Stanford Departments and Centers:
Med: Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology and Population Health
Person Title:
Professor
T32 affiliation:
Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Parsonnet is an Infectious Diseases epidemiologist and clinician. The Parsonnet lab works to understand how infectious agents influence the development of chronic diseases. During the COVID crisis, the lab has also been actively involved in a wide range of investigations of this disease ranging from large seroepidemiologic studies to novel treatment trials to collaborative studies on COVID immunology. Studies that could potentially take a fellow include:
- Large seroepidemiologic, longitudinal studies of COVID in the counties throughout California both before and after the initiation of vaccines. We have collected data sets that allow us to understand risk factors for breakthrough infections, how vaccination and other interventions change behavior, and the role of natural infection in building immunity.
- Studies on COVID infection, immunity and vaccination in patients receiving dialysis
- A clinical trial of camostat, a TMPPRS2 blocker, that prevents SARS-CoV2 from entering cells.
- Studies that define the normal human body temperature in children and adults
- Research on how skin care in babies varies across populations and how this influences skin integrity and development of allergic diseases later in life (with Kari Nadeau).
- Studies on the development of the pediatric virome, microbiome and immunome in the first three years of life.