Associate Research Physician
Provides direct clinical care to patients at NIH Clinical Center
Education:
M.D., 1992, University of Virginia
B.A., 1987, University of Virginia
Biography
Dr. McDermott obtained a B.A. degree from the University of Virginia in 1987 and an M.D. from the University of Virginia in 1992. He trained in internal medicine at the University of Virginia Health Science Center from 1992 to 1995 and in infectious diseases at NIAID from 1995 to 1998 and is board certified in both. He began his medical research career as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar in the Bacterial Diseases Section of the NIAID Laboratory of Clinical Investigation in 1989 and returned to the NIH in 1995 as a clinical associate and continued as a research fellow. He became an assistant research physician in 2005 and was promoted to associate research physician in 2019. He has received 3 NIAID Merit Awards and 2 Bench-to-Bedside Awards for his research which has resulted in more than 75 publications with over 5000 citations.