Associate Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Cynthia Fisher, MD, MPH is Associate Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Associate Professor of Microbiology at University of Washington, where she specializes in infections in solid organ transplant recipients. Dr. Fisher is a physician scientist who began her career at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center studying invasive fungal infections in HCT recipients, including diagnostic testing and underlying genetic predispositions. Her current research focuses on respiratory virus infections (RVI) in lung transplant recipients, analyzing the associations between RVI and lung graft failure and the underlying pathophysiology of this relationship. She is currently a senior investigator on an international solid organ transplant COVID-19 registry study, with multiple recent publications in this area. She is an active member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society of Transplantation (AST).
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Thursday, October 17, 2024
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM US PT