Jonathan D. Albert, MD

  • Associate Director of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship
  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Jonathan Albert, MD, is a physician in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Albert earned his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He completed residency training in Pediatrics at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. He went on to complete a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Children’s National Hospital, during which time he also served as a medical officer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. As a clinical specialist in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. Albert provides care for children with a wide variety of infectious diseases in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. Albert’s clinical and research interests focus on the prevention and treatment of infections in immunocompromised children, including solid organ transplant recipients and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients.

Professional and Scientific Society Memberships

  • Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2018 - Present
  • Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2018 - Present
  • Society of Pediatric Research, 2021 - Present
  • American Society of Transplantation, 2022 - Present

Education & Training

  • BS, Drexel University, 2012
  • MD, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2016

Selected Publications

Academic and Research Interests

  • Pediatric infectious diseases
  • Solid organ transplantation
  • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  • Pediatric oncology
  • Fungal infections
  • Vaccine development
  • Bateriophage therapy
  • Fecal microbiota transplantation