JeremiahScottRutherfordMDFACP(He/Him)

Hospital Medicine/Hospitalist

Medical Director Hospital Medicine, Baptist Health-Ft. Smith

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Office
Baptist Health
1001 Towson Ave
Fort Smith, AR 72901
Phone+1 479-964-4178

Fax+1 479-964-5910

New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 2006 - 2009
St. George's University School of MedicineClass of 2006, M.Dm, Magna Cum Laude
Colorado State UniversityB.S., Microbiology, 1997 - 2002

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Aprima EHR, Aprima Medical Software, Inc., 2012
Fellow American College of Physicians, 2012
Intern of the Month Award 2006
Best Teaching Resident 2006
Legacy of Excellence Award 2003
Outstanding Student in Microbiology 2002
Member of Iota Epsilon Alpha Medical Honor Society 2002
Beulah and Doyle Memorial Scholarship 2001
Delano F. Scott Scholarship 2001
Sumner Morrison Memorial Scholarship 2000
Golden Key National Honor Society 1999
Myron Brown Memorial Scholarship 1999
Member of Sigma Xi Research Honor Society 1998
Colorado Scholars Award 1998
President’s Scholarship 1997
Eagle Scout Award 1997
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PubMed

23 citations
Suppression of Th2 cytokines reduces tick-transmitted Borrelia burgdorferi load in mice.
Nordin S. Zeidner, Bradley S. Schneider, Jeremiah S. Rutherford, Marc C. Dolan
The Journal of Parasitology. 2008-06-01
28 citations
Fatal spotted fever rickettsiosis, Kenya.
Jeremiah S. Rutherford, Kevin R. Macaluso, Nathaniel Smith, Sherif R. Zaki, Christopher D. Paddock
Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2004-05-01
36 citations
Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks from the Masai Mara region of Kenya.
Kevin R. Macaluso, Jon Davis, Uzma Alam, Amy Korman, Jeremiah S. Rutherford
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2003-05-01

Journal Articles

Suppression of TH2 cytokines reduces tick-transmitted B burgdorferi in mice
Zeidner NS, Schneider BS, Dolan MC, Journal of Parasitology, 1/1/2008
Fatal spotted fever rickettsiosis, Kenya
Rutherford JS, Macaluso KR, Smith N, Zaki SR, Paddock CD, Davis J, Peterson N, Azad AF, and Rosenberg R, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1/1/2004
Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks from the Masai Mara region of Kenya
Macaluso KR, Davis J, Alma U, Korman A, Rutherford JS, Rosenberg R, Azad AF, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygeine, 1/1/2003
Use of sentinel host system to study the questing behavior of Ixodes spinipalpis and its role in the transmission of Borrelia bissettii, human granulocytic ehrlichiosi...
Burkot TR, Maupin GO, Schneider BS, Denatale C, Happ CM, Rutherford JS, Zeidner NS, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygeine, 1/1/2001
Transmission of the agent of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis by Ixodes spinipalpis ticks; evidence of an enzootic cycle to dual infection with Borrelia burgdorferi in ...
Zeidner NS, Burkot TR, Massung R, Nicholson WL, Dolan MC, Rutherford JS, Biggerstaff BJ, Maupin GO, Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1/1/2000
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Abstracts/Posters

Spotted Fever Rickettsioses in Kenya
Rutherford JS, Macaluso K, Davis JM, Fader T, Barnes A, Peterson N, Azad AF, Rosenberg R, American Society of Rickettsiology Meeting, 1/1/2001

Lectures

Hypernatremia: Clinical Manifestations and Treatment
Muskogee Regional Medical Center - 1/1/2010
Hematological Manifestations in HIV/AIDS
New York Methodist Hospital - 1/1/2005
Lupus Nephritis
1/1/2005
Counteracting host immune modulation by tick vectors: anti-cytokine treatment limits dissemination of spirochetes after tick feeding
1/1/2002
Transmission of the Agent of HE and Babesia microti by I. Spinipalpis Ticks: Evidence of a Cycle of Co-Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi in Northern Colorado
Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO - 1/1/2000
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