Infectious Disease

Jose J. Fefer

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Jose J. Fefer
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First Name
Jose
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Fefer
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1528011103
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17318
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Full Time
Patient Type
Adult
Department
einstein-dept-medicine
Gender
Male
Provider Type
Primary Care
Email
jfefer@montefiore.org
Phone
347-341-4300
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Academic
Department
Department of Medicine
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Assistant Professor
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General Internal Medicine
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4234 Bronx Boulevard
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Bronx
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NY
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10466-2611
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Montefiore Medical Group-Wakefield Ambulatory Care Center
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Montefiore Medical Center
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4234 Bronx Boulevard
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Bronx
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NY
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10466
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Montefiore Medical Center
Education and Trainings
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Medical Education
Education Institution
Facultad De Med. Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Fellowship
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Jackson Memorial Hospital
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Jackson Memorial Hospital
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M.D.
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Barry S. Zingman

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Barry S. Zingman
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First Name
Barry
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Zingman
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1699850461
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2288
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Full Time
Patient Type
Adult
Department
einstein-dept-medicine
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Male
Email
bzingman@montefiore.org
Phone
866-633-8255
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Academic
Department
Department of Medicine
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Professor
Division
Infectious Diseases
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Clinical
Title
Medical Director, AIDS Center
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Clinical
Title
Clinical Director, Infectious Diseases, Moses Division
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Clinical
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Professor of Medicine
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Clinical
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Administrative
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3400 Bainbridge Avenue
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Bronx
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NY
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10467-240
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Montefiore Greene Medical Arts Pavilion
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The Hub Shopping Center, 312 Route 59
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Nyack
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NY
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10960
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The Jacobs Family Pride Wellness Center
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1575 Blondell Avenue
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10461-2601
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Montefiore Medical Park at 1575 Blondell
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Montefiore Medical Center
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Medical Arts Pavilion
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3400 Bainbridge Avenue
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Bronx
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NY
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10467
Location Title
Montefiore Medical Center
Education and Trainings
Education Type Label
Medical Education
Education Institution
New York University School of Medicine
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Fellowship
Education Institution
Boston University Medical Center
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Residency
Education Institution
Boston City Hospital
Professional Interests

<p>Barry S. Zingman, M.D., has been the Medical Director of the AIDS Center at Montefiore since 2003 following his service as Medical Director of the AIDS Center's Center for Positive Living/Infectious Diseases (CPL/ID) Clinic for five years.</p>
<p>Dr. Zingman directs the largest multidisciplinary and multispecialty adult HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention program in New York State. His program&rsquo;s clinical sites include (1) the Center for Positive Living/I.D. Clinic, for HIV, Hepatitis C, and general Infectious Diseases care; (2) The Oval Center at Montefiore, which provides screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, HIV pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis programs, and Hepatitis C care; and (3) other inpatient and outpatient sites at the Moses Division of Montefiore Medical Center. He has been Principal Investigator or Medical Director on over 75 HIV/AIDS-related research protocols and grants. These currently include grants from HRSA, the New York State Department of Health's AIDS Institute, NIH, and industry for multidisciplinary HIV primary care and testing; HIV retention, adherence and viral suppression; studies of broadly-neutralizing therapeutic HIV antibodies; new HIV viral load assays; response to pneumococcal vaccine in HIV+ and HIV- individuals; and studies of other new antiretroviral agents.</p>
<p>Dr. Zingman directs an HIV research team consisting of 6 study coordinators that enrolls over 200 patients per year into research protocols.</p>
<p>Dr. Zingman is Professor of Clinical Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is formerly Chair of the AIDS Institute's Medical Care Criteria Committee (the principal body setting HIV care guidelines in NYS); former Vice-Chair of the NYS AIDS Institute's Quality of Care Advisory Committee; and Chair or Member on numerous other state and national HIV quality and standard of care subcommittees. He is a practicing infectious diseases subspecialist and maintains an active patient panel in the CPL/ID Clinic and the Department of Medicine Faculty Practice.</p>

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Expert Tags
Areas of Expertise
HIV/AIDS
STDs
Sexual education
PrEP
Expert Summary

<p> Dr. Zingman directs the largest multidisciplinary and multispecialty adult HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention program in New York State. His program’s clinical sites include (1) the Center for Positive Living/I.D. Clinic, for HIV, Hepatitis C, and general Infectious Diseases care; (2) The Oval Center at Montefiore, which provides screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, HIV pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis programs and Hepatitis C care; and (3) other inpatient and outpatient sites at the Moses Division of Montefiore Medical Center. He has been Principal Investigator or Medical Director on over 75 HIV/AIDS-related research protocols and grants. These currently include grants from HRSA, the New York State Department of Health's AIDS Institute, NIH, and industry for multidisciplinary HIV primary care and testing; HIV retention, adherence and viral suppression; studies of broadly-neutralizing therapeutic HIV antibodies; new HIV viral load assays; response to pneumococcal vaccine in HIV+ and HIV- individuals; and studies of other new antiretroviral agents.</p>

