Medical Team Lead, Division of TB Elimination
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, United States
Dr. Reed is an infectious disease specialist and TB subject matter expert with extensive TB clinical experience and public health training. She completed medical school at Harvard, internship at UCSF, and residency in internal medicine at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. Early in her medical school career, Caitlin took a class with Paul Farmer and was inspired to work at the boundary between public health and clinical medicine and to dedicate her career to fighting tuberculosis. Caitlin earned an MPH in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins as a Sommer Scholar and completed a thesis on TB diagnostics after completing a fellowship in infectious diseases at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She served for two years as a CDC EIS Officer assigned to Los Angeles County after earning an MPH.
Caitlin became the founding Medical Director of the Inpatient TB Unit at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in 2011. There, she led a multidisciplinary team caring for patients with severe and disseminated TB disease, TB meningitis, HIV/TB coinfection, drug-resistant TB, substance use and mental health issues, and nonadherence with TB treatment requiring legal orders. At the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, she developed a TB educational curriculum for ID fellows and medicine residents. She served as President of the National Society of TB Clinicians in 2017-2018. She joined the CDC Division of TB Elimination Field Services Branch as Medical Team Lead in 2023, where she is leading a group of six medical officers supporting all domestic TB programs.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM US PT
TB Epidemiology Overview in the US and Globally
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
8:05 AM – 8:25 AM US PT