About

My name is Matt Krantz. I am an allergy and immunology physician-scientist and Instructor in Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics.

I received my MD from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. I completed my residency in combined internal medicine and pediatrics and my fellowship in allergy and immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. I am currently pursuing an MS in biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University.

I am a recipient of the 2024 AAAAI Foundation Faculty Development Award, which supports my research project, “A Translational Bioinformatics Approach for Deep Phenotyping and Genetic Risk of Severe Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reactions.” My primary mentor is Dr Elizabeth Phillips, an international expert in translational approaches for severe immune-mediated drug reactions.

I am board-certified in allergy and immunology, internal medicine, and pediatrics.

My research interests lie in studying severe immune-mediated adverse drug reactions and other allergic/immunologic diseases by leveraging deep phenotyping, immunogenomics, and translational bioinformatics in diverse electronic health record-linked biobanks.

I have a book (available for free on the web)–Translational Bioinformatics for Immunogenomics–if you want to learn about HLA, KIR, ERAP, and more.

I write a weekly newsletter, called Bits & Base Pairs, about bits (comedy and/or computing), base pairs (bioinformatics), and musings on academic medicine.

I draw medical cartoons, also called graphic medicine, which have been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.