Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Transplant Infectious Disease Fellowship, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2014 - 2016
  • Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2012 - 2016
  • M.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2015
  • Internal Medicine Residency, University of Virginia School of Medicine 2008 - 2011
  • M.D., University of Kentucky College of Medicine 2008
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • DICON Program for Infection Prevention in the NFL awarded by National Football League 2014 - 2020
  • Predictors of Recurrent Multidrug-Resistant UTI and Impact of FMT on Recurrence awarded by Washington University School of Medicine 2016 - 2020
  • Prevention of Surgical Site Infection using Statistical Process Control Charts awarded by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2015 - 2020
  • Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing Evaluation and Comparison Project (CHECkuP) awarded by Rush University Medical Center 2016 - 2019
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Turner, N, Strand, A, Grewal, DS, Cox, G, Arif, S, Baker, AW, Maziarz, EK, Saullo, JH, and Wolfe, CR. "Use of Letermovir as Salvage Therapy for Drug-Resistant Cytomegalovirus Retinitis." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 63, no. 3 (March 2019).  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Baker, AW, Maziarz, EK, Arnold, CJ, Johnson, MD, Workman, AD, Reynolds, JM, Perfect, JR, and Alexander, BD. "Invasive Fungal Infection after Lung Transplantation: Epidemiology in the Setting of Antifungal Prophylaxis." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (February 25, 2019).  Full Text
    • Chung, SJ, Miller, RA, Permpalung, N, Baker, AW, Diehl, LF, Rizzieri, DA, and Alexander, BD. "Fluoroquinolone prophylaxis reduces febrile neutropenia, bloodstream infections from mucosal translocations, and intensive care admissions in high risk hematological patients, a single center experience." Leukemia & Lymphoma 60, no. 2 (February 2019): 488-492.  Full Text
    • Baker, AW, Haridy, S, Salem, J, Ilieş, I, Ergai, AO, Samareh, A, Andrianas, N, Benneyan, JC, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Performance of statistical process control methods for regional surgical site infection surveillance: a 10-year multicentre pilot study." Bmj Quality & Safety 27, no. 8 (August 2018): 600-610.  Full Text
    • Seidelman, J, Baker, AW, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, and Lewis, SS. "Do Periarticular Joint Infections Present an Increase in Infection Risk?." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 39, no. 7 (July 2018): 890-891. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Moehring, RW, Dodds Ashley, ES, Ren, X, Lokhnygina, Y, Baker, AW, Jones, TM, Lewis, SS, Sexton, DJ, Anderson, DJ, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epicenters Program, . "Denominator Matters in Estimating Antimicrobial Use: A Comparison of Days Present and Patient Days." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 39, no. 5 (May 2018): 612-615.  Full Text
    • Baker, AW, Edmond, MB, Herwaldt, LA, Chen, LF, Srikantaswamy, S, and Sexton, DJ. "Real-Time Surveillance of Influenza Morbidity: Tracking Intensive Care Unit Resource Utilization." Annals of the American Thoracic Society 14, no. 12 (December 2017): 1810-1817.  Full Text
    • Seidelman, J, Dicks, KV, Durkin, MJ, Baker, AW, Moehring, RW, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, Chen, LF, and Lewis, SS. "Using Clinical Scenarios to Understand Preventability of Clostridium difficile Infections by Inpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Programs." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 38, no. 6 (June 2017): 747-749.  Full Text
    • Baker, AW, Lewis, SS, Alexander, BD, Chen, LF, Wallace, RJ, Brown-Elliott, BA, Isaacs, PJ, Pickett, LC, Patel, CB, Smith, PK, Reynolds, JM, Engel, J, Wolfe, CR, Milano, CA, Schroder, JN, Davis, RD, Hartwig, MG, Stout, JE, Strittholt, N, Maziarz, EK, Saullo, JH, Hazen, KC, Walczak, RJ, Vasireddy, R, Vasireddy, S, McKnight, CM, Anderson, DJ, and Sexton, DJ. "Two-Phase Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus: Investigation and Mitigation." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 64, no. 7 (April 2017): 902-911.  Full Text
