Professional Bio
Rick LaRue, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with a focus on fungal diagnostics and a broader interest in infectious complications in solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell recipients.
After growing up in Nashville, he completed a master's of biomedical science in microbiology at East Tennessee State University, attended medical school at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He completed his residency at Brown University and completed a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. LaRue is on the clinician educator track and instructs fellows, residents, and medical students in the clinical care of transplant recipients. His primary research interest involves the validation of a new interferon-gamma release assay for the diagnosis of latent histoplasmosis infection.
Dr. LaRue also aids in the mission of the VUMC enterprise by serving as an Epic-certified physician builder where he helps create new and better ways to provide care electronically to the patients at Vanderbilt.
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Education
MS - Biomedical Scie & Microbiology - East Tennessee State University, 2004
MD - University of Memphis, 2008
Residency - Int Med - Brown University, 2011
Fellowship - Infectious Dis - Johns Hopkins University, 2014
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307