Tamara Pozos MD/PhD

Tamara Pozos MD/PhD
Acting Instructor
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Dr. Tamara Pozos is Acting Instructor in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, at the University of Washington/Children’s Hospital in Seattle, WA. She received her MD/PhD from Stanford University in 1998, followed by pediatric residency training at the University of California from 1998-2002. She moved to Seattle for Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellowship training and joined the faculty in 2006.

Her overall research interest is the immunologic basis of the heightened susceptibility of infants and children to severe M. tuberculosis infection compared to adults. The zebrafish embryo-M. marinum system allows the in vivo study of TB pathogenesis in a genetically tractable system. Using this model, she has shown that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), especially MMP-9, are required for the earliest steps of granuloma formation and growth. Follow-up studies will investigate the role of MMPs in mammalian macrophages and mouse models of TB. Her ultimate goal is to characterize the earliest steps of tuberculosis pathogenesis to identify better diagnostic and therapeutic options for infants and children infected with TB.

Undergraduate
Carleton College, B.A., Biology, 1989

Medical School
Stanford University School of Medicine, M.D,, Ph.D. 1998

Residency
University of California, San Francisco, 1998-20002

Fellowship
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center/University of Washington, 2002-06

Pozos, T.C. and L. Ramakrishnan, New models for the study of Mycobacterium-host interactions. Curr Opin Immunol, 2004. 16(4): p. 499-505.