Infectious Diseases

Aimee Kirsch Zaas, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Campus mail 2301 Erwin Rd, Box 3182, Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 681-1464
Email address aimee.zaas@duke.edu

Medical education
Genomic applications for diagnosis of infectious diseases
Genomic applications for prediction of infectious diseases

Education and Training

  • Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Duke University, 2003 - 2004
  • Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Duke University, 2001 - 2002
  • Medical Resident, Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1998 - 2001
  • M.D., Northwestern University, 1998

Grants

Publications

Campbell, EA, Crowley, MJ, Powers, BJ, Sanders, LL, Olsen, MK, Danus, S, McNeill, DB, and Zaas, AK. "Diabetes Quality of Care Before and After Implementation of a Resident Clinic Practice Partnership System." American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 32, no. 1 (January 2017): 66-72.

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26602515
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Dotters-Katz, S, Hargett, CW, Zaas, AK, and Criscione-Schreiber, LG. "What motivates residents to teach? The Attitudes in Clinical Teaching study." Medical education 50, no. 7 (July 2016): 768-777.

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27295481
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Willett, LL, Halvorsen, AJ, Adams, M, Chacko, KM, Chaudhry, S, McDonald, FS, Oxentenko, AS, Swenson, SL, Zaas, A, and Arora, VM. "Factors Associated with Declining Residency Program Pass Rates on the ABIM Certification Examination." The American journal of medicine 129, no. 7 (July 2016): 759-765.

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27086497
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Suddarth, KH, Jones, RR, O'Malley, CW, Paje, D, Yamazaki, K, Zaas, AK, and Meade, LB. "Implementation of Milestones-Based Assessment for a Safe and Effective Discharge." The American journal of medicine 129, no. 6 (June 2016): 640-646.

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26901111
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Meade, LB, Suddarth, KH, Jones, RR, Zaas, AK, Albanese, T, Yamazaki, K, and O'Malley, CW. "Patients, Nurses, and Physicians Working Together to Develop a Discharge Entrustable Professional Activity Assessment Tool." Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (April 19, 2016).

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27097051
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Husain, S, Sole, A, Alexander, BD, Aslam, S, Avery, R, Benden, C, Billaud, EM, Chambers, D, Danziger-Isakov, L, Fedson, S, Gould, K, Gregson, A, Grossi, P, Hadjiliadis, D, Hopkins, P, Luong, M-L, Marriott, DJE, Monforte, V, Muñoz, P, Pasqualotto, AC, Roman, A, Silveira, FP, Teuteberg, J, Weigt, S, Zaas, AK, Zuckerman, A, and Morrissey, O. "The 2015 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Guidelines for the management of fungal infections in mechanical circulatory support and cardiothoracic organ transplant recipients: Executive summary." The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 35, no. 3 (March 2016): 261-282.

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26970469
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Liu, T-Y, Burke, T, Park, LP, Woods, CW, Zaas, AK, Ginsburg, GS, and Hero, AO. "An individualized predictor of health and disease using paired reference and target samples." BMC Bioinformatics 17 (January 22, 2016): 47-.

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26801061
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McClain, MT, Nicholson, BP, Park, LP, Liu, T-Y, Hero, AO, Tsalik, EL, Zaas, AK, Veldman, T, Hudson, LL, Lambkin-Williams, R, Gilbert, A, Burke, T, Nichols, M, Ginsburg, GS, and Woods, CW. "A Genomic Signature of Influenza Infection Shows Potential for Presymptomatic Detection, Guiding Early Therapy, and Monitoring Clinical Responses." Open forum infectious diseases 3, no. 1 (January 19, 2016): ofw007-.

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26933666
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Tsalik, EL, Henao, R, Nichols, M, Burke, T, Ko, ER, McClain, MT, Hudson, LL, Mazur, A, Freeman, DH, Veldman, T, Langley, RJ, Quackenbush, EB, Glickman, SW, Cairns, CB, Jaehne, AK, Rivers, EP, Otero, RM, Zaas, AK, Kingsmore, SF, Lucas, J, Fowler, VG, Carin, L, Ginsburg, GS, and Woods, CW. "Host gene expression classifiers diagnose acute respiratory illness etiology." Science translational medicine 8, no. 322 (January 2016): 322ra11-.

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26791949
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Tsalik, EL, McClain, M, and Zaas, AK. "Moving toward prime time: host signatures for diagnosis of respiratory infections." The Journal of infectious diseases 212, no. 2 (July 2015): 173-175.

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25637349
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