Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases
The University of Kansas Health System
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Austin Price (MD, MPH) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the University of Kansas in Kansas City. A native of rural Southeastern Kansas, he attended undergrad locally at Pittsburg State University before beginning medical school at The University of Kansas. Following his 3rd year of medical school, he took a hiatus to pursue a Masters of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where his coursework focused on infectious disease epidemiology. He later graduated from medical school in 2019 and began internal medicine residency training in San Francisco at California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC), graduating in 2022. He returned to Kansas City in 2022 to pursue infectious diseases (ID) fellowship training at the University of Kansas. Dr. Price finished ID training in June 2024 and joined the ID faculty at the University of Kansas. He maintains an inpatient clinical practice in general ID, with an outpatient focus on HIV treatment and prevention. Dr. Price is involved in quality improvement efforts aimed at optimizing HIV care, community initiatives to support vaccine uptake amongst LGBTQIA+ individuals at risk for Mpox, and an ongoing research project to utilize electronic health records and machine learning to identify those at highest risk for HIV acquisition.
Outside of work, he is an avid traveler. If not already on a trip, he and his partner, Michael, are planning their next one. An amateur writer, he has had several essays published in peer-reviewed journals describing unique aspects of medical training and the bond between patients and physicians.