Patrick Sloan, MD, MS

Sloan has a MD and MS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his Pediatric Residency at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in 2016, and is now a Newborn Medicine Fellow at Washington University.

In the Holtz lab, his primary research interest is investigating the infectious contribution to premature labor. He is specifically interested in the viral contribution. His project involves the screening of neonatal cord blood from a range of gestational ages and delivery indications for the presence of a panel of viruses known to cause intrauterine infection.