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Office
50 Irving St Nw
151b
Washington, DC 20422Phone+1 202-745-8695Fax+1 202-745-8432
Education & Training
- MedStar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital CenterFellowship, Infectious Disease, 1993 - 1995
- Vanderbilt University Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 1984 - 1987
- Medical College of Georgia at Augusta UniversityClass of 1984
- University of GeorgiaB.S., Microbiology, Summa Cum Laude, 1980
Certifications & Licensure
- MD State Medical License 1992 - 2026
- DC State Medical License 2009 - 2024
- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Fellow American College of Physicians, 2012
- Fellow Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2012
- Secretary’s Hero Award Washington DC, VAMC, 2005
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Clinical Trials
- TBTC Study 23B:Intensive PK of the Nelfinavir Rifabutin Interaction in Patients With HIV-TB Start of enrollment: 2000 Feb 01
- Palliative Care in People Living With HIV/AIDS: Integrating Into Standard of Care Start of enrollment: 2013 Oct 13
- Development of a City-Wide Cohort of HIV-Infected Persons in Care in the District of Columbia: The DC Cohort Start of enrollment: 2011 Jan 01
Roles: Contact
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 62 citationsEvaluation of Xpert MTB/RIF Versus AFB Smear and Culture to Identify Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Patients With Suspected Tuberculosis From Low and Higher Prevalence Sett...Anne F Luetkemeyer, Cynthia Firnhaber, Michelle A. Kendall, Xingye Wu, Gerald H. Mazurek
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2016-05-01 - 290 citationsRifapentine and isoniazid once a week versus rifampicin and isoniazid twice a week for treatment of drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-negative patients: A...Debra Benator, Mondira Bhattacharya, Lorna Bozeman, William J. Burman, Antonino Catanzaro
Lancet. 2002-08-17 - 182 citationsAssociation between acquired rifamycin resistance and the pharmacokinetics of rifabutin and isoniazid among patients with HIV and tuberculosisMarc H Weiner, Debra Benator, William J. Burman, Charles A. Peloquin, Awal Khan
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2005-05-15
Journal Articles
- Raccoon rabies virus variant transmission through solid organ transplantationVora NM, Basavaraju SV, Feldman KA, Paddock CD, Orciari L, Gitterman S et al, Raccoon rabies virus variant transmission through solid organ transplantation., 1/1/2013
- A Patient with Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Inflammatory Polyarticular ArthritisSaddic, Nicole; Kerr, Gail; Benator, Debra; Lichy, Jack, Arthritis Care & Research, 1/1/2013
- Is Frequent CD4+ T-Lymphocyte Count Monitoring Necessary for Persons with Counts >=300 cells/{micro}L and HIV-1 Viral Suppression?Howard B. Gale; Steven R. Gitterman; Heather J. Hoffman; Fred M. Gordin; Debra A. Benator; Ann M. Labriola; Virginia L. Kan, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1/1/2013
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Abstracts/Posters
- Receipt of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator among HIV+ and HIV- Veterans with Cardiomyopathy.Fatemi O, Singh S, Benator D, Karasik P, American Heart Association, Dallas, TX, 11/19/2013
- Fear of Exposure among Healthcare Workers (HCWs) after a Sentinel Case of Rabies.Virginia L. Kan,, Patrick Joyce, Debra Benator, Katherine Feldman, Kathleen Agnes, Janet Gill, Monica Irmler, Arlene Clark, George Giannakos, Audrey Gabourel, and Fr..., ID Week, San Francisco, CA, 10/1/2013
- Paralytic Rabies and Early Confusion with Guillain-Barre Syndrome: Potential Impact of Plasmapheresis on Premortem Rabies SerologiesA Kresch, VL Kan, S Gitterman, DA Mobarek, KC Tsagaris, V Vakil, A Sharma, CM Cook, F Haroun, DA Benator, Program of the 53rd Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Denver, CO, 9/10/2013
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Lectures
- A Patient with Hepatitis C and Inflammatory Polyarticular ArthritisWashington, DC - 11/11/2012
- MDR and XDR TuberculosisGeorge Washington University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology (Nov 2009, 2010, 20 - 11/1/2012
- What’s New Update, “HIV and Tuberculosis”Silver Spring, MD; Central East ATTC and Perelman, UPenn, Fairfax, VA (May 3, 2012) - 8/22/2012
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