Fellow
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Matthew Penfold, DO, is a third-year pediatric infectious diseases fellow at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) and an associate professor of pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), both of which are located in Bethesda, MD. His undergraduate studies in biology were completed at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. He graduated from medical school in 2015 from the Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMU-DCOM) in Harrogate, TN. He completed his 3-year pediatrics residency at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) in 2018. Following residency, he was the Air Force Chief of Pediatric Residents at NMCP from 2018 to 2019. From 2019 to 2021, he was a staff general pediatrician at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, VA, which included both inpatient and outpatient clinical duties. From 2020 to 2021, he was the pediatrics inpatient medical director, in which he was responsible for representing the pediatrics physician team to the hospital command. In the summer of 2021, he started his pediatric infectious diseases fellowship, where he has focused his scholarly work on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vaccine preventable diseases in children enrolled in the Military Health System (MHS). He has presented over 15 local and regional oral case reports, and presented 3 posters at national and international medical conferences. His quality improvement project has focused on apropriate initial vancomycin dosing in pediatric patients. Following fellowship, he anticipates an exciting career as a full-time pediatric infectious diseases clinician at a military treatment facility.