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My Office Hours

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	8:30 am 5:30 pm	8:30 am 5:30 pm		8:30 am 5:30 pm	8:30 am 5:30 pm
Closed during lunch, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Dr. Blum grew up in New Jersey. He received a BS Summa Cum Laude in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University. He received his medical degree(1992) and his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of California in San Francisco. Dr. Blum is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Since he missed wading through slush in the winter, he moved back to Boston, where he completed his internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Hospital. There his fellow residents awarded him the Katherine Swan Ginsburg award for humanity, dignity and compassion in the practice of medicine. He completed a fellowship in infectious disease at Massachusetts General Hospital and went on to do research and teaching at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Blum returned to the Bay Area and joined Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara in 2002. He was awarded the Silver Scope Award for an outstanding subspecialist by his colleagues at Kaiser in 2003, and the Golden Apple Award for teaching in 2007.

Dr. Blum is interested in all aspects of infectious diseases. He chairs the Infection Control and Pharmacy & Therapeutics committees of the hospital. He's written papers on immunology, infectious disease & bacterial genetics, and was an editor of the antibiotic section of the Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia, a widely-used handbook of pharmaceuticals for physicians.

Dr. Blum is married and has two stepchildren. He enjoys classical music, baking desserts, swimming, and bicycling (to work off those desserts).

My Credentials

Medical school	UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Internship	Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA
Residency	Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA
Fellowship	Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Board certification	Infectious Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine

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