Professor, Medicine, Emory University;
Expert Consultant, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Travelers' Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Infectious Disease
Dr. Phyllis E. Kozarsky, MD
Phyllis Kozarsky is an expert in the field of Infectious Disease. He researched medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center. He received 25 awards: "Award For International Surveillance Of Emerging", "Honor Award", "Director's Team Award", "Certificate and Honor Coin for Outstanding Commitment", "Honor Public health Impact Team Award", "NCEZID Honor Group Award", "Certificate of Participation", "Team Award for Excellence in Innovation for E-Manifest", "Director's Honor Award", "James H. Nakano Citation", "Fellow", "Certificate of Appreciation", "Award for Excellence", "Communications Award", "Service Award for outstanding team effort", "Recognition", "Outstanding Unit Commendation", "Recognition Award For Extraordinary Efforts", "HHS Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service", "Service Award", "Lloyd Hyde Medical House Staff and Fellows Research Day Award", "Alpha Omega Alpha", "Phi Beta Kappa", "Barbara Johnston Award for Excellence in Biology and Chemistry" and "Epsilon Pi Sigma Honor". Phyllis Kozarsky is a published doctor and has 56 publications published. The lastest was: 'Health problems of corporate travelers: risk factors and management.'
Publications
- Reply to Italiano et al.
- Travel-associated disease among US residents visiting US GeoSentinel clinics after return from international travel.
- Health and Safety Issues for Travelers Attending the World Cup and Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil, 2014 to 2016.
- Pre-Travel Preparation of US Travelers Going Abroad to Provide Humanitarian Service, Global TravEpiNet 2009-2011.
- International Travelers as Sentinels for Sustained Influenza Transmission During the 2009 Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 Pandemic.
- Malaria Prevention Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) Among International Flying Pilots and Flight Attendants of a US Commercial Airline.
- Acute pulmonary schistosomiasis in travelers: Case report and review of the literature.
- From the CDC: New Country-Specific Recommendations for Pre-Travel Typhoid Vaccination.
- Neurotoxicity due to antimalarial therapy associated with misdiagnosis of malaria.
- Yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis vaccines: indications and complications.
- Clinical issues in the prophylaxis, diagnosis, and treatment of anthrax.
- Characteristics and spectrum of disease among ill returned travelers from pre- and post-earthquake Haiti: The GeoSentinel experience.
- Spectrum of disease and relation to place of exposure among ill returned travelers.
- Defining short- and long-term travel.
- Body of knowledge for the practice of travel medicine.
- Evaluation of the Coca-Cola company travel health kit.
- The practice of travel medicine: guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
- Health risks in travelers to China: the GeoSentinel experience and implications for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
- Adverse event reports following yellow fever vaccination.
- Characteristics of schistosomiasis in travelers reported to the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network 1997-2008.
- Should health-care providers in the United States have access to influenza vaccines formulated for the southern hemisphere?
- Pretravel health preparation among US residents traveling to India to VFRs: importance of ethnicity in defining VFRs.
- Commentary: the bottom line.
- Health risks and travel preparation among foreign visitors and expatriates during the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games.
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of US travelers to Asia regarding seasonal influenza and H5N1 avian influenza prevention measures.
- Five-year experience with type 1 and type 2 reactions in Hansen disease at a US travel clinic.
- Persistent and untreated tropical infectious diseases among Sudanese refugees in the United States.
- Delayed onset of malaria--implications for chemoprophylaxis in travelers.
- Pelvic echinococcosis in a Northern Iraqi refugee.
- The Body of Knowledge for the practice of travel medicine--2006.
- Schistosome infection among river rafters on Omo River, Ethiopia.
- Short-course treatment of typhoid fever with ciprofloxacin in south India.
- The epidemiology of Chagas' disease in a hyperendemic area of Cochabamba, Bolivia: a clinical study including electrocardiography, seroreactivity to Trypanosoma cruzi,...
- Culture isolation of Acanthamoeba species and leptomyxid amebas from patients with amebic meningoencephalitis, including two patients with AIDS.
- Effects of antimalarial chemoprophylactic agents on the viability of the Ty21a typhoid vaccine strain.
- Travel medicine 1991: new frontiers.
- Culture-confirmed pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae.
- Status of immunity to tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, and polio among U.S. travelers.
- The effect of oral and parenteral typhoid vaccination.
- Plasmid analysis of simultaneous nosocomial outbreaks of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Development of antibiotic resistance by staphylococcus aureus in a single patient. Confirmation by phage typing, antibiograms, and plasmid analysis.
- Fly larva adherent to corneal endothelium.
- Evaluation of travelers returning from the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain: did they acquire resistant pneumococci and meningococci?
- Short course ciprofloxacin therapy for enteric fever.
- Use of mefloquine for malarial chemoprophylaxis in its first year of availability in the United States.
- Knowledge and attitudes of hospital-based physicians and trainees about HIV infection in the United States, Canada, India, and Thailand.
- Nocardia farcinica pneumonia in a previously healthy woman: species characterization with use of a digoxigenin-labeled cDNA probe.
- Update on prevention of malaria for travelers.
- Emerging infectious diseases and travel medicine.
- Prevention of common travel ailments.
- Health problems of corporate travelers: risk factors and management.
- GeoSentinel: the global emerging infections sentinel network of the International Society of Travel Medicine.
- Evaluation of fever in the returned traveler.
- Experience of corporate medical assistance clinics during the Centennial Olympic Games, Atlanta, 1996.
- Internet and computer-based resources for travel medicine practitioners.
Schools
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Albert Einstein College Med
Emory University
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
- Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Choice HMO
- Blue Choice Option POS
- Blue Open Access POS
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Preferred PPO
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Award For International Surveillance Of Emerging
- Honor Award
- Director's Team Award
- Certificate and Honor Coin for Outstanding Commitment
- Honor Public health Impact Team Award
- NCEZID Honor Group Award
- Certificate of Participation
- Team Award for Excellence in Innovation for E-Manifest
- Director's Honor Award
- James H. Nakano Citation
- Fellow
- Certificate of Appreciation
- Award for Excellence
- Communications Award
- Service Award for outstanding team effort
- Recognition
- Outstanding Unit Commendation
- Recognition Award For Extraordinary Efforts
- HHS Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service
- Service Award
- Lloyd Hyde Medical House Staff and Fellows Research Day Award
- Alpha Omega Alpha
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Barbara Johnston Award for Excellence in Biology and Chemistry
- Epsilon Pi Sigma Honor
Education
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Emory University
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Hospital
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Emory University Hospital
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Emory University Hospital Midtown
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