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Biography

<p>Barry S. Zingman, MD, is Medical Director, AIDS Center and Clinical Director, Infectious Diseases at Montefiore Einstein, and Professor, Medicine at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Zingman cares for people with a wide range of infectious disease conditions including HIV care, HIV prevention (PrEP; PEP), sexually transmitted infections, COVID, MPOX (monkeypox), other viral infections, diabetic foot infections, bone infections, heart and lung infections, post-surgical infections, tuberculosis and many others.</p><p>After completing his Bachelor of Arts in biochemistry at Brandeis University in 1981, Dr. Zingman attended New York University School of Medicine, earning his Doctor of Medicine in 1985. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital in 1988. Dr. Zingman continued his training at Boston University School of Medicine, completing clinical and research fellowships in infectious diseases in 1991.</p><p>Dr. Zingman&rsquo;s research focuses on new treatments, vaccines, and other preventive strategies for infectious diseases including HIV, sexually transmitted infections, other viral infections, E coli urinary tract infections and others. He has shared his work through peer-reviewed journals, articles, case reports, book chapters, abstracts, and other media as well as presentations, invited lectures and webinars.</p><p>Dr. Zingman is board certified in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine. He is a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) and the HIV Medicine Association of IDSA. In 2017, he was inducted into the Leo M. Davidoff Society for distinguished, caring and committed teaching of medical students.</p>

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Hyun Ah Yoon

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Hyun Ah Yoon
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Hyun Ah
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Yoon
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1689962193
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15397
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Full Time
Patient Type
Adult
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einstein-dept-medicine
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Female
Email
hyoon@montefiore.org
Phone
718-430-2372
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Academic
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Department of Medicine
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Associate Professor
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Infectious Diseases
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111 East 210th Street
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Bronx
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NY
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10461-2401
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Montefiore Medical Center
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NY
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Montefiore at 1250 Waters Place
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Montefiore Medical Park at 1575 Blondell
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701
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus
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1300 Morris Park Avenue
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Bronx
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NY
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10461
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Medical Education
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Wake Forest School of Medicine
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Montefiore Medical Center
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Montefiore Medical Center
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Gregory D. Weston

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Gregory D. Weston
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Male
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gweston@montefiore.org
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718-920-5438
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Department of Medicine
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Associate Professor
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Infectious Diseases
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Montefiore Medical Center
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Montefiore Medical Park at 1575 Blondell
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Montefiore Medical Center
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3411 Wayne Avenue
City
Bronx
State
NY
Zip
10467
Location Title
Montefiore Medical Center
Education and Trainings
Education Type Label
Medical Education
Education Institution
Columbia Univ College of Physicians and Surgeons
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Fellowship
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Montefiore Medical Center
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Residency
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Emory University School of Medicine
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<p>Dr. Weston&rsquo;s research interests include the epidemiology, mechanisms of resistance, and therapy of multi-drug resistant gram-negative infections, particularly Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobateriaceae.&nbsp; He works with mathematical modeling techniques to predict which patients are at high risk of CRE bloodstream infections.&nbsp; He also organizes Montefiore&rsquo;s participation in the CRACKLE II multicenter database of CRE infections.</p>
<p>Dr. Weston&rsquo;s inpatient clinical work is on a service dedicated to infectious disease consultation in the intensive care and step down units of Weiler hospital.&nbsp; This includes brief daily rounds with each unit to identify needs for consultation and provide antibiotic stewardship guidance.&nbsp; He is a member of the Montefiore Antibiotic Stewardship Team and also sees patients in an Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy clinic.</p>
<p>Dr. Weston is a graduate of Regis High School in New York.&nbsp; He received his undergraduate education summa cum laude from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.&nbsp; He received a medical&nbsp;degree from&nbsp;the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York.&nbsp; He completed Internal&nbsp;Medicine residency at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.&nbsp; Dr. Weston joined Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2013 for his fellowship in Infectious Diseases.&nbsp; During Fellowship he completed a Master&rsquo;s of Science in Clinical Research degree in the Einstein Clinical Research Training Program.&nbsp;</p>

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Selected Publications

<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28167547">Multicenter Clinical and Molecular Epidemiological Analysis of Bacteremia Due to Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in the CRE Epicenter of the United States.</a>&nbsp;Satlin MJ, Chen L, Patel G, Gomez-Simmonds A, Weston G, Kim AC, Seo SK, Rosenthal ME, Sperber SJ, Jenkins SG, Hamula CL, Uhlemann AC, Levi MH, Fries BC, Tang YW, Juretschko S, Rojtman AD, Hong T, Mathema B, Jacobs MR, Walsh TJ, Bonomo RA, Kreiswirth BN.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy</em>&nbsp;2017; 61: e02349-16</p>
<p>A multicenter study measuring appropriateness of carbapenem use. Weston G, Jacob JT, Ray S, Varkey J, Gaynes RP.&nbsp;&nbsp;Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology&nbsp;2013; 34: 1324-1326</p>

