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Email

sarwat.khalil@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Medicine - Infectious Disease
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Associate Program Director

Infectious Diseases
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Co-Director

Transplant Infectious Diseases
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center

Education

MD from The Aga Khan University

Karachi, Pakistan

Residency at Indiana University School of Medicine

Indianapolis, Indiana

Fellowship at University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Fellowship at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Rochester, Minnesota

Certifications

Board Certified in Internal Medicine

American Board of Internal Medicine

Board Certified in Infectious Diseases

American Board of Internal Medicine

Professional Statement

Dr. Khalil is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú, Co-Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, and the Associate Program Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship program at ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú. She graduated from The Aga Khan University in Pakistan and completed her Internal Medicine residency training at Indiana University School of Medicine, followed by Infectious Diseases fellowship at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also did an additional year of Transplant Infectious Diseases fellowship at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota.

Her research focuses on cardiovascular infections and molecular diagnostics in solid organ transplant recipients. She has presented her research at national meetings and published in peer-reviewed medical journals. She is currently working on several projects related to diagnostic evaluation and management of cardiovascular infections and use of novel diagnostic techniques using metagenomics to aid in earlier diagnosis of severe and opportunistic infections in solid organ transplant recipients.

Selected Publications

• Fida M, Khalil S, Abu Saleh O, Challener DW, Sohail MR, Yang JN, Pritt BS, Schuetz AN, Patel R. Diagnostic Value of 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene Polymerase Chain Reaction/Sanger Sequencing in Clinical Practice "." Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Sep; Pubmed PMID:
• Axell-House DB, Khalil S, Sohail MR "." Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J. 2023 Aug; Pubmed PMID:
• Arshad V, Baddour LM, Lahr BD, Khalil S, Tariq W, Talha KM, Cha YM, DeSimone DC, Sohail MR "." Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2021 Aug; Pubmed PMID:
• Fida M, Wolf MJ, Hamdi A, Vijayvargiya P, Esquer Garrigos Z, Khalil S, Greenwood-Quaintance KE, Thoendel MJ, Patel R "." Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Oct; Pubmed PMID:

Memberships

Infectious Diseases Society of America

European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Mayo Clinic Alumni Association