Professional Bio
Karen C. Bloch, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Division Director for Clinical Affairs in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Bloch is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA), and serves on several national committees related to medical education in infectious diseases. She is a four-time recipient of the William Schaffner Teaching Award in Infectious Diseases and a three-time recipient of the Excellence in Patient Experience Award. Her clinical and research interests center on encephalitis and other infections of the central nervous system, vector-borne infections, and fungal infections. She attends on the inpatient General and Musculoskeletal ID Consult service and the telemedicine ID Consult Service.
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Education
MD - University of Virginia, 1990
Residency - Internal Medicine - Yale University, 1993
MPH - Epidemiology - University of California, Berkeley, 1996
Fellowship - Epidemiology - Center for AIDS prevention, 1997
Fellowship - Infectious Diseases - University of California, San Francisco, 1997
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307