Transplant ID Faculty
Ochsner Health
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
I am a transplant-focused infectious diseases physician who completed ID training at the Medical College of Georgia/Augusta University and a one-year Transplant & Immunocompromised Host ID fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. My interests include invasive fungal infections, diagnostics in immunocompromised hosts, and antimicrobial stewardship. Current work includes a meta-analysis of pulmonary nocardiosis in lung transplant recipients; creating institutional antibiogram for various nocardia species, evaluating treatment duration for Gram-negative bloodstream infections; Strongyloides screening in solid organ transplant; and case-based/educational pieces (Doctor Fungus) and transplant infection discussions on West Nile virus, toxoplasmosis, CMV, and invasive mold disease.