Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Pediatrics, University of California - Los Angeles 2014 - 2017
  • Residency, Pediatrics, Maimonides Medical Center 2010 - 2013
  • M.D., Ross University, School of Medicine (West Indies) 2010
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics 2017 - 2020
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2017 - 2020
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Diagnosis and Outcomes of Pulmonary Invasive Mold Infections in Immunocompromised Children awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2023
  • Optimizing Clostridium Difficile Diagnoses in High-Risk Hospitalized Pediatric Patients with Hematologic Malignancies or Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantationpending awarded by  American Society of Hematology 2021 - 2022
  • A Phase 2b open-label, single-arm study to evaluate pharmacokinetics, efficacy, safety and tolerability of letermovir in pediatric participants from birth to less than 18 years of age at risk of developing CMV infection and/or disease following HSCT awarded by Merck Sharp & Dohme 2018 - 2021
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Hurst, Jillian H., Sarah M. Heston, Hailey N. Chambers, Hannah M. Cunningham, Meghan J. Price, Lilianna Suarez, Carter G. Crew, et al. “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study.” Clin Infect Dis 73, no. 9 (November 2, 2021): e2875–82. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1693.
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    • Garrido, Carolina, Jillian H. Hurst, Cynthia G. Lorang, Jhoanna N. Aquino, Javier Rodriguez, Trevor S. Pfeiffer, Tulika Singh, et al. “Asymptomatic or mild symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection elicits durable neutralizing antibody responses in children and adolescents.” Jci Insight 6, no. 17 (September 8, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.150909.
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    • Thomas, Sanya J., Rebecca T. Young, William J. Steinbach, and Debra J. Lugo. “Risks and outcomes of adenovirus disease in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients-Comparison of current antiviral treatment options.” Transpl Infect Dis 23, no. 2 (April 2021): e13505. https://doi.org/10.1111/tid.13505.
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    • Kilgore, Jacob T., Bradford Becken, Matthew G. Varga, Suhag Parikh, Vinod Prasad, Debra Lugo, and Yeh-Chung Chang. “Use of Letermovir for Salvage Therapy for Resistant Cytomegalovirus in a Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipient.” J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc 9, no. 4 (September 17, 2020): 486–89. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piz050.
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    • Akinboyo, Ibukunoluwa C., Rebecca R. Young, Lisa P. Spees, Sarah M. Heston, Michael J. Smith, Yeh-Chung Chang, Lauren E. McGill, et al. “Microbiology and Risk Factors for Hospital-Associated Bloodstream Infections Among Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients.” Open Forum Infect Dis 7, no. 4 (April 2020): ofaa093. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa093.
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    • Tovar Padua, Leidy, Amanda Kamali, Hannah Kim, Nicole M. Green, Rachel Civen, Benjamin Schwartz, Paul Krogstad, et al. “Unique Case of Disseminated Plague With Multifocal Osteomyelitis.” J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc 6, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): e165–68. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/pix007.
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    • Lugo, Debra, and Paul Krogstad. “Enteroviruses in the early 21st century: new manifestations and challenges.” Curr Opin Pediatr 28, no. 1 (February 2016): 107–13. https://doi.org/10.1097/MOP.0000000000000303.
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