Med-Peds ID Fellow
NIAID, NHGRI
Bethesda, MD, United States
Dr. Bennett Waxse is a Clinical Fellow in NIAID's Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Fellowship, working in NHGRI's Precision Health Informatics Section under Dr. Josh Denny. Dr. Waxse's research focuses on developing computational methods to extract research-grade phenotypes from electronic health records for infectious disease discovery.
His work has created validated computable phenotypes for respiratory viral infections that enable precise identification of cases across healthcare systems. Dr. Waxse applies these methods to investigate host-pathogen interactions through genome-wide association studies with precise pathogen exposure classification and time-bounded phenome-wide association studies. He is also studying how these phenotypes can be used to study how wearable data predicts long COVID risk.
Prior to his infectious diseases training, Dr. Waxse conducted clinical biochemistry and quantitative microscopy research at the University of Cambridge and NICHD, contributing to studies on autophagy and gap junction maintenance.
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