Despina Contopoulos-Ioannidis, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases

Clinical Focus

Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Congenital Infections
Prenatal Screening for Congenital Infections with Point-of-Care Tests
Toxoplasmosis-Congenital Toxoplasmosis
Antimicrobial Stewardship
General Pediatrics
Antibiotics and Weight Gain
Outcomes Research
Methodology of Pediatric Clinical Research
Evidence Based Medicine

Academic Appointments

Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)

Administrative Appointments

Affiliated Faculty of METRICS, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) (2014 - Present)
Clinical Associate Professor, Clinician Educator Line, Stanford University School of Medicine, Dept of Pediatrics-Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford, CA (2011 - Present)
Clinical Associate Professor, Clinician Educator Line, Stanford University School of Medicine, Dept of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford, CA (2010 - 2011)

Professional Education

Board Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases (2021)
Certificate, American Board of Pediatrics-Subspecialty of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Infectious Diseases (2011)
Clinical and Research Fellowship, Children's National Medical Center and Center for Virology, Immunology and Infectious Disease, Children's Research Institute, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Med. and Health Sciences, Pediatric Infectious Diseases (1998)
Clinical and Research Fellowship, Boston City Hospital, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Boston University Sch of Med, Pediatric Infectious Diseases (1996)
Pediatric Residency (PGY2-PGY3), Boston City Hospital, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, Pediatrics (1995)
Pediatric Residency (PGY1), Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, Pediatrics (1993)
MD, University of Athens Medical School, Athens Greece, Medicine (1990)

Contact

Academic dcontop@stanford.edu

Clinical Pediatric Infectious Diseases 453 Quarry Rd Room 454C.2 Stanford CA 94304 Tel: (650) 723-6299 Fax: (650) 723-0864
Clinical Pediatric Infectious Disease 730 Welch Rd MC 5884 2nd Fl Palo Alto CA 94304 Tel: (650) 723-5682 Fax: (650) 725-8040

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Evidence based medicine, systematic reviews and meta-analysis
Congenital Infections
Congenital Toxoplasmosis
Point-Of-Care (POC) Tests for Congenital Infections: Validation of POC-tests for Toxoplasma Infections
Prenatal Screening for Congenital Infections using POC-tests
Guidelines Development for Congenital Infections
Improving Laboratory Diagnosis of Congenital Toxoplasmosis
Family outbreaks of acute toxoplasmosis in the US
Outcomes research (Patient safety)
Antimicrobial Stewardship
Early Life Antibiotic Use and Weight Gain: a 10 year retrospective cohort study
Comparative effectiveness and Comparative safety of medical interventions in diverse patient populations (adults vs children), settings (less developed countries vs. more developed countries) and study designs (RCTs vs routinely collected data)
Empirical appraisal of CEA for pediatric vaccines (with and without inclusion of herd immunity assumptions)
Empirical multidomain evaluation of the life cycle of translational research for medical interventions.

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