Education & Training

Medical School

Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine

Residency

Internal Medicine

  • University of Missouri School of Medicine GME

Fellowship

Infectious Disease

  • University of Missouri School of Medicine GME
  • University of Kansas Medical Center-Kansas City

Boards

American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine/Infectious Disease

Insurances

MU Health Care participates with most major managed care organizations. To find out whether MU Health Care is a participating provider in your insurance plan or network, or for information on co-payments and deductibles, please contact your insurance carrier directly.

In the News

Academic Information

Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control
Director of Social Media Outreach
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Publications

  • Rachel, W. E., Nelson, T. B., & Hsu, A. L. (2021, March 19).
    Fertility considerations: The COVID 19 disease may have a more negative impact than the COVID-19 vaccine, especially among men.
  •  Hitchcock, N., & Nelson, T. B. (2021).
    Pyogenic Liver Abscess and Gastrointestinal Lemierre Syndrome due to Fusobacterium nucleatum.
    American Journal of Hospital Medicine, 5(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24150/ajhm/2021.002 
  •  Sachin M. Patil, Phillip Paul Beck, Taylor B. Nelson, Andres Bran Acevedo, William Roland
    “Prepatellar Bursitis with Abscess due to Corynebacterium ulcerans”
    Case Reports in Orthopedics, vol. 2021, Article ID 3507672, 5 pages, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/3507672 
  •  Albert L Hsu, MD, Traci Johnson, MD, Lynelle Phillips, RN MPH, Taylor B Nelson, DO
    Sources of Vaccine Hesitancy: Pregnancy, Infertility, Minority Concerns, and General Skepticism
    Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2021;, ofab433, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab433 
  •  Schaeffer, A., Williams, S., Sampson, C., Johnson, M., Phillips, L., Nelson, T. B., & Hsu, A. L. (2021, October 8).
    Bracing for the Delta Hurricane: A Script for Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy, Amid a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated.
  • Nelson, T.B., Kagan, N., Critchlow, C., Hillard, A., & Hsu, A. (2020)
    The Danger of Misinformation in the Covid-19 Crisis.
    Missouri Medicine, 117(6), 510-512.
    • Article republished in Utah Physician, 2021 Feb-Mar; pp 8-12 Utah Physician February / March 2021 by Mills Publishing Inc. - issuu
    • Article republished in Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association. 2021 Jan-Feb; pp 16-18
  • Nelson, T. B., & Roland, W. (2020)
    A rare case of osteomyelitis and tenosynovitis in secondary syphilis
    IDCases, 21, e00903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00903
  • Dandachi D, Reece R, Wang EW, Nelson T, Rojas-Moreno C, Shoemaker DM.
    Treating COVID-19 in Rural America.
    J Rural Health. 2021 Jan;37(1):205-206. doi: 10.1111/jrh.12457. Epub 2020 Sep 3. PMID: 32362035; PMCID: PMC7267414. 
  • Patel, Tarang & Karle, Ethan & Nelson, Taylor & Dandachi, Dima. (2019)
    A Rash That Cannot Be Missed: Disseminated Herpes Zoster as a Result of Immunomodulation by Adalimumab.
    American Journal of Hospital Medicine. 3. 10.24150/ajhm/2019.010.&