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ID physicians.

Dr. Allison Nazinitsky is an infectious disease physician and Chief Medical Officer of IDSS. She is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where she teaches medical students and residents.

She completed the accelerated BS/MD program at Kent State University and Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, earning her MD in 2010. She trained in internal medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, then completed her infectious disease fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

After fellowship, she served as Medical Director of Transplant Infectious Disease at the INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute in Oklahoma City. In 2017, she started her own multistate tele-ID and locum tenens practice, one of the early efforts to bring ID specialists to hospitals through telemedicine. That practice became IDSS, where she now leads a group of adult and pediatric ID physicians.

Her clinical interests include complex inpatient consultation, antimicrobial stewardship, and hospital epidemiology. She has presented at national meetings on ECMO-associated infections and tele-stewardship, and she is licensed in more than 15 states.

At the heart of her work are two beliefs. Patients do best when they can be treated close to home, near their families. And physicians do their best work when they have flexibility and control over how they practice. IDSS is built around both: keeping patients in their communities, and giving ID physicians a sustainable way to practice that helps them avoid burnout. She enjoys working alongside the physicians, nurses, and pharmacists at the hospitals she serves, and teaching the next generation of ID doctors.