American physician and academic administrator
Emily A. Blumberg is an American physician and academic administrator specializing in infectious diseases. She is a professor of medicine and director of transplant infectious disease at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Life
Blumberg earned an A.B. in history from Princeton University in 1977.[1] She completed an M.D. from New York University in 1981.[1] At the University of Chicago Hospital, she completed an internship from 1981 to 1982 and a residency from 1982 to 1984.[2] At the Montefiore Medical Center, she was a clinical fellow from 1984 to 1985 and research fellow from 1985 to 1987, both in infectious diseases.[2]
Blumberg researches infections in transplant recipients, transplantation in HIV infected patients, and antiviral therapies in transplant recipients.[2] She worked at Drexel University College of Medicine.[3] In 1999, she joined the University of Pennsylvania.[3] She is a professor of medicine specializing in infectious diseases at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.[2] She has served as an attending physician, the director of transplant infectious diseases since 1999, and the program director of the infectious diseases fellowship since 2005.[2][3] She was president of the American Society of Transplantation from 2019 to 2020.[3]
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