Dr. Jonathan Hand earned his medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, and completed his internship, residency, and infectious diseases fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at The University of Queensland School of Medicine Ochsner Clinical School.
Dr. Hand specializes in the treatment of infections in immunocompromised patients who anticipate or undergo solid organ or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation as well as patients treated with other immunosuppressive therapies. He is a member of the American Society of Transplantation and has served on the executive committee of the Infectious Diseases community of practice. He is also a member of The Transplantation Society, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Dr. Hand is the Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and the Transplant Infectious Diseases Program at Ochsner Medical Center. He also serves as the Associate Medical Director of the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency and co-chair of their advisory board. His practice and research interests include infectious complications of transplant recipients and antimicrobial stewardship.
Medical Education
Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans
Field of Study: medical school
Residency
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Field of Study: Internal Medicine
Fellowship
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Field of Study: Infectious Disease
- American Board of Internal Medicine
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