Ippolito

 

Matthew M. Ippolito D’02, MED’11 
Young Alumni



Physician, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Malaria Research Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Director of Clinical Epidemiology, Southern and Central Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research

 

 

Dr. Matthew Ippolito is a physician-scientist who has made malaria research in Zambia a primary part of his medical career. Additionally, he cares for patients at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and educates students as an assistant professor of infectious diseases and clinical pharmacology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and at the Malaria Research Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Ippolito is the director of clinical epidemiology for the Southern and Central Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR), and he has authored many papers related to malaria and the efficacy of antimalarial drugs to control the disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Matthew has conducted scholarly and humanitarian work in many countries, including Zambia, Peru, Tanzania, and Guatemala. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana and is on the editorial board of Frontiers in Malaria

Dr. Ippolito completed his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College in 2002 and received his MD from Dartmouth Medical School in 2011. He completed his residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and earned a PhD in clinical investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He completed clinical fellowships in infectious disease and in clinical pharmacology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Matthew was active as a student at Dartmouth Medical School, co-leading the American Medical Student Association Chapter as co-president in 2007. He was also selected to join the Dartmouth Rural Health Scholars. As a student, Matthew’s many activities related to social responsibility include lobbying state lawmakers regarding gun control legislation, organizing voter registration drives, and lobbying on Capitol Hill for increased access to healthcare. 

As part of his National Institutes of Health- and Burroughs Wellcome Fund-sponsored research, Matthew is based part time in Zambia to conduct clinical trials examining the antimalarial activity of currently available agents to block the onward transmission of malaria and novel strategies for its clinical management. His many accomplishments and honors from Dartmouth Medical School include the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, the Ford von Reyn Global Health Research Fellowship, the John F. Radebaugh Community Service Award, and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed fellowships in infectious diseases and clinical pharmacology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was awarded the 2018 PhRMA Foundation Faculty Development Award in Clinical and Translational Pharmacology.

 

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