Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology
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2024 - Present
Pathology,
Clinical Science Departments
Recent Publications
Uncovering the Harms of Treating Clostridioides difficile Colonization.
Journal Article mSphere · January 13, 2021 Patients with toxin-negative Clostridioides difficile-positive diarrhea are often treated with oral vancomycin with the assumption that treatment is more beneficial than harmful. However, this hypothesis has never been formally tested, and recent studies s ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteDiagnostic Approach to Health Care- and Device-Associated Central Nervous System Infections.
Journal Article J Clin Microbiol · November 2018 Health care- and device-associated central nervous system (CNS) infections have a distinct epidemiology, pathophysiology, and microbiology that require a unique diagnostic approach. Most clinical signs, symptoms, and tests used to diagnose community-acquir ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
CORonavirus VAriant Sequencing (CORVASEQ) Surveillance Network
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2021 - 2023RFTOP #2018 Domain 2-B-0001 Option 2
ResearchLaboratory Director · Awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2021 - 2022Evaluating SARS-CoV2 vaccine effectiveness among health care personnel during early phase vaccination
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2020 - 2021View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of New Mexico, School of Medicine ·
2000
M.D.