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Louis M. Weiss

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Louis M. Weiss
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Louis
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Weiss
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1144310996
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4218
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Adult
Department
einstein-dept-pathology
einstein-dept-medicine
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Male
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louis.weiss@einsteinmed.edu
Phone
718-430-2142
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Academic
Department
Department of Pathology
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Professor
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Academic
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Department of Medicine
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Professor
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Infectious Diseases
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Administrative
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Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and Research, Department of Pathology
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Codirector of the Einstein Global Health Center
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Bronx
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10461-2720
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Montefiore at 1250 Waters Place
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1575 Blondell Avenue
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Bronx
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NY
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10461-2601
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Montefiore Medical Park at 1575 Blondell
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Forchheimer Building
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504
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Address Line 2
Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus
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1300 Morris Park Avenue
City
Bronx
State
NY
Zip
10461
Location Title
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Education and Trainings
Education Type Label
Medical Education
Education Institution
Johns Hopkins University
Education Type Label
Fellowship
Education Institution
Montefiore Medical Center
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Residency
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University of Chicago Hospital
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Residency
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Professional Interests

<p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Toxoplasma gondii</span></em>, microsporidiosis, stage differentiation, polar tube structure and function</p>
<p><strong>Toxoplasmosis:</strong> <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> is a ubiquitous Apicomplexan protozoan parasite that infects humans, mammals and birds.&nbsp; Despite recent progress in understanding the biology of the rapidly replicating form (tachyzoite), very little is known about the cyst form (bradyzoite). The bradyzoite stage plays a critical role in maintenance of latent infection, the relapse of infections and the development of chronic neurologcial disease.&nbsp; Our research is focused on the identification of cyst wall&nbsp; (bradyzoite) proteins and how they function.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Microsporidiosis:</strong> The phylum Microspora consists of organisms collectively known as microsporidia, that are "emerging" human and veterinary pathogens.&nbsp; A microsporidian-specific organelle, the polar tube, is involved in invasion. While the description of the polar tube as a unique microsporidian structure occurred over 100 years ago, the biochemical components of this structure and the mechanism of its formation during invasion remain to be definitively determined.&nbsp; The laboratory is focused on projects invovling the: (1) characterization of the structure and composition of the polar tube and spore wall, and (2) the identificiation of therapeutic targets for the treatment of microsporidiosis.&nbsp;</p>

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Clinical Focus

Treatment and diagnosis of infectious diseases, with a focus on parasitology and global health.

Research Focus

Investigates the biology of Toxoplasma gondii and its ability to cause latent infections, with a focus on the composition and structure of the T. gondii tissue cyst.

