Philip Mudd, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. Dr. Mudd has been actively involved in basic and translational immunology research since beginning his career as an undergraduate researcher in 2002. He studied T cell responses to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) viruses during his graduate studies with Dr. David Watkins at the AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Mudd completed his emergency medicine clinical training at the University of Cincinnati and is board-certified in Emergency Medicine. He currently spends the majority of his time pursing translational research; however, he is still a practicing emergency physician in the greater St. Louis area, caring for patients at three separate facilities including the Barnes Jewish Hospital emergency department. His laboratory currently focuses on the study of human immune responses to viral respiratory infections – with a specific focus on the evaluation of T cell responses in difficult to sample compartments such as the human lung.