SusanMRayMD

PubMed

• Quantifying racial disparities in risk of invasiveinfection in Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, during the 2020-2021 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
  Herveen Kaur Singh, Radhika Prakash-Asrani, Allison Pall, Susan M Ray, Melissa Tobin-D'Angelo
  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2024-04-01
• "An app is just available at all times"-the process and outcomes of converting the Georgia Tuberculosis Reference Guide into a mobile application.
  Santiago J Arconada Alvarez, Alison T Hoover, Morgan Greenleaf, Susan M Ray, Marcos C Schechter
  Plos One. 2024-01-01
• Discordant antimicrobial susceptibility and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing in aisolate with a carbapenemase gene.
  Lucy S Witt, Alex Page, Eileen M Burd, Tugba Ozturk, David S Weiss
  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2023-12-01

Journal Articles

• Burden of Invasive Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infections in Nursing Home Residents  
  John Townes, Nimalie D Stone, Lee H Harrison, Ghinwa Dumyati, Ruth Lynfield, William Schaffner, Wendy Bamberg, Susan Ray, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
• Multistate Point-prevalence Survey of Healthcare-associated Infections  
  Magill SS, Edwards JR, Bamberg W, Beldavs ZG, Dumyati G, Kainer MA, Lynfield R, Maloney M, McAllister-Hollod L, Nadle J, Ray SM, Thompson DL, Wilson LE, Fridkin SK; Em..., N Engl J Med, 1/1/2014
• Invasive Methicillinresistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infections among Patients on Chronic Dialysis in the United States, 2005-2011  
  Nguyen DB, Lessa FC, Belflower R, Mu Y, Wise M, Nadle J, Bamberg WM, Petit S, Ray SM, Harrison LH, Lynfield R, Dumyati G, Thompson J, Schaffner W, Patel PR; Active Bac..., Clin Infect Dis, 1/1/2013
• Characterization of Hospitalized Community-onset Staphylococcus Aureus Lower Respiratory Tract Infections among Generally Healthy Persons 50 Years of Age or Younger  
  Tosh PK, Bulens SN, Nadle J, Dumyati G, Lynfield R, Schaffner W, Ray SM, Jain S, Fridkin SK, Sievert DM, Infect Dis Clin Pract, 1/1/2013
• Substitution of Rifapentine for Rifampin during Intensive Phase Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Study 29 of the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium  
  Dorman SE, Goldberg S, Stout JE, Muzanyi G, Johnson JL, Weiner M, Bozeman L, Heilig C, Feng PJ Moro R, Narita M, Nahid P, Ray S. Bates E, Haile B, Nuermberger E, Verno..., J Infect Dis, 1/1/2012
• Impact of USA300 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus on Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Pneumonia or Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infections  
  Lessa FC, Mu Y, Ray SM, Dumyati G, Bulens S, Gorwitz RJ, Fosheim G, Devries A, Schaffner W, Nadle J, Gershman K, Fridkin SK for the Active Bacterial Core surveillance ..., Clin Infect Dis, 1/1/2012
• Distinct Effector Memory CD4+ T Cell Signatures in Latent Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection, BCG Vaccination and Clinically Resolved Tuberculosis  
  Adekambi T, Ibegbu C, Kalokhe A, Ray SM, Rengarajan J., PLoS ONE, 1/1/2012
• Save a Life and Protect Your Own  
  Liebzeit J, Ray S, Ander D, Medical Education, 1/1/2011
• Clinical and Laboratory Characteristics of Invasive Infections due to MRSA Isolates demonstrating Vancomycin MICs of 2 microg/mL: Lack of Effect of hVISA Phenotype  
  Satola SW, Lessa FC, Ray SM, Bulens SN, Lynfield R, Schaffner W, Dumyati G, Nadle J, Patel JB for the Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs) MRSA Investigators, J Clin Microbiol, 1/1/2011
• Association of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) USA300 Genotype with Mortality in MRSA Bacteremia  
  Kempker RR, Farley MM, Ladson JL, Satola S, Ray SM, J Infection, 1/1/2010
• Healthcare-associated Invasive MRSA Infections, 2005-2008  
  Kallen A J, Mu Y, Bulens S, Sinkowitz-Cochran R, Reingold A, Petit S, Gershman K, Ray SM, Harrison LH, Lynfield R, Dumyati G, Townes JM, Schaffner W, Talbot TR, Patel ..., JAMA, 1/1/2010
• Vitamin D Status and Antimicrobial Peptide Cathelicidin (LL-37) Levels in Patients with Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis  
