{"id":2054,"date":"2026-02-04T15:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/?page_id=2054"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:36:10","slug":"kevin-ikuta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/faculty-staff\/kevin-ikuta\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Ikuta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f66f9956 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/blank-profile.png\" alt=\"Blank profile picture\" class=\"wp-image-2202\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:240px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/blank-profile.png 544w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/blank-profile-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/blank-profile-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/blank-profile-375x375.png 375w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/blank-profile-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-fe9cc265 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kevin Ikuta<\/h2>\n<p><em>Affiliate Assistant Professor<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kevin Ikuta, MD, MPH, is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. He is a clinical infectious diseases physician and assistant professor at the University of California Los Angeles and the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Hospital, where he attends on the infectious diseases service and is the hospital epidemiologist. Dr Ikuta joined IHME in 2018 and the focus of his work is estimating the global burden of antimicrobial resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ikuta studied at the University of Southern California where he received a BA in Philosophy, Biology, and Chemistry. He received his MD from the University of California Los Angeles and his MPH from the University of Washington. He completed internship, medical residency, and chief residency at Yale New Haven Hospital and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Ikuta Affiliate Assistant Professor Kevin Ikuta, MD, MPH, is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. He is a clinical infectious diseases physician and assistant professor at the University of California Los Angeles and the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Hospital, where he attends on the infectious diseases service and is the hospital epidemiologist. Dr Ikuta joined IHME in 2018 and the focus of his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":1999,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-no-title.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2054","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2054\/revisions\/2465"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/healthms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}