Maheen Abidi, MD, FAST
Associate Professor, Medicine-Infectious Disease

Recognition & Awards

• Top Doctors in Infectious Disease, 5280 Magazine (2024)
• Top Doctors in Infectious Disease, 5280 Magazine (2023)
• Rising Star Award, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado (2022)

Research Interests

Teaching

Publications

• Abidi MZ, Umbleja T, Overton ET, Burdo T, Flynn JM, Lu MT, Taron J, Schnittman SR, Fitch KV, Zanni MV, Fichtenbaum CJ, Malvestutto C, Aberg JA, Fulda ES, Eckard AR, Manne-Goehler J, Tuan JJ, Ribaudo HJ, Douglas PS, Grinspoon SK, Brown TT, Erlandson KM. CMV IgG is Associated with Physical Function but not Muscle Density in People with HIV. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2024 Jan 2. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000003377. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38180893.
• Bakouny Z, Labaki C, Grover P, Awosika J, Gulati S, Hsu CY, Alimohamed SI, Bashir B, Berg S, Bilen MA, Bowles D, Castellano C, Desai A, Elkrief A, Eton OE, Fecher LA, Flora D, Galsky MD, Gatti-Mays ME, Gesenhues A, Glover MJ, Gopalakrishnan D, Gupta S, Halfdanarson TR, Hayes-Lattin B, Hendawi M, Hsu E, Hwang C, Jandarov R, Jani C, Johnson DB, Joshi M, Khan H, Khan SA, Knox N, Koshkin VS, Kulkarni AA, Kwon DH, Matar S, McKay RR, Mishra S, Moria FA, Nizam A, Nock NL, Nonato TK, Panasci J, Pomerantz L, Portuguese AJ, Provenzano D, Puc M, Rao YJ, Rhodes TD, Riely GJ, Ripp JJ, Rivera AV, Ruiz-Garcia E, Schmidt AL, Schoenfeld AJ, Schwartz GK, Shah SA, Shaya J, Subbiah S, Tachiki LM, Tucker MD, Valdez-Reyes M, Weissmann LB, Wotman MT, Wulff-Burchfield EM, Xie Z, Yang YJ, Thompson MA, Shah DP, Warner JL, Shyr Y, Choueiri TK, Wise-Draper TM. Interplay of Immunosuppression and Immunotherapy Among Patients With Cancer and COVID-19. JAMA Oncol. 2023 Jan 1;9(1):128-134. PubMed PMID: 36326731
• Abidi MZ, Molina KC, Garth K, Gutman JA, Weinberg A. Cytomegalovirus Immune reconstitution in cord blood transplant recipients on letermovir prophylaxis. Transpl Infect Dis. 2023 Oct;25(5):e14104. PubMed PMID: 37436771
• Khawaja F, Papanicolaou G, Dadwal S, Pergam SA, Wingard JR, Boghdadly ZE, Abidi MZ, Waghmare A, Shahid Z, Michaels L, Hill JA, Kamboj M, Boeckh M, Auletta JJ, Chemaly RF. Frequently Asked Questions on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Recipients From the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy and the American Society of Hematology. Transplant Cell Ther. 2023 Jan;29(1):10-18. PubMed PMID: 36273782
• Abidi MZ, Schold JD, Kaplan B, Weinberg A, Erlandson KM, Malamon JS. Patient years lost due to Cytomegalovirus serostatus mismatching in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). Published online, Front. Immunol., 09 January 2024, Volume 14-2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1292648
• Rao M, Casias M, Abidi MZ. Disseminated Scedosporium Infection in early post-kidney transplant period. Accepted for publication, Transplant Infectious Disease, 12/16/2023.
• Dioverti V, Boghdadly ZE, Shahid Z, Waghmare A, Abidi MZ, Pergam S, Boeckh M, Dadwal S, Kamboj M, Seo S, Chemaly RF, Papanicolaou GA. Revised Guidelines for Coronavirus Disease 19 Management in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Recipients (August 2022). Transplant Cell Ther. 2022 Dec;28(12):810-821. PubMed PMID: 36103987
• Miller MA, Molina KC, Gutman JA, Scherger S, Lum JM, Mossad SB, Burgess M, Cheng MP, Chuang ST, Jacobs SE, Melendez DP, Shah DP, Zimmer A, Sohail MR, Syed S, Walker RC, Poeschla EM, Abidi MZ. Mucormycosis in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients and in Patients With Hematological Malignancies in the Era of New Antifungal Agents. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Feb;8(2):ofaa646. PubMed PMID: 33575424
