Anne J. Blaschke
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Anne J. Blaschke, MD, PhD, FAAP, FPIDS, FIDSA

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

Primary Location

Eccles Primary Children's Outpatient Services

81 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City , UT 84113
801-213-3599
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Dr. Blaschke completed her medical degree at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency and fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Hospital. She is currently a Professor and Division Chief for the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah. She is also the Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Blaschke´s clinical interests include general infectious diseases and serious bacterial infections including streptococcal and staphylococcal infections Dr. Blaschke´s research interests include the development of rapid diagnostic testing to improve the management of bacterial and viral infections in children, and comparative bacterial genomics to discover factors that lead to severe invasive infection.

Specialties

Board Certification

American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)
American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Infectious Diseases)

Dr. Blaschke completed her medical degree at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency and fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Hospital. She is currently a Professor and Division Chief for the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah. She is also the Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Blaschke´s clinical interests include general infectious diseases and serious bacterial infections including streptococcal and staphylococcal infections Dr. Blaschke´s research interests include the development of rapid diagnostic testing to improve the management of bacterial and viral infections in children, and comparative bacterial genomics to discover factors that lead to severe invasive infection.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pediatrics -Professor
Academic Divisions Infectious Diseases
Board Certification
American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)
American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Infectious Diseases)

Education history

Fellowship Pediatric Infectious Diseases - University of Utah School of Medicine Fellow
Fellowship Pediatric Infectious Diseases - Boston Medical Center Fellow
Residency Pediatrics - University of Utah School of Medicine Resident
Internship Pediatrics - University of Utah School of Medicine Intern
Doctoral Training Biology - University of California - San Diego Ph.D.
Professional Medical Medicine - University of California - San Diego School of Medicine M.D.
Undergraduate Biology - Brown University A.B.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Lindsey LM, Pershing NL, Dufault-Thompson K, Gwak HJ, Habib A, Schindler A, Rakheja A, Round J, Stephens WZ, Blaschke AJ, Sundar H, Jiang X (2026). LAMBDA: A Prophage Detection Benchmark for Genomic Language Models. bioRxiv.
  2. Cotter JM, Hall M, Hersh AL, Shapiro DJ, Lipsett SC, Gerber JS, Cogen JD, Brogan TV, Blaschke AJ, Ambroggio L, Neuman MI (2026). Differences in antibiotic treatment for children hospitalized with pneumonia. J Hosp Med, 21(7), 749-757.
  3. Lindsey LM, Pershing NL, Habib A, Dufault-Thompson K, Stephens WZ, Blaschke AJ, Jiang X, Sundar H (2024). The impact of tokenizer selection in genomic language models. Bioinformatics, 41(9).
  4. Lindsey LM, Pershing NL, Habib A, Dufault-Thompson K, Stephens WZ, Blaschke AJ, Jiang X, Sundar H (2025). The Impact of Tokenizer Selection in Genomic Language Models. bioRxiv.
  5. Arrieta AC, Osborne S, Grant LR, Gessner BD, Blaschke AJ, Hulten KG, Nieves DJ, Miller A, Bender C, Isturiz R, Alexander R, Nielsen SM, Lamberth LB, Cane A, Arguedas A (2025). Parapneumonic Empyema Complicating Community-acquired Pneumonia: Etiology in the Era of Pneumococcal Vaccination and Role of Molecular Diagnosis. Pediatr Infect Dis J.
  6. Shapiro DJ, Hall M, Neuman MI, Hersh AL, Cotter JM, Cogen JD, Brogan TV, Ambroggio L, Blaschke AJ, Lipsett SC, Gerber JS, Florin TA (2024). Outpatient Antibiotic Use and Treatment Failure Among Children With Pneumonia. JAMA Netw Open, 7(10), e2441821.
  7. Cotter JM, Hall M, Neuman MI, Blaschke AJ, Brogan TV, Cogen JD, Gerber JS, Hersh AL, Lipsett SC, Shapiro DJ, Ambroggio L (2024). Antibiotic route and outcomes for children hospitalized with pneumonia. J Hosp Med, 19(8), 693-701.
  8. Cadotte N, Moore H, Stone BL, Pershing NL, Ampofo K, Ou Z, Pavia AT, Blaschke AJ, Flaherty B, Crandall H (2023). Prevalence of and Risks for Bacterial Infections in Hospitalized Children With Bronchiolitis. Hosp Pediatr, 14(8), 603-611.
  9. Ambroggio L, Cotter J, Hall M, Shapiro DJ, Lipsett SC, Hersh AL, Shah SS, Brogan TV, Gerber JS, Williams DJ, Blaschke AJ, Cogen JD, Neuman MI (2023). Management of Pediatric Pneumonia: A Decade After the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America Guideline. Clin Infect Dis, 77(11), 1604-1611.
  10. Cogen JD, Hall M, Faino AV, Ambroggio L, Blaschke AJ, Brogan TV, Cotter JM, Gibson RL, Grijalva CG, Hersh AL, Lipsett SC, Shah SS, Shapiro DJ, Neuman MI, Gerber JS (2022). Antibiotics and outcomes of CF pulmonary exacerbations in children infected with MRSA and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Cyst Fibros, 22(2), 313-319.
  11. Varghese A, Blaschke AJ, Korgenski EK, Crandall H (2022). Neonatal Early-Onset Sepsis Due to Haemophilus Influenzae in Utah. Pediatr Infect Dis J, 42(3), e90-e92.
