Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Medicine
·
2025 - Present
Medicine, Infectious Diseases,
Medicine
Recent Publications
Invasive surgical site infections after lung transplantation: contemporary risk factors and associated clinical outcomes.
Journal Article JHLT Open · August 2025 BACKGROUND: Invasive primary surgical site infections (IP-SSI) complicate lung transplant (LT) surgery. Identification of IP-SSI risk factors is critical to IP-SSI prevention. METHODS: This single-center retrospective cohort study of adult patients who und ... Full text Link to item CiteCardiac Kaposi Sarcoma Complicated by Kaposi Sarcoma Inflammatory Cytokine Syndrome: A Case Report.
Journal Article Cureus · January 2025 Kaposi sarcoma (KS), caused by human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8), is among the most common malignancies in people living with HIV. Kaposi sarcoma is an angiogenic endothelial cell neoplasm and an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-defining illness. Kaposi ... Full text CiteVariation in subsequent viral load testing and outcomes by visit type patterns in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic at a large academic medical center in North Carolina.
Journal Article Mhealth · 2025 While telehealth was widely used to provide human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, research evaluating viral suppression by visit type is conflicting. This study assessed variation in viral load (VL ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
RFTOP 2022 Domain 5-E003 Strategic Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Determinants of Health Data in National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Measures to Promote Health Equity
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2022 - 2025Leveraging National Healthcare Safety Network Antimicrobial Use Option to Inform, Implement and Assess Antibiotic Stewardship Activities
ResearchBioinformatician I · Awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2022 - 2023View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Duke University, School of Medicine ·
2020
M.M.
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine ·
2014
M.D.