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Office
725 Welch Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304Phone+1 650-497-8000
Education & Training
- Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityFellowship, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 2020 - 2023
- Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityResidency, Pediatrics, 2017 - 2020
- University of California, Irvine, School of MedicineClass of 2017
- University of California, BerkeleyBA, Molecular & Cell Biology- Immunology/Infectious Disease, 2006 - 2010
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 2018 - 2026
- American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
- American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- IDWeek Trainee Abstract Travel Award IDSA, 2022
- Outpatient Teaching Fellow of the Year Award Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) Pediatrics Residency Program, 2021
- Tashia and John Morgridge Endowed Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute, 2021
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 4 citationsSuccessful nasoenteric administration of glecaprevir/pibrentasvir for donor-derived hepatitis C in two young adult heart transplant recipients at a pediatric transplan...Lauren E Kushner, Lauren Puckett, Joanne Lee, Torsten Joerger, Sharon F Chen
Pediatric Transplantation. 2022-11-01 - 23 citations"For COVID" or "With COVID": Classification of SARS-CoV-2 Hospitalizations in Children.Lauren E. Kushner, Alan R. Schroeder, Joseph Kim, Roshni Mathew
Hospital Pediatrics. 2021-08-01 - 40 citationsAssessment of Sensitivity and Specificity of Patient-Collected Lower Nasal Specimens for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Testing.Jonathan Altamirano, Prasanthi Govindarajan, Andra L. Blomkalns, Lauren E Kushner, Bryan A. Stevens
JAMA Network Open. 2020-06-01
Journal Articles
- Vaccine-Associated Measles Encephalitis in Immunocompromised Child, California, USACristina Costales, Malaya K. Sahoo, ChunHong Huang, Carolina V. Guimaraes, Donald Born, Lauren Kushner, Hayley A. Gans, Thuy A. Doan, and Benjamin A. Pinsky, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 3/11/2022
- “For COVID” or “With COVID”: Classification of SARS-CoV-2 Hospitalizations in ChildrenKushner LE, Schroeder AR, Kim J, Mathew R, Hospital Pediatrics, 5/19/2021
- Assessment of Sensitivity and Specificity of Patient-Collected Lower Nasal Specimens for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 TestingAltamirano J, Govindarajan P, Blomkalns AL, Kushner LE, Stevens BD, Pinsky BA, Maldonado Y, JAMA Network Open, 6/12/2020
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Abstracts/Posters
- Don’t Rely on the Gram Stain: Fatal Hyperammonemia Syndrome in Two Immunocompromised Pediatric PatientsKushner LE, Schwenk H, St. Jude/PIDS Pediatric Conference: Transplant and Immunocompromised Hosts ID Symposium, Virtual (Oral Presentation), 3/3/2022
- Use of Interferon Gamma Release Assays Reduced Latent Tuberculosis Infection Diagnosis in Refugee and Immigrant ChildrenKushner LE, Qin F, Boothroyd D, Mony V, Vu DM, ID Week, Washington DC, 10/2019
- Treatment of Community Acquired Pneumonia Complicated by Empyema: Comparing Oral versus Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Treatment Modalities and Identifying Criteria ...Kushner L, Osborne S, Vora H, Nieves D, Singh J, Arrieta A, Oral Presentation at the 35th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID 2017), Madrid, Spain, 5/25/2017
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Professional Memberships
- Member
- Member
- Infectious Diseases Society of AmericaMember
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases SocietyMember
Other Languages
- Spanish
External Links
- ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-2626-316X
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