Clinician Researcher
University of Washington
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Talia Himmelfarb MD is an Infectious Disease physician and researcher at the University of Washington. At Yale as an undergraduate she worked with Dr. I. George Miller on the kinetics of early lytic cycle transcription factors in Epstein-Barr Virus. During medical school at George Washington she worked at the NIH with Dr. Yasmine Belkaid on commensal bacterial influence on local skin resident T-cells as well as the shaping of the neonatal immune response to the devoloping microbiome. During residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Tulane she worked with Dr. John Schieffelin on computational analyses of symptoms and physical exam findings in Post Ebola Syndrome. Her current research with Dr. Thomas Hawn focuses on how maternal-infant immune interactions shape infant risk of tuberculosis infection.