Kailey Hughes Kramer is a PhD with research interests in infectious disease clinical trials and pharmacoepidemiology. She currently works as the Research Manager in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease where she oversees clinical trials, the student internship program, IRB submissions, and emergency Investigational New Drug (eIND) applications. Since the start of the pandemic, she has served on the UPMC COVID-19 Pharmaceutical Committee where she provides expertise in the eIND application process to other hospitals in the UPMC health system. Her current work focuses on influenza vaccine effectiveness and COVID-19 in immunocompromised individuals. Her GSPH advisor is Dr. Catherine Haggerty, and she is mentored by Dr. Fernanda Silveira. Her career goal is to remain in academia where she can continue research focused on immunocompromised populations, teach and mentor the next generation of students. 

Select publications 

• Hughes K, Middleton DB, Nowalk MP, et al. Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccine for Preventing Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Hospitalizations in Immunocompromised Adults. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2021;(ciaa1927). doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1927

• Heldman MR, Kates OS, Safa K, Kotton CN, Georgia SJ, Steinbrink JM, Alexander BD, Hemmersbach-Miller M, Blumberg EA, Multani A, Haydel B, La Hoz RM, Moni L, Condor Y, Flores S, Munoz CG, Guitierrez J, Diaz EI, Diaz D, Vianna R, Guerra G, Loebe M, Rakita RM, Malinis M, Azar MM, Hemmige V, McCort ME, Chaudhry ZS, Singh PP, Hughes Kramer K, Velioglu A, Yabu JM, Morillis JA, Mehta SA, Tanna SD, Ison MG, Derenge AC, van Duin D, Maximin A, Gilbert C, Goldman JD, Lease ED, Fisher CE, Limaye AP; UW COVID-19 SOT Study Team. Changing trends in mortality among solid organ transplant recipients hospitalized for COVID-19 during the course of the pandemic. Am J Transplant. 2021 Sep 12:10.1111/ajt.16840. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16840. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34514710; PMCID: PMC8653312.

• Erin K. McCreary PharmD, Kevin E. Kip PhD, J. Ryan Bariola MD, Mark Schmidhofer MD, Tami Minnier MSN RN, Katelyn Mayak MS, Debbie Albin BS, Jessica Daley PharmD, Kelsey Linstrum MS, Erik Hernandez PharmD, Rachel Sackrowitz, MD, Kailey Hughes, Christopher Horvat MD, Graham M. Snyder MD, Bryan J. McVerry, MD, Donald M. Yealy MD, David T. Huang MD MPH, Derek C. Angus MD MPH FRCP, Oscar C. Marroquin MD. A Learning Health System Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic: System-Wide Changes in Clinical Practice and 30-Day Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients. medRxiv 2021.08.26.21262661; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021/08/26/21262661