Associate Professor
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA, United States
Dr. Pouch received her M.D. from the Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine in 2007. She completed Internal Medicine internship and residency at the University of Chicago and served as a Chief Medical Resident at the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago. She then completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Columbia University Medical Center and received a Master of Science in Biostatistics from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Pouch joined the faculty of Emory University School of Medicine in 2017, where she serves as the Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases. She is also Associate Medical Director of LifeLink of Georgia. Her clinical and research interests include donor evaluation and management, donor-derived infections, and the epidemiology and management of multidrug-resistant organisms in solid organ transplantation, including their impact on patient and graft outcomes. She currently serves as Chair of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Disease Transmission Advisory Committee, Co-Chair of the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice’s Donor Evaluation and Management Working Group, and Medical Advisor-Elect to the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations. She is also a North American Councilor for the Transplant Infectious Diseases Section of the Transplantation Society, a member of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH), an Associate Editor of the Transplant Infectious Disease Journal, and is a previous Chair of the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation’s Infectious Diseases Professional Community.
Disclosure(s): Wiley (Blackwell): Associate Editor, TID Journal
106 - To Transplant or Not – Should I Take This Donor?
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