Fellow
Duke University
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Adam Blatt, MD, PhD is a third year pediatric infectious diseases fellow at Duke University. He attended the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, where he earned his medical doctorate and completed his doctoral dissertation on the effects of the complement alternative pathway on the formation of platelet-leukocyte aggregates. He completed his pediatrics residency at Duke University and served an additional year as chief resident. Throughout residency and fellowship, he has participated in a diverse set of research projects that have identified transcriptomic markers associated with infections by global pathogens and investigated the effects of COVID on the seasonality and testing patterns associated with infant RSV bronchiolitis in the US. His primary research interest is how to improve vaccine-mediated immunity in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients, and he is also a sub-investigator on several vaccine trials run through the Duke Human Vaccine Institute.