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
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
Carlos A. Q. Santos, MD was born and raised in Manila, the Philippines. He graduated from the University of the Philippines in 2002, and completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in 2007. He completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Washington University in St. Louis in 2009, and served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Washington University until 2015. Santos is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Rush University Medical Center where he is also an Associate Professor at the Graduate College, and the medical director for the Rush Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core.
Class Valedictorian, University of the Philippines College of Medicine, 2002
Teaching and Service Award, Rush University Medical Center, 2007
KL2 Career Development Award, Washington University School of Medicine, 2013