Joseph Lykins

My name is Joseph Lykins, and I am an incoming intern in the combined Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine residency program at VCU in Richmond, VA. I attended medical school at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. My research interests include, broadly, the intersection of infectious disease and emergency medicine. My past work has been predominantly focused on the parasitic organism Toxoplasma gondii, including epidemiology, in vitro drug and vaccine development, point-of-care testing implementation in the obstetrical setting, and global health. I have also worked in fluid resuscitation in sepsis, as well as the impact of delays in appropriate antimicrobial therapy in the setting of severe infection in the emergency department.