Aimee Kirsch Zaas | Scholars@Duke

Aimee Kirsch Zaas
Associate Professor of Medicine

Medical education
Genomic applications for diagnosis of infectious diseases
Genomic applications for prediction of infectious diseases

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2015
Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Basic Science Departments 2010

Contact Information

2301 Erwin Rd, Box 3182, Durham, NC 27710
Duke Box 3182, DUMC, Durham, NC 27710
aimee.zaas@duke.edu (919) 681-1464

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Duke University 2003 - 2004
- Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Duke University 2001 - 2002
- Medical Resident, Medicine, Johns Hopkins University 1998 - 2001
- M.D., Northwestern University 1998
Duke Appointment History
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2011 - 2015
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2005 - 2010
- Associate in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2004 - 2005
- Instructor, Temporary in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2004
Recognition
In the News
- SEP 19, 2013 CBS News, AP
  
  Blood test can determine whether illness is caused by virus or bacteria
Research
Selected Grants
- Transplant Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2023
- Acute Lower Respirator Tract with Lung Ultrasound awarded by Thrasher Research Fund 2018 - 2020
- Molecular Mycology and Pathogenesis Training Program awarded by National Institutes of Health 2002 - 2019
- Bridging the Treatment Gap: Improving Time to Cure of Hepatitis C in North Carolina awarded by American College of Physicians 2018 - 2019
- Learning Health System Research Champion Award awarded by Association of American Medical Colleges 2015 - 2017
- Mid-Career Investigator Award: Preventing and Diagnosing Fungal Disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 2007 - 2013
- Genetic Determinants of A. Fumigatus Susceptibility awarded by National Institutes of Health 2005 - 2009
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Ryskina, KL, Smith, CD, Arora, VM, Zaas, AK, Halvorsen, AJ, Weissman, A, and Wahi-Gururaj, S. "Relationship Between Institutional Investment in High-Value Care (HVC) Performance Improvement and Internal Medicine Residents' Perceptions of HVC Training." Academic Medicine 93, no. 10 (October 2018): 1517-1523. Full Text
  - Vidyarthi, AR, Dhaliwal, G, Monash, B, Shum, KL, Lee, J, and Zaas, AK. "Hot in the Tropics." Journal of Hospital Medicine 12, no. 6 (June 2017): 462-466. (Review) Full Text
  - Boggan, JC, Swaminathan, A, Thomas, S, Simel, DL, Zaas, AK, and Bae, JG. "Improving Timely Resident Follow-Up and Communication of Results in Ambulatory Clinics Utilizing a Web-Based Audit and Feedback Module." Journal of Graduate Medical Education 9, no. 2 (April 2017): 195-200. Full Text
  - Elmariah, H, Thomas, S, Boggan, JC, Zaas, A, and Bae, J. "The Burden of Burnout." American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 32, no. 2 (March 2017): 156-162. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Campbell, EA, Crowley, MJ, Powers, BJ, Sanders, LL, Olsen, MK, Danus, S, McNeill, DB, and Zaas, AK. "Diabetes Quality of Care Before and After Implementation of a Resident Clinic Practice Partnership System." American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 32, no. 1 (January 2017): 66-72. Full Text
  - Dotters-Katz, S, Hargett, CW, Zaas, AK, and Criscione-Schreiber, LG. "What motivates residents to teach? The Attitudes in Clinical Teaching study." Medical Education 50, no. 7 (July 2016): 768-777. Full Text
  - Willett, LL, Halvorsen, AJ, Adams, M, Chacko, KM, Chaudhry, S, McDonald, FS, Oxentenko, AS, Swenson, SL, Zaas, A, and Arora, VM. "Factors Associated with Declining Residency Program Pass Rates on the ABIM Certification Examination." The American journal of medicine 129, no. 7 (July 2016): 759-765. Full Text
