- Transplant infectious disease
Emily A. Blumberg, MD
she/her
Infectious Diseases
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
MacGregor Infection Medicine and Travel Program
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Program Director, Infectious Disease Fellowship
- Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases
- Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Professor of Medicine in Radiation Oncology
My education and training
- Medical School: New York University Medical Center
- Residency: University of Chicago Medical Center
- Fellowship: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Spoken languages
English
English
Español
Spanish
Reviews
89 reviews
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Insurance accepted
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- 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, 1986
- Internal Medicine, 1984
- American College of Physicians, National
- American Society for Microbiology, National
- American Society of Transplantation, National
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, National
- International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, International
- Member, Data Safety Monitoring Board, Trial Net (NIH), National
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2011 through 2025
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Knox JJ, Lee I, Blumberg EA, Rosenfeld AM, Meng W, Liu F, Kearns C, O'Doherty U, Shaked A, Olthoff KM, Luning Prak ET. B-Cell Subset Representation Predicts SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Response in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients , J Infect Dis, 232: 2025,e466-e475
Potluri VS, Schaubel DE, Blumberg EA, Morford H, Reese PP, Puttarajappa CM. High variability in the reported prevalence of EBV-seronegative status among US kidney transplant recipients , Am J Transplant: 2025
Courtwright AM, Prenner S, Doyon JB, Claridge T, Blumberg E, Bermudez CA, Crespo MM. Lessons From the Utilization of Hepatitis B Virus Nucleic Acid Test Positive Donors for Hepatitis B Vaccinated Lung Transplant Candidates (INHIBITOR) Study , Transpl Infect Dis: 2025
Blumberg EA, Witzke O, Harber M, Ison MG, Saliba F, Kamar N, Sundberg AK, Gu J, Kumar D, La Hoz RM. Maribavir for refractory cytomegalovirus infection (with or without resistance) in solid organ transplant recipients: Subgroup analysis of the phase 3 randomized SOLSTICE study , J Heart Lung Transplant: 2025
Freercks R, Rodrigues M, Manning K, Heymann J, Kopp JB, Nagiah S, Rana M, Florman S, Friedman-Moraco R, Stock P, Gilbert A, Mehta S, Stosor V, Pereira MR, Morris MI, Hand J, Haidar G, Malinis M, Santos CAQ, Schaenman J, Blumberg EA, Wojciechowski D, Odim J, Massie A, Selvan MT, Bagnasco S, Segev D, Tobian AA, Muller E, Durand CM, Redd AD. APOL1 genotype and patient outcomes in US and South African transplant recipients with HIV who received kidneys from donors with HIV , medRxiv: 2025
Potluri VS, Goldberg D, Zhang S, Schaubel DE, Molnar MZ, Forbes R, Sise ME, Rogers JL, Balaraman V, Bhalla A, Shaffer D, Concepcion BP, Chung RT, Strohbehn IA, Mapchan S, Vujjini V, Sangadi A, Martin E, Bloom RD, Ammazzalorso A, Blumberg EA, Reese PP. Risk of cytomegalovirus viremia following transplantation of Hepatitis C-viremic donor kidneys into uninfected recipients: A multi-center retrospective cohort study. , Transplant Infect Dis., 27: 2025,e70011
Potluri VS, Zhang S, Schaubel DE, Shaikhouni S, Blumberg EA, Nasta SD, Bloom RD, Cruz-Peralta M, Mehta RB, Lavu NR, Getachew B, Tandukar S, Reese PP, Puttarajappa CM. The association of Epstein-Barr virus donor and recipient serostatus with outcomes after kidney transplantation: A retrospective cohort study. Ann Intern Med , Annals of Internal Medicine, 178: 2025,157-166.
He KD, Nguyen L, Norris M, Malat G, Witek S, Sammons C, Forte A, Claridge T, Clark JT, Blumberg E. Alternative Pneumocystis Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Solid Organ Transplants , Transpl Infect Dis: 2025
Greenwald MA, Ezzeldin H, Blumberg EA, Whitaker BI, Forshee RA Real-world data to improve organ and tissue donation policies: lessons learned from the tissue and organ donation epidemiology study , Health Res Policy Syst, 22: 2024
Moore K, Lautenbach E, Blumberg EA, Han J, Lee DH, Clauss H, Hasz R, Bilker WB, Molnar E, Alimenti D, West S, Tolomeo P, Anesi JA. Impact of deceased organ donor marijuana use on donor culture positivity and solid organ transplant recipient outcomes , Am J Transplant: 2024