Invited Faculty - Camille Kotton

Camille Nelson Kotton MD is the clinical director of the and Compromised Host Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. She also directs the outpatient Transplant Infectious Disease Clinic.  She graduated from the University of Chicago School of Medicine, and did internal medicine training at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania followed by an infectious diseases fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  Her clinical interests include donor-derived infections, zoonoses, and travel and tropical medicine in the transplant setting.

Since 2007 she has been the president of The Transplant Infectious Disease Section of The Transplantation Society. Highlights of her time as president include the development of international guidelines on CMV management after solid organ transplant, published in Transplantation (2010); a similar follow-up meeting was held in October 2012. She has also organized and contributed significantly to a meeting on management of tuberculosis issues in organ donors, recently published in the American Journal of Transplantation. In addition, she organized and led three international Transplant Infectious Disease meetings (Vancouver, 2010; Glasgow, 2011; Berlin, 2012), and organized an international group of experts on the topic of transplant infectious disease in composite tissue allografts, for which they are actively developing guidelines for clinical management. She is the current chair elect of The Infectious Disease Community of Practice of The American Society of Transplantation.