Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Dr. Olarte is a graduate of Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at the University of Utah, where she first embarked on research into the epidemiology of pneumococcal disease in young infants. Dr. Olarte completed infectious diseases fellowship training at Texas Children’s Hospital - Baylor College of Medicine and a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation from Baylor College of Medicine before joining the staff at Children’s Mercy, Kansas City in 2017. Dr. Olarte is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.
Her research interests focus on the clinical and molecular epidemiology of pneumococcal infections in the pediatric population. She has also conducted expanded pneumococcal conjugate vaccine trials. Dr. Olarte is currently studying pneumococcal nasopharyngeal colonization in pediatric populations.