Associate Professor
Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Pouch received her MD from Temple University School of Medicine in 2007. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago, served as a chief resident at the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, and completed fellowship training in infectious diseases at Columbia University Medical Center. While at Columbia, Dr. Pouch obtained a Master of Science in Biostatistics at the Mailman School of Public Health. She joined the faculty of the Emory University Division of Infectious Diseases in 2017.
Dr. Pouch’s clinical and research interests relate to infectious complications of solid organ and stem cell transplantation, with a primary research emphasis on donor-derived infections and multidrug-resistant organisms in transplant recipients. She is currently the Vice Chair of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing Ad hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee and is an active member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Society of Transplantation, where she serves as Co-Chair of the Infectious Disease Community of Practice’s Donor Evaluation Workgroup, the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation, and The Transplantation Society.