Faculty Biography

Gloria Heresi, MD

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Education:

M.D., University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Internship Rotating, Hospitals El Salvador and Luis Calvo Mackenna,

Fellowship: Human Nutrition, University of Chile, Santiago

Fellowship: Human Immunology and Nutrition, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Residency, Pediatrics: University of Maryland Hospital

Fellowship, Pediatric Infectious Disease: University of Texas - Houston Medical School

Clinical and Research Interests:

1. HIV
2. Resident and Student Education

Publications (selected):

• Heresi GP, Gerstmann DR, Reed MD, van den Anker JN, Blumer JL, Kovanda L, Keirns JJ, Buell DN, Kearns GL. The pharmacokinetics and safety of micafungin, a novel echinocandin, in premature infants. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2006 Dec;25(12):1110-5.
• Ochoa TJ, Mohr J, Wanger A, Murphy JR, Heresi GP. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pediatric patients. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Jun;11(6):966-8.
• Heresi GP, Mancias P, Mazur LJ, Butler IJ, Murphy JR, Cleary TG. Poliomyelitis-like syndrome in a child with West Nile virus infection. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2004 Aug;23(8):788-9
• Baqar S, Rice B, Lee L, Bourgeois AL, El Din AN, Tribble DR, Heresi GP, Mourad AS, Murphy JR. Campylobacter jejuni enteritis. Clin Infect Dis. 2001 Sep 15;33(6):901-5.
• Atkins JT, Heresi GP, Coque TM, Baker CJ. Recurrent group B streptococcal disease in infants: Who should receive rifampin? J Pediatr. 1998 Mar;132(3 Pt 1):537-9.
• Heresi GP, Caceres E, Atkins JT, Reuben J, Doyle M. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in infants who were exposed to human immunodeficiency virus but were not infected: an exception to the AIDS surveillance case definition. Clin Infect Dis. 1997 Sep;25(3):739-40.
• Munoz C, Baqar S, van de Verg L, Thupari J, Goldblum S, Olson JG, Taylor DN, Heresi GP, Murphy JR. Characteristics of Shigella sonnei infection of volunteers: signs, symptoms, immune responses, changes in selected cytokines and acute-phase substances. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1995 Jul;53(1):47-54.
• Heresi GP, Saitua MT, Schlesinger L. Leukocyte migration inhibition factor production in marasmic infants. Am J Clin Nutr. 1981 May;34(5):909-13.

 

Location & Contact

6431 Fannin Street
MSB 3.020
Houston, Texas 77030
713-500-5757 (Voice)

Faculty Biography

• Gloria Heresi, MD
  Professor
• Department of Pediatrics
  Division of Infectious Diseases
• University of Texas-Houston Medical School
  6431 Fannin Street, MSB 6.132b
  Houston, Texas 77030
• phone: (713) 500-5718
  e-mail: Gloria.P.Heresi@ uth.tmc.edu