OHSU

Melissa Nyendak, MD, MHS

Melissa Nyendak, MDMelissa Nyendak, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases, OHSU/VAMC

Degrees:

BS: University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 1995
MHS: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 1999
MD: Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University; Tel Aviv, Israel 2002

Residency:

Internal Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University 2002-2005

Fellowship:

Infectious Disease, OHSU 2005-2007

Clinical Interests:

  • Mycobacterial infections
  • Infections in immunocompromised hosts, specifically HIV patients.

Research Interests:

  • Immunodiagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection
  • Immunological Bioinformatics
  • Point of care diagnostics in high burden settings for Mtb

Publications:

  1. Lancioni C, Nyendak M, Kiguli S, et al. CD8+ T cells Provide an Immunologic Signature of Tuberculosis in Young Children. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2011 Oct 27.
  2. Nyendak M, Lewinsohn DA, Lewinsohn DM. New diagnostic methods for tuberculosis. Curr Opin Infect Dis 2009 Apr;22(2):174-82.
  3. Nyendak M, Lewinsohn DA, Lewinsohn DM. The Use of Interferon-gamma Release Assays in Clinical Practice. Clinical Tuberculosis (P Davies Editor) Hodder Arnold Publication. (2008).
  4. Winthrop KL, Nyendak M, Calvet H, et al. Interferon-gamma release assays for diagnosing mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in renal dialysis patients. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2008 Sep;3(5):1357-63.

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