Charlotte Hobbs, MD, professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), has been named the new co-lead of the Congenital and Perinatal Infections Consortium (CPIC).
Dr. Hobbs earned her medical degree from the University of Miami in Miami, FL. She completed her pediatric internship at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, LA, and her pediatric residency at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. She also completed her pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at New York University in New York, NY.
Dr. Hobbs spent five years at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) working in the Laboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, examining the impact of HIV medications on malaria infection, immunity, and transmission. Dr. Hobbs has also led clinical studies in various malaria-endemic regions of sub-Saharan Africa.
After moving from the National Institutes of Health to Mississippi, she spent the last eight years working on surveillance studies looking at prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infections in children throughout the state of Mississippi. She also worked during the COVID pandemic with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in characterizing and establishing SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology and severe manifestations in children in Mississippi.
Dr. Hobbs' most recent work is in the field of the impending public health emergency of congenital syphilis. She came to UAB in December 2023 having been recruited to co-lead CPIC with David Kimberlin, MD.
