Matthew S. Krantz, MD, MS

Matthew S. Krantz, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and is a faculty member of the Center for Drug Safety and Immunology, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, and Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center.

Dr. Krantz received his MD from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He completed his residency in combined internal medicine and pediatrics and fellowship in allergy and immunology at VUMC, during which he participated in an NHLBI-funded T32 research training program and completed an MS in biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University.

As an allergy and immunology physician-scientist, Dr. Krantz is interested in researching severe immune-mediated adverse drug reactions and other allergic/immunologic diseases by leveraging electronic health record phenotyping, immunogenomics, and translational bioinformatics in diverse electronic health record-linked biobanks.

He is a recipient of the AAAAI Foundation Faculty Development Award and an NIH K08 Award, which supports his research program.

Dr. Krantz sees patients in the Drug Allergy Clinic, which provides personalized testing and care for people with drug and medication allergies, part of the Vanderbilt Asthma, Sinus and Allergy Program.