Dr. Jens Kort Other, Infectious Disease Specialist
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Dr. Jens Kort

Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease

119 Glen Rd Hawthorn Woods Illiinois, 60047
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Jens Kort, MD, is an infectious disease specialist working as Senior Program Leader for Global Pharmaceuical Research & Development at AbbVie in Chicago, Illinois. The Senior Global Program Leader is an enterprise leader, the external face of the asset and the strategic program champion, decision maker, influencer, role model, mentor, and coach. Dr. Kort received his medical degree and PhD in 1989 at the University of Hamburg. Upon relocating to the United States, he served an infectious disease fellowship and internal medicine residency at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Dr. Kort is board certified in internal medicine and infectious disease by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is an active member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Society of Microbiology, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and the European Association for the Study of the Liver.

Education and Training

MD

University of Hamburg

Universitaet Hamburg MD

University Sakartvelo Faculty of Medicine 1989

Board Certification

Past:ABIM: Internal Medicine

Infectious Diseases

Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease

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Dr. Jens Kort Other's Expert Contributions
  • Is mixing vaccines ok?

    Receiving a booster shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after you received 2 doses of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine is fine, and should not have any negative effect on the booster vaccine dose itself, and also not be of concern that this should be reason for a severe side effect. READ MORE

  • Can a microcythemic person get a covid-19 vaccine?

    YES! READ MORE

  • COVID for 6 days?

    From what you are telling- you had mild symptoms of COVID-19. A monoclonal antibody infusion is not recommended in your case, who seems of lower risk for severe COVID-19 disease. READ MORE

  • Pfizer needle?

    I think you are asking whether you can be vaccinated with the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and the answer is yes from the information you provide here. READ MORE

  • Dupixent & Covid shot?

    Although there is no specific research I am aware of, in my opinion you should be fine receiving your Dupixent shot to keep your atopic dermatitis under control. READ MORE

  • Can I get the covid vaccine on Friday if I had the shingles shot on Tuesday?

    You are not mentioning any worrysome side effects from the shingles vaccine, Yes. READ MORE

  • Covid-19 tests?

    Yes you can contract the SARS CoV-2 virus again. You should quarantine at least 10 days. READ MORE

  • Covid vaccine - took Tylenol prior?

    I disagree with the notion that Tylenol taken prior to the 1st COVID-19 vaccination renders the vaccination less effective. There is no scientific basis for this. You should not be concerned. READ MORE

  • Viral loads in your face mask?

    You already have the infection, and luckily you are not experiencing COVID-19 disease. In this scenario wearing a face mask is one important measure not to spread the virus from you breathing out to other people and potentially infect/harm other people. You are not changing the viral load you already have by wearing a mask. With asymptomatic infection you should be quarantining for 10 days. READ MORE

  • Covid results?

    Thank you for being there and risking your health to resuscitate a person in need! It sounds like you have no symptoms of COVID-19 infection and are 12 days after the even of resuscitation and COVID-19 test without symptoms of COVID-19. You most likely have not acquired the infection. If you not have considered by now- please consider now receiving the COVID-19 vaccination. READ MORE

  • The precision of the PCR test?

    The COVID-19 PCR test is specific for it. So it would only tell you if you had COVID-19 or not. READ MORE

  • Flu shot reaction and Covid vaccine?

    Yes! Your age is a significiant risk factor for getting more severe COVID-19 disease. The benefit of the vaccine outweighs the risk of for any potential side effects from the vaccine in your case. READ MORE

  • I'm still suffering from covid for 6 months?

    I am sorry to hear about your post COVID-19 trouble. It seems that a persistent cough -waxing and waning- is your major complaint. Such persistent cough is known to occur in a number of cases after COVID-19-and it can persist over weeks to many months. While there is no COVID-19 cough specific treatment- general over the counter or prescription cough treatments can be tried after other more serious causes for the cough have been ruled out. Your primary care doctor should be able to help you with that. In addition, one needs to think of other causes for the cough unrelated to COVID-19. For example certain medications used to treat high blood pressure can cause persistent cough, even after you had taken them without cough for a longer time. If you are currently taken a medication for high blood pressure that includes a medicine that ends with -artan (such as Losartan) or -pril (such as Lisinopril)- it should be looked into whether changing it to a different medication would stop the cough. READ MORE

  • Are these symptoms of covid?

    From what you are describing- your symptoms can very well be due to COVID-19. If symptoms get worse and you get shortness of breath you should see a doctor and get a COVID-19 test. You should quarantine- stay home for 10 days since you were in contact with your coworker(s) who tested positive. You should only return to work after that 10 day quarantine period is over and all your symptoms have resolved. READ MORE

  • How effective are flu vaccines for children?

    Flu vaccine effectiveness varies from year-to year, by age and underlying medical condition. Effectiveness is somewhat lower in children under age 2 and gets higher with aging towards adults. As said before a number of factors influence effectiveness range from about 30 to 70%. Since flu vaccines are proven safe a drop in overall population vaccination rate will result in an increase in infections and also increase in infections with hospitalizations and severe disease or death. READ MORE

  • Can someone with CAEBV get a covid vaccine?

    Your wife has a rare condition chronic active EBV infection, that can weaken her immune system and sometimes immunosupressants are used for treatment. I think your wife could be at higher risk for potentially worse COVID-19 disease if she would get infected- thus I would recommend that she gets the COVID-19 vaccine. Because this condition is rare- there are no specific data on safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines in CAEBV to lean on. READ MORE

  • Should I get vaccinated for COVID?

    YES- you should get vaccinated. From what you tell me here you are at risk for severe COVID-19 disease if you would get infected. READ MORE

  • Vaccination?

    Yes READ MORE

  • Leg/hip pain?

    Yes you may take pain killers at doses as prescribed/recommended around COVID-19 vaccination. Be careful with meloxicam if it upsets your stomach take it with food. See your physician as it seems that your back/hip pain did not resolve within 4 weeks. READ MORE

  • Working out past Covid infection?

    Unless you have specific symptoms such as chest pain or shortness of breath, or abnormal heart beat with daily living activities- you should be fine to start exercising again with gradual increase in effort in your routine over weeks as you tolerate. READ MORE

Expert Publications

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Areas of expertise and specialization

Infectious DiseaseInternal Medicine

Professional Society Memberships

  • AASLD, EASL

What do you attribute your success to?

  • Good mentors, pursuing my dreams, keep an open mind, and question; being open to learning new things, being compassionate

Favorite professional publications

  • New England Journal of Medicine

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