- Mycobacterium infections
Corey D. Watts, MD
Infectious Diseases
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
MacGregor Infection Medicine and Travel Program
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Infectious Disease, 2025
- Internal Medicine, 2022
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Scott J, Abers MS, Marwah HK, McCann NC, Meyerowitz EA, Richterman A, Fleming DF, Holmes EJ, Moat LE, Redepenning SG, Smith EA, Stoddart CJ, Sundaram ME, Ulrich AK, Alba C, Anderson CJ, Arpey MK, Borre E, Ladines-Lim J, Mehr AJ, Rich K, Watts C, Basta NE, Jarolimova J, Walensky RP, Dugdale CM. Updated Evidence for Covid-19, RSV, and Influenza Vaccines for 2025-2026 , N Engl J Med, 393: 2025,2221-2242
Corey Watts, Emily Blumberg, James Lee, Tamara Claridge, Maria Crespo, Judith A Anesi Impact of Inappropriately Low Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Prophylaxis Dosing on CMV Outcomes Among Lung Transplant (LT) Recipients , Open Forum Infectious Diseases: 2019
El-Jawahri A, Kim HT, Steensma DP, Cronin AM, Stone RM, Watts CD, Chen YB, Cutler CS, Soiffer RJ, Abel GA. Does quality of life impact the decision to pursue stem cell transplantation for elderly patients with advanced MDS? , Bone Marrow Transplant, 51(8): 2016,1121–1126
Abel GA, Efficace F, Buckstein RJ, Tinsley S, Jurcic JG, Martins Y, Steensma DP, Watts CD, Raza A, Lee SJ, List AF, Klaassen RJ. Prospective international validation of the Quality of Life in Myelodysplasia Scale (QUALMS) , Haematologica, 101(6): 2016,781-8
Rundell EA, Banta LM, Ward DV, Watts CD, Birren B, Esteban DJ. 16S rRNA gene survey of microbial communities in Winogradsky columns , PLoS One, 9(8): 2014,e104134
Odejide OO, Salas Coronado DY, Watts CD, Wright AA, Abel GA. End-of-life care for blood cancers: a series of focus groups with hematologic oncologists , J Oncol Pract, 10(6): 2014,e396–e403