Associate Professor
Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado
Justin Searns is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in the sections of Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Pediatric Infectious Diseases. He received degrees in physiology and philosophy from the University of Washington in 2007 and went on to receive his medical degree from Oregon Health and Sciences University in 2012. He completed both his pediatric residency and his pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at Children's Hospital Colorado, and went on to join the University of Colorado Department of Pediatrics faculty in the fall of 2018. His primary research focuses on improving the care of children hospitalized with acute musculoskeletal infections through clinical pathway implementation and rapid diagnostic development, and his research is currently supported by a K23 Career Development Award from NIAID.