She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. As a recipient of the National Kidney Foundation Research Fellow Award, she undertook research training at BMC investigating the cytoprotective mechanisms of heat shock proteins in ischemic renal cell injury and apoptosis. She joined the Renal Section Faculty in 2008, and continues basic and translational research in the area of renal cell injury and proteinuric kidney diseases using cell culture and animal models. She is the recipient of the American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant and NIH K08 award. Dr. Havasi is the Co-Director of the Mitochondria Research Affinity Collaborative (mtARC) at the Boston University School of Medicine. Her clinical roles include a weekly clinic and attending time on the consult and dialysis/transplant services.