Selected Publications

<p>Mayoral J, Guevara RB, Rivera-Cuevas Y, Tu V, Tomita T, Romano JD, Gunther-Cummins L, Sidoli S, Coppens I, Carruthers VB, Weiss LM.&nbsp; Dense Granule Protein GRA64 interacts with host cell ESCRT proteins during <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> infection.mBio. 2022 Jun 22:e0144222. doi: 10.1128/mbio.01442-22.</p>
<p>Tomita T, Mukhopadhyay D, Han B, Yakubu R, Tu V, Mayoral J, Sugi T, Ma Y, Saeij JPJ, Weiss LM. <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> matrix antigen 1 is a secreted immunomodulatory effector. mBio. 2021 May 18;12(3):e00603-21.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Flores J, Takvorian PM, Weiss LM, Cali A, Gao N. Human microsporidian pathogen <em>Encephalitozoon intestinalis</em> impinges on enterocyte membrane trafficking and signaling. J Cell Sci. 2021 Feb 15:jcs.253757. doi: 10.1242/jcs.253757.</p>
<p>Mayoral J, Tomita T, Tu V, Aguilan JT, Sidoli S, Weiss LM. <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> PPM3C, a secreted protein phosphatase, affects parasitophorous vacuole effector export. PLoS Pathog. 2020 Dec 28;16(12):e1008771. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008771.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mayoral J, Shamamian P Jr, Weiss LM. In Vitro Characterization of protein effector export in the bradyzoite stage of Toxoplasma gondii.&nbsp; mBio. 2020 Mar 10;11(2). pii: e00046-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00046-20. PMID: 32156805</p>
<p><span lang="EN">Tu V, Tomita T, Sugi T, Mayoral J, Han B, Yakubu RR, Williams T, Horta A, Ma Y, Weiss LM. The <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> cyst wall interactome. mBio. 2020 Feb 4;11(1). pii: e02699-19. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02699-19.PMID: 32019789</span></p>
<p>Tu V, Mayoral J, Yakubu RR, Tomita T, Sugi T, Han B, Williams T, Ma Y, Weiss LM.MAG2, a <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> bradyzoite stage-specific cyst matrix protein. mSphere. 2020 Feb 19;5(1). pii: e00100-20. doi:10.1128/mSphere.00100-20.PMID: 32075884</p>
<p><span lang="EN">Han B, Ma Y, Tu V, Tomita T, Mayoral J, Williams T, Horta A, Huang H, Weiss LM Microsporidia interact with host cell mitochondria via voltage-dependent anion channels using sporoplasm Surface Protein 1. mBio. 2019 Aug 20;10(4). pii: e01944-19. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01944-19. PMID: 31431557</span> <span lang="EN">PMC6703431</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">Takvorian PM, Han B, Cali A, Rice WJ, Gunther L, Macaluso F, Weiss LM. An ultrastructural study of the extruded polar tube of<em> Anncaliia algerae</em> (Microsporidia). J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2019 Jul 22. doi: 10.1111/jeu.12751. PMID: 31332877</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">Tomita T, Wang H, Wu P, Weiss LM.Stage-specific and selective delivery of caged azidosugars into the intracellular parasite <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> by using an esterase-ester pair technique.&nbsp; mSphere. 2019 May 29;4(3). pii: e00142-19. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00142-19. PMID: 31142619</span></p>
<p>Tu V, Mayoral J, Sugi T, Tomita T, Han B, Ma YF, Weiss LM. Enrichment and proteomic characterization of the cyst wall from in vitro <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> cysts. mBio. 2019 Apr 30;10(2). pii: e00469-19. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00469-19. PMID: 31040239</p>
<p>Sugi T, Tu V, Ma Y, Tomita T, Weiss LM. <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> requires glycogen phosphorylase for balancing amylopectin storage and for efficient production of brain cysts. mBio. 2017 Aug 29;8(4). pii: e01289-17. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01289-17.PMID: 28851850 PMC5574715</p>
<p>Yakubu RR, Silmon de Monerri NC, Nieves E, Kim K, Weiss LM. Comparative Monomethylarginine proteomics suggests that protein arginine methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) is a significant contributor to arginine monomethylation in <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em>. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2017 Apr;16(4):567-580. doi: 10.1074/mcp.M117.066951. Epub 2017 Jan 31.PMID: 28143887</p>
<p>Han B, Polonais V, Sugi T, Yakubu R, Takvorian PM, Cali A, Maier K, Long M, Levy M, Tanowitz HB, Pan G, Delbac F, Zhou Z, Weiss LM. The role of microsporidian polar tube protein 4 (PTP4) in host cell infection. PLoS Pathog. 2017 Apr 20;13(4):e1006341. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006341. eCollection 2017 Apr. PMID: 28426751</p>
<p>Sugi T, Ma YF, Tomita T, Murakoshi F, Eaton MS, Yakubu R, Han B, Tu V, Kato K, Kawazu S, Gupta N, Suvorova ES, White MW, Kim K, Weiss LM. Toxoplasma gondii cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase subunit 3 is involved in the switch from tachyzoite to bradyzoite development. mBio. 2016 May 31;7(3). pii: e00755-16. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00755-16. PMID: 27247232 PMCID: PMC4895117</p>
<p>El Bissati K, Suvorova ES, Xiao H, Lucas O, Upadhya R, Yan Fen Ma YF, Hogue Angeletti R, White MW, Weiss LM, Kim K <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> arginine methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) regulates centrosome dynamics during tachyzoite cell division. mBio. 2016 Feb 2;7(1):e02094-15. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02094-15. PMID: 26838719 PMCID: PMC4742710</p>
<p>Silmon de Monerri NC, Yakubu RR, Chen AL, Bradley PJ, Nieves E, Weiss LM, Kim K. The Ubiquitin proteome of <em>Toxoplasma gondi</em>i reveals roles for protein ubiquitination in cell-cycle transitions. Cell Host Microbe. 2015 Nov 11;18(5):621-33. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.10.014. PMID: 26567513</p>
<p>Tomita T, Bzik DJ, Ma YF, Fox BA, Markillie LM, Taylor RC, Kim K, Weiss LM.The <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> cyst wall protein CST1 is critical for cyst wall integrity and promotes bradyzoite persistence.&nbsp; PLoS Pathog. 2013 Dec;9(12):e1003823. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003823. PMID:24385904</p>
<p>Morada M, Lee S, Gunther-Cummins L, Weiss LM, Widmer G, Tzipori S, Yarlett N. Continuous culture of <em>Cryptosporidium parvum</em> using hollow fiber technology. Int J Parasitol. 2015 Sep 2. pii: S0020-7519(15)00220-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2015.07.006. PMID: 26341006</p>
<p>Ma Y, Weiss LM, Huang H. Inducible suicide vector systems for <em>Trypanosoma cruzi</em>. Microbes Infect. 2015 Jun;17(6):440-50. doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2015.04.003. Epub 2015 Apr 18. PMID: 25899945</p>
<p>Nardelli SC, Che FY, Silmon de Monerri NC, Xiao H, Nieves E, Madrid-Aliste C, Angel SO, Sullivan WJ Jr, Angeletti RH, Kim K, Weiss LM.&nbsp; The Histone Code of <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> Comprises Conserved and Unique Posttranslational Modifications. mBio. 2013 Dec 10;4(6). doi:pii: e00922-13. 10.1128/mBio.00922-13. PMID:24327343</p>
<p>Pombert JF,Selman M,Burki F,Bardell FT,Farinelli L,Solter LF,Whitman DW,Weiss LM, Corradi N, Keeling PJ.&nbsp;&nbsp; Gain and loss of multiple functionally related, horizontally transferred genes in the reduced genomes of two microsporidian parasites.&nbsp; Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jul 31;109(31):12638-43. Epub 2012 Jul 16. PMID:22802648</p>
<p>Ghosh K, Nieves E, Keeling P, CaliA, Weiss LM. A new vesicular compartment in <em>Encephalitozoon cuniculi</em>. Microbes Infect. 2012 Apr;14(4):324-8. PMID:22166342</p>
<p>Ghosh K, Nieves E, Keeling P, Pombert JF, CaliA, Weiss LM. A branching network of proteinaceous filaments within the parasitophorous vacuole of<em> Encephalitozoon cuniculi</em> and <em>Encephalitozoon hellem</em>. Infect Immun. 2011 Jan 10.&nbsp;PMID: 21220485</p>
<p>Bouzahzah B, Nagajyothi F, Ghosh K, Takvorian PM, CaliA, Tanowitz HB, Weiss LM. Interactions of <em>Encephalitozoon cuniculi</em> polar tube proteins. Infect Immun. 2010 Jun;78(6):2745-53. Epub 2010 Mar 22. PMID: 20308291</p>
<p>Alvarado JJ, Nemkal A, Sauder JM, Russell M, Akiyoshi DE, Shi W, Almo SC, Weiss LM. Structure of a microsporidian methionine aminopeptidase type 2 complexed with fumagillin and TNP-470. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2009 Aug 4. PMID: 19660503</p>
<p><strong>BOOKS</strong></p>
<p>Weiss LM and Kim K (eds.) <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> the model Apicomplexan: Methods and Applications,&nbsp;&nbsp;Elsevier Press (Academic Press), 3rd edition, 2020.</p>
<p>Weiss LM and Reinke AW (eds.) Microsporidia: Current Advances in Biology, Springer, 2022.</p>
<p>Weiss LM and Becnel JJ (eds.) Microsporidia: Pathogens of Opportunity,&nbsp; Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.</p>

