Associate Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
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Rachel Wattier, M.D., M.H.S. is a physician in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Health. She started the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Benioff Chidren's Hospital San Francisco and has conducted collaborative research to improve judicious antimicrobial and diagnostic test use in children. Her current research as a scholar in the UCSF-KPNC Urologic Epidemiology K12 program focuses on improving evidence uptake and application in diagnosis of urinary tract infections.
Publications
Urine Testing in Children with Viral Symptoms: A Nationwide Analysis of Ambulatory Visits, 2014-2019.
The Journal of pediatrics
Immunogenicity and Reactogenicity of High-dose or Standard-dose Influenza Vaccine in a Second Consecutive Influenza Season.
The Journal of infectious diseases
374. Early Discontinuation of Empiric Antibiotics for Febrile Neutropenia in Pediatric Allogeneic Haploidentical Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients.
Open forum infectious diseases
223 Mucormycosis and Entomophthoramycosis.
Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Urine Testing in Children with Respiratory or Other Viral Illness Symptoms: a National Analysis of Ambulatory Encounters.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Transition to Enteral Triazole Antifungal Therapy for Pediatric Invasive Candidiasis: Secondary Analysis of a Multicenter Cohort Study Conducted by the Pediatric Fungal Network.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Out-BREAK!: An IDWeek 2023 Escape Room to Break Out of the Educational Mold.
Open forum infectious diseases
Diagnostic Stewardship Opportunities for Emergency Department Evaluation of Children with Suspected Urinary Tract Infection.
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Immunophenotypic predictors of influenza vaccine immunogenicity in pediatric hematopoietic cell transplant recipients.
Blood advances
The Durability of Antibody Responses of Two Doses of High-Dose Relative to Two Doses of Standard-Dose Inactivated Influenza Vaccine in Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients: A Multi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Immunogenicity and Safety of Alternative Influenza Vaccination Strategies in Repeated Seasons in Pediatric Hematopoietic-Cell Transplant Recipients.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Adjunctive Diagnostic Studies Completed Following Detection of Candidemia in Children: Secondary Analysis of Observed Practice from a Multicenter Cohort Study Conducted by the Pediatric Fungal Network.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Impact of an Inpatient Allergy Guideline on β-Lactam and Alternative Antibiotic Use.
The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice
Broad- Versus Narrow-Spectrum Perioperative Antibiotics and Outcomes in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease Surgery: Analysis of the Vizient Clinical Data Base.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Influenza Vaccine in Pediatric Recipients of Hematopoietic-Cell Transplants.
The New England journal of medicine
Impact of Organism Reporting from Endotracheal Aspirate Cultures on Antimicrobial Prescribing Practices in Mechanically Ventilated Pediatric Patients.
Journal of clinical microbiology
Multicenter Prospective Study of Biomarkers for Diagnosis of Invasive Candidiasis in Children and Adolescents.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Serotonin Syndrome in an Infant Associated With Linezolid and Opioid Use.
The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG
From "More is Better" to "Less is More": A Commentary on Antimicrobial Use in Pediatric Oncology.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Updated Guidance on Use and Prioritization of Monoclonal Antibody Therapy for Treatment of COVID-19 in Adolescents.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Indirect Standardization as a Case Mix Adjustment Method to Improve Comparison of Children's Hospitals' Antimicrobial Use.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Comparative Effectiveness of Echinocandins vs Triazoles or Amphotericin B Formulations as Initial Directed Therapy for Invasive Candidiasis in Children and Adolescents.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Initial Guidance on Use of Monoclonal Antibody Therapy for Treatment of COVID-19 in Children and Adolescents.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Multicenter interim guidance on use of antivirals for children with COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
1348. Indirect Standardization to Improve Comparison of Children’s Hospitals’ Antimicrobial Use.
Open forum infectious diseases
1361. Variation in Perioperative Antibiotic Use for Children Undergoing Congenital Heart Disease Surgery in U.S. Academically Affiliated Centers.
Open forum infectious diseases
Hospital-level Antibiotic Use and Complexity of Care Among Neonates.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Multicenter initial guidance on use of antivirals for children with COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Return to School for Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Expert Opinion on Key Considerations and Best Practices.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Clustered Cases of Acral Perniosis: Clinical Features, Histopathology and Relationship to COVID-19.
Pediatric dermatology
2759. Immunogenicity of Inactivated Influenza Vaccines Given Early vs. Late After Pediatric Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.
Open forum infectious diseases
Allograft of Primary Cutaneous Mucormycosis in a Preterm Neonate: A Case Report.
Wounds : a compendium of clinical research and practice
258. Variation in Antibiotic Use Among Neonates Hospitalized in United States Academically Affiliated Centers.
Open forum infectious diseases
293 Antifungal Agents.
Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Reducing Second Gram-Negative Antibiotic Therapy on Pediatric Oncology and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Services.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology
Pediatric Invasive Aspergillosis.
Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)
Pediatric invasive aspergillosis
Journal of Fungi
Risk of serious bloodstream infections is low in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients with fevers due to antithymocyte globulins and alemtuzumab.
Bone marrow transplantation
Serotherapy-Related Fevers, Blood Stream Infections (BSI), and Antibiotic Use in Pediatric Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant (HCT) Recipients.
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Repeat blood cultures in children with persistent fever and neutropenia: Diagnostic and clinical implications.
Pediatric blood & cancer
A Prospective, International Cohort Study of Invasive Mold Infections in Children.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Induction of IL-6 and CCL5 (RANTES) in human respiratory epithelial (A549) cells by clinical isolates of respiratory syncytial virus is strain specific.
Virology journal
Role of human polyomaviruses in respiratory tract disease in young children.
Emerging infectious diseases
Functionality of Borrelia burgdorferi LuxS: the Lyme disease spirochete produces and responds to the pheromone autoinducer-2 and lacks a complete activated-methyl cycle.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM
Synthesis of autoinducer 2 by the lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi.
Journal of bacteriology
Quorum sensing by the Lyme disease spirochete.
Microbes and infection