Paul M. Lantos, MD, MS

Durham, NC
Phone: (336) 554-29-11


• Triple-boarded specialist in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, and Internal Medicine

• Fellowship trained at Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health

• COVID-19 experience, including case management, test interpretation, isolation and public health recommendations, personal and occupational protective measures, risk assessments for adults and children at risk of severe COVID-19, and return to work determinations for infected employees.

• Clinical and academic expertise in vector-borne infectious diseases (e.g. infections carried by ticks and mosquitoes), zoonotic infections (transmitted from animals, e.g. rabies, bartonella, cat scratch and cat bite fever), and environmental infectious diseases.

• Clinical and academic expertise in geographic and travel medicine, including clinical malaria and malaria prevention, travel vaccines, pre-travel counseling and risk assessments, post-travel evaluation, prevention and treatment of water- and food-borne infections e.g. Salmonella. Certificate in Travel Health (International Society of Travel Medicine). Academic research in geospatial epidemiology and disease mapping. Extensive international experience in Asia, Africa, and South America.

• Experience in pediatric infectious disease evaluations and management, including vaccine-preventable disease (e.g. measles, pertussis), drug-resistant bacteria (e.g. MRSA), evaluations for recurrent or unexplained fevers, bone and joint infections.

• Employee / occupational health experience, including occupational infectious diseases, bloodborne pathogens, and vaccination policy

• Professor at Duke University and the Duke Global Health Institute, successful academic track record including approximately 50 scientific publications.

• Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA), Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP), Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP)

Specialties

  • Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Subpecialties

  • Lyme disease
  • COVID / Coronavirus
  • malaria
  • typhoid
  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever
  • ehrlichiosis
  • tick-borne diseases
  • parasites
  • measles
  • pertussis
  • cytomegalovirus
  • infected animal bites
  • vaccines
  • travel medicine
  • epidemiology

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