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<p>Louis M. Weiss, MD, MPH, is Vice Chair, Academic Affairs and Research, Pathology, Co-Director, Einstein Global Health Center and Professor, Pathology and Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at Montefiore Einstein. His clinical expertise is in the treatment and diagnosis of infectious diseases, with a focus on parasitology and global health.</p><p>After obtaining his Bachelor of Arts in biology and chemistry from Lehigh University in 1978, Dr. Weiss earned his Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in 1982. Following this, Dr. Weiss completed his internship and residency in medicine at the University of Chicago in 1985 and an infectious diseases fellowship at Einstein Montefiore in 1989.</p><p>Dr. Weiss investigates the biology of <em>Toxoplasma gondii</em> and its ability to cause latent infections, with a focus on the composition and structure of the <em>T. gondii</em> tissue cyst. He also investigates the biology of infection due to the microsporidia, with a focus on the composition of the polar tube and how it functions during microsporidian invasion of a host cell. His research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, articles, books and chapters, and he has presented this research both nationally and internationally. Dr. Weiss has been a reviewer for scientific journals including <em>mBIO</em>, the <em>Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology</em>, the <em>American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, PLOS Pathogens</em>, the <em>Journal of Infectious Diseases</em> and <em>Experimental Parasitology</em>, and is an editor for <em>mBIO</em> and <em>Microbes and Infection</em>.</p><p>Dr. Weiss is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Microbiology of the American Society of Microbiology. In 2000, Dr. Weiss was inducted into the Leo M. Davidoff Society for his outstanding teaching of medical students.</p>