  Yamshchikov AV, Kurbatova EV, Kumari M, Blumberg HM, Ziegler TR, Ray SM, Tangpricha V, Am J Clin Nutri, 1/1/2010
• Characterization of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Isolates Causing Invasive Disease: A Population-based Analysis, 2005-2006  
  Limbago B, Fosheim GE, Schoonover V, Crane CE, Nadle J, Petit S, Gershman K, Ray SM, Harrison LH, Lynfield R, Dumyati G, Townes JM, Schaffner W, Mu Y, Fridkin SK, J Clin Microbiol, 1/1/2009
• Evaluating the Potential Impact of a Staphylococcus aureus Vaccine through use of Population-Based Surveillance for Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureu...  
  Lucero CA, Hageman J, Zell ER, Bulens S, Nadle J, Petit S, Gershman K, Ray S, Harrison LH, Lynfield R, Dumyati G, Townes JM, Fridkin SK, Schaffner W, for the Active Ba..., Vaccine, 1/1/2009
• Outbreak of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infection Associated with Contamination of a Flexible Bronchoscope  
  DiazGranados C, Jones M Y, Kongphet-Tran T, White N, Shapiro M, Wang YF, Ray SM, Blumberg HM., Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 1/1/2009
• Surveillance for Severe Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Disease  
  Wiersma P, Tobin D'Angelo M, Daley WR, Tuttle J, Arnold KE, Ray SM, Ladson JL, Bulens SN, Drenzek CL, Epidemiol Infect, 1/1/2009
• Emergence of and Risk Factors for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Of Community Origin in High Risk Nurseries  
  Seybold U, Halvosa JS, White N, Voris V, Ray SM, Blumberg HM, Pediatrics, 1/1/2008
• Incidence and Burden of Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Infections in the United States, 2004-2005  
  Klevens RM, Morrison MA, Fridkin SA, Nadle J, Petit S, Gershman K, Ray S, Harrison LH, Lynfield R, Dumyati G, Townes JM, Craig AS, Zell ER, Fosheim GE, McDougal L, Car..., JAMA, 1/1/2007
• Population-based Incidence of Infection with Selected Bacterial Enteric Pathogens in Children Less than Five Years of Age, 1996-1998  
  Koehler KM, Lasky T, Fein SB, DeLong SM, Hawkins MA, Rabatsky-Her T, Ray SM, Shiferaw B, Swanson E, Vugia DJ, for the EIP FoodNet Working Group, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal, 1/1/2006
• Changes in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease among HIV-infected Adults in the Era of Childhood Pneumococcal Immunization  
  Flannery B, Heffernan RT, Harrison LH, Ray SM, Reingold AL, Hadler J, Schaffner W, Lynfield R, Thomas AR, Li J, Campsmith M, Whitney CG, Schuchat A, Ann Intern Med, 1/1/2006
• Spread of Community-associated Methicillinresistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Strains in Healthcare Settings  
  Klevens RM, Morrison MA, Fridkin SA, Reingold A, Petit S, Gershman K, Ray S, Harrison L, Lynfield R, Dumyati G, Townes JM, Craig AS, Tenover FC for the Active Bacteria..., Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1/1/2006
• Multi-state Assessment of Missed Opportunities for Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccination in Adults: United States 2001-2003  
  Kyaw MH, Greene CM, Schaffner W, Ray SM, Shapiro M, Barrett NM, Gershman K, Roberson A, Zell ER, Schuchat A, Bennett NM, Whitney CG for the Active Bacterial Core Surve..., Am J Prevent Med, 1/1/2006
• Emergence of Community-acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus USA300 Clone as the Predominant Cause of S Aureus Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Atlanta  
  King MD, Terrell BJ, Wang YF, Ray SM, Blumberg HM, Ann Intern Med, 1/1/2006
• Emergence of Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) USA300 Genotype as a Major Cause of Healthcare-associated Blood Stream Infections  
  Seybold U, Kourbatova EV, Johnson JG, Halvosa SJ, Wang YF, King MD, Ray SM, Blumberg HM, Clin Infect Dis, 1/1/2006
• Emergence of Community-Associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus USA 300 Clone as a Cause of Nosocomial Infections among Patients with Prosthetic Joint In...  
  Kourbatova EV, Halvosa JS, King MD, Ray SM ,White N, Blumberg HM, Am J Infect Control, 1/1/2005
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Books/Book Chapters

