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Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellow
National Capital Consortium, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Blake Cirks, MD, is a Captain in the U.S. Army, a 3rd year clinical fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the National Capital Consortium, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
He completed medical school at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine and was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He then completed his pediatric residency at the National Capital Consortium and was awarded the Department of Defense Joint Service Achievement Medal. He is board certified in Pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics. Prior to medical school, he served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army and has two previous deployments as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
His current clinical interests include infectious complications of critically ill children, epidemiology and management of infections as a result of combat-related injuries in children, pharmacotherapy selection, and antimicrobial stewardship. His current research interests include vaccine response in immunocompromised hosts, infections complicating traumatic blast injuries in children, and the epidemiology of invasive bacterial infections in military connected youth.