Penn Medicine Provider
Todd Barton, MD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
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About me

  • Professor of Clinical Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

Todd D. Barton, M.D., is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.  He was raised in St. Louis, where he warmed the bench on varsity sports teams, did a bit better on the chess team, and began a life-long commitment to the 11-time World Champion St. Louis Cardinals.  Todd attended Swarthmore College where he met his future wife, won an intramural volleyball championship, called radio play-by-play for the school’s football and basketball teams, and was president of the Movie Committee.  He also occasionally studied synthetic organic chemistry and English literature, especially Shakespeare and his contemporaries.  Todd subsequently went to the University of Rochester School of Medicine, where he led an AIDS education task force.  During medical school, Todd took a year out and worked at Penn in the ID division, working predominantly in the Immunodeficiency Program and with the oncology ID service.  After medical school graduation, Todd returned to Penn for internship, residency, chief residency, fellowship, and a faculty career now lasting over 20 years.  He has won several teaching awards from medical students, residents, and fellows, and spent 20 years as either an Associate Program Director or eventually Program Director of the internal medicine residency program.  Todd was recently (2024) elected to the Gold Humanism Society by Penn medical students.  His wife, Maryl Kreider, is the Program Director of the pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at Penn.  Todd has two children in graduate school, a commitment to regular exercise limited by a balky left knee, and a now 10-year engagement with local community theaters which provides much more joy than the exercise.

Recognized by Best Doctors in America 2007 - 2012, 2015 - 2018

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
Dr. Barton is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Volkman KM, Barton TD, Colby K, Goldberger ZD, White AA Stranger than fiction , J Hospital Med, 10(5): 2015,314-17

Longworth SA, Blumberg EA, Barton TD, Vinnard C Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections after solid organ transplantation: a survival analysis , Clin Microbiol Infect, 21(1): 2015,43-7

Longworth SA, Vinnard C, Lee I, Sims KD, Barton TD, Blumberg EA Risk factors for nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in solid organ transplant recipients: a case control study , Transpl Infect Dis, 16(1): 2014,76-83

Blyth D, Lee I, Sims KD, Gasink LB, Barton TD Risk factors and clinical outcomes of cytomegalovirus disease occurring more than one year post solid organ transplantation , Transpl Infect Dis, 14(2): 2012,149-55

Mascitti KB, Gerber JS, Zaoutis TE, Barton TD, Lautenbach E Preferred treatment and prevention strategies for recurrent community-associated methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus skin and soft-tissue infections: a survey of adult and pediatric providers , Am J Infect Control, 38(4): 2010,324-8

Vinnard C, Barton TD, Jerud E, Blumberg EA A report of HHV-6 associated encephalitis in a solid organ transplant recipient and a review of previously published cases , Liver Transpl, 15(10): 2009,1242-6

Shiley KT, Gasink LB, Barton TD, Pfeiffenberger P, Olthoff KM, Blumberg EA Increased incidence of cytomegalovirus infection in high-risk liver transplant recipients receiving valganciclovir prophylaxis versus ganciclovir prophylaxis , Liver Transpl, 15(8): 2009,963-7

Linkin DR, Fishman NO, Landis JR, Barton TD, Gluckman S, Kostman J, Metlay JP Effect of communication errors during calls to an antimicrobial stewardship program , Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 28(12): 2007 ,1374-81

Barton TD, Blumberg EA, Doyle A, Ahya VN, Ferrenberg JM, Brozena SC, Limaye AP A prospective cross-sectional study of BK virus infection in non-renal solid organ transplant recipients with chronic renal dysfunction , Transpl Infect Dis, 8(2): 2006,102-7

Sims KD, Barton TD Group B streptococcal toxic shock syndrome in an asplenic patient: case report and literature review , Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, 25(3): 2006,208-10