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Amy Y Vittor

Amy Y Vittor, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Department: MD-INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Business Phone: (352) 294-5481
Business Email: amy.vittor@medicine.ufl.edu

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About Amy Y Vittor

Dr. Amy Vittor is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at the University of Florida, where she studies the interface between vector-borne disease, land use and host immunity. Interested in understanding linkages between ecology and global health, she conducted her doctorate in public health in the Peruvian Amazon studying malaria and deforestation. She continued to work in global health during her medical training, treating patients with HIV and tuberculosis in Botswana, Kenya and Panama. While completing her clinical training, she studied dengue epidemiology in Kenya with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Nairobi as a Fogarty International Clinical and Research Fellow, and embarked on collaborations with public health officials in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam on dengue and climate change. Following a novel outbreak of Madariaga virus in the Darien region of Panama, she spent a year with the Gorgas Memorial Institute investigating potential animal hosts and human epidemiology. At present, she continues to study ecological and immunological drivers of arboviral emergence in the Darien region of Panama, and attends on the Infectious Diseases consultation service at Shands hospital at UF and the Malcolm Randall VA.

Dr. Vittor received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997, her PhD in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2003, her MD from Stanford University in 2007, and completed her internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and 2013, respectively. She is board certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Additional Positions:
Deputy Hospital Epidemiologist
2021 – Current · Veterans Affairs Health System

Accomplishments

  1. Member

    Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society

  2. Awardee

    NIH Loan Repayment Program Award

  3. Awardee

    NIH Loan Repayment Program Award

  4. Nomination for Customer Service is Key

    UF Health Shands Hospital

  5. Clinical Research Fellowship

    Fogarty International

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught

  1. PHC7980 – Research for Doctoral Dissertation

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  2. PHC6937 – Special Topics in Public Health

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  3. PHC6722 – Environmental and Global Health Research Methods Rotation

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  4. MDT7090 – Elective Topics

    College of Medicine

  5. VME7979 – Advanced Research

    College of Veterinary Medicine

  6. PHC7979 – Advanced Research

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  7. BMS6300 – Fund Micro and Immuno

    College of Medicine

  8. PAS5020 – Intro to Medicine 2

    College of Medicine

Board Certifications

  • Infectious Disease
    American Board of Internal Medicine
  • Internal Medicine
    American Board of Internal Medicine

Clinical Profile

Specialties

  • Infectious Disease

Areas of Interest

  • Dengue Fever
  • Encephalitis
  • Malaria
  • West Nile Virus Infection
  • Zika Virus Disease

Research Profile

Arboviral disease (eastern equine encephalitis, chikungunya fever, dengue fever, and others) Developing world diagnostics (Microscopically Observed Drug Susceptibility (MODS) Testing, Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Malaria Ecological associations with vector-borne disease Grants 2022 – Multigenerational prospective study: a hybrid cohort study to evaluate the transmission cycle and exposures to multiple emerging alphaviruses. Senacyt (Panama). Role: Co-investigator. 2021 – Biomarkers of neurological injury for the encephalitic alphaviruses. Navy Medical Research Center. Role: Site PI. 2019 – Examining how blood meals from different vertebrate species influence the midgut microbiome of the mosquito vector Aedes aegypti, and its susceptibility to arboviral infections. University of Florida Seed Fund. Role: Co-investigator. 2016 – Heterologus immunity and host susceptibility to emerging alphaviral infections. NIH 1K08AI116980-01A1. Role: PI. 2014 – University of Florida Seed Fund. Hydroelectric dams and health effects. Prinicipal Investigator: Denis Valle. Role: Co-investigator.

Areas of Interest

  • Arboviral Disease
  • Conservation Medicine
  • Dengue Virus
  • Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus
  • Ecological Links to Zoonotic Infections
  • Emerging infectious disease
  • Long-term Neurological Impacts of Viral Infection
  • Mayaro Virus
  • Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus
  • West Nile Virus

Publications

Academic Articles

Grants

  1. Aligning climate and health: assessing zoonotic arboviral risks in agroforestry as a climate mitigation strategy

    Active

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID

  2. Southeastern Coastal Center for Agricultural Health & Safety (SCCAHS)

    Active

    Role:
    Project Manager
    Funding:
    CTRS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

  3. Biomarkers of Neurological Injury for the Encephalitic Alphaviruses

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH COMMAND

  4. COVID-19 Rapid Assay

    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding:
    KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

  5. Examining how blood meals from different vertebrate species influence the midgut microbiome of the mosquito vector Aedes aegypti, and its susceptibility to arboviral infections

    Role:
    Consultant
    Funding:
    UF RESEARCH

  6. Heterologous immunity and host susceptibility to emerging alphaviral infections

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID

Education

  1. Postdoctoral Global Health Fellowship

    University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

  2. Clinical Research Fellow

    Fogarty International

  3. Infectious Disease Fellowship

    Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

  4. Internal Medicine Residency

    Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

  5. Medical Degree

    Stanford University School of Medicine

  6. PhD

    Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health

  7. MHS

    Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health

  8. BA

    University of California

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 294-5481
Emails:
Business:
amy.vittor@medicine.ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
2055 Mowry Road, Suite 250
EMERGING PATHOGENS INSTITUTE
 GAINESVILLE FL 32611-2079
Business Street:
2055 Mowry Road, Suite 250
EMERGING PATHOGENS INSTITUTE
 GAINESVILLE FL 326112079