Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Joanna Schaenman, MD, PhD, is a Transplant Infectious Diseases specialist and Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Schaenman earned her MD/PhD at the University of Virginia and completed her medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship at Stanford University, where she also earned an MS in Epidemiology. She is the director of the UCLA Advanced Training Program in Transplant Infectious Diseases.
Her research focuses on immune senescence and the epigenetic impact of immune suppression to understand mechanisms of vulnerability to infection in solid organ transplant recipients. She also has studied immune control of viral infections including CMV, BK virus, and COVID-19, and the contribution of physical frailty to adverse clinical outcomes after transplantation. Identifying markers of T cell dysfunction holds promise for development of approaches for customized adjustment of immune suppression.
