Kevin Rivera, MD, MS is an internal medicine resident physician at Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio, with prior training in emergency medicine at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

His research background spans basic science and clinically oriented scholarship. As an undergraduate at the University of North Texas, he worked in a molecular genetics laboratory studying hypoxia tolerance and detoxification pathways using Caenorhabditis elegans, alongside science outreach initiatives focused on experiential learning. During medical school at Texas Christian University, his work shifted toward clinical research, including a thesis on early detection of pelvic venous compression syndromes using duplex ultrasound and venography, as well as a systematic review examining liver-directed therapies for breast cancer metastases. He also served as a primary author on a multicenter study developing and externally validating machine learning models based on routine clinical features to predict COVID-19 positivity in the emergency department.

During residency, he has continued to refine and publish prior work while expanding into new areas of clinical scholarship, including vascular imaging, biofluid mechanics, radiation safety, and medical toxicology. His work consistently emphasizes mechanism-based reasoning, careful clinical phenotyping, and disciplined diagnostic synthesis in complex and uncertain clinical settings. His current clinical and academic interests include infectious diseases, with particular attention to diagnostic complexity and the application of foundational science to clinical decision-making.

ORCID ID

http://orcid.org/0009-0003-1480-4042