{"id":3826,"date":"2021-07-15T08:47:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2022-08-27T17:07:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T22:07:56","slug":"faculty-spotlight-dr-anum-abbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2021\/07\/15\/faculty-spotlight-dr-anum-abbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Spotlight &#8211; Dr. Anum Abbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><strong>Tell us about your background:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. I did my internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship at Creighton University and a third year fellowship at Cleveland Clinic for transplant infectious disease. I am married and have two sons, ages 6 years and 18 months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why UNMC?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNMC has a robust transplant program in both solid organ transplant and bone marrow transplant. My interest in immunocompromised patients makes UNMC a great place to practice infectious diseases and the collegial work environment here makes this place especially unique!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What about ID makes you excited?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the detective work involved, treating rare and unusual pathogens, and the different\/unusual patient exposures and risks there is never a dull moment in ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tell us something interesting about yourself UNRELATED to medicine:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love basketball and LeBron James is my favorite player! I also enjoy cooking, playing cards and traveling with my family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcoming Dr. Anum Abbas, one of our newer faculty to join our division in this past year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":532,"featured_media":3985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,99,112,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-and-staff","category-oncology-id","category-transplant-id","category-why-i-love-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}