Professional Bio
Dr. Blair is an Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases and the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health. Dr. Blair’s research objective is to identify effective and scalable solutions to rapidly diagnose and appropriately treat severe and emerging infectious diseases in hospitalized and remote settings. With experience working with Department of Defense and international partners, he has described scrub typhus in Uganda, the clinical course and treatment of severe viral illnesses, and point-of-care ultrasound performance in diverse settings. His overall research goal is to address the striking need for tools to facilitate early patient triage and targeted treatments in low-resource and outbreak settings with current projects in the U.S., Uganda, and Peru. His publication history is listed here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/paul.blair.1/bibliography/public/
Publications
Education
MSPH - Tropical Medicine - Tulane University, 2009
MD - Wright State University, 2013
Residency - Internal Medicine - George Washington University, 2016
MHS - Clinical Investigation, - Johns Hopkins University, 2018
Fellowship - Infectious Diseases - Johns Hopkins Hospital, 2019
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307