AgamKumariRaoMD(She/Her)

Medical Officer/Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology/CDC

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Medical officer at U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology; National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.
CAPT, US Public Health Service

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), 2009 - 2011
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterFellowship, Infectious Disease, 2007 - 2009
Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 2004 - 2007
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson UniversityClass of 2004
Cornell UniversityBA, Biology, 1994 - 1998

PubMed

52 citations
Environmental Persistence of Monkeypox Virus on Surfaces in Household of Person with Travel-Associated Infection, Dallas, Texas, USA, 2021.
Clint N Morgan, Florence Whitehill, Jeffrey B Doty, Joann Schulte, Audrey Matheny
Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2022-10-01
144 citations
Multiple lineages of monkeypox virus detected in the United States, 2021-2022.
Crystal M Gigante, Bette Korber, Matthew H Seabolt, Kimberly Wilkins, Whitni Davidson
Science. 2022-11-04
35 citations
Epidemiologic and Clinical Features of Mpox-Associated Deaths - United States, May 10, 2022-March 7, 2023.
Aspen P Riser, Allison Hanley, Michael Cima, Linda Lewis, Kayla Saadeh
MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2023-04-14

Journal Articles

Botulism Associated with Home-Fermented Tofu in Two Chinese Immigrants—New York City, March-April 2012
Edward Chai, Eugene Choi, Cristina Gutierrez, Melvin Hochman, Suja Johnkutty, Wael Kamel, Todd Mekles, Joel Ackelsberg, Sharon Balter, Agam K Rao, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 7/5/2013
Botulism From Drinking Prison-Made Illicit Alcohol—Utah 2011
Diana Thurston, Ilene Risk, Agam Rao, MMWR, 10/5/2012
Botulism from Drinking Prison-Made Illicit Alcohol—Arizona, 2012
Graham Briggs, Shoana Anderson, Agam Rao, Rajal Mody, MMWR, 2/8/2012
Potential Transmission of Viral Hepatitis Through Use of Stored Blood Vessels as Conduits in Organ Transplantation—Pennsylvania, 2009
A Humar, J Lando, V Dato, S Holmberg, WA Bower, MJ Kuehnert, AK Rao, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2/18/2011
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Books/Book Chapters

Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
Chapter: 148: Botulism
Agam K. Rao; Susan MaslankaEdition 20,
Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
Chapter: 178: Botulism
Susan Maslanka; Agam K. RaoEdition 19th,

CDC Offers Tentative Guidance for Severe Mpox TreatmentMarch 2nd, 2023
CDC Advisers Vote in Favor of Using Mpox Vaccine in Future OutbreaksFebruary 22nd, 2023
CDC Advisors Are Voting in Favor of Using the Smallpox Vaccine in Future OutbreaksFebruary 22nd, 2023
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