Kira Newman is an internal medicine resident at the University of Washington. She is also a postdoctoral fellow at the Chu Lab in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the University of Washington.

Dr. Newman completed her undergraduate studies at Yale University, and she earned her medical degree and a PhD in epidemiology at Emory University. Dr. Newman focuses her research on diarrheal disease immunology and epidemiology, as well as the gastrointestinal manifestations of respiratory viral illnesses.