Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Chief Resident, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2011 - 2012
  • Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2010 - 2011
  • Residency, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2007 - 2010
  • M.D., University of Nebraska, College of Medicine 2007
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2017 - 2020
  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2013 - 2017
  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2011 - 2013
  • Instructor Temporary in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2011
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • VTEU 14-0053 Task C Option 2 Protocol Implementation awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2024
  • VTEU 14-0053 Task C Option 4 Protocol Implementation awarded by National Institutes of Health 2019 - 2023
  • VTEU 14-0053 Task C Option 3 Protocol Implementation awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2023
  • Transplant Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Training Grant (TIDIRTG) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2023
  • Comparison of High Dose vs. Standard Dose Influenza Vaccines in Lung Allograft Recipients (U01) awarded by Vanderbilt University Medical Center 2022 - 2023
  • VTEU 14-0053 Task Area A Project Logistics and Site Activation awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2019
  • VTEU: Task Area C: Protocol Implementation - Option 2 Protocol #14-0053 awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2019
  • Global Survey of Bloodstream Infections in High Risk Neutropenic Cancer Patients awarded by University of Nebraska Medical Center 2016 - 2018
  • VTEU: Base -Task Area A: Project Logistics and Site Activation Protocol #14-0053 awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2017
  • VTEU: Option 1-Task Area B: Protocol Development Protocol #14-0053 awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2016
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Zimmer, Andrea J., Erica Stohs, Jane Meza, Christopher Arnold, John W. Baddley, Pranatharthi Chandrasekar, Zeinab El Boghdadly, et al. “Bloodstream Infections in Hematologic Malignancy Patients With Fever and Neutropenia: Are Empirical Antibiotic Therapies in the United States Still Effective?” Open Forum Infect Dis 9, no. 7 (July 2022): ofac240. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac240.
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    • Saullo, Jennifer L., Arthur W. Baker, Laurie D. Snyder, John M. Reynolds, Lorenzo Zaffiri, Emily M. Eichenberger, Alana Ferrari, et al. “Cytomegalovirus prevention in thoracic organ transplantation: A single-center evaluation of letermovir prophylaxis.” J Heart Lung Transplant 41, no. 4 (April 2022): 508–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2021.12.005.
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    • Yarrington, Michael E., Rebekah H. Wrenn, Justin Spivey, Christopher J. Shoff, Eileen K. Maziarz, S Shaefer Spires, Nicholas A. Turner, Anthony Diez, Deverick J. Anderson, and Rebekah W. Moehring. “Well-being tradeoffs: Effect of loosening overnight restrictions on antimicrobial starts.” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 43, no. 2 (February 2022): 255–57. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.340.
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    • Messina, Julia A., Eileen K. Maziarz, John Galgiani, Jonathan T. Truong, Aung K. Htoo, Arash Heidari, Royce H. Johnson, et al. “A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of fluconazole as early empiric treatment of coccidioidomycosis pneumonia (Valley Fever) in adults presenting with community-acquired pneumonia in endemic areas (FLEET-Valley Fever).” Contemp Clin Trials Commun 24 (December 2021): 100851. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2021.100851.
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    • Baker, Arthur W., Eileen K. Maziarz, Sarah S. Lewis, Jason E. Stout, Deverick J. Anderson, Peter K. Smith, Jacob N. Schroder, et al. “Invasive Mycobacterium abscessus Complex Infection After Cardiac Surgery: Epidemiology, Management, and Clinical Outcomes.” Clin Infect Dis 72, no. 7 (April 8, 2021): 1232–40. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa215.
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    • Spivey, Justin, Rebekah Wrenn, Beiyu Liu, Eileen Maziarz, and Bridgette Kram. “Characterization of Isavuconazole serum concentrations after enteral feeding tube administration in a hospitalized cohort: A case series.” J Clin Pharm Ther 46, no. 2 (April 2021): 528–31. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpt.13317.