  - Suddarth, KH, Jones, RR, O'Malley, CW, Paje, D, Yamazaki, K, Zaas, AK, and Meade, LB. "Implementation of Milestones-Based Assessment for a Safe and Effective Discharge." The American Journal of Medicine 129, no. 6 (June 2016): 640-646. Full Text
  - Broderick-Forsgren, K, Hunter, WG, Schulteis, RD, Liu, W-W, Boggan, JC, Sharma, P, Thomas, S, Zaas, A, and Bae, J. "Doctor Who? A Quality Improvement Project to Assess and Improve Patients' Knowledge of Their Inpatient Physicians." Journal of Graduate Medical Education 8, no. 2 (May 2016): 197-201. Full Text
  - Meade, LB, Suddarth, KH, Jones, RR, Zaas, AK, Albanese, T, Yamazaki, K, and O'Malley, CW. "Patients, Nurses, and Physicians Working Together to Develop a Discharge Entrustable Professional Activity Assessment Tool." Academic Medicine (April 19, 2016). Full Text
  - Husain, S, Sole, A, Alexander, BD, Aslam, S, Avery, R, Benden, C, Billaud, EM, Chambers, D, Danziger-Isakov, L, Fedson, S, Gould, K, Gregson, A, Grossi, P, Hadjiliadis, D, Hopkins, P, Luong, M-L, Marriott, DJE, Monforte, V, Muñoz, P, Pasqualotto, AC, Roman, A, Silveira, FP, Teuteberg, J, Weigt, S, Zaas, AK, Zuckerman, A, and Morrissey, O. "The 2015 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Guidelines for the management of fungal infections in mechanical circulatory support and cardiothoracic organ transplant recipients: Executive summary." The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation : the Official Publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 35, no. 3 (March 2016): 261-282. Full Text
  - Liu, T-Y, Burke, T, Park, LP, Woods, CW, Zaas, AK, Ginsburg, GS, and Hero, AO. "An individualized predictor of health and disease using paired reference and target samples." Bmc Bioinformatics 17 (January 22, 2016): 47-null. Full Text
  - McClain, MT, Nicholson, BP, Park, LP, Liu, T-Y, Hero, AO, Tsalik, EL, Zaas, AK, Veldman, T, Hudson, LL, Lambkin-Williams, R, Gilbert, A, Burke, T, Nichols, M, Ginsburg, GS, and Woods, CW. "A Genomic Signature of Influenza Infection Shows Potential for Presymptomatic Detection, Guiding Early Therapy, and Monitoring Clinical Responses." Open Forum Infectious Diseases 3, no. 1 (January 19, 2016): ofw007-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Tsalik, EL, Henao, R, Nichols, M, Burke, T, Ko, ER, McClain, MT, Hudson, LL, Mazur, A, Freeman, DH, Veldman, T, Langley, RJ, Quackenbush, EB, Glickman, SW, Cairns, CB, Jaehne, AK, Rivers, EP, Otero, RM, Zaas, AK, Kingsmore, SF, Lucas, J, Fowler, VG, Carin, L, Ginsburg, GS, and Woods, CW. "Host gene expression classifiers diagnose acute respiratory illness etiology." Science Translational Medicine 8, no. 322 (January 2016): 322ra11-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Tsalik, EL, McClain, M, and Zaas, AK. "Moving toward prime time: host signatures for diagnosis of respiratory infections." The Journal of infectious diseases 212, no. 2 (July 2015): 173-175. Full Text
  - Rose, JJ, Voora, D, Cyr, DD, Lucas, JE, Zaas, AK, Woods, CW, Newby, LK, Kraus, WE, and Ginsburg, GS. "Gene Expression Profiles Link Respiratory Viral Infection, Platelet Response to Aspirin, and Acute Myocardial Infarction." PloS one 10, no. 7 (January 2015): e0132259-. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Zaas, AK, Garner, BH, Tsalik, EL, Burke, T, Woods, CW, and Ginsburg, GS. "The current epidemiology and clinical decisions surrounding acute respiratory infections." Trends in Molecular Medicine 20, no. 10 (October 2014): 579-588. (Review) Full Text
  - Zaas, AK, Garner, BH, Tsalik, EL, Burke, T, Woods, CW, and Ginsburg, GS. "The current epidemiology and clinical decisions surrounding acute respiratory infections." Trends in Molecular Medicine 20, no. 10 (October 1, 2014): 579-588. (Review) Full Text
