Grace Ordonez BA

Grace Ordonez is the clinical research project manager of the Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Research Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She partners with investigators, fellows, and coordinators to lead several clinical trials targeting diabetic cardiomyopathy, systemic inflammation, and treating type 2 diabetes with endoscopic treatment.

Grace holds a BA in Cellular, Molecular, and Genetics Biology from Boston University, and began her multidisciplinary clinical research career at Boston Children’s Hospital. At BCH, Grace coordinated spinal muscular atrophy studies for the Neuromuscular Research Program and was involved in the recruitment and conduct of two studies that led to the FDA approval of two SMA treatments. Grace then furthered her clinical research career in the Center for Clinical Investigations at Brigham and Women’s Hospital focusing on type 2 diabetes, respiratory (CLAD), newborn medicine (NBO system), and COVID-19 before taking on her new role as the project manager of the Diabetes and Metabolic Research Program. Her clinical research interests include type 2 diabetes, spinal muscular atrophy, and pulmonary critical care.