Carlos A. Q. Santos, MD

Education

MD, University of the Philippines
Residency, Rush University Medical Center
Chief Residency, Rush University Medical Center
Fellowship, Washington University School of Medicine
MPHS, Washington University School of Medicine

Research Areas

Carlos Santos, MD, MPHS is a Transplant Infectious Disease Physician and Population Health Scientist. His dual research career missions are to perform epidemiologic and outcomes research that can help optimize infectious disease management in solid organ and stem cell transplant recipients, and build infrastructure, applications and educational programs that will enable informatics and population health science research at Rush University. He had an intramural KL2 Career Development Award at Washington University where he developed expertise in using large observational data for research, pharmacoepidemiology and public health informatics. He uses these skills to conduct outcomes and pharmacoepidemiologic research in transplant infectious diseases using large administrative datasets, and participates in projects that enable electronic reporting of antimicrobial use, antimicrobial resistance, and patient safety events to public health agencies such as the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). He is currently the medical director for the Rush Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core, the site Informatics Lead for the University of Chicago/Rush Institute for Translational Medicine, and the Course Director for Informatics at the Rush Graduate College. He is serving a three-year term in the AHRQ Healthcare Safety and Quality Improvement Research (HSQR) Study Section as a standing member from 2020 to 2023.

Areas of Expertise:

Transplant infectious disease, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, comparative effectiveness research, use of large administrative data for research, medical informatics