WillemHBoomMD

Infectious Disease • Cleveland, OH

Physician

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Office
11100 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44106
Phone+1 216-844-8500

Education & Training

Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolFellowship, Infectious Disease, 1983 - 1988
Massachusetts General HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1983 - 1986
George Washington UniversityResidency, Internal Medicine, 1979 - 1982
University of Rochester School of Medicine and DentistryClass of 1979

Certifications & Licensure

OH State Medical License 1988 - 2025
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Disease

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

16 citations
Inhibiting Mycobacterium abscessus Cell Wall Synthesis: Using a Novel Diazabicyclooctane β-Lactamase Inhibitor To Augment β-Lactam Action.
Khalid M Dousa, David C Nguyen, Sebastian G Kurz, Magdalena A Taracila, Christopher R Bethel
Mbio. 2022-02-22
5 citations
Interaction between M. tuberculosis Lineage and Human Genetic Variants Reveals Novel Pathway Associations with Severity of TB
Michael L. McHenry, Eddie M. Wampande, Moses Joloba, LaShaunda L. Malone, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza
Pathogens. 2021-11-15
21 citations
“One-Two Punch”: Synergistic ß-Lactam Combinations for Mycobacterium abscessus and Target Redundancy in the Inhibition of Peptidoglycan Synthesis Enzymes
David C Nguyen, Khalid M Dousa, Sebastian G. Kurz, Sheldon T. Brown, George L. Drusano
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2021-10-20

Journal Articles

Bacterial Factors That Predict Relapse After Tuberculosis Therapy
David Alland, W Henry Boom, The New England Journal of Medicine
Immunological Mechanisms of Human Resistance to Persistent Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection
Robert S Wallis, W Henry Boom, Thomas R Hawn, Sarah Fortune, Nature