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  • Office

    725 Welch Rd
    Palo Alto, CA 94304
    Phone+1 650-497-8000

Education & Training

  • Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University
    Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityFellowship, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 2020 - 2023
  • Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University
    Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityResidency, Pediatrics, 2017 - 2020
  • University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
    University of California, Irvine, School of MedicineClass of 2017
  • University of California, Berkeley
    University of California, BerkeleyBA, Molecular & Cell Biology- Immunology/Infectious Disease, 2006 - 2010

Certifications & Licensure

  • CA State Medical License
    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

Journal Articles

  • Vaccine-Associated Measles Encephalitis in Immunocompromised Child, California, USA  
    Cristina 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 Children  
    Kushner 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 Testing  
    Altamirano 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 Patients
    Kushner 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 Children
    Kushner 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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Other Languages

  • Spanish