    • Dicks, KV, Anderson, DJ, Baker, AW, Sexton, DJ, and Lewis, SS. "Clinical Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization Related to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Infections in Community Hospitals." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 38, no. 1 (January 2017): 31-38.  Full Text
    • Baker, AW, Dicks, KV, Durkin, MJ, Weber, DJ, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Epidemiology of Surgical Site Infection in a Community Hospital Network." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 37, no. 5 (May 2016): 519-526.  Full Text
    • Dicks, KV, Baker, AW, Durkin, MJ, Anderson, DJ, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, Weber, DJ, and Lewis, SS. "Short Operative Duration and Surgical Site Infection Risk in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Procedures." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 36, no. 12 (December 2015): 1431-1436.  Full Text
    • Durkin, MJ, Dicks, KV, Baker, AW, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Seasonal Variation of Common Surgical Site Infections: Does Season Matter?." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 36, no. 9 (September 2015): 1011-1016.  Full Text
    • Durkin, MJ, Dicks, KV, Baker, AW, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, Lewis, SS, and Anderson, DJ. "Postoperative infection in spine surgery: does the month matter?." Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine 23, no. 1 (July 2015): 128-134.  Full Text
    • Dicks, KV, Baker, AW, Durkin, MJ, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, and Chen, LF. "The potential impact of excluding funguria from the surveillance definition of catheter-associated urinary tract infection." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 36, no. 4 (April 2015): 467-469.  Full Text
    • Durkin, MJ, Baker, AW, Dicks, KV, Lewis, SS, Chen, LF, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, and Moehring, RW. "A comparison between National Healthcare Safety Network laboratory-identified event reporting versus traditional surveillance for Clostridium difficile infection." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 36, no. 2 (February 2015): 125-131.  Full Text
    • Baker, AW, Durkin, MJ, Dicks, KV, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection surveillance: National Healthcare Safety Network's laboratory-identified event reporting versus traditional laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection surveillance." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 35, no. 10 (October 2014): 1286-1289.  Full Text
    • Baker, AW, and Chen, LF. "Letter to the editor regarding: "Effectiveness of local vancomycin powder to decrease surgical site infections: a meta-analysis" by Chiang et al." The Spine Journal : Official Journal of the North American Spine Society 14, no. 6 (June 2014): 1092-null. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Dicks, KV, Lewis, SS, Durkin, MJ, Baker, AW, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Surveying the surveillance: surgical site infections excluded by the January 2013 updated surveillance definitions." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 35, no. 5 (May 2014): 570-573.  Full Text
    • Baker, AW, Enfield, K, Mehring, B, Turner, JC, and Sifri, CD. "Local influenza-like illness surveillance at a university health system during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic." American Journal of Infection Control 40, no. 7 (September 2012): 606-610.  Full Text
    • Boggan, JC, Baker, AW, Lewis, SS, Dicks, KV, Durkin, MJ, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Knelson, LP, Hegland, DD, and Anderson, DJ. "An Automated Surveillance Strategy to Identify Infectious Complications Following Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Procedures(Published online)." Open Forum Infectious Diseases : ofv128-ofv128.  Full Text  Open Access Copy

  • Conference Papers

    • Maziarz, EK, Baker, AW, Patel, CB, Patel, P, Milano, CA, Schroder, JN, Daneshmand, MA, Alexander, BD, and Wolfe, CR. "Invasive Mycobacterium abscessus Infection in Heart Transplant Recipients." April 2017.  Link to Item
    • Wolfe, CR, Baker, AW, Patel, CB, Patel, PA, Milano, CA, Schroder, JN, Daneshmand, MA, Alexander, BD, and Maziarz, EK. "Mycobacterium Abscessus Infection in Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices." April 2017.  Link to Item

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