Karen Bloch is an Infectious Disease physician affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center. OpenAlex indexes 127 publications with 6,210 citations (h-index 33).
Overview
Scholarship
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Total citations across indexed works.
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Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
3601 Tvc
Nashville, TN 372320001
Telephone
615-322-3000Provider last certified this registry record 22 Mar 2022.
Industry payments
1 company reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Insmed, Inc.Program year20221 payment
- Insmed, Inc.Program year20212 payments
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
Publications
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- 2025 Clinical Practice Guideline Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America on Histoplasmosis: Treatment of Asymptomatic <i>Histoplasma</i> Pulmonary Nodules (Histoplasmomas) and Mild or Moderate Acute Pulmonary Histoplasmosis in Adults, Children, and Pregnant People
Clinical Infectious Diseases
2025 - Human Dectin-1 deficiency impairs macrophage-mediated defense against phaeohyphomycosis
Journal of Clinical Investigation
2022 - Monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID‐19 in solid organ transplant recipients
Transplant Infectious Disease
2021 - Rickettsiosis subcommittee report to the tick-borne disease working group
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
2021
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