• Brody's Human Pharmacology: Molecular to Clinical 
  Chapter: Bacterial Folate Antagonists, Fluoroquinolones, and Other Antibacterial Agents 
  Ray SM, Thielman N, Neu HCEditors: Minneman KP, Wecker L, Lucchesi B.Elsevier, New York, New YorkEdition 4th,2005
• Ambulatory Medicine Case Book 
  Chapter: Adult Vaccines: Pneumococcal and Influenza Vaccination 
  Ray SMEditors: Doyle JP, Martin L.Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA2001
• Medicine for the Practicing Physician 
  Chapter: Candidiasis 
  Ray SM, Schwarzmann SW, Shulman JAEditors: Hurst JW.Appleton and Lange, Norwalk, CTEdition 4th,1996
• Medicine for the Practicing Physician 
  Chapter: Human Parvovirus B19 Infections 
  Ray SM, Shulman JAEditors: Hurst JW.Appleton and Lange, Norwalk, CTEdition 4th,1996
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Abstracts/Posters

• Reducing Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections on the Medical Ward by Prompting Removal of Idle Central Venous Catheters.
  Tejedor SC, Stein J, Dressler D, O'Malley E, Payne C, Chhasatia N, Ray SM, Rask K, Faculty Research Day, Department of Medicine, Emory University SOM, Atlanta, GA, 1/1/2008
• Tuberculosis Patients with HIV at an Urban IndigentCare Hospital: Complications during Treatment.
  Kuppalli K, Barragan M, Leonard MK, Ray SM, 45th Annual Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2007
• Dialysis Access-Associated (DAA) Bloodstream Infections (BSI) at an Urban Indigent Care Hospital.
  Kizilbash Q, Sargeant M, Barragan M, Heard N, White N, Voris V, Ray SM., 45th Annual Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2007
• Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections Among Chronic Renal Insufficiency Patients, United States
  Lucero C, Klevens RM, Patel P, Arduino M, Fosheim G, Morrison M, Collins A, Forrest B, Ray S for CDC ABC Surveillance Program., 45th Annual Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2007
• Sharps Injuries Occurring with the Use of Safety Devices: Providing Safer Devices is Not Enough
  Walker C, Robichaux C, Desroches P, Berry X, Ribner B, Ray S, Blumberg H, Diaz-Granados C, Steinberg J., Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 1/1/2007
• Acceptance and Completion of HIV Post-exposure Prophylaxis by Healthcare Workers Following Blood and Body Fluids Exposures
  Berry X, Sanchez M, Ray S, DiazGranados C, Voris V, White N, del Rio C, Blumberg H, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 1/1/2007
• Reduction of Sharps Injuries in the Operating Room Following Implementation of a CDCrecommended Sharps Injury Prevention Program
  Berry X, Voris V, White N., Salomone J., DiazGranados C., Dent L., McCoy J. Feliciano D., Blumberg HM, Ray SM., Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 1/1/2007
• Population-based Surveillance Documents Increasing Rate of Invasive MRSA Disease in Metropolitan Atlanta; 2001/2 to 2004/5
  Ray SM, Ladson JL, Arnold KE, Tobin-DeAngelo M, Farley MM for GA Emerging Infections Program, International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, GA, 1/1/2006
• Epidemiology of Mycobacterium Kansasii Disease among Patients Presenting to an Urban Inner City Hospital.
  Cope J. Rittenhouse, Barragan M., White N., Wang FY, Ray SM, International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, GA, 1/1/2006
• Invasive Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Infections: Comparison of Community Associated (CA) And Healthcare-associated (HA) Disease.
  Ray SM, Farley MF, Ladson JL, Craig AS, Lynfield R, Towns JM, Petit S, Harrison LH, Reingold A, Gershman K, Dumyati G, Morrison M, Klevens RM, for the Active Bacterial..., 43rd Annual Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2005
• Pneumococcal and Influenza Vaccination among Diabetics: Findings of a Chart Review and Survey.
  Yang P, Goodman S, George C, Ray SM., J Invest Med, 1/1/2003
• Epidemiological Analysis of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Cluster Identified by IS6110 RFLP and Spoligotyping Analysis.
  Colquhoun JA, Mosley AN, DeRouin TM, Blumberg HM, Ray SM, J Invest Med, 1/1/2002
• Discriminatory Ability of Spoligotyping for IS6110 Low-copy Number Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Isolates from an Inner-city Hospital.
  Mosley AN, Colquhoon JA, DeRouin TM, Blumberg HM, Ray SM, J Invest Med, 1/1/2002
• Scripted Physician Intervention Effect on Pneumococcal Immunization Rates.
  Espadron N, Eichler M, Goodman S, Summers-Bean C, Traub N, Ray SM., J Invest Med, 1/1/2002
• Adult Invasive Pneumococcal Disease at an Urban Medical Center: Can It Be Prevented?
  Ray S, Shevlin JD, Offutt G, Thomas D, Eichler M, Summers-Bean C, Farley M., J Invest Med, 1/1/2001
• Mycobacterium Gordonae: A Pesky, Persistent, Non-pathogen.
  Tobin M, Derouin T, Wang W, Parrott P, Black C, White N, Lonsway D, Blumberg HM, Halvosa S, Ray S., J Invest Med, 1/1/2001
• Poor Validity of a JCAHO-GHA ORYX Indicator Using A Discharge Abstract-based Method to Determine Surgical-site Infection Rates
  Metzger BS, White N, Ray S, Blumberg HM., J Invest Med, 1/1/2001
• Molecular Epidemiology of INH-resistant Tuberculosis in Atlanta.
  Anderson C, Blumberg HM, Halvosa S, Burns H, Palmer B, Griner F, Ray SM., J Invest Med, 1/1/1999
• Rationale for Pneumococcal Vaccination in An Urban Hospital Urgent Care Setting.
  Black CL, Shevlin J, Dhalla M, Offutt G, Thomas D, Ray S, J Invest Med, 1/1/1999
• Incidence of Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections by HIV Status.
  Hahn OM, Ziemer D, del Rio C, Ray SM, J Invest Med, 1/1/1999
• Populationbased Surveillance for Yersinia Enterocolitica Infection in Metropolitan Atlanta.
  McDonald A, Segler S, McNeil M, Koehler J, Voetsch D, Angulo F, Ray S and Food Net, J Invest Med, 1/1/1998
• Investigation of a Cluster of Tuberculosis Patients: Is IS6110 Molecular Typing Predicitve?
  Buck CS, Anderson C, Sotir M, Blumberg HM, Ray S, J Invest Med, 1/1/1998
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Lectures