  - Boggan, JC, Cheely, G, Shah, BR, Heffelfinger, R, Springall, D, Thomas, SM, Zaas, A, and Bae, J. "A Novel Approach to Practice-Based Learning and Improvement Using a Web-Based Audit and Feedback Module." Journal of Graduate Medical Education 6, no. 3 (September 2014): 541-546. Full Text
  - Xing, Z, Nicholson, B, Jimenez, M, Veldman, T, Hudson, L, Lucas, J, Dunson, D, Zaas, AK, Woods, CW, Ginsburg, GS, and Carin, L. "Bayesian modeling of temporal properties of infectious disease in a college student population." Journal of Applied Statistics 41, no. 6 (June 3, 2014): 1358-1382. Full Text
  - Kraft, BD, Piantadosi, CA, Benjamin, AM, Lucas, JE, Zaas, AK, Betancourt-Quiroz, M, Woods, CW, Chang, AL, Roggli, VL, Marshall, CD, Ginsburg, GS, and Welty-Wolf, K. "Development of a novel preclinical model of pneumococcal pneumonia in nonhuman primates." Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 50, no. 5 (May 2014): 995-1004. Full Text Link to Item
  - Xing, Z, Nicholson, B, Jimenez, M, Veldman, T, Hudson, L, Lucas, J, Dunson, D, Zaas, AK, Woods, CW, Ginsburg, GS, and Carin, L. "Bayesian modeling of temporal properties of infectious disease in a college student population." Journal of Applied Statistics 41, no. 6 (January 1, 2014): 1358-1382. Full Text
  - McClain, MT, Park, LP, Nicholson, B, Veldman, T, Zaas, AK, Turner, R, Lambkin-Williams, R, Gilbert, AS, Ginsburg, GS, and Woods, CW. "Longitudinal analysis of leukocyte differentials in peripheral blood of patients with acute respiratory viral infections." Journal of Clinical Virology 58, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 689-695. Full Text
  - McClain, MT, Park, LP, Nicholson, B, Veldman, T, Zaas, AK, Turner, R, Lambkin-Williams, R, Gilbert, AS, Ginsburg, GS, and Woods, CW. "Longitudinal analysis of leukocyte differentials in peripheral blood of patients with acute respiratory viral infections." Journal of Clinical Virology : the Official Publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology 58, no. 4 (December 2013): 689-695. Full Text
  - Zaas, AK, Burke, T, Chen, M, McClain, M, Nicholson, B, Veldman, T, Tsalik, EL, Fowler, V, Rivers, EP, Otero, R, Kingsmore, SF, Voora, D, Lucas, J, Hero, AO, Carin, L, Woods, CW, and Ginsburg, GS. "A host-based RT-PCR gene expression signature to identify acute respiratory viral infection." Sci Transl Med 5, no. 203 (September 18, 2013): 203ra126-null. Full Text Link to Item
  - Meade, LB, Caverzagie, KJ, Swing, SR, Jones, RR, O'Malley, CW, Yamazaki, K, and Zaas, AK. "Playing with curricular milestones in the educational sandbox: Q-sort results from an internal medicine educational collaborative." Academic Medicine 88, no. 8 (August 2013): 1142-1148. Full Text
  - Wang, H-N, Fales, AM, Zaas, AK, Woods, CW, Burke, T, Ginsburg, GS, and Vo-Dinh, T. "Surface-enhanced Raman scattering molecular sentinel nanoprobes for viral infection diagnostics." Anal Chim Acta 786 (July 5, 2013): 153-158. Full Text Link to Item
  - Bazot, C, Dobigeon, N, Tourneret, J-Y, Zaas, AK, Ginsburg, GS, and Hero, AO. "Unsupervised Bayesian linear unmixing of gene expression microarrays." Bmc Bioinformatics 14 (March 19, 2013): 99-null. Full Text
  - Ahn, SH, Tsalik, EL, Cyr, DD, Zhang, Y, van Velkinburgh, JC, Langley, RJ, Glickman, SW, Cairns, CB, Zaas, AK, Rivers, EP, Otero, RM, Veldman, T, Kingsmore, SF, Lucas, J, Woods, CW, Ginsburg, GS, and Fowler, VG. "Gene expression-based classifiers identify Staphylococcus aureus infection in mice and humans." Plos One 8, no. 1 (January 9, 2013): e48979-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Woods, CW, McClain, MT, Chen, M, Zaas, AK, Nicholson, BP, Varkey, J, Veldman, T, Kingsmore, SF, Huang, Y, Lambkin-Williams, R, Gilbert, AG, Hero, AO, Ramsburg, E, Glickman, S, Lucas, JE, Carin, L, and Ginsburg, GS. "A host transcriptional signature for presymptomatic detection of infection in humans exposed to influenza H1N1 or H3N2." Plos One 8, no. 1 (January 9, 2013): e52198-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Desai, SV, Zaas, A, and Katz, JT. "Professionalism in graduate medical education." JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association 309, no. 11 (2013): 1110-1111. Full Text
