John Flores

About

Current combined Adult & Pediatric Infectious Diseases Attending Physician at Cook County Health. I have secondary academic appointments at Rush University in their Department Medicine, and at University of Illinois-Chicago in their Departmetn of Pediatrics. I completed my Adult and Pediatric (MedPeds) Infectious Diseases fellowship at University of Chicago. My scholarly interests include the intersection of Geographic Information Systems/Spatial Analytics and Community Based Participation Research to study sexually transmitted infections among adolescent and young adults, and Maternal-Fetal transmission among all ages.

Employment

• University of Illinois at Chicago Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  2025 - Present
• Rush University Medical Center Assistant Professor of Medicine
  2025 - Present
• Cook County Health and Hospitals System MedPeds Infectious Diseases Attending Physician
  2025 - Present
• Rush University Medical Center Assistant Professor of Medicine
  2025 - Present
• University of Chicago Medicine MedPeds Infectious Diseases Fellow
  2021 - 2025
• University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System Resident Physician
  2017 - 2021

Education

• University of Chicago Masters of Science
  2023 - 2025
• The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Medical Doctorate/Medical Student
  2013 - 2017

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (24)

• Perspectives of Doxycycline Postexposure Prophylaxis among Pediatric Providers.
  John Michael Flores, Trenton Lam, Jose L. Paredes Sosa +2 more
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2025 DOI: 10.1097/olq.0000000000002181
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• Notes from the Field: Neurosyphilis, Ocular Syphilis, and Otic Syphilis - Chicago, January-October 2023.
  MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2025 DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7408a3
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• Assessing diagnostic accuracy of congenital syphilis using penicillin administration data through the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) database.
  International journal of STD & AIDS 2025 DOI: 10.1177/09564624251324981
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• Promises, Pitfalls, and Progress: Doxycycline Prophylaxis for Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections.
  Christopher J. Kaperak, John Michael Flores, Aniruddha Hazra
  Current HIV/AIDS reports 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s11904-025-00726-3
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• P-1001. Utilizing Perspectives of Prenatal Providers to Explain the Rise of Congenital Syphilis in Chicago, USA: A Mixed-Methods Study
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2025 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae631.1191
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• P-1786. Implementation of a Clinical Pathway to Educate Clinicians on Changing Epidemiology
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2025 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae631.1949
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• P-960. Improving Resident Education on the Inpatient Infectious Disease Consult Service
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2025 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae631.1150
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• P-993. Increased Reporting of RPR Seronegative Infants with Congenital Syphilis to the Chicago Department of Public Health, A Quality Improvement Project
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2025 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae631.1183
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• Doxycycline Postexposure Prophylaxis to Prevent Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infection.
  JAMA 2025 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.24540
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• Factors Related to the Rise of Congenital Syphilis From the Perspectives of Prenatal Providers and Birthing Parents in Chicago, IL, USA.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2024 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae595
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• Evaluation and Treatment of Congenital Syphilis: A National Survey of US Pediatric Specialists
  Journal of Clinical Medicine 2024 DOI: 10.3390/jcm13206280
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• Describing the Heterogeneity of Clinical Utilization of Congenital Syphilis Diagnostic Modalities Among Major United States Tertiary Children's Hospitals, 2017-2022.
  Sexually transmitted diseases 2024 DOI: 10.1097/olq.0000000000002054
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• Exploring the Feasibility of an Electronic Tool for Predicting Retention in HIV Care: Provider Perspectives
  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2024 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph21060671
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• Neighborhood violent crime exposure is associated with preexposure prophylaxis nonuse among black sexually minoritized men and transgender women.
  AIDS (London, England) 2024 DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000003906
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• Stigma towards persons who use methamphetamine: Results from a nationally representative survey of U.S. Adults
  John Michael Flores, Bruce G. Taylor, Aniruddha Hazra +3 more
  Preventive Medicine Reports 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102496
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• 1537. Utilizing GPS Technology to Assess Effects of Activity Space Exposure to Violent Crimes and HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Use among Sexual Minority Men
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2023 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofad500.1372
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• Mpox in people with past infection or a complete vaccination course: a global case series.
  Aniruddha Hazra, Jason E Zucker, Elizabeth J. Bell +30 more
  The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2023 DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(23)00492-9
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• Measles Update in an Era of Vaccine Hesitancy and Global Pandemic.
  Pediatrics in review 2023 DOI: 10.1542/pir.2022-005921
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• 1290. A Structural Intervention Improves ID Fellow Wellness Amid a Pandemic
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2022 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac492.1121
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• 2218. Spatial Epidemiology of Gonorrhea Incidence Among Women in Chicago
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2022 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac492.1837
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