Professional Bio
Edward Iglesia, MD, MPH, is an Instructor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He joined the Department of Medicine faculty in 2021. He earned his medical degree from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed a combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at VUMC. Dr. Iglesia subsequently completed an additional residency in preventive medicine at the University of North Carolina Hospitals, during which he earned his MPH at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. His interest in food allergy prevention led him to additional clinical training in UNC Hospital's allergy/immunology fellowship and in the Duke-UNC T32 research training program in allergy and clinical immunology. Dr. Iglesia’s long-term goal is to prevent allergic disease and common chronic childhood diseases through population-level interventions. He aspires to advance public and population health approaches to allergic disease prevention, employing food allergy as a use case. Dr. Iglesia’s primary research focus is to identify facilitators and barriers to developing and implementing peanut allergy prevention strategies in public health systems using mixed method research approaches, including quantitative surveys and interviews.
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Education
MD - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2013
Internship - Internal Medicine-Pediatrics - Vanderbilt University, 2014
Residency - Internal Medicine-Pediatrics - Vanderbilt University, 2017
MPH - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018
Residency - General Preventive Medicine and Public Health - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018
Fellowship - Clinical Fellow in Allergy/Immunology - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307