  - Meade, LB, Caverzagie, KJ, Swing, SR, Jones, RR, O'Malley, CW, Yamazaki, K, and Zaas, AAK. "Playing with curricular milestones in the educational sandbox: Q-sort results from an internal medicine educational collaborative." Academic Medicine 88, no. 8 (2013): 1142-1148. Full Text
  - Biggs, HM, Chudgar, SM, Pfeiffer, CD, Rice, KR, Zaas, AK, and Wolfe, CR. "Disseminated Mycobacterium immunogenum infection presenting with septic shock and skin lesions in a renal transplant recipient." Transplant Infectious Disease : an Official Journal of the Transplantation Society 14, no. 4 (August 2012): 415-421. Full Text
  - Carin, L, Hero, A, Lucas, J, Dunson, D, Chen, M, Heñao, R, Tibau-Puig, A, Zaas, A, Woods, CW, and Ginsburg, GS. "High-Dimensional Longitudinal Genomic Data: An analysis used for monitoring viral infections." Ieee Signal Processing Magazine 29, no. 1 (January 2012): 108-123. Full Text
  - Hanson, KE, Pfeiffer, CD, Lease, ED, Balch, AH, Zaas, AK, Perfect, JR, and Alexander, BD. "β-D-glucan surveillance with preemptive anidulafungin for invasive candidiasis in intensive care unit patients: a randomized pilot study." Plos One 7, no. 8 (January 2012): e42282-null. Full Text
  - Shapiro, RS, Zaas, AK, Betancourt-Quiroz, M, Perfect, JR, and Cowen, LE. "The Hsp90 co-chaperone Sgt1 governs Candida albicans morphogenesis and drug resistance." Plos One 7, no. 9 (January 2012): e44734-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Peltz, G, Zaas, AK, Zheng, M, Solis, NV, Zhang, MX, Liu, H-H, Hu, Y, Boxx, GM, Phan, QT, Dill, D, and Filler, SG. "Next-generation computational genetic analysis: multiple complement alleles control survival after Candida albicans infection." Infection and Immunity 79, no. 11 (November 2011): 4472-4479. Full Text
  - Huang, Y, Zaas, AK, Rao, A, Dobigeon, N, Woolf, PJ, Veldman, T, Øien, NC, McClain, MT, Varkey, JB, Nicholson, B, Carin, L, Kingsmore, S, Woods, CW, Ginsburg, GS, and Hero, AO. "Temporal dynamics of host molecular responses differentiate symptomatic and asymptomatic influenza a infection." Plos Genetics 7, no. 8 (August 25, 2011): e1002234-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Chen, M, Carlson, D, Zaas, A, Woods, CW, Ginsburg, GS, Hero, A, Lucas, J, and Carin, L. "Detection of viruses via statistical gene expression analysis." Ieee Transactions on Bio Medical Engineering 58, no. 3 (March 2011): 468-479. Full Text
  - Chen, M, Zaas, A, Woods, C, Ginsburg, GS, Lucas, J, Dunson, D, and Carin, L. "Predicting viral infection from high-dimensional biomarker trajectories." Journal of the American Statistical Association 106, no. 496 (2011): 1259-1279. Full Text
  - Puig, AT, Wiesel, A, Zaas, AK, Woods, CW, Ginsburg, GS, Fleury, G, and Hero, AO. "Order-preserving factor analysis-application to longitudinal gene expression." Ieee Transactions on Signal Processing 59, no. 9 (January 1, 2011): 4447-4458. Full Text
  - Puig, AT, Wiesel, A, Zaas, A, Ginsburg, GS, Fleury, G, and Hero, AO. "Order-preserving factor discovery from misaligned data." 2010 Ieee Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Sam 2010 (December 20, 2010): 209-212. Full Text
  - Chen, B, Chen, M, Paisley, J, Zaas, A, Woods, C, Ginsburg, GS, Hero, A, Lucas, J, Dunson, D, and Carin, L. "Bayesian inference of the number of factors in gene-expression analysis: application to human virus challenge studies." Bmc Bioinformatics 11 (November 9, 2010): 552-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Paisley, J, Zaas, A, Woods, CW, Ginsburg, GS, and Carin, L. "A stick-breaking construction of the beta process." Icml 2010 Proceedings, 27th International Conference on Machine Learning (September 17, 2010): 847-854.
