Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Infectious Disease Fellowship, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2012 - 2014
  • Internal Medicine Residency, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2009 - 2012
  • Assistant Chief Resident, Medicine, Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center 2012
  • M.D., University of Virginia School of Medicine 2009
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2015 - 2017
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • DICON Program for Infection Prevention in the NFL awarded by National Football League 2014 - 2020
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Dicks, KV, and Stout, JE. "Molecular Diagnostics for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection." Annual Review of Medicine 70 (January 2019): 77-90.  Full Text
    • Dicks, KV, Holland, DP, Allen, MG, Fortenberry, ER, Luffman, J, Zeringue, E, Wheeler, J, and Stout, JE. "Impact of radiology reports on timely tuberculosis diagnosis." Postgraduate Medical Journal 94, no. 1115 (September 19, 2018): 495-498.  Full Text
    • Clifton, DC, Clement, ME, Holland, TL, Cox, GM, Dicks, KV, and Stout, JE. "Suboptimal HIV Testing Among Patients Admitted With Pneumonia: A Missed Opportunity." AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 29, no. 4 (August 2017): 377-388.  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
    • Stout, JE, and Dicks, KV. "A Breath of Fresh Air for Patients with Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection." American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 195, no. 6 (March 2017): 716-717.  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
    • Dicks, KV, Lofgren, E, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "A Multicenter Pragmatic Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing in Community Hospital Intensive Care Units." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 37, no. 7 (July 2016): 791-797.  Full Text
    • Stout, JE, and Dicks, KV. "Calculating the economic benefits of what didn't happen." The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 20, no. 7 (July 2016): 854-.  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
    • Lewis, SS, Dicks, KV, Chen, LF, Bolognesi, MP, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, and Moehring, RW. "Delay in diagnosis of invasive surgical site infections following knee arthroplasty versus hip arthroplasty." Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 60, no. 7 (April 2015): 990-996.  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
    • 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
    • Moehring, RW, Lewis, SS, Isaacs, PJ, Schell, WA, Thomann, WR, Althaus, MM, Hazen, KC, Dicks, KV, Lipuma, JJ, Chen, LF, and Sexton, DJ. "Outbreak of bacteremia due to Burkholderia contaminans linked to intravenous fentanyl from an institutional compounding pharmacy." Jama Internal Medicine 174, no. 4 (April 2014): 606-612.  Full Text
    • Dicks, KV, Staheli, R, Anderson, DJ, Miller, BA, Jones, WS, Harrison, JK, Sexton, DJ, Moehring, RW, and Chen, LF. ""What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over": epidemiology and risk factors for bloodstream infections following cardiac catheterization." Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33, no. 8 (August 2012): 837-841.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • 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

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