Blake Cirks MD

Education

2011: University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Biological Sciences
2017: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD DOCTOR OF MEDICINE
2020: National Capital Consortium, Bethesda, MD Pediatric Residency
2023: National Capital Consortium, Bethesda, MD Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellow

Biography

Blake Cirks, MD is a Major in the U.S. Army, a board certified attending physician in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Madigan Army Medical Center (MAMC), and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago for his undergraduate training in Biologic Sciences. He received his Doctorate of Medicine at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at the National Capital Consortium. Following completion of residency, he was selected for a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the National Capital Consortium, which was completed in 2023. He is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases by the American Board of Pediatrics. Prior to medical school, he was a Staff Sergeant and Psychological Operations Specialist in the U.S. Army and has two previous operational deployments as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
His clinical interests include infectious complications of critically ill children, epidemiology and management of infections as a result of combat-related injuries in children, pharmacotherapy selection, and antimicrobial stewardship. His current research interests include vaccine response in immunocompromised hosts, infections complicating traumatic blast injuries in children, and the epidemiology of invasive bacterial infections in military connected youth.

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