Assistant Clinical Investigator
Specialty(s): Infectious Disease, Pediatrics Provides direct clinical care to patients at NIH Clinical Center
Education:
M.D., The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Biography
Dr. Kalpana Manthiram obtained her M.D. at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas and completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics at the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. She went on to do her Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she worked with Dr. Kathryn Edwards to study PFAPA syndrome, the most common periodic fever syndrome in children. She obtained her Master of Science in Clinical Investigation at Vanderbilt. Following her clinical fellowship, she was a post-doctoral researcher in Dr. Daniel Kastner’s laboratory in NHGRI for 5 years where she began studying the genetics of PFAPA syndrome. In 2020, she joined NIAID as an Assistant Clinical Investigator in the Laboratory of Immune System Biology. Her mentor in Dr. Pamela Schwartzberg.