Elizabeth Doby Knackstedt, M.D.

Bio

Dr. Knackstedt received her medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine and completed her Pediatric Residency and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Utah/Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, UT. She also served as Chief Resident.

She is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Medical Center.

Dr. Knackstedt’s clinical interests include infections in immunocompromised children, such as those with cancer or who have received transplants. She is interested in quality improvement and delivering value-based care to this special population. Dr. Knackstedt is also interested in the long-term care of children with HIV.

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Academic Bio

Dr. Knackstedt received her B.A. at Wake Forest University and her medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine. She trained in pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah, and she served as Chief Resident as well.

She joined the faculty at the University of Utah in 2013 as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Knackstedt is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, The Infectious Diseases Society of America and HIV Medicine Association. She recently completed a two year appointment to the AAP’s Section on Infectious Diseases Executive Committee and will continue to serve on its Nominations Committee.

Dr. Knackstedt’s research interests include quality improvement, value-based care and outcomes research, especially as it relates to infections in immunocompromised children, such as oncology patients and solid organ and stem cell transplant recipients. She is working on program development in Infectious Diseases in Immunocompromised Hosts. She is also interested in outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy in this population as well. She has published over 15 peer-reviewed scientific articles, textbook chapters, and scientific abstracts.

Education History

Selected Provider Publications

Journal Article

1. Ames SG, Workman JK, Olson JA, Korgenski EK, Masotti S, Knackstedt ED, Bratton SL, Larsen GY (02/01/2016). Infectious Etiologies and Paient Outcomes in Pediatric Septic Shock. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc.
2. Knackstedt ED, Stockmann C, Davis CR, Thorell EA, Pavia AT, Hersh AL (Feb 2015). Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy in pediatrics: an opportunity to expand antimicrobial stewardship. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 36(2), 222-4.
3. Nelson RE, Stockmann C, Pavia AT, Korgenski K, Daly JA, Couturier MR, Ampofo K, Thorell AE, Doby EH, Robison JA, Blaschke AJ (Jun 2015). Economic analysis of rapid and sensitive polymerase chain reaction testing in the emergency department for influenza infections in children. Pediatr Infect Dis J, 34(6), 577-82.
4. Stockmann C, Constance JE, Roberts JK, Olson J, Doby EH, Ampofo K, Stiers J, Spigarelli MG, Sherwin CM (May 2014). Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antifungals in children and their clinical implications. Clin Pharmacokinet, 53(5), 429-54.
5. Doby EH, Stockmann C, Korgenski EK, Blaschke AJ, Byington CL (Sept 2013). Cerebrospinal Fluid Pleocytosis in Febrile Infants 1-90 Days with Urinary Tract Infection. Pediatr Infect Dis J, 32(9).
6. Olarte L, Ampofo K, Thorell EA, Sanderson S, Doby EH, Pavia AT, Rosado H, Raoult D, Socolovschi C, Hersh AL (May 2012`). Bartonella vinsonii endocarditis in an adolescent with congenital heart disease. Pediatr Infect Dis J, 31(2), 531-4.
7. Doby EH, Benjamin DK Jr, Blaschke AJ, Ward RM, Pavia AT, Martin PL, Driscoll TA, Cohen-Wolkowiez M, Moran C (June 2012). Therapeutic monitoring of voriconazole in children less than three years of age: a case report and summary of voriconazole concentrations for ten children. Pediatr Infect Dis J, 31(6), 632-5.
8. Blaschke AJ, Heyrend C, Byington C, Obando I, Vazquez-Barba I, Doby EH, Korgenski EK, Sheng X, Poritz MA, Daly JA, Mason EO, Pavia AT, Ampofo K (April 2011). Molecular Analysis Improves Pathogen Identification and Epidemiologic Study of Pediatric Parapneumonic Empyema. Pediatr Infect Dis J, 31(4), 289-94.
9. Kripalani S, Sharma J, Justice E, Justice J, Spiker C, Laufman LE, Price M, Weinberg AD, Jacobson TA (2007). Low-Literacy interventions to promote discussion of prostate cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Abstract, J Gen Intern Med 2004:19(S1):176. Platform presentation. Southern Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2004. Am J Prev Med, 33(2), 83-90.
10. Kripalani S, Sharma J, Justice E, Justice J, Spiker C, Laufman LE, Jacobson TA, Weinberg AD (2005). Prostate cancer screening in a low-literacy population: does informed decision making occur. Cancer Control, 12 suppl 2, 116-117.