Dr. Irfana Mohammed

• About 8 years of experience
• Member Clinical Infectious Diseases Society(CIDS)
• Member European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases(ECCMID)

Work experience:

• BL Kapoor-Max, Delhi, Consultant Infectious Diseases June 2022-Feb 2025
• Senior registrar, Internal Medicine, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurugram, Haryana 2017-2019

Educational Qualifications:

• MBBS-Andhra Medical College, Vishakhapatnam 2005-2010
• Internship-King George Hospital, Vishakhapatnam 2010-2011
• DNB Internal Medicine March 2014-March 2017
• FNB Infectious Diseases Nov 2019-May 2022
• Anti-microbial stewardship course by Clinical Infectious Diseases Society (CIDS) in collaboration with Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) March-August 2024

Expertise:

• Tropical Fevers (malaria, dengue, typhoid, leptospirosis, rickettsial fever etc.), Influenza Fever of unknown origin.
• COVID 19 infection, post-COVID 19 infective complications including invasive mucormycosis, COVID 19 vaccination advice.
• Community infections: respiratory, gastrointestinal, urinary tract, skin and soft tissue, ear infections, meningitis, endocarditis.
• Tuberculosis- drug-resistant TB, extrapulmonary TB, TB meningitis.
• HIV: Newly diagnosed HIV, long-term management and prevention of HIV-related complications, pre & post exposure prophylaxis, family planning for HIV positive couples.
• Fungal infections like mucormycosis, aspergillosis
• Orthopaedic & Spine Infections: including prosthetic joint and implant-associated Infections
• Health-care associated & Drug-resistant Infections: Post-surgical infections, hospitalized patients, patients on maintenance hemodialysis, patients with catheters, prosthetic implants
• Multidrug resistant infections(MDR, XDR), Gram negative sepsis in ICU
• Infections in special populations: cancer and chemotherapy patients, post-transplant recipients, immunosuppressed patients, diabetes, chronic kidney and liver disease
• Adult Immunisation: immunisation for students traveling to foreign universities, vaccinations for special populations (e.g. post-transplant, cancer patients, immunosuppressed patients, diabetics, patients with chronic lung, liver, kidney disease).
• Travel Medicine: pre-travel health assessment and advice, immunisations, infections in returning travellers.

Awards :

• Awarded “Program book Grant” including travel grant in ECCMID 2021 for the clinical research on Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria and Nocardia.

Publications:

Chapters:

• “Diarrhoea in the critically-ill” for Textbook of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Case series of Malaria against a backdrop of COVID-19” in Case book of COVID-19 by Dr Rajeev Soman and Dr.Tanu Singhal
• “Acute Lymphoblastic leukemia with reactivation/reinfection with SARS-CoV2” in Case book of COVID-19 by Dr Rajeev Soman and Dr.Tanu Singhal
• “Mucor and COVID-19” in Case book of COVID-19 by Dr Rajeev Soman and Dr.Tanu Singhal

Author:

• Susceptibility profile of Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria (RGM): a single-centre retrospective study of 712 isolates: an Indian experience presented at ECCMID 2021.
• Susceptibility profile of Nocardia: a single-centre retrospective study of 130 isolates: an Indian experience presented at ECCMID 2021.
• Poster presentation on “Mucormycosis-2020, the anticipated epidemic” at CIDSCON in 2020.
• Poster presentation on “The innumerable challenges of managing COVID-19 in an immunosuppressed patient”, and Fusarium endophthalmitis at CIDSCON 2020.
• Poster presentation on “All granulomas are not Tuberculosis”-A case of Melioid Osteomyelitis in CIDSCON 2020.
• Poster presentation on “A curious case of likely iatrogenic Nocardiosis” in CIDSCON 2020.
• Poster presentation on “Post COVID infection-The new Enigma” and Nocardiosis in CIDSCON 2021.
• Oral presentation on “A case of Triple Infection with HIV, HBV, HCV ” in national HIV CONGRESS at Goa, India.
• Case report of Syphilis in CIDS newsletter.
• Case report of Fusariosis in a leukaemia patient with COVID-19 in Fungal Infections Study Forum (FISF)- 2021.
• Case report of Dual infection with Pneumocystis and Aspergillus in post COVID setting in Fungal Infections Study Forum (FISF)-2021
• Contributed to the “Multicentre Epidemiologic Study of Coronavirus Disease-Associated Mucormycosis, India” published in Clinical Infectious Diseases in September 2021.
• Post Graduate Thesis in Internal Medicine on “Clinical, Microbiological, Surgical outcomes of patients admitted with Infective Endocarditis in a tertiary care hospital in Northern India

Co-author:

• Interpretation of phenotypic susceptibility pattern to predict the exclusion of bla NDM in carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: A retrospective analytical study in a resource-limited setting- presented at ECCMID 2021
• Correlation between “SARS CoV2 PCR CT values and negative SARS-antibody in healthcare workers” at ECCVID 2020.
• Oral presentation in Clinical grand rounds – “Disseminated Histoplasmosis in post COVID setting” at ECCMID 2021.
• Oral presentation in Clinical grand rounds – “Invasive fungal infections in COVID 19-the whole nine yards” at ECCMID 2021
• Correlation of the BCID2 panel with phenotypic blood culture results in an Indian ICU-A retrospective observational study at CIDSCON-2021
• Melioidosis: An Indian experience over 4 years -A single centre retrospective observational study.
• Post COVID-19 dematiaceous fungal infection: a case report
• Poster on case of “Infliximab in paradoxical TB meningitis” at CIDSCON 2021
• Research Coordinator in ICMR funded “Expansion of the antimicrobial stewardship program (AMSP) and Infection Control Program (ICP)” in secondary care hospitals.