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<p>Dr. Torres completed his MD degree at Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia) in 2006. He then joined the International Center for Training and Medical Research (CIDEIM) in his home town, Cali, where he spent almost 3 years as a research assistant in the area of Gram negative Bacterial Resistance, where he published and presented his work in national and international journals and conferences.</p>
<p>After completing his Internal Medicine residency at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, Dr. Torres completed his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at New York University (NYU). He then joined Englewood Hospital where he spent more than 2 years as an Infectious Disease consultant.</p>
<p>Dr. Torres joined Montefiore Medical Center/Albert&nbsp;Einstein&nbsp;College of Medicine&nbsp;in 2017 as an Assistant Professor. Since then, he has been providing PrEP, PEP, STI, HCV&nbsp;and HIV care to patients in the Bronx, as well as inpatient Infectious Disease consultation services at the hospital.&nbsp; He has an interest to expand HIV prevention projects in Colombia and is working closely with Corporacion de Lucha contra el SIDA in Cali.</p>
<p>Dr. Torres has been a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America since 2012.</p>
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<p align="left"><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Selected Publications</span></strong><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span lang="ES" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">&middot;<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nori P, Szymczak W, Puius J, Sharma A, Cowman K, Fleischner Z, Bartash R, Chen V, Corpuz M, Gialanella P, Alpert P, Felsen U,<strong> Torres-Isasiga J</strong>, Guo Y. </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Emerging Co-Pathogens: New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase producing Enterobacterales Infections in New York City COVID-19 Patients. &nbsp;</span><span lang="ES" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Int J Antimicrob Agents. 56(6):106179. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.106179.&nbsp;Epub 2020 Sep 25.<strong> (2020)</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">&middot;<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mueses-Mar&iacute;n HF, Alvarado-Llano B, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Torres-Isasiga J</span></strong><span lang="ES" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, Camargo-Plazas P, Bol&iacute;var-Rocha MC, Galindo-Orrego X, Mart&iacute;nez-Cajas JL. </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Scales to Assess Knowledge, Motivation, and Self-Efficacy for HIV PrEP in Colombian MSM: PrEP-COL Study. AIDS Research and Treatment, vol. 2021, Article ID 4789971, 11 pages </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(2021)</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span lang="ES" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">&middot;<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Falsey AR, et al., </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and the AstraZeneca AZD1222 Clinical Study Group (Julian A. Torres). </span></strong><span lang="ES" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34587382/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Phase 3 Safety and Efficacy of AZD1222 (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) Covid-19 Vaccine</span></a></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span><span lang="ES" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">N Engl J Med. </span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #4d8055; background: white;">&nbsp;</span><span lang="ES" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa21052902021. </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">(2021).</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">&middot;<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mart&iacute;nez-Cajas J, Alvarado-Llano B, Mart&iacute;nez-Buitrago E,&nbsp;<strong>Torres-Isasiga J</strong>, Arrivillaga M, Camargo P, Galindo-Orrego X, Mueses-Mar&iacute;n H. </span><span lang="ES" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35067114/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">AC-2020-12-1420.R1 - HIV care providers' familiarity, concerns, and attitudes about HIV PrEP in Colombia: insights from the PrEP-Col-Study.</span></a></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> AIDS Care. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2022.2029813 </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(2022)</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">&middot;<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="ES" style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mart&iacute;nez-Cajas JL, <strong>Torres J, </strong>Mueses HF, Camargo Plazas P, Arrivillaga M, Gomez SA, Galindo X, Mart&iacute;nez Buitrago E,&nbsp;Alvarado-Llano BE. </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Applying Implementation Science Frameworks to&nbsp;Identify Factors that&nbsp;Influence the&nbsp;Intention of&nbsp;Healthcare Providers to&nbsp;Offer PrEP Care and&nbsp;Advocate for&nbsp;PrEP in&nbsp;HIV Clinics in&nbsp;Colombia: A&nbsp;Cross-Sectional Study. Implement Sci Commun. Mar 16; 3(1):31. doi.org/10.1186/s43058-022-00278-2 </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(2022)</span></strong></p>
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<p>Julian A. Torres lsasiga, MD, is an attending physician at Montefiore Einstein and Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Torres&rsquo;s clinical focus centers on general infectious disease care, HIV prevention and care, sexually transmitted infections and medical education.</p><p>After earning his Doctor of Medicine at the Universidad del Valle/Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali, Colombia in 2006, Dr. Torres became a research assistant at the International Center for Medical Research and Training (CIDEIM) in Cali, Colombia, from 2007 to 2009. He then moved to the United States to continue his medical training, completing his internal medicine residency at Jacobi Medical Center in 2012 and an infectious disease fellowship at New York University in 2014.</p><p>Building on his clinical focus, Dr. Torres&rsquo;s research is focused on HIV prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). He has been co-investigator, principal investigator and sub-investigator on several research projects and he has shared his work through many national and international invited presentations and poster presentations. Dr. Torres is a reviewer for <em>Clinical Infectious Disease, Open Forum Infectious Disease</em> and the <em>International Journal of STD &amp; AIDS</em>. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters, review articles and abstracts.</p><p>Dr. Torres is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America. In 2023, he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Division of Infectious Disease at Montefiore Einstein. The same year, Dr. Torres received the Teaching Star-Teaching Commendation Letter for the 2022-2023 Academic Year from Montefiore Einstein.</p>