• Nosocomial Colonization and its Impact on Hospital-Acquired Infections 
  1/1/2014
• Understanding TB: Looking through a Glass Darkly - Perspectives From Clinical Medicine and Immunology 
  1/1/2014
• Region D GA Emergency Response: Ebola Virus - Epidemiology 
  1/1/2014
• It Takes a Village - Stories from the Front Lines and behind the Scenes of TB Control 
  1/1/2014
• Updates on TB in Georgia - Diagnostics and Drug Resistance 
  1/1/2014
• Update on TB 
  1/1/2014
• Emerging Infections Program Phase 3, Full-Scale Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use Prevalence Survey: Preliminary Results from All Sites and GA only 
  1/1/2012
• Immunology of Tuberculosis 
  1/1/2011
• Infection Control Jeopardy 
  1/1/2011
• Breakout B6: Drug Resistant TB: Interactive Case Studies Involving the Laboratory and the TB Control Program 
  1/1/2011
• Legionella Outbreak at Grady 
  1/1/2010
• Catheter-associated Bloodstream Infections: Epidemiology and Prevention 
  1/1/2009
• Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Hospitalized Adults: What's New, What's Not 
  1/1/2008
• HIV and TB: Double Trouble 
  1/1/2008
• TB: Updates in Infection Control and Diagnosis and Management of Latent TB Infection 
  Department of Family and Community Medicine - 1/1/2007
• Management of TB in HIV-infected Patients 
  1/1/2007
• TB Infection Control Issues 
  1/1/2006
• Treatment and Management of TB/HIV Co-infection 
  1/1/2006
• TB Infection Control in Institutional Settings: Importance of HIVTB Co-infection 
  1/1/2005
• Tuberculosis Clinical Trials: Learning from the past and Looking to the Future 
  1/1/2004
• Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis: The First 15 Years 
  1/1/2004
• Recognizing the Presentation of HIV/TB 
  1/1/2004
• Preventing Nosocomial Transmission of TB 
  1/1/2004
• Hospital Cases in Infectious Diseases 
  1/1/2003
• Post-operative Fever 
  1/1/2002
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Other

• Discordance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Rifampin Susceptibility [Letter]. 
  Kalokhe AS, Shafiq M, Lee JC, Metchock B, Posey JE, Ray SM, et al, Emerg Infect Dis
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1803.111357
  1/1/2012
• Updates on the TB Trials Consortium (TBTC): The Long Road to a Shorter, Stronger, Safer Cure for TB - How to Get There Faster 
  Ray SM, TB Notes
  1/1/2007
• Why the TB Trials Consortium Needs Your Support 
  Ray, SM, TB Notes
  1/1/2005
• Updates on the TB Trials Consortium (TBTC): Focus on Pharmacokinetic (PK) Studies 
  Ray SM, TB Notes
  1/1/2005
• Updates on the TB Trials Consortium (TBTC): Introducing the TB Trials Network - Enhancing the U.S. Public Health System's Willingness and Capacity to Engage in Clinica... 
  Ray SM, TB Notes
  1/1/2005
• Pneumococcal Vaccine Intervention Project at Grady Health System. Give Good Health a Shot! 
  
  1/1/2000
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