Our lab conducts ARI and AGE surveillance, studies vaccine responses in immunocompromised hosts, and collaborates nationally and internationally. VUMC.

Nashville, TN
Joined September 2020
Two for the price of one.....@NATBASH15
Maternal vaccination with two doses of mRNA vaccine was associated with a reduced risk of hospitalization for #COVID19, including critical illness, among infants younger than 6 mos of age. #IDTwitter nej.md/3tW3RTv
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Maternal vaccination with two doses of mRNA vaccine was associated with a reduced risk of hospitalization for #COVID19, including critical illness, among infants younger than 6 mos of age. #IDTwitter nej.md/3tW3RTv
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New editorial by Sonja A. Rasmussen, M.D., and Denise J. Jamieson, M.D., M.P.H.: Covid-19 Vaccination during Pregnancy — Two for the Price of One. nej.md/3OiJKXS
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Excited for our post-doc Ahmad!!!
Beyond excited about matching at my dream program @VUMCMedicineRes @DrJohnMcP!!! So happy and thrilled to be joining such an incredible team and staying in Nashville with @SarahAlHussein4!! Very grateful to my family, friends, and mentors @NATBASH15!
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Proud of my mentee Rana who matched in IM at Rochester! Well deserved!
Excited to join RGH IM family this summer! #match2022
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Another exciting paper from Overcoming Covid-!9 Network
New @CDCMMWR provides evidence that #COVID19 vaccination during pregnancy might help protect babies younger than 6 months old from hospitalization due to COVID-19. If you are pregnant or trying to get pregnant, get vaccinated against COVID-19. More: bit.ly/MMWR7107e3.
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So fun to be co-first author with a former VUMC Peds ID fellow - Dr. Jennifer Schuster
Proud to have contributed to this one! Thanks for the excellent leadership @NATBASH15 and Jennifer Schuster 🦠🩺🧬
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Proud of our lab to help contribute to this very important paper! Please vaccinate children and protect them from severe disease! Read the editorial, too nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
The effectiveness of the BNT162B2 vaccine in adolescents was assessed. Among 445 case patients and 777 controls, of the 180 patients admitted to an ICU, only 2 had been fully vaccinated; all 7 deaths occurred in unvaccinated patients. #COVID19Vaccines nej.md/3t7rGID
iopscience.iop.org/article/1… Interesting study - that when reviewers were blinded to the PI, more women were funded.... "biases can be mitigated if they are recognized as likely to be present even in what may seem to be objective processes."
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Proud of the team!
Data on humoral and cellular immune responses to the SARS‐CoV‐2 BNT162b2 vaccine among a cohort of solid organ transplant recipients and healthy controls from @ahmadyanis3 @NATBASH15 and colleagues @VUMChealth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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The authors conclude that a third-dose booster of mRNA-1273 vaccine should be considered for transplant recipients. nej.md/3fPobPx
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Vanderbilt to require COVID-19 vaccines for ALL employees trib.al/1bDZKqs
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My colleague John!
“In a common year, somewhere around 200-300 children die of influenza in U.S. So more have already died from Covid than die from influenza in a typical year. This is serious business, people.” --Dr. John Williams, an Infectious Diseases Division Chief at UPMC Children’s Hospital.
Proud of our colleagues
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“Happy #STEMDay! We are proud to work alongside STEM professionals dedicated to seeing a safer, healthier world and inspire future generations to pursue careers in #STEM.”
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