Steven Pergam
Professor, Medicine - Allergy and Infectious Dis.
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
1100 Fairview Ave. N, E4-100
Box 358080
Seattle, WA 98109-
Research Interests
Dr. Pergam’s research interests involve hospital epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, and infection prevention in immunosuppressed hosts. His research group focuses on infection prevention, resistant pathogens, antimicrobial stewardship, and on the development of novel prevention strategies for community and healthcare-associated infections in cancer and hematopoietic cell transplant patients. He has active research projects that evaluate vaccinations, water-borne pathogens, resistant bacteria, respiratory virus transmission, and fungal infections among immunocompromised hosts. He is interested in the interplay between the immune response, the microbiome, bacterial and viral infections in the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems, and their association with inflammatory complications (e.g. Graft-versus-host disease, mucositis).
Education
MD University of Nebraska, 1998
MPH Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2008
In the News
Infectious disease expert Steve Pergam shares his prescription for a safe weekend get-together
GeekWire, 04/03/2020
140 Seattle-area cancer patients may have been exposed to TB
The Seattle Times, 08/16/2016