  - Ahn, S-H, Deshmukh, H, Johnson, N, Cowell, LG, Rude, TH, Scott, WK, Nelson, CL, Zaas, AK, Marchuk, DA, Keum, S, Lamlertthon, S, Sharma-Kuinkel, BK, Sempowski, GD, and Fowler, VG. "Two genes on A/J chromosome 18 are associated with susceptibility to Staphylococcus aureus infection by combined microarray and QTL analyses." Plos Pathogens 6, no. 9 (September 2, 2010): e1001088-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - LaFayette, SL, Collins, C, Zaas, AK, Schell, WA, Betancourt-Quiroz, M, Gunatilaka, AAL, Perfect, JR, and Cowen, LE. "PKC signaling regulates drug resistance of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans via circuitry comprised of Mkc1, calcineurin, and Hsp90." Plos Pathogens 6, no. 8 (August 26, 2010): e1001069-null. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Pfeiffer, CD, Garcia-Effron, G, Zaas, AK, Perfect, JR, Perlin, DS, and Alexander, BD. "Breakthrough invasive candidiasis in patients on micafungin." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 48, no. 7 (July 2010): 2373-2380. Full Text
  - Zaas, AK, Aziz, H, Lucas, J, Perfect, JR, and Ginsburg, GS. "Blood gene expression signatures predict invasive candidiasis." Sci Transl Med 2, no. 21 (March 3, 2010): 21ra17-. Full Text Link to Item
  - Zaas, AK, Chen, M, Hero, AO, Lucas, J, Carin, L, and Ginsburg, GS. "Response: Improving Development of the Molecular Signature for Diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Viral Infections." Cell Host and Microbe 7, no. 2 (February 18, 2010): 102-null. (Letter) Full Text
  - Zaas, AK, Chen, M, Varkey, J, Veldman, T, Hero, AO, Lucas, J, Huang, Y, Turner, R, Gilbert, A, Lambkin-Williams, R, Øien, NC, Nicholson, B, Kingsmore, S, Carin, L, Woods, CW, and Ginsburg, GS. "Gene expression signatures diagnose influenza and other symptomatic respiratory viral infections in humans." Cell Host & Microbe 6, no. 3 (September 2009): 207-217. Full Text
  - Singh, SD, Robbins, N, Zaas, AK, Schell, WA, Perfect, JR, and Cowen, LE. "Hsp90 governs echinocandin resistance in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans via calcineurin." Plos Pathogens 5, no. 7 (July 31, 2009): e1000532-null. Full Text
  - Shapiro, RS, Uppuluri, P, Zaas, AK, Collins, C, Senn, H, Perfect, JR, Heitman, J, and Cowen, LE. "Hsp90 orchestrates temperature-dependent Candida albicans morphogenesis via Ras1-PKA signaling." Curr Biol 19, no. 8 (April 28, 2009): 621-629. Full Text Link to Item
  - Cowen, LE, Singh, SD, Köhler, JR, Collins, C, Zaas, AK, Schell, WA, Aziz, H, Mylonakis, E, Perfect, JR, Whitesell, L, and Lindquist, S. "Harnessing Hsp90 function as a powerful, broadly effective therapeutic strategy for fungal infectious disease." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106, no. 8 (February 5, 2009): 2818-2823. Full Text
  - Baddley, JW, Perfect, JR, Oster, RA, Larsen, RA, Pankey, GA, Henderson, H, Haas, DW, Kauffman, CA, Patel, R, Zaas, AK, and Pappas, PG. "Pulmonary cryptococcosis in patients without HIV infection: factors associated with disseminated disease." European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases : Official Publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology 27, no. 10 (October 2008): 937-943. Full Text
  - Zaas, AK. "Echinocandins: a wealth of choice--how clinically different are they?." Curr Opin Infect Dis 21, no. 4 (August 2008): 426-432. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Zaas, AK, Liao, G, Chien, JW, Weinberg, C, Shore, D, Giles, SS, Marr, KA, Usuka, J, Burch, LH, Perera, L, Perfect, JR, Peltz, G, and Schwartz, DA. "Plasminogen alleles influence susceptibility to invasive aspergillosis." Plos Genetics 4, no. 6 (June 20, 2008): e1000101-null. Full Text
  - Garantziotis, S, Hollingsworth, JW, Zaas, AK, and Schwartz, DA. "The effect of toll-like receptors and toll-like receptor genetics in human disease." Annual Review of Medicine 59 (January 2008): 343-359. (Review) Full Text