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Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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Montefiore Medical Center
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<p>My research focuses on metabolic complications of HIV infection associated with aging, particularly among women. My current NIH K23 funded research investigates underlying mechanisms of bone loss and the relationship between disorders of bone and fat metabolism in HIV infection, in an effort to explain the high prevalence of premature bone disease in HIV-infected women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), the largest and longest-running cohort study of HIV infection in women in the United States. I joined the Einstein faculty in 2013 to build on existing collaborations with expert HIV researchers, and more importantly, to develop new collaborations with scientific experts investigating aging, and conditions associated with aging that are prevalent in HIV-infected populations. I recently found that HIV-infected women had greater fracture incidence than uninfected women in WIHS, prompting an investigation into the prevalence and risks for falls in the WIHS. We found that 18% of HIV+ women reported at least one fall within 6 months, and that factors affecting cognition (such as subjective cognitive complaints and CNS active medications) were associated with greater falls risk. Among HIV-infected women age 50 or older, 1/3 reported having a fall annually, similar to the falls incidence in persons age &gt;65 years in the general U.S. population. Additionally, I am conducting research on&nbsp; visceral adiposity and age-related metabolic disorders among HIV-infected women, in&nbsp; a project that utilizes two novel imaging techniques to quantify visceral adiposity and skeletal microarchitecture in aging HIV-infected and uninfected women, to assess the relationships between visceral adiposity and metabolic disorders associated with aging (osteoporosis, sarcopenia, and subclinical atherosclerosis) in HIV-infected women. Prior to joining Einstein faculty, I was awarded a grant to study factors associated with bone loss among women and men with and at-risk for HIV infection, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars Program, as well as an AIDS-Science Track Award for Research Transition (R03) by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to study the role of insulin-like growth factor in the development of reduced bone mineral density in two large cohorts of drug using men and women with and at-risk for HIV infection. Additional areas of research interest includethe effects of regional adiposity and obesity on health in HIV-infected populations.</p>

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metabolic complications of HIV, HIV infection in women, HIV and aging, HIV and substance abuse
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Selected Publications

