COVID-19 Vaccine Guidance for Patients with Organ Transplants
The Mass General Transplant Center provides information about the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines among transplant recipients and guidance for this patient population.
About Camille Kotton, MD
Camille Nelson Kotton MD, FIDSA, FAST is the Clinical Director of Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases in the Infectious Diseases Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She spends the majority of her time seeing inpatients and outpatients, before and after solid organ and bone marrow transplant, as well as other immunocompromised hosts. Her interests include vaccination, travel medicine for transplant recipients, and reducing the infectious risks of immunocompromising medications. She has written numerous articles and chapters, and also speaks nationally and internationally on a regular basis. She is the past chair of the Infectious Disease Community of Practice, American Society of Transplantation, and is on the planning committee for the American Transplant Congress. She has excellent clinic flexibility and can often see transplant patients on a fairly immediate basis.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Immunocompromised patient
- Reducing Infectious Risks in Transplant Recipients
- Vaccines and immunizations
Treats:
- Adult
Languages:
- French
Locations
Mass General Infectious Diseases
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-3906
Medical Education
- MD, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
- Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Infectious Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Publications
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Freedman DO and Kotton CN, Chapter 8: Advising Travelers with Specific Needs: Immunocompromised Travelers, Health Information for International Travel (The Yellow Book, online textbook published every two years), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014, 2016, 2018, 2020)
Kotton CN, Kumar D, Caliendo AM, Asberg A, Chou S, Danziger-Isakov L, Humar A; on behalf of The Transplantation Society International CMV Consensus Group. Third International Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Cytomegalovirus in Solid-Organ Transplantation. Transplantation. 2018 Jun;102(6):900-931.
Kotton CN, Winthrop KL, Immunizations in patients with rheumatic diseases or other inflammatory conditions, UpToDate OnLine textbook, updated bi-annually.
Kotton CN. Herpes simplex virus infection of the esophagus. UpToDate OnLine textbook, updated bi-annually. 2018- present.
Kotton CN, Top 10 Updates in CMV management in Solid Organ Transplantation, AST Transplant in 10 (Tx10) Professional Education, video, June 2019.