Varun Phadke, MD

Background

Dr. Phadke obtained his medical degree at Harvard Medical School, then completed his residency in internal medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center and his fellowship in adult infectious diseases at Emory University School of Medicine. During his fellowship he also participated in the T32-funded Emory Vaccinology Training Program – during that time he participated in multiple clinical and observational studies to explore the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases and led a sub-study of a randomized controlled trial of Tdap among pregnant women in Guatemala. Dr. Phadke now practices both general and transplant infectious diseases and is interested in the intersection of vaccines and immunocompromised hosts. As part of the Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit (VTEU) at Emory he has served as the Principal Investigator of DMID 17-0089 (a Phase I first-in-human trial of an investigational chimpanzee adenovirus-vectored rabies vaccine) and DMID 19-0015 (a mechanistic clinical trial to understand immune responses against Neisseria gonorrhoeae elicited by 4CMenB vaccination in healthy adults). Dr. Phadke is also a passionate educator, and currently serves as the Associate Program Directory of the Emory ID Fellowship Program, Medicine Clerkship Director and Microbiology Thread Director at the Emory University School of Medicine, and is Assistant Vice Chair of Education for Clinical Reasoning within the Department of Medicine. 

Professional Highlights

• Past Chair, Education Workgroup, AST ID Community of Practice, 2022-present (previously Chair 2019-2022) 

• Chair, Teaching and Learning Resources Workgroup, IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice, 2021-2023 (previously Vice-Chair 2019-2021) 
• Chair, Fellowship Education Committee, Association of Specialty Professors, Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, 2023-present (previously Co-Chair 2022-2023) 

Areas of Interest

• Transplant infectious diseases 
• Vaccines in immunocompromised hosts 
• Clinical reasoning in infectious diseases