Infectious Disease Fellowship

Select Publications by Fellows

Arya Zandvakili (graduating 2025)

  • Zandvakili A, Kobayashi T, Seligman K, Parsons MG, Ford B, Bayon R, Herwaldt LA. A 58-Year-Old Male With a Chronic Sore Throat. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Sep 11;77(5):792-794. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad043. PMID: 37696670

Nirmal Muthukumarasamy (graduating 2024)

  • Muthukumarasamy N, Suzuki H.  Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics, Treatment and Outcome of Mucormycosis during COVID-19 Pandemic in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) System.  IDWeek 2023, Boston.  Manuscript in development. 

Andrew Simms (graduated 2024)

  • Simms AJ, Kobayashi T, Schwartzhoff PV, Sekar P. Prosthetic hip infection due to <i>Campylobacter jejuni</i>. BMJ Case Rep. 2022 Mar 10;15(3):e248240. doi:10.1136/bcr-2021-248240. PMID: 35272991; PMCID: PMC8915350.

Michael Olthoff (graduated 2023)

  • Olthoff M, Kobayashi T, Parsons M, Ford B, Prasidthrathsint K, Non L, Salinas J, Diekema D and Ince D.  Impact of metagenomic next-generation sequencing on clinical decision-making at an academic medical center, a retrospective study, Iowa, 2020–2022.  Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology, 2024; 4, e39, 1-4.

Joseph Tholany (graduated 2022)

Matthew Smith (graduated 2022)

  • Smith M, Kobayashi T, Sekar P. Antibody testing to distinguish between histoplasmosis and blastomycosis. BMJ Case Rep. 2021 May 31;14(5):e243587. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-243587.
  • Livorsi, DJ, Nair, R, Dysangco, A, Aylward, A, Alexander, B, Smith, MW, Kouba, S, Perencevich, EN. Using audit-and-feedback to improve antimicrobial-prescribing in Emergency Departments: a multicenter quasi-experimental study in the Veterans Health Administration. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, ofab186, April 14, 2021.
  • Smith, M. W., Carrel, M., & Goto, M. (2023). County-level spatiotemporal distribution of fluoroquinolone-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in outpatient settings of the Veterans’ Health Administration, 2000–2017. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 44(9), 1497-1499
  • Carrel, M., Shi, Q., Clore, G. S., Hasegawa, S., Smith, M., Perencevich, E. N., & Goto, M. (2024). Assessing the potential for improved predictive capacity of antimicrobial resistance in outpatient Staphylococcus aureus isolates using seasonal and spatial antibiograms. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, 13(1), 1-6.
  • Smith, M. & Herwaldt, L (2023). Nasal decolonization: What antimicrobials and antiseptics are most effective before surgery and in the ICU. American Journal of Infection Control. 51(11), A64-A71.
  • Smith, M., Crnich, C., Donskey, C., Evans, C. T., Evans, M., Goto, M., ... & Perencevich, E. N. (2024). Research agenda for transmission prevention within the Veterans Health Administration, 2024–2028. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1-10.
  • Smith, M. W., O’Shea, A. M., & Wray, C. M. (2023). Health Care and Climate Change—Telemedicine’s Role in Environmental Stewardship. JAMA network open, 6(1), e2253794-e2253794
  • Smith, M. W., Hernandez, L. V., Lee, P., Martinello, R. A., Singh, H., & Sherman, J. D. (2024). Single-Use vs. Reusable Duodenoscopes: How Infection Knowledge Gaps Are Driving Environmental Harm and What Can Be Done. Gastroenterology, S0016-5085

Fernando Casado Castillo (graduated 2021)

Edin Pujagic (graduated 2021)

Htay Phyu (graduated 2020)

Takaaki Kobayashi (graduated 2020)

Sammantha Kouba (graduated 2020)

Hiroyuki Suzuki (graduated 2019)