Stephanie Pouch, MD, MS, FAST, named Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases

We are pleased to announce that Stephanie Pouch, MD, MS, FAST, was named Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases on July 1, 2023.  She is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the division of Infectious Diseases, and she has been serving as Associate Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases and Director of Cardiothoracic Transplant Infectious Diseases since 2022.  She is taking over for G. Marshall Lyon, MD, who has served as Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases since 2007.

Dr. Pouch received her MD from Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine, completed Internal Medicine training at the University of Chicago, and served as a Chief Medical Resident at the John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County in Chicago.  She then completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Columbia University Medical Center and received a Master of Science in Biostatistics from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.  Dr. Pouch joined the faculty of Emory University School of Medicine in 2017 after being on faculty at Ohio State University for three years.

Her clinical and research interests include donor-derived infections and the epidemiology and management of multidrug-resistant organisms in solid organ transplantation, including the impact on patient and graft outcomes.  She currently serves as Associate Medical Director of LifeLink of Georgia. She also serves as Vice Chair of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Disease Transmission Advisory Committee, Chair of the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation’s Infectious Diseases Professional Community, and Co-Chair of the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice’s Donor Evaluation and Management Working Group, and she is a North American Councilor for the Transplant Infectious Diseases Section of the Transplantation Society. Dr. Pouch is a nationally recognized leader in Transplant Infectious Diseases.

Under her leadership, we expect to continue providing the highest level of transplant infectious diseases care and service and expand related clinical research. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Pouch for this well-deserved appointment.

Dr. Lyon will continue to provide outstanding Transplant ID care and guidance and remain at the forefront of related clinical trials and clinical research. We are grateful for his sixteen years of leadership in expanding our Transplant ID activities and mentoring faculty and fellows and expect to continue to benefit from his valuable service.