Rebecca Burns, MD

Rebecca Burns, MD, is an infectious diseases specialist in the inpatient Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases Consultation Service at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital. She is also an assistant professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Her work focuses on infections in the immunocompromised host. Dr. Burns is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. Her outpatient infectious diseases clinics serve patients pre- and post-solid organ transplant and patients currently undergoing chemotherapy and stem-cell transplant.

Dr. Burns holds a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and a doctorate of medicine from Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. She completed her internal medicine residency at Boston Medical Center, where she took part in the HIV pathway for additional training in longitudinal HIV care. Dr. Burns then completed her fellowship in clinical infectious diseases with a focus on transplant and the immunocompromised host at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Her research interests include infectious complications after solid organ transplant, particularly as it relates to persons with HIV.

Dr. Burns is a member of the American College of Physicians, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Society of Transplantation.