Cosby Stone, MD, MPH

Dr. Cosby Stone, Jr. MD, MPH (Assistant Professor in Allergy/Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center) grew up in rural Crossville, Tennessee and went to college at Vanderbilt University where he enjoyed studying languages, literature, mathematics, and science.  He completed medical school at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, with additional training in public health focused on epidemiology.  Afterwards he did residency/chief residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital in the combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency program.  He returned to Vanderbilt as first a clinical allergy fellow, then a research fellow, and finally a faculty member with a specific focus on improving the testing, management, and outcomes of patients with medication allergies.  His current research seeks to understand immediate hypersensitivity and anaphylactic reactions to antibiotics, chemotherapy and inactive ingredients such as alpha-gal and polyethylene glycol, and he is currently funded by AHRQ, NIAID, and the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center.  He also writes and publishes poetry and fiction.