• Chu NM, Chen X, Gross AL, Carlson MC, Garonzik-Wang JM, Norman SP, Mathur A, Abidi MZ, Brennan DC, Segev DL, McAdams-DeMarco MA. Cognitive Impairment Burden in Older and Younger Adults Across the Kidney Transplant Care Continuum. Clin Transplant. 2021 Jul 16. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14425. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34272777.
• Gowri Satyanarayana, MD, Kyle T Enriquez, MS, Tianyi Sun, MS, Elizabeth J Klein, BA, Maheen Abidi, MD, Shailesh M Advani, MD, PhD, Joy Awosika, MD, Ziad Bakouny, MD, MSc, Babar Bashir, MD, MS, Stephanie Berg, DO, Marilia Bernardes, MD, Pamela C Egan, MD, Arielle Elkrief, MD, Lawrence E Feldman, MD, Christopher R Friese, PhD, RN, Shipra Goel, MD, Cyndi Gonzalez Gomez, Keith L Grant, APRN, Elizabeth A Griffiths, MD, Shuchi Gulati, MD, Shilpa Gupta, MD, Clara Hwang, MD, Jayanshu Jain, Chinmay Jani, MD, Anna Kaltsas, MD, MS, Anup Kasi, MD, MPH, Hina Khan, MD, Natalie Knox, BS, Vadim S Koshkin, MD, Daniel H Kwon, MD, Christopher Labaki, MD, Gary H Lyman, MD, MPH, Rana R McKay, MD, Christopher McNair, PhD, Gayathri Nagaraj, MD, Elisabeth S Nakasone, MD, PhD, Ryan Nguyen, DO, Taylor K Nonato, BS, Adam J Olszewski, MD, Orestis A Panagiotou, MD, PhD, Matthew Puc, MD, Pedram Razavi, BS, Elizabeth V Robilotti, MD, MPH, Miriam Santos-Dutra, PhD, Andrew L Schmidt, MD, Dimpy P Shah, MD, PhD, Sumit A Shah, MD, MPH, Kendra Vieira, Lisa B Weissmann, MD, Trisha M Wise-Draper, MD, PhD, Ulysses Wu, MD, Julie Tsu-Yu Wu, MD, PhD, Toni K Choueiri, MD, Sanjay Mishra, MS, PhD, Jeremy L Warner, MD, MS, Benjamin French, PhD, Dimitrios Farmakiotis, MD, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19)., Coinfections in Patients with Cancer and COVID-19: A COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) Study, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2022;, ofac037, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac037
• Sartain E, Schoeppler K, Crowther B, Smith JB, Abidi MZ, Grazia TJ, Steele M, Gleason T, Porter K, Gray A. Perioperative anidulafungin combined with triazole prophylaxis for the prevention of early invasive candidiasis in lung transplant recipients. Transpl Infect Dis. 2021 Aug;23(4):e13692. PubMed PMID: 34270137
• Grivas P, Khaki AR, Wise-Draper TM, French B, Hennessy C, Hsu CY, Shyr Y, Li X, Choueiri TK, Painter CA, Peters S, Rini BI, Thompson MA, Mishra S, Rivera DR, Acoba JD, Abidi MZ, Bakouny Z, Bashir B, Bekaii-Saab T, Berg S, Bernicker EH, Bilen MA, Bindal P, Bishnoi R, Bouganim N, Bowles DW, Cabal A, Caimi PF, Chism DD, Crowell J, Curran C, Desai A, Dixon B, Doroshow DB, Durbin EB, Elkrief A, Farmakiotis D, Fazio A, Fecher LA, Flora DB, Friese CR, Fu J, Gadgeel SM, Galsky MD, Gill DM, Glover MJ, Goyal S, Grover P, Gulati S, Gupta S, Halabi S, Halfdanarson TR, Halmos B, Hausrath DJ, Hawley JE, Hsu E, Huynh-Le M, Hwang C, Jani C, Jayaraj A, Johnson DB, Kasi A, Khan H, Koshkin VS, Kuderer NM, Kwon DH, Lammers PE, Li A, Loaiza-Bonilla A, Low CA, Lustberg MB, Lyman GH, McKay RR, McNair C, Menon H, Mesa RA, Mico V, Mundt D, Nagaraj G, Nakasone ES, Nakayama J, Nizam A, Nock NL, Park C, Patel JM, Patel KG, Peddi P, Pennell NA, Piper-Vallillo AJ, Puc M, Ravindranathan D, Reeves ME, Reuben DY, Rosenstein L, Rosovsky RP, Rubinstein SM, Salazar M, Schmidt AL, Schwartz GK, Shah MR, Shah SA, Shah C, Shaya JA, Singh SRK, Smits M, Stockerl-Goldstein KE, Stover DG, Streckfuss M, Subbiah S, Tachiki L, Tadesse E, Thakkar A, Tucker MD, Verma AK, Vinh DC, Weiss M, Wu JT, Wulff-Burchfield E, Xie Z, Yu PP, Zhang T, Zhou AY, Zhu H, Zubiri L, Shah DP, Warner JL, Lopes G. Association of clinical factors and recent anticancer therapy with COVID-19 severity among patients with cancer: a report from the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Ann Oncol. 2021 Jun;32(6):787-800. PubMed PMID: 33746047
