Eric A. Meyerowitz

Eric A. Meyerowitz, M.D.

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  • Montefiore Medical Center 3444 Kossuth Avenue Bronx, NY 10467

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Professional Interests

Dr. Meyerowitz is a clinician educator with interests in HIV and other viral diseases, complex infectious diseases, and sexually transmitted infections. His goal is to provide excellent and compassionate care that meets the needs of all of his patients.

Dr. Meyerowitz received his MD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his internship and residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he was a member of the HIV Medicine Pathway, training in the Madison Clinic, a dedicated HIV clinic. He then completed his fellowship in infectious diseases in the HIV Clinician Educator track at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He joined the infectious diseases division at Albert Einstein Montefiore Medical Center in July 2020, spending time in outpatient clinics at the Oval Center and the Center for Positive Living, as well as time on the inpatient consultation services at the Moses Campus of Montefiore Medical Center.

Clinical interests:

- HIV prevention and treatment, including treatment of opportunistic infections

- Gender affirming care

- Care for people who inject drugs

- SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 transmission, pathogenesis, treatment, and outcomes

- Care for people with mpox virus infection

- Mycobacterial infections

- Chronic viral infections, including viral hepatitis and HTLV-1

- Treatment of highly resistant bacterial infections

Selected Publications

Coe J, Puius Y, Jain H, Meyerowitz EA. Cervical lymphadenitis from Mycobacterium avium complex. BMJ Case Rep. 2024 Mar 15;17(3):e256726. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2023-256726. PMID: 38490710; PMCID: PMC10946343.

Meyerowitz EA, Guha Roy S, Neilan AM, Ross DS, Mahowald GK. Case 5-2024: A 36-Year-Old Man with Fevers. N Engl J Med. 2024 Feb 15;390(7):653-660. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2312724. PMID: 38354145.

Meyerowitz EA, Scott J, Richterman A, Male V, Cevik M. Clinical course and management of COVID-19 in the era of widespread population immunity. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2023 Dec 19. doi: 10.1038/s41579-023-01001-1. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38114838.

Mullis CE, Marlow KA, Maity A, Fazzari M, Zingman BS, Keller MJ, Meyerowitz EA. Clinical presentations and treatment outcomes of Mycoplasma genitalium infections at a large New York City healthcare system. Sex Transm Dis. 2023 Dec 13. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001911. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38100794.

Meyerowitz EA, Li Y. Review: The Landscape of Antiviral Therapy for COVID-19 in the Era of Widespread Population Immunity and Omicron-Lineage Viruses. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Nov 9:ciad685. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad685. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37949817.

Irshad U, Bishop D, Mullis C, Toro J, Zingman BS, Meyerowitz EA. Implementation of an Mpox Vaccination Program at a Large Sexual Health Clinic in the Bronx-Lessons in Vaccine Equity. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Oct 31;10(11):ofad544. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad544. PMID: 38023548; PMCID: PMC10651189.

Meyerowitz EA, Mukerji SS, Kyle Harrold G, Erdil RM, Chen ST, Rudmann EA, Tsibris A, Venna N, Robbins GK. Mogamulizumab for Treatment of Human T-lymphotropic Virus Type 1-Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis: A Single-Center US-based Series. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Sep 18;77(6):851-856. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad281. PMID: 37157862; PMCID: PMC10681635.

Thornhill JP, Palich R, Ghosn J, Walmsley S, Moschese D, Cortes CP, Galliez RM, Garlin AB, Nozza S, Mitja O, Radix AE, Blanco JL, Crabtree-Ramirez B, Thompson M, Wiese L, Schulbin H, Levcovich A, Falcone M, Lucchini A, Sendagorta E, Treutiger CJ, Byrne R, Coyne K, Meyerowitz EA, Grahn AM, Hansen AE, Pourcher V, DellaPiazza M, Lee R, Stoeckle M, Hazra A, Apea V, Rubenstein E, Jones J, Wilkin A, Ganesan A, Henao-Martínez AF, Chow EJ, Titanji BK, Zucker JE, Ogoina D, Orkin CM; Share-Net writing group. Human monkeypox virus infection in women and non-binary individuals during the 2022 outbreaks: a global case series. Lancet. 2022 Dec 3;400(10367):1953-1965. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02187-0. Epub 2022 Nov 17. PMID: 36403584; PMCID: PMC9671743.