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    • Melia, Michael T., Armando Paez, Gail Reid, Lisa M. Chirch, Vera P. Luther, Brian G. Blackburn, Federico Perez, et al. “The Struggling Infectious Diseases Fellow: Remediation Challenges and Opportunities.” Open Forum Infect Dis 7, no. 3 (March 2020): ofaa058. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa058.
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    • Steinbrink, Julie M., David K. Hong, Stephen P. Bergin, Rami N. Al-Rohil, John R. Perfect, and Eileen K. Maziarz. “The robust and rapid role of molecular testing in precision fungal diagnostics: A case report.” Med Mycol Case Rep 27 (March 2020): 77–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.02.003.
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    • Baker, Arthur W., Eileen K. Maziarz, Christopher J. Arnold, Melissa D. Johnson, Adrienne D. Workman, John M. Reynolds, John R. Perfect, and Barbara D. Alexander. “Invasive Fungal Infection After Lung Transplantation: Epidemiology in the Setting of Antifungal Prophylaxis.” Clin Infect Dis 70, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 30–39. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz156.
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    • Chung, Shimin J., Andrew M. Strand, Louis R. Dibernardo, Erica Mitchell, Michael Malinzak, Eileen K. Maziarz, and Cameron R. Wolfe. “Confusion, Headache, and Constitutional Symptoms in a Heart Transplant Recipient.” Clin Infect Dis 68, no. 11 (May 17, 2019): 1968–73. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy519.
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    • Turner, Nicholas, Andrew Strand, Dilraj S. Grewal, Gary Cox, Sana Arif, Arthur W. Baker, Eileen K. Maziarz, Jennifer H. Saullo, and Cameron R. Wolfe. “Use of Letermovir as Salvage Therapy for Drug-Resistant Cytomegalovirus Retinitis.” Antimicrob Agents Chemother 63, no. 3 (March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.02337-18.
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    • Baker, Arthur W., Sarah S. Lewis, Barbara D. Alexander, Luke F. Chen, Richard J. Wallace, Barbara A. Brown-Elliott, Pamela J. Isaacs, et al. “Two-Phase Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus: Investigation and Mitigation.” Clin Infect Dis 64, no. 7 (April 1, 2017): 902–11. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw877.
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    • Messina, J. A., E. K. Maziarz, A. Spec, D. P. Kontoyiannis, and J. R. Perfect. “Disseminated cryptococcosis with brain involvement in patients with chronic lymphoid malignancies on ibrutinib.” Open Forum Infectious Diseases 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1093/oid/ofw261.
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    • Messina, Julia A., Eileen K. Maziarz, Andrej Spec, Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, and John R. Perfect. “Disseminated Cryptococcosis With Brain Involvement in Patients With Chronic Lymphoid Malignancies on Ibrutinib.” Open Forum Infect Dis 4, no. 1 (2017): ofw261. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw261.
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    • Maziarz, Eileen K., and John R. Perfect. “Cryptococcosis.” Infect Dis Clin North Am 30, no. 1 (March 2016): 179–206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2015.10.006.
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    • Clement, Meredith E., Eileen K. Maziarz, Jacob N. Schroder, Chetan B. Patel, and John R. Perfect. “Scedosporium apiosermum infection of the "Native" valve: Fungal endocarditis in an orthotopic heart transplant recipient.” Med Mycol Case Rep 9 (September 2015): 34–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.07.005.
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    • Spector, Tara B., and Eileen K. Maziarz. “Pertussis.” Med Clin North Am 97, no. 4 (July 2013): 537–ix. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcna.2013.02.004.
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    • Maziarz, E. K., and J. R. Perfect. “IRIS and fungal infections: What have we learned?” Current Fungal Infection Reports 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2012): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12281-011-0075-5.
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    • Mikuls, Ted R., Jeffrey B. Payne, Richard A. Reinhardt, Geoffrey M. Thiele, Eileen Maziarz, Amy C. Cannella, V Michael Holers, Kristine A. Kuhn, and James R. O’Dell. “Antibody responses to Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. gingivalis) in subjects with rheumatoid arthritis and periodontitis.” Int Immunopharmacol 9, no. 1 (January 2009): 38–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intimp.2008.09.008.
