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Kevin Ikuta, MD, MPH

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine

I currently serve as teaching faculty for the Educators for Excellence and Foundation of Practice curricula at DGSOM. I’m also involved in medical student, resident, and fellow education in the infectious disease curriculum at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. My research interest is population health work through the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation with a focus on the global burden of sepsis and antimicrobial resistance.

I’m originally from Long Beach, CA and lived in Los Angeles until graduating from DGSOM at UCLA. I then went to New Haven followed by Seattle for medical training but always had an eye to returning to Los Angeles. Outside of DGSOM I enjoy running, seeking out great food, listening to and playing music, and spending time with my dog.


Education & Training

  • BA – Philosophy, University of Southern California
  • MD – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  • MPH – University of Washington
  • Residency – Yale University
  • Chief Residency – Yale University
  • Fellowship – University of Washington

Positions

  • Hospital Epidemiologist, VA Greater Los Angeles
  • Attending, VA Greater Los Angeles Infectious Diseases Service
  • Faculty, DGSOM Educators for Excellence
  • Research Scientist, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Teaching

  • Fellowship:
  • Inpatient/Outpatient Infectious Disease Consult Service
  • Didactic Lectures
  • Residency:
  • Infectious Disease Report
  • Inpatient Medicine Attending
  • Medical Students:
  • Educators for Excellence
  • Discovery Areas of Concentration Mentor

Current Research & Scholarly Interest

  • Medical Education, Antimicrobial Resistance, Global Burden of Disease

Publications

  • Cassini A, Fleischmann-Struzek C, Naghavi M, Reinhart K, Allegranzi B; WHO Sepsis Expert Technical Group. Future directions and priorities in sepsis epidemiology research: a call for action. Bull World Health Organ. 2021;99(5):398-401. doi:10.2471/BLT.20.276709
  • GBD 2019 Diseases and Injuries Collaborators: Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet 2020; 396(10258): 1204-1222
  • Rudd KE, Johnson SC, Agesa KM, Shackelford KA, Tsoi D, Kievlan DR, et al. Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990–2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The Lancet. 2020;395(10219):200–11.
  • Global report on the epidemiology and burden of sepsis: current evidence, identifying gaps and future directions. Geneva: World Health Organization: 2020. Available from: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/334216
  • Ikuta K, Roychoudhury P, Xie H, Mcclurkan CL, Walkiewicz M, Makhsous N, et al. Trillions and Trillions: Herpes Simplex Virus–1 Hepatitis in an Immunocompetent Adult. In Open Forum Infect Dis; 2019. Available from: http://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz465
  • Mohareb AM, Brown B, Ikuta KS, Hyle EP, Annamalai A. Vaccine completion and infectious diseases screening in a cohort of adult refugees following resettlement in the U.S.: 2013- 2015. BMC Infectious Disease 2021; 21.1: 1-7.
  • Dirac MA, Safiri S, Tsoi D, Adedoyin RA, Afshin A, Akhlaghi N, et al. The global, regional, and national burden of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020;
  • Etemadi A, Safiri S, Sepanlou SG, Ikuta K, Bisignano C, Shakeri R, et al. The global, regional, and national burden of stomach cancer in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2017. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020;5(1):42–54.
  • Kamangar F, Nasrollahzadeh D, Safiri S, Sepanlou SG, Fitzmaurice C, Ikuta KS, et al. The global, regional, and national burden of oesophageal cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020;
  • Leal LF, Cousin E, Bidinotto AB, Sganzerla D, Borges RB, Malta DC, et al. Epidemiology and burden of chronic respiratory diseases in Brazil from 1990 to 2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study. Rev Bras Epidemiol. 2020;23:e200031.

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