Dr. Shelley Sylvester Magill

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Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Assistant ProfessorAppointed: 2003

Mailing Address

1830 E. Monument St.
Baltimore, Maryland 21287
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (410) 614-9690
Fax: (410) 955-7889
Pager: (410) 283-3877
ssylvester99@yahoo.com

Qualifications

M.D., Harvard University, Medicine, 1996.
A.B., Dartmouth College, English literature, 1991.
Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University, Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation.

Expertise and Research Interests

Clinical infectious diseases; infectious diseases affecting solid organ transplant and oncology patients; medical mycology; patient-oriented research/clinical investigation; invasive candidiasis.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Clinical Medicine, Mycology.

Additional Terms:

Candida, Fungal Infection, Mycology.

Memberships

American Society for Microbiology
Infectious Diseases Society of America

Honors and Awards

1994-1995, Walter Bradford Cannon Student Research Fellowship, Harvard University
1987, Presidential Scholar, Dartmouth College
1987-1991, Rufus Choate Scholar, Dartmouth College
1990, Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth College
1991, Summa Cum Laude, Dartmouth College
1997, Arnold Dunne Award, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University
2004, Molecular Mycology Course Participant, Marine Biological Laboratory

Previous Positions

1999-2003, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
1996-1999, Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Internal Medicine

Funding Received

  • Independent Research Grant, Pfizer: Breakthrough and Refractory Invasive Fungal Breakthrough and Refractory Invasive Fungal Infections During Systemic Antifungal Therapy in Adults with Acute Leukemia, , 2006 to 2007.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Prevention of Candidiasis in Critically Ill Patients, , 2003 to 2008.

Publications

  • Magill SS, Shields C, Sears CL, Choti M, Merz WG (2006) Triazole cross-resistance among Candida spp.: case report, occurrence among bloodstream isolates, and implications for antifungal therapy, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 44, 529-35
  • Magill SS, Puthanakit T, Swoboda SM, Carson KA, Salvatori R, Lipsett PA, Hendrix CW (Jul 2004) Impact of fluconazole prophylaxis on cortisol levels in critically ill surgical patients., Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 48 (7), 2471-6 Abstract
  • Sylvester SL, Diaz LA Jr, Port JD, Sterling TR (2002) Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy in an HIV-infected patient with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura., Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 34 (9), 706-9 Abstract
  • Demeter LM, D'Aquila R, Weislow O, Lorenzo E, Erice A, Fitzgibbon J, Shafer R, Richman D, Howard TM, Zhao Y, Fisher E, Huang D, Mayers D, Sylvester S, Arens M, Sannerud K, Rasheed S, Johnson V, Kuritzkes D, Reichelderfer P, Japour A (Nov 1998) Interlaboratory concordance of DNA sequence analysis to detect reverse transcriptase mutations in HIV-1 proviral DNA. ACTG Sequencing Working Group. AIDS Clinical Trials Group., Journal of Virological Methods, 75 (1), 93-104 Abstract
  • Bianchi DW, Zickwolf GK, Weil GJ, Sylvester S, DeMaria MA (Jan 1996) Male fetal progenitor cells persist in maternal blood for as long as 27 years postpartum., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America., 93 (2), 705-8 Abstract
  • Magill SS, Swoboda SM, Johnson E, Merz WG, Pelz RK, Lipsett PA, Hendrix CW, The association between anatomical site of Candida colonization, invasive candidiasis and mortality in critically ill surgical patients, Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, In Press

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Last Updated: 4/5/2006

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