Masha Alexander
· Instructor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change ProgramVerifiedNorthwestern University · Social Policy Analysis and Evaluation
Active 2005–2024
Research topics
- Internal medicine
- Medicine
- Immunology
- Pathology
- Surgery
- Virology
- Intensive care medicine
Selected publications
Bacterial Superinfection Pneumonia in Patients Mechanically Ventilated for COVID-19 Pneumonia
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 2021 · 185 citations
- Medicine
- Intensive care medicine
- Internal medicine
In patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia requiring mechanical ventilation, bacterial superinfection at the time of intubation occurs in <25% of patients. Guideline-based empirical antibiotic management at the time of intubation results in antibiotic overuse. Bacterial VAP developed in 44% of patients and could not be accurately identified in the absence of microbiologic analysis of BAL fluid.
Circuits between infected macrophages and T cells in SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia
Nature · 2021 · 766 citations
- Immunology
- Medicine
- Virology
Frequent coauthors
- 13 shared
Peter H. S. Sporn
Northwestern University
- 13 shared
G. R. Scott Budinger
Northwestern University
- 8 shared
Paul A. Reyfman
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States)
- 8 shared
Benjamin D. Singer
Northwestern University
- 8 shared
Deborah R. Winter
- 8 shared
Alexander V. Misharin
Northwestern University
- 7 shared
Estefany Rios-Guzman
Northwestern University
- 7 shared
James M. Walter
Northwestern University
Education
MS, Health and Biomedical Informatics
Northwestern University - Chicago
- 2020
Fellow, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- 2017
Resident, Internal Medicine
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
- 2014
MD, Medicine
University of Illinois - Chicago
- 2008
BS, Biomedical Engineering
University of Wisconsin Madison
- 2008
BS, Biology - Neuroscience
University of Wisconsin Madison
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