• Abidi, M.Z., Erlandson, K.M. A Comprehensive Review of Infections in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients. Curr Transpl Rep 8, 90–99 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40472-021-00320-7
• Scherger S, Mathur S, Bajrovic V, Johnson SC, Benamu E, Ramanan P, Wolfel G, Levi ME, Abidi MZ. Cytomegalovirus myocarditis in solid organ transplant recipients: A case series and review of literature. Transpl Infect Dis. 2020 Jun;22(3):e13282. PubMed PMID: 32232951
• Waghmare A, Abidi MZ, Boeckh M, Chemaly RF, Dadwal S, El Boghdadly Z, Kamboj M, Papanicolaou GA, Pergam SA, Shahid Z. Guidelines for COVID-19 Management in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Recipients. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2020 Jul 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32736007
• Kolb JM, Conzen K, Wachs M, Crossno J Jr, McMahon B, Abidi MZ, Pomfret EA, Kriss M. Liver Transplantation for Decompensated Cirrhosis Secondary to Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase Mutation. Hepatology. 2020 Jul;72(1):356-358. PubMed PMID: 31943309
• A Systematic Framework to Rapidly Obtain Data on Patients with Cancer and COVID-19: CCC19 Governance, Protocol, and Quality Assurance. Cancer Cell. 2020 Dec 14;38(6):761-766. PubMed PMID: 33176160
• Kuderer NM, Choueiri TK, Shah DP, Shyr Y, Rubinstein SM, Rivera DR, Shete S, Hsu CY, Desai A, de Lima Lopes G Jr, Grivas P, Painter CA, Peters S, Thompson MA, Bakouny Z, Batist G, Bekaii-Saab T, Bilen MA, Bouganim N, Larroya MB, Castellano D, Del Prete SA, Doroshow DB, Egan PC, Elkrief A, Farmakiotis D, Flora D, Galsky MD, Glover MJ, Griffiths EA, Gulati AP, Gupta S, Hafez N, Halfdanarson TR, Hawley JE, Hsu E, Kasi A, Khaki AR, Lemmon CA, Lewis C, Logan B, Masters T, McKay RR, Mesa RA, Morgans AK, Mulcahy MF, Panagiotou OA, Peddi P, Pennell NA, Reynolds K, Rosen LR, Rosovsky R, Salazar M, Schmidt A, Shah SA, Shaya JA, Steinharter J, Stockerl-Goldstein KE, Subbiah S, Vinh DC, Wehbe FH, Weissmann LB, Wu JT, Wulff-Burchfield E, Xie Z, Yeh A, Yu PP, Zhou AY, Zubiri L, Mishra S, Lyman GH, Rini BI, Warner JL. Clinical impact of COVID-19 on patients with cancer (CCC19): a cohort study. Lancet. 2020 Jun 20;395(10241):1907-1918. PubMed PMID: 32473681
• Budgin AM, Abidi MZ, Bajrovic V, Miller MA, Johnson SC. Severe acute Q fever pneumonia complicated by presumed persistent localized Q fever endocarditis in a renal transplant recipient: A case report and review of the literature. Transpl Infect Dis. 2019 Dec 5;:e13230. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31808240
• Ramanan P, Scherger S, Benamu E, Bajrovic V, Jackson W, Hage CA, Hakki M, Baddley JW, Abidi MZ. Toxoplasmosis in non-cardiac solid organ transplant recipients: A case series and review of literature. Transpl Infect Dis. 2019 Nov 26;:e13218. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31769583
• Sharma P, Gakhar N, MacDonald J, Abidi MZ, Benamu E, Bajrovic V, Purev E, Haverkos BM, Tobin J, Kaiser J, Chase S, Miller M, Weinberg A, Gutman JA. Letermovir prophylaxis through day 100 post transplant is safe and effective compared with alternative CMV prophylaxis strategies following adult cord blood and haploidentical cord blood transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2019 Oct 29. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31664185
