My bio
Dr. Amy Vittor is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at the University of Florida, where she studies the interface between vector-borne disease, land use and host immunity. Interested in understanding linkages between ecology and global health, she conducted her doctorate in public health in the Peruvian Amazon studying malaria and deforestation. She continued to work in global health during her medical training, treating patients with HIV and tuberculosis in Botswana, Kenya and Panama. While completing her clinical training, she studied dengue epidemiology in Kenya with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Nairobi as a Fogarty International Clinical and Research Fellow, and embarked on collaborations with public health officials in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam on dengue and climate change. Following a novel outbreak of Madariaga virus in the Darien region of Panama, she spent a year with the Gorgas Memorial Institute investigating potential animal hosts and human epidemiology. At present, she continues to study ecological and immunological drivers of arboviral emergence in the Darien region of Panama, and attends on the Infectious Diseases consultation service at Shands hospital at UF and the Malcolm Randall VA.
Dr. Vittor received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997, her PhD in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2003, her MD from Stanford University in 2007, and completed her internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and 2013, respectively. She is board certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases.
Board certifications
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Infectious Disease
American Board of Internal Medicine
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Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine
Education
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Postdoctoral Global Health Fellowship
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 2012-2013
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Clinical Research Fellow
Fogarty International, 2011-2012
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Infectious Disease Fellowship
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2009-2013
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Internal Medicine Residency
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2007-2009
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Medical Degree
Stanford University School of Medicine, 2002-2007
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PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, 1999-2003
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MHS
Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, 1997-1999
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BA
University of California, 1993-1997
My areas of focus
Specialties
Additional languages
- Spanish
- Japanese
- Dutch
Gender
Female
Accomplishments
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Member
Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society, 2020
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Awardee
NIH Loan Repayment Program Award, 2018
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Awardee
NIH Loan Repayment Program Award, 2015
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Nomination for Customer Service is Key
UF Health Shands Hospital, 2014
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Clinical Research Fellowship
Fogarty International, 2011