DeAnna Friedman-Klabanoff, MD

Bio

Dr. DeAnna Friedman-Klabanoff is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and a board-certified pediatric infectious disease specialist with clinical interests in travel and tropical medicine and research interests in natural and vaccine-induced immunity to?Plasmodium falciparum. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, did her pediatrics residency at the University of Minnesota, and completed her pediatric infectious disease fellowship at the University of Maryland. DeAnna has always had an interest in and passion for global health and has worked in Uganda, Thailand, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Malawi. In her research, DeAnna utilizes peptide microarray technologies to examine humoral immune responses, most recently to study vaccine-induced responses to malaria vaccines, and to examine natural immunity to malaria and protection from infection in a cohort of children in Malawi, supported by a K23 Career Development Award.

DeAnna was born and raised in central Illinois and lives in Butler-Tarkington with her husband, David, and two children. She is a foodie and loves to cook, bake, travel, read, explore new restaurants, and go to local libraries and museums.