  - Giles, SS, Zaas, AK, Reidy, MF, Perfect, JR, and Wright, JR. "Cryptococcus neoformans is resistant to surfactant protein A mediated host defense mechanisms. (Published online)" PLoS One 2, no. 12 (December 26, 2007): e1370-. Full Text Link to Item
  - Reddy, AJ, Zaas, AK, Hanson, KE, and Palmer, SM. "A single-center experience with ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus in lung transplant recipients: treatment and outcome." J Heart Lung Transplant 26, no. 12 (December 2007): 1286-1292. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hollingsworth, JW, Shofer, S, and Zaas, A. "Successful treatment of Ochroconis gallopavum infection in an immunocompetent host." Infection 35, no. 5 (October 2007): 367-369. Full Text Link to Item
  - Dodds Ashley, ES, Zaas, AK, Fang, AF, Damle, B, and Perfect, JR. "Comparative pharmacokinetics of voriconazole administered orally as either crushed or whole tablets." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 51, no. 3 (March 2007): 877-880. Full Text
  - Aziz, H, Zaas, A, and Ginsburg, GS. "Peripheral blood gene expression profiling for cardiovascular disease assessment." Genomic Medicine 1, no. 3-4 (January 2007): 105-112. Full Text
  - Zaas, AK, and Perfect, JR. "Pulmonary fungal infections: Making the diagnosis." Infections in Medicine 24, no. 4 (2007): 156-168.
  - Zaas, AK, Dodds Ashley, ES, Alexander, BD, Johnson, MD, and Perfect, JR. "Caspofungin for invasive candidiasis at a tertiary care medical center." The American Journal of Medicine 119, no. 11 (November 2006): 993.e1-993.e6. Full Text
  - Zaas, AK. "Host genetics affect susceptibility to invasive aspergillosis." Medical Mycology 44, no. Supplement_1 (September 2006): S55-S60. Full Text
  - Zaas, AK, and Alexander, BD. "Galactomannan and advances in fungal diagnostics." Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation 10, no. 4 (December 1, 2005): 307-311. (Review) Full Text
  - Steinbach, WJ, Perfect, JR, Cabell, CH, Fowler, VG, Corey, GR, Li, JS, Zaas, AK, and Benjamin, DK. "A meta-analysis of medical versus surgical therapy for Candida endocarditis." The Journal of Infection 51, no. 3 (October 2005): 230-247. Full Text
  - Zaas, AK, and Alexander, BD. "Echinocandins: role in antifungal therapy, 2005." Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy 6, no. 10 (August 2005): 1657-1668. (Review) Full Text
  - Zaas, AK, and Schwartz, DA. "Innate immunity and the lung: defense at the interface between host and environment." Trends Cardiovasc Med 15, no. 6 (August 2005): 195-202. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Zaas, AK, and Steinbach, WJ. "Micafungin: the US perspective." Expert Review of Anti Infective Therapy 3, no. 2 (April 2005): 183-190. (Review) Full Text
  - Zaas, AK, and Alexander, BD. "New developments in the diagnosis and treatment of infections in lung transplant recipients." Respir Care Clin N Am 10, no. 4 (December 2004): 531-547. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Steinbach, WJ, Benjamin, DK, Trasi, SA, Miller, JL, Schell, WA, Zaas, AK, Foster, WM, and Perfect, JR. "Value of an inhalational model of invasive aspergillosis." Medical Mycology 42, no. 5 (October 2004): 417-425. Full Text
  - Steinbach, WJ, and Zaas, AK. "Newer animal models of Aspergillus and Candida infections." Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 87-93. (Review) Full Text
  - Zaas, AK, Boyce, M, Schell, W, Lodge, BA, Miller, JL, and Perfect, JR. "Risk of fungemia due to Rhodotorula and antifungal susceptibility testing of Rhodotorula isolates." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 41, no. 11 (November 2003): 5233-5235. Full Text
  - Toonkel, R, and Zaas, A. "Cases from the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins University." Am J Med 115, no. 6 (October 15, 2003): 497-500. Link to Item
  - Zaas, AK, and Perfect, JR. "Pulmonary fungal infections: Making the diagnosis." Journal of Respiratory Diseases 24, no. 10 (October 1, 2003): 433-444.
