Eric D. Mccollum
Expertise in
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Expertise in
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Overview

Dr. Eric McCollum is a pediatric pulmonologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He has expertise in global child respiratory health with more than ten years of clinical and research experience in low-resource settings in southern Africa and south Asia. After having lived in Malawi for five years as a clinician with the Baylor Pediatric AIDS Corps and as a NIH Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow, Dr. McCollum is now primarily based in the countries of Lesotho and Bangladesh. He is the principal investigator of a NIH K01 International Research Scientist Development Award, through the Fogarty International Center, examining the role of pulse oximetry in Bangladeshi children with clinical pneumonia. Dr. McCollum is also a co-investigator for a study comprehensively examining the effectiveness of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in rural Bangladeshi children. In the southern African country of Malawi Dr. McCollum is the principal investigator of a randomized controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of bubble continuous positive airway pressure in children hospitalized with severe clinical pneumonia. He has successfully designed, led, or co-led several multi-site studies in developing countries throughout Africa and Asia including the novel application of pulse oximetry for children with clinical pneumonia by rural Malawian frontline health workers and digital auscultation as a respiratory diagnostic in six low-resource countries participating in the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health study. Dr. McCollum has been recognized globally for his contributions to child respiratory health. He has won multiple early career investigator awards and is currently a member of the World Health Organization Technical Support Network for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine impact studies and a member of the World Health Organization expert global working group for the World Health Organization chest radiograph guidelines for children. He holds a joint faculty appointment in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Dr. Mccollum is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Cerebral Hypoxia, Malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, and Infantile Pneumothorax.

Dr. Mccollum is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. He is actively involved in clinical research, co-authoring 175 peer reviewed articles.

Graduate Institution

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Of Public Health, MPH, 2020

Residency

New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, Pediatrics, 2006

Specialties

Pediatric Pulmonology

Licenses

Pediatrics in NY

Board Certifications

American Board Of Pediatrics

Fellowships

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pediatric Pulmonary, 2015

Languages Spoken

English
Spanish

Gender

Male

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Locations

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224
Other Locations
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287

Clinical Research

Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.


175 Total Publications

High prevalence of TB in children less than 5 years old hospitalised with severe acute malnutrition.
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Languages Spoken:
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