Meyerowitz EA, Gendlina I, Desai VJ, Grossberg R, Nair SR, Pujar B, Riska PF, Root HB, Toro J, Torres JA, Pirofski LA, Zingman BS. Anorectal Testing for Mpox Virus Infection in Men Who Have Sex With Men With and Without Proctitis. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Mar 4;76(5):934-937. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac825. PMID: 36227656.

Meyerowitz EA, Bernardo RM, Collins-Ogle MD, Czeresnia JM, Matos CM, Mullis C, Root HB, Torres-Isasiga JA, Tsai H, Zingman BS. Navigating Human Immunodeficiency Virus Screening Recommendations for People on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and the Need to Update Testing Algorithms. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022 Apr 15;9(7):ofac191. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac191. PMID: 35794936; PMCID: PMC9251658.

Meyerowitz EA, Richterman A. SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Prevention in the Era of the Delta Variant. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2022 Jun;36(2):267-293. doi: 10.1016/j.idc.2022.01.007. Epub 2022 Feb 1. PMID: 35636900; PMCID: PMC8806027.

Buitrago-Garcia D, Ipekci AM, Heron L, Imeri H, Araujo-Chaveron L, Arevalo-Rodriguez I, Ciapponi A, Cevik M, Hauser A, Alam MI, Meili K, Meyerowitz EA, Prajapati N, Qiu X, Richterman A, Robles-Rodriguez WG, Thapa S, Zhelyazkov I, Salanti G, Low N. Occurrence and transmission potential of asymptomatic and presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections: Update of a living systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Med. 2022 May 26;19(5):e1003987. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003987. PMID: 35617363; PMCID: PMC9135333.

Richterman A, Meyerowitz EA, Cevik M. Indirect Protection by Reducing Transmission: Ending the Pandemic With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Vaccination. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 May 19;9(2):ofab259. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab259. PMID: 35071679; PMCID: PMC8194790.

Bernardo RM, Meyerowitz EA. A 35-Year-Old Man With An Itch. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Nov 2;73(9):1733-1734. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab117. PMID: 34732015.

Hock H, Kelly HR, Meyerowitz EA, Frigault MJ, Massoth LR. Case 31-2021: A 21-Year-Old Man with Sore Throat, Epistaxis, and Oropharyngeal Petechiae. N Engl J Med. 2021 Oct 14;385(16):1511-1520. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2027096. PMID: 34644476; PMCID: PMC8531984.

Meyerowitz EA, Richterman A, Bogoch II, Low N, Cevik M. Towards an accurate and systematic characterisation of persistently asymptomatic infection with SARS-CoV-2. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Jun;21(6):e163-e169. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30837-9. Epub 2020 Dec 7. PMID: 33301725; PMCID: PMC7834404.

Meyerowitz EA, Sen P, Schoenfeld SR, Neilan TG, Frigault MJ, Stone JH, Kim AY, Mansour MK. Immunomodulation as Treatment for Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Systematic Review of Current Modalities and Future Directions. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Jun 15;72(12):e1130-e1143. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1759. PMID: 33216852; PMCID: PMC7717185.

Richterman A, Meyerowitz EA, Cevik M. Hospital-Acquired SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Lessons for Public Health. JAMA. 2020 Nov 13. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.21399. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33185657.