  12. Shapiro DJ, Thurm CW, Hall M, Lipsett SC, Hersh AL, Ambroggio L, Shah SS, Brogan TV, Gerber JS, Grijalva CG, Blaschke AJ, Cogen JD, Neuman MI (2022). Respiratory virus testing and clinical outcomes among children hospitalized with pneumonia. J Hosp Med, 17(9), 693-701.
  13. Shapiro DJ, Hall M, Lipsett SC, Hersh AL, Ambroggio L, Shah SS, Brogan TV, Gerber JS, Williams DJ, Grijalva CG, Blaschke AJ, Neuman MI (2021). Short- Versus Prolonged-Duration Antibiotics for Outpatient Pneumonia in Children. J Pediatr, 234, 205-211.e1.
  14. Desai S, Hall M, Lipsett SC, Shah SS, Brogan TV, Hersh AL, Williams DJ, Grijalva CG, Gerber JS, Blaschke AJ, Neuman MI, Ambroggio L (2021). Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Testing and Treatment Among Children With Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Hosp Pediatr, 11(7), 760-763.
  15. Rostad CA, Kanwar N, Yi J, Morris CR, Bard JD, Leber A, Dunn J, Chapin KC, Blaschke AJ, Daly JA, Hueschen LA, Jones M, Ott E, Bastar J, Bourzac KM, Selvarangan R (2021). A multicenter evaluation of viral bloodstream detections in children presenting to the Emergency Department with suspected systemic infection. BMC Pediatr, 21(1), 238.
  16. Lipsett SC, Hall M, Ambroggio L, Hersh AL, Shah SS, Brogan TV, Gerber JS, Williams DJ, Grijalva CG, Blaschke AJ, Neuman MI (2020). Antibiotic Choice and Clinical Outcomes in Ambulatory Children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia. J Pediatr, 229, 207-215.e1.
  17. Crandall H, Christiansen J, Varghese AA, Russon A, Korgenski EK, Bengtson EK, Dickey M, Killpack J, Knackstedt ED, Daly JA, Ampofo K, Pavia AT, Blaschke AJ (2019). Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Serotype a Infections in Utah Children. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc, 9(6), 650-655.
  18. Crandall H, Kapusta A, Killpack J, Heyrend C, Nilsson K, Dickey M, Daly JA, Ampofo K, Pavia AT, Mulvey MA, Yandell M, Hulten KG, Blaschke AJ (2020). Clinical and molecular epidemiology of invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection in Utah children; continued dominance of MSSA over MRSA. PLoS One, 15(9), e0238991.
  19. Gladstone RA, Lo SW, Goater R, Yeats C, Taylor B, Hadfield J, Lees JA, Croucher NJ, van Tonder AJ, Bentley LJ, Quah FX, Blaschke AJ, Pershing NL, Byington CL, Balaji V, Hryniewicz W, Sigauque B, Ravikumar KL, Almeida SCG, Ochoa TJ, Ho PL, du Plessis M, Ndlangisa KM, Cornick JE, Kwambana-Adams B, Benisty R, Nzenze SA, Madhi SA, Hawkins PA, Pollard AJ, Everett DB, Antonio M, Dagan R, Klugman KP, von Gottberg A, Metcalf BJ, Li Y, Beall BW, McGee L, Breiman RF, Aanensen DM, Bentley SD, The Global Pneumococcal Sequencing Consortium (2020). Visualizing variation within Global Pneumococcal Sequence Clusters (GPSCs) and country population snapshots to contextualize pneumococcal isolates. Microb Genom, 6(5).
  20. Meyers L, Dien Bard J, Galvin B, Nawrocki J, Niesters HGM, Stellrecht KA, St George K, Daly JA, Blaschke AJ, Robinson C, Wang H, Cook CV, Hassan F, Dominguez SR, Pretty K, Naccache S, Olin KE, Althouse BM, Jones JD, Ginocchio CC, Poritz MA, Leber A, Selvarangan R (2020). Enterovirus D68 outbreak detection through a syndromic disease epidemiology network. J Clin Virol, 124, 104262.
  21. Blaschke AJ, McKevitt M, Ampofo K, Lewis T, Chai H, Guo Y, Dorsch J, Vanderhoof E, Rosen P, Freimann V, Korgenski EK, Toback S, Chien JW (2018). Midturbinate Swabs Are Comparable to Nasopharyngeal Swabs for Quantitative Detection of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Infants. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc, 8(6), 554-558.
  22. Lipsett SC, Hall M, Ambroggio L, Desai S, Shah SS, Brogan TV, Hersh AL, Williams DJ, Grijalva CG, Gerber JS, Blaschke AJ, Neuman MI (2019). Predictors of Bacteremia in Children Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Hosp Pediatr, 9(10), 770-778.
  23. Delgado-Corcoran C, Blaschke AJ, Ou Z, Presson AP, Burch PT, Pribble CG, Menon SC (2018). Respiratory Testing and Hospital Outcomes in Asymptomatic Infants Undergoing Heart Surgery. Pediatr Cardiol, 40(2), 339-348.
  24. Blaschke AJ (2018). Association of bacterial coinfections in febrile infants with viral infections. J Pediatr, 204, 320-323.
  25. Blaschke AJ, Holmberg KM, Daly JA, Leber AL, Dien Bard J, Korgenski EK, Bourzac KM, Kanack KJ (2018). Retrospective Evaluation of Infants Aged 1 to 60 Days with Residual Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Tested Using the FilmArray Meningitis/Encephalitis (ME) Panel. J Clin Microbiol, 56(7).
  26. Schlaberg R, Ampofo K, Tardif KD, Stockmann C, Simmon KE, Hymas W, Flygare S, Kennedy B, Blaschke A, Eilbeck K, Yandell M, McCullers JA, Williams DJ, Edwards K, Arnold SR, Bramley A, Jain S, Pavia AT (2017). Human Bocavirus Capsid Messenger RNA Detection in Children With Pneumonia. J Infect Dis, 216(6), 688-696.
  27. Flygare S, Simmon K, Miller C, Qiao Y, Kennedy B, Di Sera T, Graf EH, Tardif KD, Kapusta A, Rynearson S, Stockmann C, Queen K, Tong S, Voelkerding KV, Blaschke A, Byington CL, Jain S, Pavia A, Ampofo K, Eilbeck K, Marth G, Yandell M, Schlaberg R (2016). Taxonomer: an interactive metagenomics analysis portal for universal pathogen detection and host mRNA expression profiling. Genome Biol, 17(1), 111.
  28. Petti CA, Simmon KE, Bender J, Blaschke A, Webster KA, Conneely MF, Schreckenberger PC, Origitano TC, Challapalli M (2008). Culture-Negative intracerebral abscesses in children and adolescents from Streptococcus anginosus group infection: a case series. Clin Infect Dis, 46(10), 1578-80.