<ol>
<li><strong>Sharma A, </strong>Tian F, Yin MT, Keller MJ, Cohen M, Tien PC. Association of Regional Body Composition with Bone Mineral Density in HIV-infected and Uninfected Women: Women's Interagency HIV Study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2012 Dec 1; 61(4):469-76. PMCID: PMC3494812.</li>
<li>Shlipak MG, Scherzer R, Abraham A, Tien PC, Grunfeld C, Peralta CA, Devarajan P, Bennett M, Butch AW, Anastos K, Cohen MH, Nowicki M, <strong>Sharma A</strong>, Young MA, Sarnak MJ, Parikh CR. Urinary Markers of Kidney Injury and Kidney Function Decline in HIV-Infected Women: Biomarkers and Kidney Decline. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2012 Dec 15; 61(5):565-73. PMC3509242.</li>
<li>Laisaar KT, Uusk&uuml;la A, <strong>Sharma A</strong>, DeHovitz JA, Amico KR. Developing an adherence support intervention for patients on antiretroviral therapy in the context of the recent IDU-driven HIV/AIDS epidemic in Estonia. AIDS Care. 2013;25(7):863-73. PMCID: PMC3651786. &nbsp;</li>
<li>Aziz M, Adeyemi OM, Livak B, Burke-Miller J, French A, Glesby MJ,<strong> Sharma A</strong>, Young M, Villacres M, Tien P, Golub E, Cohen M. Vitamin D insufficiency may impair CD4 recovery among HIV infected women with advanced disease on HAART. AIDS. 2013 Feb 20;27(4):573-8. PMCID: PMC3902982.</li>
<li>Oboho I, Abraham A, Benning L, Anastos K, <strong>Sharma A</strong>, Young M, Burian P, Gandhi M, CohenM, Szczech L. Tenofovir use and urinary biomarkers among HIV-infected women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS). J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2013 Apr 1;62(4):388-95. PMCID: PMC3692572.</li>
<li>Adeyemi OM, Livak B, Orsi J, Glesby MJ, Villacres MC, Weber KM, <strong>Sharma</strong><strong>A</strong>, Golub E, Young M, Cohen M, Tien PC. Vitamin D and Insulin Resistance in Non-Diabetic Women&rsquo;s Interagency HIV Study Participants. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2013 Jun;27(6):320-5. PMCID: PMC3671624.</li>
<li>Hoy J, Grund B, Roediger M, Ensrud KE, Brar I, Colebunders R, De Castro N, Johnson M, <strong>Sharma</strong><strong>A</strong>, Carr A, for the INSIGHT SMART Body Composition Substudy Group. Interruption or deferral of antiretroviral therapy reduces markers of bone turnover compared with continuous therapy: the SMART Body Composition Substudy. J Bone Miner Res. 2013 June; 28(6):1264&ndash;1274. PMCID: PMC3657331.</li>
<li>Driver TH, Scherzer R, Peralta CA, Tien PC, Estrella MM, Parikh CR, Butch AW, Anastos K, Cohen MH,&nbsp; Nowicki M, <strong>Sharma A</strong>, Young MA, Abraham A, Shlipak MG. Comparisons of creatinine and cystatin C for detection of kidney disease and prediction of all-cause mortality in HIV&#8208;infected women. <em>AIDS. </em>2013 Sep 10;27(14):2291-9. PMCID: PMC3919542.</li>
<li>Schwartz JB, Moore KL, Yin M, <strong>Sharma</strong><strong>A</strong>, Merenstein D, Islam T, Golub ET, &nbsp;Tien PC, Adeyemi OM. Relationship of vitamin D, HIV, HIV treatment and lipid levels in the Women&rsquo;s Interagency HIV study of HIV-infected and uninfected women in the United States. &nbsp;Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (JIAPAC) 2014 May-Jun;13(3):250-9. PMCID: PMC4016117..</li>
<li>Jotwani V, Scherzer R, Abraham A, Estrella MM, Bennett M, Devarajan P, Anastos K, Cohen MH, Nowicki M, <strong>Sharma A</strong>, Young M, Tien PC, Grunfeld C, Parikh CR, Shlipak MG. Does HIV infection promote early kidney injury in women? Antivir Ther. 2014;19(1):79-87. PMCID: PMC3933452.</li>
<li>Peralta C, Scherzer R, Grunfeld C, Abraham A, Tien P, Devarajan P, Bennett M, Butch A, Anastos K, Cohen M, Nowicki M, <strong>Sharma A</strong>, Young M, Sarnak M, Parikh C, Shlipak M. Urinary biomarkers of kidney injury are associated with all-cause mortality in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS). HIV Med. 2014 May;15(5):291-300. PMCID: PMC3975680.</li>
<li>Mirmirani P, Maurer T, Cohen M, D&rsquo;Souza G, Karim R, Plankey M, Robison E, <strong>Sharma</strong><strong>A</strong>, Tien PC, Hessol NA. Investigating the Effects of Metabolic Dysregulation on Hair Follicles: A Comparison of HIV-Infected Women with and Without Central Lipohypertrophy. Int J Dermatolol. 2014 Oct;53(10):e443-8. PMCID: PMC3785560.</li>
<li><strong>Sharma A</strong>, Bynum SA, Schneider MF, Cox C, Tien PC, Hershow RC, Gustafson D, Plankey MW. Changes in Body Mass Index Following HAART initiation among HIV-infected Women in the Women&rsquo;s Interagency HIV Study. J AIDS Clin Res. 2014. 5:323. PMCID: PMC4285631</li>
<li>Jotwani V, Scherzer R, Abraham A, Estrella MM, Bennett M, Cohen MH, Nowicki M, <strong>Sharma A</strong>, Young M, Tien PC, Ix JH, Sarnak MJ, Parikh CR, Shlipak MG. Association of Urine &alpha;1-Microglobulin with Kidney Function Decline and Mortality in HIV-Infected Women. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Jan 7;10(1):63-73. PMCID: PMC4284407</li>
<li>Lang J, Scherzer R, Tien PC, Parikh CR, Anastos K, Estrella MM, Abraham AG, <strong>Sharma A</strong>, Cohen MH, Butch AW, Nowicki M, Grunfeld C, Shlipak MG. Serum albumin and kidney function decline in HIV-infected women. Am J Kidney Dis. 2014 Oct;64(4):584-91. PMCID: PMC4177337</li>
<li>Jotwani V, Shlipak MG, Scherzer R, Parekh RS, Kao WH, Bennett M, Cohen MH, Nowicki M, <strong>Sharma A</strong>, Young M, Tien PC, Parikh CR, Estrella MM. APOL1 Genotype and Glomerular and Tubular Kidney Injury in Women With HIV. Am J Kidney Dis. 2015 Jun;65(6):889-98. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2015.02.329. Epub 2015 Apr 24. PubMed PMID: 25921719.</li>
<li><strong>Sharma A, </strong>Flom PL, Rosen CJ, Schoenbaum EE<strong>. </strong>Racial Differences in Bone Loss and Relation to Menopause Among HIV-infected and Uninfected Women. Bone. 2015 Apr 18;77:24-30. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2015.04.018. [Epub ahead of print] PMCID: PMC4418198.</li>
<li><strong>Sharma A</strong>, Shi Q, Hoover DR, Anastos K, Tien PC, Young MA, Cohen MH, Golub ET, Gustafson D, Yin MT. Increased fracture incidence in middle-aged HIV-infected and uninfected women: updated results from the Women&rsquo;s Interagency HIV Study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2015 Sep 1; 70(1):54-61. PMID: 26322667 [PubMed - in process] PMCID: PMC4557627</li>
<li>Baxi SM, Scherzer R, Greenblatt RM, Minkoff H, <strong>Sharma A</strong>, Cohen M, Young MA, Abraham AG, and Shlipak MG. Higher Tenofovir Exposure is Associated with Longitudinal Declines in Kidney Function in Women Living with HIV. AIDS. 2016 Feb 20;30(4):609-18</li>
<li><strong>SharmaA</strong>, HooverDR, ShiQ, Gustafson D, Plankey MW, HershowRC, TienPC, GolubET, AnastosA. Relationship between Body Mass Index and Mortality in HIV-infected HAART Users in the Women's Interagency HIV Study. PLoS One. 2015 Dec 23;10(12):e0143740. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143740. eCollection 2015.</li>
<li>Scherzer R, Lin H, Abraham A, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Parikh CR, Bennett M, Cohen MH, Nowicki M, Gustafson DR<strong>, Sharma A,</strong> Young M, Tien P, Jotwani V, and Shlipak MG. Use of urine biomarker-derived clusters to predict risk of CKD and all-cause mortality in HIV-infected women. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2016 Jan 10.&nbsp;</li>
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