• Morrisette T, Van Matre AG, Miller MA, Mueller SW, Bajrovic V, Abidi MZ, Benamu E, Kaiser JN, Barber GR, Chase S, Tobin J, Fish DN, Gutman JA. Oral Vancomycin Prophylaxis as Secondary Prevention Against Clostridioides difficile Infection in the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Hematologic Malignancy Population. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2019 Oct;25(10):2091-2097. PubMed PMID: 31255741
• Abidi MZ, Hari P, Chen M, Kim S, Battiwala M, Dahi PB, Diaz MA, Gale RP, Ganguly S, Gergis U, Green J, Hildebrandt G, Hill JA, Komanduri K, Lazarus H, Marks D, Nishihori T, Olsson R, Seo S, Ustun C, Yared J, Yin D, Wingard J, Wirk BM, Auletta J, Lindemans C, Riches M. Virus detection in the cerebrospinal fluid of hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients is associated with poor patient outcomes: a CIBMTR contemporary longitudinal study. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2019 Aug;54(8):1354-1360. PubMed PMID: 30696997
• Lum J, Z Abidi M, McCollister B, Henao-Martínez AF. Miliary Histoplasmosis in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Case Rep Med. 2018;2018:2723489. PubMed PMID: 29849657
• Abidi MZ, Haque J, Varma P, Olteanu H, Guru Murthy GS, Dhakal B, Hari P. Reactivation of Pulmonary Tuberculosis following Treatment of Myelofibrosis with Ruxolitinib. Case Rep Hematol. 2016;2016:2389038. PubMed PMID: 27843657
• Abidi MZ, Ledeboer N, Banerjee A, Hari P. Mycobacterium mucogenicum bacteremia in immune-compromised patients, 2008-2013. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2016 Jun;85(2):182-5. PubMed PMID: 27117516
• Dhakal B, D'Souza A, Pasquini M, Saber W, Fenske TS, Moss RB, Drobyski WR, Hari P, Abidi MZ. DAS181 Treatment of Severe Parainfluenza Virus 3 Pneumonia in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation. Case Rep Med. 2016;2016:8503275. PubMed PMID: 26941799
• Abidi MZ, Ledeboer N, Banerjee A, Hari P. Morbidity and mortality attributable to Rothia bacteremia in neutropenic and nonneutropenic patients. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2016 May;85(1):116-20. PubMed PMID: 26906191
• Abidi MZ, D'Souza A, Kuppalli K, Ledeboer N, Hari P. CYP2C19*17 genetic polymorphism--an uncommon cause of voriconazole treatment failure. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2015 Sep;83(1):46-8. PubMed PMID: 25986028
• Dioverti MV, Cawcutt KA, Abidi M, Sohail MR, Walker RC, Osmon DR. Gastrointestinal mucormycosis in immunocompromised hosts. Mycoses. 2015 Dec;58(12):714-8. PubMed PMID: 26456920
• Abidi MZ, Coelho-Prabhu N, Hargreaves J, Weiland T, Van Dyken I, Tande A, Tosh PK, Walker RC, Cummins NW. Mucormycosis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: case series and review of the literature. Case Rep Med. 2014;2014:637492. PubMed PMID: 24872818
• Abidi MZ, Sohail MR, Cummins N, Wilhelm M, Wengenack N, Brumble L, Shah H, Jane Hata D, McCullough A, Wendel A, Vikram HR, Kusne S, Litzow M, Letendre L, Lahr BD, Poeschla E, Walker RC. Stability in the cumulative incidence, severity and mortality of 101 cases of invasive mucormycosis in high-risk patients from 1995 to 2011: a comparison of eras immediately before and after the availability of voriconazole and echinocandin-amphotericin combination therapies. Mycoses. 2014 Nov;57(11):687-98. PubMed PMID: 25040241
• Abidi MZ, Wilhelm MP, Neff JL, Hughes JG, Cunningham SA, Patel R. Helicobacter canis bacteremia in a patient with fever of unknown origin. J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Mar;51(3):1046-8. PubMed PMID: 23284025

Professional Memberships

• American Society of Transplant, ID Community of Practice (AST-IDCOP), Member
• Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network- Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (OPTN-DTAC), Member at large