Department of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
The Department of Pediatrics

Faculty Biography

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston is dedicated to improving the health and welfare of all infants, children, and adolescents.


Dr. Susan Pacheco

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Education:

Clinical Laboratory Immunology Fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Allergy and Immunology Fellowship, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Pediatrics Resident, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Pediatrics Intern, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Clinical and Research Interests:

Publications (selected): 

  • Pacheco SE,  Kenneth McIntosh, Ming Lu,  Lynne M. Mofenson, Clemente Diaz, Marc Foca , Margaret Frederick, Edward Handelsman, Karen Hayani. (Submitted JID 2006). The Effect of Perinatal Antiretroviral Drug Exposure on Hematologic and Lymphocytic Blood Values in HIV-Uninfected Children:  An Analysis of the Women and Infants Transmission Study.  J Infect Dis 2006. 
  • Hershow RC, O’Driscoll PT, Handelsman E, Pitt J. Hillyer G, Serchuck L., Lu M, Chen KT, Yaweta S, Pacheco SE, Davenny K, Adenyl-Jones S, Thomas DL. Hepatitis C virus coinfection and HIV load, CD4+ cell percentage, and clinical progression to AIDS or death among HIV infected women. Women and Infants Transmission Study. Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Mar 15;40(6):859-867.
  • Pacheco SE, Gottschalk SM, Gresik MV, Dishop MK, Okmaura T, McCormick TG. Chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection of natural killer cells presenting as severe skin reaction to mosquito bites. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2005 Aug;116(2):470-2.
  • LaMonte AC, Paul ME, Read JS, Frederick MM, Erdman DD, Han LL, Anderson LJ, Women and Infants Transmission Study. (Shearer WT, Pacheco SE, Cooper N, Members). Persistent parvovirus B19 infection without the development of chronic anemia in HIV-infected and -uninfected children: the Women and Infants Transmission Study. J Infect Dis 2004;189:847-851.
  • Baliga CS, Pacheco SE.  Prophylactic antiretroviral therapy, HIV exposure, and mitochondrial toxicity in children: is there cause for concern?  Submitted 2005
  • Mellins, CA, Smith R, O’Driscoll P, Magder LS, Brouwers P, et.al. for the NIH NIAID/NICHD/NIDA-Sponsored Women and Infant Transmission Study group (Shearer WT, Pacheco SE, Cooper NJ, Members).  High rates of behavioral problems in perinatally HIV-infected children are not linked to HIV disease. Pediatrics 2003; 111:384-393.
  • Moylett, EH, Pacheco SE, Brown-Elliott BA, Perry TR, Buescher S, Birmingham MC, et.al.   Clinical Experience with Linezolid for the Treatment of Nocardia Infection Clinical Infectious Diseases 2003; 36; 313-318.
  • Zhang Y, Pacheco S, Acuna CL, Switzer KC, Wang Y, Gilmore X, Harriman GR, Mbawuike IN. Immunoglobulin A-deficient mice exhibit altered T helper 1-type immune responses but retain mucosal immunity to influenza virus.  Immunology. 2002 Mar;105(3):286-94.
  • Guerrero R, Ball JM, Krater SS, Pacheco SE, Clements JD, Estes MK. Recombinant Norwalk virus-like particles administered intranasally to mice induce systemic and mucosal (fecal and vaginal) immune responses. J Virol 2001;75(20):9713-9722
  • Estes MK, Ball JM, Guerrero RA, Opekun AR, Gilger MA, Pacheco SE, Graham DY. Norwalk virus vaccines: challenges and progress. J Infect Dis 2000;Supp 2(181); S367-373.
  • Pacheco SE, Gibbs RA, Ansari-Lari MA, Rogers P. Intranasal immunization with HIV-1 reverse transcriptase: effect of antigen dose in the induction of Th1-type and Th-2 type immunity. AIDS Res Hum Retro 2000; 16:2009-2017.
  • Harriman GR, Bogue M, Rogers-Fani P, Finegold M, Pacheco SE, Bradley, Zhang  Y-X, and Mbawuike IN. Targeted deletion of the IgA constant region in mice leads to IgA deficiency with alterations in expression of other immunoglobulin isotypes. J Immunol 1999; 162:2521-2529.
  • Mbawuike IN, Pacheco SE, Acuna CL, Switzen KC, Zhang YX, Harriman GR. Mucosal immunity to influenza without IgA: an IgA knockout mouse model. J Immunol 1999;162:2530-2537.
  • Pacheco SE, Shearer. Diagnosis and management of HIV infection in infants born to mothers with HIV. Neonatal Monitor 1996;12:5-7.
  • Pacheco SE, Shearer WT. Laboratory aspects of immunology. Pediatr Clin North Am 1994;41:623-655.
  • Robinson JE, Holton D, Pacheco-Morell S, Liu J, McMurdo H. Identification of conserved and variant epitopes of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gp120 by human monoclonal antibodies produced by EBV-transformed cell lines. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1990;6:56-579

 

Faculty Biography

Dr. Susan Pacheco
  • Dr. Susan Pacheco
    Assistant Professor
  • Department of Pediatrics
    Division of Pulmonology, Rheumatology, & Allergy-Immunology Medicine
  • University of Texas-Houston Medical School
    6431 Fannin Street, MSB 3.228
    Houston, Texas 77030
  • Phone: 713.500.5650
    e-mail: Susan.E.Pacheco@uth.
    tmc.edu
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