Video/Film/CD/Web/Podcast

  1. Blashke, AJ (2018). Interviewed regarding Pediatrics 2018 publication about rhinovirus detection in febrile infants [Podcast]. Pediatrics Review and Perspectives (Peds RAP); 10,000 monthly listeners (CME)Taped Interview by Solomon Behar, MD (UCLA) and Ilene Claudius (USC).
  2. Blaschke AJ (2018). Interviewed regarding Pediatrics 2018 publication about rhinovirus detection in febrile infants [Podcast]. Doctor Radio, SiriusXM, Channel 110; Live Interview with Host Mikhail Kazachkov, MD (NYU). Available: www.siriusxm.com/doctorradio.

Patent

  1. Poritz MA, Blaschke AJ, Inventors (2017). University of Utah/Idaho Technology, Inc., assignee. Organism Identification Panel. Related continuation application 15/660,609 filed 7/26/2017. U.S. Patent No. US 9,758,820 B2. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  2. Blaschke AJ, Poritz MA, Inventors (2015). University of Utah/Idaho Technology, Inc., assignee. Rapid Epidemiologic Typing of Bacteria. U.S. Patent No. US 9,200,329 B2. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  3. Blaschke AJ (2012). Invention Disclosure U-5466, Methods to Concentrate Organisms from Clinical Specimens for Molecular Detection, submitted, University of Utah.
  4. Blaschke AJ (2009). Invention Disclosures U-4224 (Bacterial Identification by Nested Multiplex PCR of Multiple Conserved Genes), U-4422 (Clinical Applications of the FilmArray) and U-4467 (Rapid Epidemiologic Typing of Bacteria) Licensed to Idaho Technology/BioFire Diagnostics, LLC. U.S. Patent No. 12/467,654. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  5. Anne Jeannette Blaschke-Bonkowsky, Mark Aaron Poritz (2008). Organism Identification Panel. U.S. Patent No. WO 2008/1220022. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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