Professional Bio
Karen C. Bloch, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine and serves as Associate Division Director for Clinical Affairs in Infectious Diseases.
She completed her Internal Medicine training at Yale-New Haven Hospital and her fellowship in Infectious Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been on faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center since 1997.
Dr. Bloch serves as Medical Director for the outpatient Infectious Diseases Clinic and the COVID Infusion Clinic. Her clinical and research interests center on encephalitis and other infections of the central nervous system, vector-borne infections, and fungal infections.
Dr. Bloch is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA). She serves on several national committees related to medical education in infectious diseases and 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. She attends on the inpatient infectious diseases consult and telemedicine services.
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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