Dr. Retnakumar is a graduate of the University of Maryland and New York Medical College. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital, where she discovered her passion for Allergy and Immunology. During residency, she had the opportunity to care for both adult and pediatric patients in allergy and immunology clinics, where she became interested in the diverse clinical presentations and evolving therapeutic approaches within the field. She is currently a first-year Allergy and Immunology fellow at Brown University. Her clinical interests include food allergy, the intersection of social determinants of health and allergic disease, and perioperative anaphylaxis. Outside of medicine, she enjoys pottery, reading, and spending time with her family.