Positions

Overview

  • Dr. Patel's clinical practice is focused on general infectious diseases and HIV care for inpatients and outpatients at UAB Medical Center and the Birmingham Veterans Administration Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    A qualitative assessment of internal medicine resident perceptions of graduate medical education following implementation of the 2011 ACGME duty hour standards.  BMC Medical Education.  14.
    Active surveillance to determine the impact of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization on patients in intensive care units of a veterans affairs medical center.  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.  29:503-509.
    Association of fluconazole pharmacodynamics with mortality in patients with candidemia.  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.  52:3022-3028.
    Candida infective endocarditis
    Cross-reactivity of Aspergillus galactomannan in an HIV-infected patient with histoplasmosis.  Medical Mycology Case Reports.  1:119-122.
    Dissemination of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary care hospital.  Southern Medical Journal.  101:40-45.
    Emergence of USA300 MRSA in a tertiary medical centre: implications for epidemiological studies.  Journal of Hospital Infection.  68:208-213.
    Gamification as a tool for enhancing graduate medical education.  Postgraduate Medical Journal.  90:685-693.
    HACEK Infective Endocarditis: Characteristics and Outcomes from a Large, Multi-National Cohort
    Infections from body piercing and tattoos.  Microbiology Spectrum.  3.
    Influence of the timing of cardiac surgery on the outcome of patients with infective endocarditis and stroke.  Clinical Infectious Diseases.  56:209-217.
    Initial management of candidemia at an academic medical center: Evaluation of the IDSA guidelines
    Multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus discriminates within USA pulsed-field gel electrophoresis types.  Journal of Hospital Infection.  71:333-339.
    Nosocomial spread of Enterococcus faecium resistant to vancomycin and linezolid in a tertiary care medical center
    One-year outcome following biological or mechanical valve replacement for infective endocarditis.  International Journal of Cardiology.  178:117-123.
    Prevalence of inducible clindamycin resistance among community- and hospital-associated Staphylococcus aureus isolates
    Risk of vancomycin-induced nephrotoxicity in the population with chronic kidney disease.  American Journal of the Medical Sciences.  345:396-399.
    USA300 genotype community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a cause of surgical site infections
    Utility of real-time antifungal susceptibility testing for fluconazole in the treatment of candidemia
    Validated risk score for predicting 6-month mortality in infective endocarditis

    Principal Investigator On

  • Private Grant  awarded by CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS 2008 - 2011

    • Education And Training

  • Doctor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham 1999
  • UAB Hospital, Internship 2000
  • UAB Hospital, Residency 2002
  • UAB Hospital, Postdoctoral Fellowship 2005

    • Full Name

  • Mukesh Patel