Maheen Abidi, MD, FAST, FIDSA

Recognitions

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

Research Interests

Publications

• 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
• 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, 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
• 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, 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Marks CR, Durand CM, Bowring MG, Hand J, Abidi MZ, Malinis M, Barnaba B, Patel H, Pavlakis M, Alonso CD. Influence of induction therapy and antiretroviral regimen on outcomes in kidney transplant recipients living with human immunodeficiency. Transpl Infect Dis. 2024 May 2:e14287. doi: 10.1111/tid.14287. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38698669.
• Gulati S, Hsu CY, Shah S, Shah PK, Zon R, Alsamarai S, Awosika J, El-Bakouny Z, Bashir B, Beeghly A, Berg S, de-la-Rosa-Martinez D, Doroshow DB, Egan PC, Fein J, Flora DB, Friese CR, Fromowitz A, Griffiths EA, Hwang C, Jani C, Joshi M, Khan H, Klein EJ, Heater NK, Koshkin VS, Kwon DH, Labaki C, Latif T, McKay RR, Nagaraj G, Nakasone ES, Nonato T, Polimera HV, Puc M, Razavi P, Ruiz-Garcia E, Saliby RM, Shastri A, Singh SRK, Tagalakis V, Vilar-Compte D, Weissmann LB, Wilkins CR, Wise-Draper TM, Wotman MT, Yoon JJ, Mishra S, Grivas P, Shyr Y, Warner JL, Connors JM, Shah DP, Rosovsky RP; COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Systemic Anticancer Therapy and Thromboembolic Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients With Cancer and COVID-19. JAMA Oncol. 2023 Oct 1;9(10):1390-1400. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.2934. PMID: 37589970; PMCID: PMC10436185.
• Abidi MZ, Lopez R, Arrigain S, Weinberg A, Kaplan B, McAdams-DeMarco M, Schold JD, Erlandson KM. Area-Level Social Deprivation and Cytomegalovirus Seropositivity at the Time of Solid Organ Transplant. JAMA Network Open. 2024;7(10):e2437878. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.37878
• Singh N, Faye AS, Abidi MZ, Grant SJ, Iyer AS, Jain N, Kochar B, Lieber SB, Litke R, Loewenthal JV, Masters MC, Nanna M, Robison RD, Sattui SE, Sheshadri A, Shi SM, Wysham KD, Orkaby AR. The state of frailty across medical subspecialties: Current understanding and knowledge gaps. Accepted for publication, J Am Geriatr Soc, 10/27/2024.
• Lee DH, Abidi MZ, Fisher C, Hughart AL, Basavaraju SV, Berry GJ, Bowman JS, Graves R, Handarova D, Ho CS, Kittleson M, Levi ME, Livelli T, Marboe CC, McDavid K, Miller R, Sellers M, Sharma T, Taimur S, Te HS, Trindade AJ, Wood RP, Zaffiri LN, Pouch S, Danziger-Isakov L of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC). Coccidioidomycosis Transmission from Organ Donors: A Decade of Insight (2013-2022). Accepted for publication, Transpl Infect Dis., 10/21/2024
• Abidi MZ, Belga S, Limaye A, McAdams-Demarco M. Aging and infections in solid organ transplant recipients: Unchartered Territory. Invited Editorial, Transpl Infect Dis. Accepted for publication, 12/11/2024.
• Taimur S, Ison MG, Baddley JW. Abidi MZ.Frailty and Infection in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients. Accepted for publication, Transpl Infect Dis. 2024.
• Te HS, Lee DH, Woolley AE, Abidi MZ, Fisher C, Sellers MT, Taimur S, Livelli T, Watkins T, Handarova D, Berry GJ, Graves R, Ho CS, Hughart AL, Kittleson M, Marboe CC, Miller RA, Sharma TS, Trindade AJ, Wood RP, Zaffiri LN, Pouch SM, Danziger-Isakov L. Hepatitis B transmission/reactivation associated with Hepatitis B core antibody and Hepatitis C nucleic acid testing positive organs: A report from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Disease Transmission Advisory Committee. Transpl Infect Dis. 2024 Nov;26 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):e14305. PubMed PMID: 38881210
• 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. Cytomegalovirus IgG is Associated With Physical Function But Not Muscle Density in People With HIV. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2024 Apr 15;95(5):470-478. PubMed PMID: 38180893
• Rao M, Casias M, Abidi MZ. Disseminated Scedosporium infection in the early post-kidney transplant period. Transpl Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;26(2):e14232. PubMed PMID: 38375929

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
• European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), Member

Practice Locations

• University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

• Infectious Disease, Board Certification (2009, 2019)
• Internal Medicine, Board Certification (2004)
• Transplant Infectious Disease, Specialized Training (2013)