Mary Beth Graham, MD, FIDSA, FACP

Associate Chief, Professor

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Locations

Froedtert Hospital
Infectious Disease Clinic - Froedtert Hospital

Specialties

Infectious Disease

Languages

English

Infectious Disease Clinic

(414) 805-6444

Education

MD - Doctor of Medicine
FIDSA - Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society
FACP - Fellow of the American College of Physicians

Biography

Mary Beth Graham, MD, FIDSA, FACP, Professor of Medicine with tenure, is a Board Certified Internist and Infectious Disease specialist who joined the faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin as an Assistant Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases in February 2002. She is a graduate of Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and trained at the University of Washington in Seattle and Washington University in St. Louis in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, respectively. She spent a number of years after the completion of her fellowship studying host immune response to influenza virus at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and then at University of Illinois at Chicago before transitioning her career towards medical education and administration.

Dr. Graham has been listed in “Best Doctors ® in America” and also named as a “Top Doctor” in the Castle Connolly/Milwaukee Magazine rankings numerous times. She has a passion for medical education and has received multiple teaching awards, including Best Teaching Physician at Froedtert Hospital by Department of Medicine residents in 2013 and an MCW Outstanding Medical Student Teacher award in 2015. She has an active outpatient clinical practice and also attends on the inpatient transplant and general infectious disease services.

Research Interests

Dr. Graham’s clinical expertise includes HIV infection and associated complications, infections in immunocompromised individuals (including transplant recipients), influenza treatment and prevention, and the prevention of transmission of hospital-associated infections. Her current administrative responsibilities include serving as the Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Froedtert Hospital, the Infection Prevention Program Director for the Medical College of Wisconsin, and as the Associate Chief for the Division of Infectious Disease.

Plasma tissue-type plasminogen activator is associated with lipoprotein(a) and clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

(Zhang Z, Dai W, Zhu W, Rodriguez M, Lund H, Xia Y, Chen Y, Rau M, Schneider EA, Graham MB, Jobe S, Wang D, Cui W, Wen R, Whiteheart SW, Wood JP, Silverstein R, Berger JS, Kreuziger LB, Barrett TJ, Zheng Z.) Res Pract Thromb Haemost. 2023 Aug;7(6):102164 PMID: 37680312 PMCID: PMC10480648 09/08/2023
Surveillance cultures following a regional outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.

(Rivera F, Reeme A, Graham MB, Buchan BW, Ledeboer NA, Valley AM, Munoz-Price LS.) Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2022 Apr;43(4):454-460 PMID: 33985611 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85105848855 05/15/2021
Molnupiravir for Oral Treatment of Covid-19 in Nonhospitalized Patients.

(Jayk Bernal A, Gomes da Silva MM, Musungaie DB, Kovalchuk E, Gonzalez A, Delos Reyes V, Martín-Quirós A, Caraco Y, Williams-Diaz A, Brown ML, Du J, Pedley A, Assaid C, Strizki J, Grobler JA, Shamsuddin HH, Tipping R, Wan H, Paschke A, Butterton JR, Johnson MG, De Anda C, MOVe-OUT Study Group.) N Engl J Med. 2022 Feb 10;386(6):509-520 PMID: 34914868 PMCID: PMC8693688 12/17/2021
Cryptococcal infection with ruxolitinib in primary myelofibrosis: A case report and literature review.

(Ciochetto Z, Wainaina N, Graham MB, Corey A, Abid MB.) Clin Case Rep. 2022 Feb;10(2):e05461 PMID: 35369391 PMCID: PMC8858788 04/05/2022
SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain-specific antibodies activate platelets with features resembling the pathogenic antibodies in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.

(Zhu W, Zheng Y, Yu M, Wei J, Zhang Y, Topchyan P, Nguyen C, Janecke R, Kreuziger LB, White GC, Hari P, Aster R, Cui W, Jobe S, Graham MB, Wang D, Wen R.) Res Sq. 2021 Apr 26 PMID: 34013243 PMCID: PMC8132233 05/21/2021
Bronchoalveolar lavage-based COVID-19 testing in patients with cancer.

(Abid MB, Chhabra S, Buchan B, Graham MB, Abedin S, Thapa B, D'Souza A, George B, Hamadani M.) Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther. 2021 Mar;14(1):65-70 PMID: 33058787 PMCID: PMC7543702 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85092735525 10/16/2020
Toxigenic Clostridioides difficile colonization as a risk factor for development of C. difficile infection in solid-organ transplant patients.

(Keegan J, Buchan BW, Ledeboer NA, Zhou Z, Hong JC, Graham MB, Munoz-Price LS.) Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Mar;42(3):287-291 PMID: 32933595 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85092160301 09/17/2020
Letter to the Editor Regarding Diagnostic Considerations for COVID-19 in Recipients of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.

(Chhabra S, Abedin S, Graham MB, Ferrer Marrero TM, Hari PN, Shaw BE.) Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2020 Sep;26(9):e241-e242 PMID: 32589922 PMCID: PMC7309826 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85087728830 06/27/2020
Severity of Cytokine Release Syndrome and Its Association with Infections after T Cell-Replete Haploidentical Related Donor Transplantation.

(Abid MB, Hamadani M, Szabo A, Hari PN, Graham MB, Frank MO, Collier WS, Abedin S, Jerkins JH, Pasquini MC, Runaas L, Shah NN, Chhabra S.) Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2020 Sep;26(9):1670-1678 PMID: 32562858 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85087739042 06/21/2020
How frequently should sink drains be disinfected?

(Ramos-Castaneda JA, Faron ML, Hyke J, Bell-Key D, Buchan BW, Nanchal R, Pintar P, Graham MB, Huerta S, Munoz-Price LS.) Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Mar;41(3):358-360 PMID: 31918767 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85077885913 01/11/2020
Use of a cohorting-unit and systematic surveillance cultures to control a Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Enterobacteriaceae outbreak.

(Reeme AE, Bowler SL, Buchan BW, Graham MB, Behrens E, Singh S, Hong JC, Arvan J, Hyke JW, Palen L, Savage S, Seliger H, Huerta S, Ledeboer NA, Kotay S, Mathers AJ, Cooper VS, Mustapha MM, Mettus RT, Doi Y, Munoz-Price LS.) Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Jul;40(7):767-773 PMID: 31084655 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85065637314 05/16/2019
Effectiveness of a hydrogen peroxide foam against bleach for the disinfection of sink drains.

(Buchan BW, Arvan JA, Graham MB, Tarima S, Faron ML, Nanchal R, Munoz-Price LS.) Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Jun;40(6):724-726 PMID: 30992089 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85065244760 04/18/2019