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  • Book Sections

    • Maziarz, E. K., and J. R. Perfect. “Cryptococcosis.” In Diagnosis and Treatment of Fungal Infections, 175–93, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/9783319130903_15.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Leonard, S. M., A. Friedland, E. K. Maziarz, J. M. Reynolds, and K. A. Young. “Engineered Bacteriophage for Treatment of Disseminated Drug Resistant Mycobacterium Abscessus in a Lung Transplant Recipient.” In American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 205, 2022.
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    • Cole, R. T., A. Devore, A. Morris, T. Alexy, J. M. Ortega-Legaspi, M. Flattery, E. Maziarz, et al. “A Multi-Center Study of CMV Prophylaxis Strategies in Intermediate Risk (R plus ) Heart Transplant Recipients.” In Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 40:S115–S115, 2021.
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    • Ortega-Legaspi, J., A. Morris, M. Flattery, T. Alexy, A. Devore, V. Maharaj, C. Martin, et al. “Efficacy of 3 Months vs. 6 Months of Valganciclovir Prophylaxis for Heart Transplant Recipients at Intermediate Risk (R plus ) for CMV Complications.” In Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 40:S116–17, 2021.
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    • Berry, H., J. Byrns, L. Crona, T. Capes, J. M. Steinbrink, E. K. Maziarz, and C. R. Wolfe. “Pharmacy Led Initiatives for Treatment of Transplant Recipients of Hepatitis C Viremic Donors in a High Volume Transplant Center.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 20:393–393, 2020.
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    • Kakoullis, S. A., E. M. Eichenberger, J. M. Steinbrink, E. Maziarz, H. Ali, H. Berry, J. Haney, J. Klapper, J. M. Reynolds, and C. R. Wolfe. “Viremic Hepatitis C (HCV) Donors a Viable Option for Lung Transplant Recipients Treated with Real World Delayed Therapy.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 20:522–23, 2020.
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    • Saullo, J. L., A. Ferrari, E. M. Eichenberger, J. M. Steinbrink, A. W. Baker, M. Bacchus, E. K. Maziarz, et al. “Use of Letermovir for Cytomegalovirus Management in Thoracic Organ Transplantation.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 20:379–80, 2020.
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    • Steinbrink, J. M., J. Byrns, L. Crona, M. Ellis, S. Sanoff, E. K. Maziarz, and C. R. Wolfe. “Real-World Experiences in the Transplantation of Hepatitis C Positive Kidneys.” In American Journal of Transplantation, 20:827–827, 2020.
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    • Steinbrink, Julie, Jennifer Byrns, Lana Crona, Marion Hemmersbach-Miller, Deepak Vikraman, Aparna Rege, Bradley Collins, Matthew Ellis, Eileen Maziarz, and Cameron Wolfe. “206.1: Less wait is great! Donors with hepatitis C offer hope to kidney transplants.” In Transplantation, 103:S23–24. Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2019. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.tp.0000611672.60126.08.
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    • Thaniyavarn, T., A. Strand, S. C. Hume, E. K. Maziarz, L. Zaffiri, and C. R. Wolfe. “Early Rhinovirus Infection After Lung Transplantation - Simply the Innocent Bystander?” In The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 37:S358–S358. Elsevier BV, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2018.01.919.
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    • Maziarz, E. K., A. W. Baker, C. B. Patel, P. Patel, C. A. Milano, J. N. Schroder, M. A. Daneshmand, B. D. Alexander, and C. R. Wolfe. “Invasive Mycobacterium abscessus Infection in Heart Transplant Recipients.” In Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 36:S25–S25. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2017.
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    • Wolfe, C. R., A. W. Baker, C. B. Patel, P. A. Patel, C. A. Milano, J. N. Schroder, M. A. Daneshmand, B. D. Alexander, and E. K. Maziarz. “Mycobacterium Abscessus Infection in Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices.” In Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 36:S257–S257. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2017.
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