Dr. Brian P Currie MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Montefiore Medical Center 111 E. 210th Street Bronx NY, 10467About
Brian P. Currie is Vice President for Medical Research and Assistant Dean for Clinical Research, Montefiore Medical Center. He is a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed re ...
Education and Training
Albert Einstein
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1991
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease- 2004
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Rational approaches to antibiotic therapy of ventilator-associated pneumonias.
- Evidence for biliary excretion of vancomycin into stool during intravenous therapy: potential implications for rectal colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
- Improving the rates of inpatient pneumococcal vaccination: impact of standing orders versus computerized reminders to physicians.
- Incidence of Clostridium difficile infection in patients with acute leukemia and lymphoma after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
- Investigation of inpatient probiotic use at an academic medical center.
- Standardizing race, ethnicity, and preferred language data collection in hospital information systems: results and implications for healthcare delivery and policy.
- Pay for performance improves quality across demographic groups.
- Estimation of the prevalence of cryptococcal infection among patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus in New York City.
- Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of Cryptococcus neoformans isolates from environmental (pigeon excreta) and clinical sources in New York City.
- False-negative cerebrospinal fluid cryptococcal latex agglutination tests for patients with culture-positive cryptococcal meningitis.
- The 5S rRNA and the rRNA intergenic spacer of the two varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans.
- Genetic relatedness of Cryptococcus neoformans clinical isolates grouped with the repetitive DNA probe CNRE-1.
- Karyotype instability in Cryptococcus neoformans infection.
- Molecular epidemiology of Cryptococcus neoformans in Brazil and the United States: evidence for both local genetic differences and a global clonal population structure.
- Impact of antimicrobial use on the epidemiology of nosocomial infections on the oncology ward: implications for infection control.
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- Montefiore Medical Center
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