Chelsea A. Gorsline, MD

Professional Background

Dr. Gorsline is interested in the prevention and management of infections that affect immunocompromised patients such as those with malignant hematological conditions and recipients of stem cell and solid organ transplants. She is an Assistant Director in the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, with a focus on the implementation of antimicrobial stewardship practices among immunocompromised patients to address rising rates of antimicrobial resistance and improve quality of patient care.

Dr. Gorsline is the Director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Pathway for the KUMC Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program and the FitzSimmons Summer ID Research Fellowship for KUMC medical students. She also conducts quality improvement and clinical research in solid organ and stem cell transplant populations.

• BS, Microbiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
• MD, Medicine, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida
• Residency, Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
• Clinical Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
• Clinical Fellowship, Transplant & Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

• American Society of Transplantation, Antibiotic Allergies Subcommittee, Chair, 2024 - Present
• American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, Member, 2021 - Present
• American Society of Transplantation, Antimicrobial Stewardship Working Group, Member, 2021 - Present
• Infectious Diseases Society of America, Member, 2018 - Present
• Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, Member, 2015 - Present

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• CMV-specific Immunity at the End of Primary Prophylaxis as a Predictor of CMV Viremia or Disease in Kidney Transplant Recipients , KUMC Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Divisions

• Gorsline Chelsea, Staub Milner, Nelson George, Nesbitt Whitney, Dholaria Bhagirathbai, Satyanarayana Gowri. 2021. Antimicrobial de-escalation in patients with high-risk febrile neutropenia: Attitudes and practices of adult hospital care providers.. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 1 (1), E22. doi:10.1017/ash.2021.185 |
• Gorsline Chelsea, Afghan Abaseen, Stone Cosby, Phillips Elizabeth, Satyanarayana Gowri. 2022. Safety and value of pre-transplant antibiotic allergy delabeling in a quaternary transplant center. . Transplant Infectious Diseases
• Gorsline ChelseaA, Miller RyanM, Bobbitt LauraJ, Satyanarayana Gowri, Baljevic Muhamed, Staub MilnerBO. 2023. Development and implementation of “handshake rounds”: An antibiotic stewardship intervention for hospitalized adult patients with hematologic malignancies.. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 3 (1:e76). doi:10.1017/ash.2023
• Harris CourtneyE, Kumar Rebecca N, Gorsline ChelseaA. 2023. Road map to success: Advice for transplant infectious diseases job interviews, negotiation, and early career development. Transplant Infectious Disease
• Stohs EricaJ, Gorsline ChelseaA. 2023. Opportunities for Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients. Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
• Kumar RebeccaN, Gorsline ChelseaA, Rader Theodore, Boucher HelenW, Malinis Maricar, Koff Alan, Harris CourtneyE. 2024. The pre-transplant evaluation: Considerations for trainees and early career transplant infectious diseases clinician. Transplant Infectious Disease, 26 (4)
• Harris Courtney, Kumar Rebecca, Haidar Ghady, La Hoz Ricardo, Gorsline Chelsea. 2024. The nuts and bolts of transplant infectious disease training. Transplant Infectious Disease
• Gorsline ChelseaA, Tyler RobertSean. 2023. “They paged me what?”: A transplant infectious disease guide to donor calls. . Transplant Infectious Diseases (25), 14172
• ChelseaA, Sharma Divisha, Harris CourtneyE, Hand Jonathan , Imlay Hannah, Stohs Erica, So Miranda, Kumar RebeccaN. 2024. Not Just an Oxymoron: The Utilitarian's Guide to Antimicrobial Stewardship in Transplant Infectious Diseases. Transplant Infectious Disease, 26 (6)