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Associate Professor
MD Anderson UT
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Anne-Marie Chaftari is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She received her Doctor of Medicine diploma from Saint Joseph University, Faculty of Medicine in Beirut, Lebanon in 1992. Subsequently, she completed a three-year residency in anesthesia at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Following this she completed an internal medicine residency at Staten Island University Hospital between 1997 and 2000, and a fellowship training in geriatrics at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, between 2001 and 2002. She then fulfilled her VISA waiver requirements while practicing Geriatrics and internal medicine in an underserved area in Louisiana. She is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Her research career started when she joined the department of Infectious Diseases at MD Anderson Cancer Center in November 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow. She then joined the Department as an instructor on September 2008, was promoted to Assistant Professor on September 1, 2011 and to associate professor on September 1, 2017.
She has received several funded grants where she served as principal investigator, co-investigator and collaborator. She has taken the lead on many studies involving novel antimicrobial therapies in the treatment of healthcare associated infections, management and prevention of device related infections, as well as inflammatory biomarkers. She serves as the director of the clinical research team where she manages all aspects of the clinical trials. She has published 65 studies in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, and Cancer. She successfully led several multicenter trials and collaborated with other researchers within and beyond the institution. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).