroblast activation protein (FAP) and use it to migrate into tumors! FAP overexpressing NK cells reduced pancreatic cancer growth in mice!
Fibroblast activation protein promotes natural killer cell invasion and tumor infiltration
From academic.oup.com
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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
Jan 28, 2021
I earned my PhD today!! Dr. Fitzgerald!! 🥺😍🍾🎉🤩
Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
Nov 6, 2024
Tough day to be a physician in America. Tough day to be a scientist in America. Tough day to be a woman in America.
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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
Jan 16, 2023
In the name of not gatekeeping information, here’s the skincare routine printout I came across on my dermatology rotation. I wish I could give credit to the dermatologist who wrote it but I don’t know who it was!!
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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
May 22, 2023
Officially Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD! 🎉🍾👩‍🎓👩‍⚕️👩‍🔬
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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
Jan 15, 2025
I had a med student once ask “will rounds always take so long?” after we finished at 11am. I truly hope they’re now thriving in the surgical subspecialty of their choice.
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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
Feb 27, 2024
My dad (who was a fireman) thinks I shouldn’t tell strangers I’m a doctor when they ask my profession because they’ll up charge me for stuff. He instead suggested I say I work in “maintenance” as in I “maintain the patients in a hospital” 😂
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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
Nov 2, 2022
Shout out to the man who asked about parental leave policies in the residency info session. That’s some subtle allyship right there.
Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
May 7, 2023
Pretty wild to go from having to take the MCAT twice and barely getting into a Med school to graduating magna cum laude. I remember my self-doubt the night before my first day of classes. Honestly, proud of myself. #firstgen
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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
May 12, 2022
New MD/PhDs Eighth year joining Twitter: MD/PhDs welcoming them:
Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
Dec 13, 2024
I look at this screen everyday and it took me until now to realize the continent is actually a cow.
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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
Aug 25, 2023
I debating sharing this on here because I’m familiar with the data on how this can negatively impact women’s careers. But I share so much of this journey and I want to be transparent about all the aspects, and this is undoubtedly a big one! Baby Fitzgerald coming in October!!!
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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
Feb 9, 2025
I can not wrap my head around the disconnect I see between people wanting better treatments and cures and simultaneously being so deeply anti-science….
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Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
@allisonoconn
Feb 22, 2023
Me, a Med student, waiting for the senior resident to remember I exist so they can dismiss me
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