Simone Blaser, MD

Simone Blaser an Infectious Disease fellow at Yale University. She is currently performing post-doctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Akiko Iwasaki in the Department of Immunobiology at Yale, where she is exploring oral host-microbe interactions in Long COVID. She completed residency in Internal Medicine at New York University. She has been published in CID, JAMA, MBio, Diagnosis, JAMA, Clinical Correlations, and Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Prior to becoming a physician, she worked in book publishing, where she was involved in developing what would become the #1 New York Times bestseller When Breath Becomes Air with the late Dr. Paul Kalanithi. Her poetry was included in a collection on New York City haiku published by The New York Times.