Medical Director
Karius
Dr. Sarah Park is a seasoned, innovative infectious disease clinician and public health leader with over two decades experience caring for neonates to young adults with congenital, acquired, or opportunistic infections as well as leading and enhancing disease mitigation efforts (including outbreak and pandemic response, disease surveillance, vaccination initiatives, public health data exchange, and overall infection control capacity) as the State Epidemiologist in Hawaii. She has served on several national committees and executive boards, including as President of the Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologist. Additionally, she has served as a clinician and public health expert on national and local working groups focused on establishing guidelines and recommendations for vaccines or disease response. She has provided talks locally and nationally on many infectious disease and public health related topics. She is enthusiastic about continuing to protect the public’s health through her work as part of the highly motivated Medical Affairs team at Karius.
Dr. Park’s previous training includes being a former CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer; her work focused on bacterial respiratory diseases, West Nile Virus, MRSA/VRSA, and SARS. She has worked internationally with the WHO and CDC on polio elimination, vaccine preventable disease surveillance and program assessment, and epidemic disease investigation/response. She completed her undergraduate education at MIT, her medical education at the Boston University School of Medicine, her pediatrics residency at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, and her pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at UCSF.
Dr. Park’s interests include respiratory diseases, emerging infections, vaccines, and antimicrobial resistance as well as distance running and outrigger paddling. She continues to practice clinically, occasionally covering the pediatric infectious diseases inpatient service at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, HI, and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine.