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Office
200 1st St Sw
Rochester, MN 55905Phone+1 507-284-2511
Summary
- Hospital-based care of Surgical infections: 30 years of experience at US News #1 Hospital, preventing, diagnosing and managing infectious complications of orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery (including LVAD), thoracic surgery, oncologic surgery, and transplant surgery.
Other infections in immune compromised hosts, including Solid Organ and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant recipients, cancer chemotherapy, and disease modifying agents for autoimmune diseases.
Regularly cover inpatient services, including ICU ID cases, for 7 to 12 consecutive days, 8 am to 6 pm in house, with pager call in evenings, to optimize continuity of care through weekends.
8 years of experience as Quality Chair for Transplant Center performing ~ 1000 Transplant procedures per year.
Education & Training
- Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester)Fellowship, Infectious Disease, 1982 - 1985
- Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester)Residency, Internal Medicine, 1979 - 1982
- Mayo Clinic College of MedicineClass of 1979
- University of Notre DameBA, Preprofessional Studies, 1971 - 1975
Certifications & Licensure
- MN State Medical License 1980 - 2025
- WI State Medical License 2013 - 2023
- IA State Medical License 1998 - 2003
- FL State Medical License 1987 - 2002
- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Disease
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Innovation Award: Medical Reading Enhancer Mayo Department of Medicine, 2013
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 1034 citationsProspective Surveillance for Invasive Fungal Infections in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients, 2001–2006: Overview of the Transplant-Associated Infection Su...Dimitrios P. Kontoyiennis, Kieren A. Marr, Benjamin J. Park, Barbara D. Alexander, Elias Anaissie
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2010-04-15 - 50 citationsStability in the cumulative incidence, severity and mortality of 101 cases of invasive mucormycosis in high-risk patients from 1995 to 2011: a comparison of eras immed...Maheen Z. Abidi, Muhammad R. Sohail, Nathan W. Cummins, Mark P. Wilhelm, Nancy L. Wengenack
Mycoses. 2014-11-01 - 214 citationsInvasive non-Aspergillus mold infections in transplant recipients, United States, 2001-2006.Benjamin J. Park, Peter G. Pappas, Kathleen Wannemuehler, Barbara D. Alexander, Elias Anaissie
Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2011-10-01
Journal Articles
- Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection Reduces Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection FrequencyRaymund R Razonable, Pritish K Tosh, Randall C Walker, Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Endemic fungal infections in solid organ and hematopoietic cell transplant recipients enrolled in the Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network (TRANSNET)Kauffman CA, Freifeld AG, Andes DR, Baddley JW, Herwaldt L, Walker RC, Alexander BD, Anaissie EJ, Benedict K, Ito JI, Knapp KM, Lyon GM, Marr KA, Morrison VA, Park BJ,..., Transpl Infect Dis, 1/1/2014
- Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome following CHOP chemotherapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphomaEdwards MJ, Walker R, Vinnicombe S, Barlow C, MacCallum P, Foran JM, Ann Oncol, 1/1/2001
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Books/Book Chapters
Abstracts/Posters
- Cardiovascular implantable electronic device infections in left ventricular assist device recipients.Riaz T, Nienaber JJC, Baddour LM, Walker RC, Park SJ, Sohail M, J Am Coll Cardiol, 1/12/2013
- Impact of Prior Voriconazole Exposure on Frequency of Mixed Fungal Infections in Patients with Invasive Mucormycosis.Abidi MZ, Sohail MR, Cummins N, Wilhelm M, Wengenack N, Brumble L, Shah H, Hata D, McCullough A, Wendel A, Vikram HR, Kusne S, Lahr BD, Walker RC, 24th European Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Barcelona, Spain, 1/10/2013
- Combination antifungal therapy is not associated with improved survival in patients with invasive mucormycosis.Abidi MZ, Sohail MR, Cummins NW, Wilhelm MP, Wengenack NL, Brumble L, Shah H, Hata DJ, McCullough A, Wendel A, Kusne S, Lahr BD, Walker RC, Infectious Diseases Society of America Session 183, Fungal Infections, San Francisco, CA, 1/5/2013
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Lectures
- Infections in Long-Term Survivors of Porcine-to-Primate Cardiac Xenotransplantation.Glasgow, Scotland - 1/1/2003
- "Meet the Professor-CMV Infection in Transplantation"Denver, CO - 1/1/1998
- EBV-Induced Post-Transplant lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD).Chicago, IL - 1/1/1997
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