  - Piccini, J, and Zaas, A. "Cases from the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins University. Diffuse colonic angiodysplasia with chronic iron deficiency anemia." Am J Med 115, no. 3 (August 15, 2003): 245-248. Link to Item
  - Piccini, J, and Zaas, A. "Cases from the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins University." American Journal of Medicine 115, no. 3 (August 15, 2003): 245-248. Full Text
  - Piccini, J, and Zaas, A. "Cases from the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins University. Digitalis toxicity with bidirectional ventricular tachycardia." Am J Med 115, no. 1 (July 2003): 70-71. Link to Item
  - Passaretti, C, and Zaas, A. "Cases from the Osler medical service at Johns Hopkins University." Am J Med 114, no. 7 (May 2003): 613-616. Link to Item
  - McGirt, MJ, Zaas, A, Fuchs, HE, George, TM, Kaye, K, and Sexton, DJ. "Risk factors for pediatric ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection and predictors of infectious pathogens." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 36, no. 7 (April 2003): 858-862. Full Text
  - Grow, RW, and Zaas, A. "Cases from the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins University." Am J Med 114, no. 2 (February 1, 2003): 153-155. Link to Item
  - Piccini, J, and Zaas, A. "Cases from the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins University." American Journal of Medicine 115, no. 1 (January 1, 2003): 70-71. Full Text
  - Le, D, and Zaas, A. "Cases from the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins University. Left atrial myxoma." Am J Med 113, no. 8 (December 1, 2002): 694-696. Link to Item
  - Zaas, AK, Song, X, Tucker, P, and Perl, TM. "Risk factors for development of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal bloodstream infection in patients with cancer who are colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococci." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 35, no. 10 (November 2002): 1139-1146. Full Text
  - Le, D, and Zaas, A. "Cases from the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins University." American Journal of Medicine 113, no. 8 (2002): 694-696. Full Text
  - Zaas, A, Scheel, P, Venbrux, A, and Hellmann, DB. "Large artery vasculitis following recombinant hepatitis B vaccination: 2 cases." J Rheumatol 28, no. 5 (May 2001): 1116-1120. Link to Item
  - Zaas, AK, Song, XY, Perl, TM, and Tucker, PC. "Nosocomial vancomycin-resistant enterococcal blood stream infection (VRE-BSI) development in oncology patients colonized with vancomycin-resistant Enterococci(VRE-C)." CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES 31, no. 1 (July 2000): 278-278. Link to Item
- Book Sections
  - Steinbach, WJ. "Clinical aspects of the genus aspergillus." In The Aspergilli: Genomics, Medical Aspects, Biotechnology, and Research Methods, 359-375. January 1, 2007. Full Text
- Conference Papers
  - Boggan, JC, Patel, VA, and Zaas, AK. "A BLAST FROM THE PAST: RESIDENT AND FACULTY ATTITUDES WITH RE-INSTITUTION OF 24+4-HOUR CALL AT ONE MEDICAL CENTER." April 2015. Link to Item
  - Meade, LB, Heist, KA, Jones, R, O'Malley, C, Yamazaki, K, and Zaas, AK. "A SAFE AND EFFECTIVE DISCHARGE CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTED IN ELEVEN INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAMS OF THE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH OUTCOMES COLLABORATIVE." April 2015. Link to Item
  - Willett, LL, Halvorsen, AJ, Adams, M, Arora, VM, Chacko, K, McDonald, FS, Oxentenko, A, Swenson, SL, Zaas, AK, and Chaudhry, S. "DECLINING PASS RATES OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION: PROGRAM DIRECTORS' PERSPECTIVES." April 2015. Link to Item
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- MGM 293: Research Independent Study I 2019

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