Lisa Saiman, MD MPH

EDUCATION

Cornell University, BA, 1977
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, MD, 1983
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, MPH, 1999

ACADEMIC TITLE

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS

Attending Physician
Hospital Epidemiologist
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian

SPECIALTY

Hospital Epidemiology
Cystic Fibrosis
Multidrug-resistant Organisms

RESEARCH AND CLINICAL SUMMARY

Dr. Saiman's primary research and clinical interests are in cystic fibrosis (CF), healthcare-acquired infections and hospital epidemiology and multidrug-resistant organisms. Dr. Saiman is the director of the CF Referral Center for Synergy Studies in Multidrug-resistant Organisms isolated from Patients with CF. She serves as an advisor to the CF Foundation on infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, and infection control issues. Dr. Saiman is a member of the CF Foundation's Data Safety and Monitoring Board, the Clinical Research Committee, and annual meeting planning committee. She has served as a division chair for the American Society of Microbiology, serves on the local chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, and the American Journal of Infection Control. Dr. Saiman's other research interests include infection control in pediatric healthcare settings, particularly the neonatal ICU. She has studied risk factors and the molecular epidemiology of hospital-acquired infections.

OFFICE INFORMATION

Lisa Saiman, MD, MPH
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Columbia University Medical Center
650 West 168th Street
PH 4W-470
New York, NY 10032
Tel: (212) 305-9446
Fax: (212) 342-5218
Email: ls5@columbia.edu

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Foca M, Jakob K, Whittier S, Della-Latta P, Factor S, Rubenstein D, Saiman L. Endemic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in a neonatal intensive care unit. N Eng J Med 2000;343:695-700.
Saiman L, LaRussa P, Steinberg SP, Zhou J, Baron K, Whittier S, Della-Latta P, Gershon AA. Persistence of immunity to varicella-zoster virus after vaccination of healthcare workers. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2001;22:279-83.
Saiman L, San Gabriel P, Schulte J, Vargas MP, Kenyon T, Onorato I. Risk factors for latent tuberculosis infection among children in New York City. Pediatr 2001;107:999-1003.
Saiman L, Ludington E, Dawson JD, Patterson JE, Rangel-Frausto S, Wiblin RT, Blumberg HM, Pfaller M, Rinaldi M, Edwards JE, Wenzel RP, Jarvis W, the NEMIS study group. Risk factors for Candida species colonization of neonatal intensive care unit patients. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2001;20:1119-24.
Saiman L, Marshall BC, Mayer-Hamblett N, Burns JL, Quittner AL, Cibene DA, Coquillette S, Fieberg AY, Accurso FJ, Campbell P. Azithromycin in patients with cystic fibrosis chronically infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2003;290:1749-56.
Saiman L, O'Keefe M, Graham PL, Wu F, Said-Salim B, Kreiswirth B, LaSala A, Schlievert P, Della-Latta P. Hospital transmission of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among postpartum women. Clin Infect Dis 2003;37:1313-9.
Gupta A, Della-Latta P, Todd B, San Gabriel P, Haas J, Wu F, Rubenstein D, Saiman L. Outbreak of extended spectrum ?-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neonatal intensive care unit linked to artificial nails. Infect Control Hosp Epi 2004;25:210-5.
Waters V, Larson E, Wu F, San Gabriel P, Della-Latta P, Cimiotti J, Haas J, Saiman L. Molecular epidemiology of gram-negative bacilli from infected neonates and healthcare workers' hands in neonatal intensive care units. Clin Infect Dis 2004;38:1682-7.
Larson EL, Cimiotti J, Haas J, Parides M, Nesin M, Della-Latta P, Saiman L. Effect of antiseptic handwashing versus alcohol sanitizer on healthcare-associated infections in neonatal intensive care units. Arch Peds Adolesc Med 2005;159: 377-83.
Saiman L, Mayer-Hamblett N, Campbell P, Marshall BC. Heterogeneity of treatment response to azithromycin in patients with cystic fibrosis. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2005;10.1164/rccm.200502-218OC.
Chen KT, Huard RC, Della-Latta P, Saiman L. Prevalence of methicillin-sensitive and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pregnant women. Obstet Gynecol 2006;108:482-487.
Graham PL, Della-Latta P, Wu F. Zhou J, Saiman L. The gastrointestinal tract serves as the reservoir for Gram-negative pathogens in very low birth weight infants. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2007; 26: 1153-1155.
Bodle E, Cunningham JA, Della-Latta P, Schluger NW, Saiman L. Epidemiology of nontuberculous mycobacteria in patients without HIV in New York City. Emerg Infect Dis 2008; 14: 390-396.