Meyerowitz EA, Sanchez S, Mansour MK, Triant VA , Goldberg MB, Isolated Cerebral Mucormycosis in Immunocompetent Adults Who Inject Drugs: Case Reports and Systematic Review of the Literature, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, , ofaa552,  https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa552

Stone JH, Frigault MJ, Serling-Boyd NJ, Fernandes AD, Harvey L, Foulkes AS, Horick NK, Healy BC, Shah R, Bensaci AM, Woolley AE, Nikiforow S, Lin N, Sagar M, Schrager H, Huckins DS, Axelrod M, Pincus MD, Fleisher J, Sacks CA, Dougan M, North CM, Halvorsen YD, Thurber TK, Dagher Z, Scherer A, Wallwork RS, Kim AY, Schoenfeld S, Sen P, Neilan TG, Perugino CA, Unizony SH, Collier DS, Matza MA, Yinh JM, Bowman KA, Meyerowitz E, Zafar A, Drobni ZD, Bolster MB, Kohler M, D'Silva KM, Dau J, Lockwood MM, Cubbison C, Weber BN, Mansour MK; BACC Bay Tocilizumab Trial Investigators. Efficacy of Tocilizumab in Patients Hospitalized with Covid-19. N Engl J Med. 2020 Oct 21:NEJMoa2028836. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2028836. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33085857; PMCID: PMC7646626.

Meyerowitz EA, Richterman A, Gandhi RT, Sax PE. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A Review of Viral, Host, and Environmental Factors. Ann Intern Med. 2020 Sep 17:M20-5008. doi: 10.7326/M20-5008. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32941052; PMCID: PMC7505025.

Meyerowitz EA, Kim AY, Ard KL, Basgoz N, Chu JT, Hurtado RM, Lee CK, He W, Minukas T, Nelson S, Ojikutu BO, Robbins G, Sanchez S, Triant VA, Zachary K, Gandhi RT. Disproportionate burden of coronavirus disease 2019 among racial minorities and those in congregate settings among a large cohort of people with HIV. AIDS. 2020 Oct 1;34(12):1781-1787. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002607. PMID: 32604138; PMCID: PMC7499878.

Meyerowitz EA, Vannier AGL, Friesen MGN, Schoenfeld S, Gelfand JA, Callahan MV, Kim AY, Reeves PM, Poznansky MC. Rethinking the role of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19. FASEB J. 2020 May;34(5):6027-6037. doi: 10.1096/fj.202000919. Epub 2020 Apr 29. PMID: 32350928; PMCID: PMC7267640.

Bloom PP, Meyerowitz EA, Reinus Z, Daidone M, Gustafson J, Kim AY, Schaefer E, Chung RT. Liver Biochemistries in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19. Hepatology. 2020 May 16. doi: 10.1002/hep.31326. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32415860.

McCarthy CP, Murphy S, Jones-O'Connor M, Olshan DS, Khambhati JR, Rehman S, Cadigan JB, Cui J, Meyerowitz EA, Philippides G, Friedman LS, Kadar AY, Hibbert K, Natarajan P, Massaro AF, Bohula EA, Morrow DA, Woolley AE, Januzzi JL Jr, Wasfy JH. Early clinical and sociodemographic experience with patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at a large American healthcare system. EClinicalMedicine. 2020 Sep;26:100504. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100504. Epub 2020 Aug 19. PMID: 32838244; PMCID: PMC7434634.

Gong J, Meyerowitz EA, Isidro RA, Kaye KM. Primary cytomegalovirus infection with invasive disease in a patient with inflammatory bowel disease. BMJ Case Rep. 2019 Sep 30;12(9):e230056. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2019-230056. PMID: 31570344; PMCID: PMC6768388.

Meyerowitz EA, Prager S, Stout K, Roxby A. Endocarditis following IUD insertion in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot. BMJ Case Rep. 2019 Feb 7;12(2):e227962. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2018-227962. PMID: 30737328; PMCID: PMC6381954.

Meyerowitz, E. and S. Dhanireddy. “Care of the Elderly Patient with Infective Endocarditis.” Current Geriatrics Reports 6 (2017): 290-296.