Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician
Madigan Army Medical Center
Blake Cirks, MD, is a Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician, a Major in the U.S. Army, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
He completed medical school at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine and was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He then completed his pediatric residency at the National Capital Consortium. In 2023 he completed his clinical fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the National Capital Consortium. He is board certified in Pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics.
His current clinical interests include infectious complications of critically ill children, epidemiology and management of infections as a result of combat-related injuries in children, pharmacotherapy selection, and antimicrobial stewardship. His current research interests include vaccine response in immunocompromised hosts, infections complicating traumatic blast injuries in children, and the epidemiology of invasive bacterial infections in military connected youth.