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International Adoption Center

Mary Allen Staat, MD, MPH

Title

Director

Appointment

Professor of Pediatrics

Email

mary.staat@cchmc.org

Phone

513-636-2877

Fax

513-636-6936

Bio

Mary Allen Staat, MD, MPH, is director of the International Adoption Center and a member of the Infectious Disease Division at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Dr. Staat is a board-certified pediatrician and is also board-certified in Infectious Disease and Preventive Medicine. She is an associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and a faculty member of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation.

Credentials

MD: University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., 1986.

MPH: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1991.

Residency: Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 1986-1989; Preventive Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1990-1994.

Fellowship: Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 1989-1990; Epidemiology, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Md., 1990-1993.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1989; Preventive Medicine, 1996; Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 1999.

Awards and Honors

Best Doctors in America, 2008

Research

Epidemiology of enteric infections and surveillance of infectious diseases

Publications, Most Recent

Markey RJ, Staat MA, Gerrety MJ, Lucky AW. Tinea capitis due to Trichophyton soudanense in Cincinnati, Ohio, in internationally adopted children from Liberia.Pediatr Dermatol. 2003 Sep-Oct;20(5):408-10.
PMID: 14521557

Staat MA. Infectious disease issues in internationally adopted children.Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2002 Mar;21(3):257-8.

Staat MA, Azimi PH, Berke T, Roberts N, Bernstein DI, Ward RL, Pickering LK, Matson DO. Clinical presentations of rotavirus infection among hospitalized children.Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2002 Mar;21(3):221-7.

Staat MA. Respiratory syncytial virus infections in children.Semin Respir Infect. 2002 Mar;17(1):15-20.

Fein H, Naseem S, Witte DP, Garcia VF, Lucky A, Staat MA. Tungiasis in North America: a report of 2 cases in internationally adopted children. J Pediatr. 2001 Nov;139(5):744-6.

Macariola DR, Staat MA, Brady RC. Index of suspicion.Pediatr Rev. 2001 Nov;22(11):388-93.

Special Interests

Helicobacter pylori, rotavirus epidemiology, travel medicine and infectious diseases of international adoptees

Related Areas

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