Rachel Elizabeth Strength, M.D.

Clinical Fellow in Medicine and Pediatric Infectious Diseases

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Education:

NIH Fellowship in Medicine and Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency, University of Tennessee

M.D., Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

Rachel Elizabeth Strength, M.D.

Biography

Dr. Strength is a board-certified internal medicine physician, board-eligible pediatrician, and clinical fellow in adult and pediatric infectious diseases at NIH and Children’s National Hospital. Her research interests include the long-term effects of infections in pregnant women and their children. She is studying how the microbiome changes through different stages of pregnancy and how infections affect the microbiome of mother and baby alike.