Amy Spallone, M.D.
Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control, and Employee Health, Division of Internal Medicine
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Associate Chief Infection Control Officer, Division of Chief Quality Officer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Patient Quality Safety Officer, Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2015 | Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA, MD, Medicine |
| 2010 | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, BS, Biological Sciences |
| 2008 | Corning Community College, Corning, NY, USA, Associate, Mathematics and Sciences |
Postgraduate Training
| 2020-2021 | Infectious Diseases Advanced Research Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX |
| 2019-2020 | Clinical Scientist Training Program Certificate of Added Qualification, Baylor College of Medicine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX |
| 2018-2020 | Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX |
| 2015-2018 | Internal Medicine Internship and Residency, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, NY |
Board Certifications
| 2020 | Infectious Diseases |
| 2018 | Internal Medicine |
Experience & Service
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Vice Chair Infection Control Committee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2022 - Present
Institutional Committee Activities
Vice Chair, Infection Control Committee, 2022 - Present
Voting Member, Quality Assurance Performance Improvement, 2022 - Present
Voting Member, Institutional Patient Safety Committee, 2022 - Present
Member, Dept of Infectious Diseases Wellness Committee, 2022 - Present
Member, Dept of Internal Medicine Quality & Safety Council, 2021 - Present
Collaborator, Steering Committee for Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, Infectious Diseases, 2021 - Present
Member, Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, 2021 - Present
Honors & Awards
| 2021 | Outstanding Graduating Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine |
| 2020 | Outstanding Graduating Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine |
| 2015 | The One-to-Watch Award, Corning Community College |
| 2014 | MD Trustee Scholarship, Morris Alpert Alumni Scholarship |
| 2010 | Cornell Center for Materials Research Microscopy Award in Biological Category; Brooks Family Award for Swedish 1220, Cornell University |
| 2008 | Institutional Honors with Distinction, State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Rita Wilson Dib, Ella Ariza-Heredia, Amy Spallone, Roy F. Chemaly. Respiratory viral infections in recipients of cellular therapies: A review of incidence, outcomes, treatment, and prevention. OFID 10(4), 2023.
- Khawaja F, Daher M, Spallone A, Chemaly R. COVID-19 Vaccine in Cancer Patients. Oncology 37(2):69-77, 2023.
- Khawaja F, Spallone A, Kotton CN, Chemaly RF. Cytomegalovirus infection in transplant recipients: Newly approved additions to our armamentarium. Clin Microbiol Infect 29(1):44-50, 2023. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35843567.
- Khawaja F, Srinivasan K, Spallone A, Feldman A, Cantu S, Ariza-Heredia E, Dvordak T, Alousi A, Ahmed S, George M, Frenzel E, Bhatti M, Chemaly RF. Nosocomial COVID-19 at a comprehensive cancer center during the first year of the pandemic: Lessons learned. Am J Infect Control. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35901993.
- Spallone A, Alotaibi AS, Jiang Y, Daver N, Kontoyiannis DP. Infectious Complications Among Patients With AML Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk 22(5):305-310, 2022. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34810120.
- Spallone A, Moran CA, Wurster S, Axell-House DB, Kontoyiannis DP. Taking a Closer Look: Clinical and Histopathological Characteristics of Culture-Positive versus Culture-Negative Pulmonary Mucormycosis. J Fungi (Basel) 8(4), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35448611.
- Spallone A, Schwartz IS. Emerging Fungal Infections. Infect Dis Clin North Am 35(2):261-277, 2021. PMID: 34016278.
- Spallone A, Hemmersbach-Miller M. The great masquerade: donor-derived infections with uncommon central nervous system pathogens. OBM Transplantation 5(2), 2021.
- Amenta EM, Spallone A, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, El Sahly HM, Atmar RL, Kulkarni PA. Postacute COVID-19: An Overview and Approach to Classification. Open Forum Infect Dis 7(12):ofaa509, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33403218.
- Spallone A, Hicklen RS, Kontoyiannis DP. Invasive Fungal Infections at Presentation of Untreated Hematologic Malignancies: Rare and Elusive. Open Forum Infect Dis 7(7):ofaa247, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32704512.
- Malek AE, Taremi M, Spallone A, Alvarez-Cardona JJ, Kontoyiannis DP. Necrotizing soft tissue invasive aspergillosis in a cancer patient treated with immunosupressants due to checkpoint inhibitor-induced hepatitis. J Infect 80(2):232-254, 2020. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31705917.
- Spallone A, Dhal U, Woc-Colburn L. Histoplasmosis in liver transplant recipients: Case reports and a review of the literature. OBM Transplantation 4(1), 2020.
- Spallone A, Woroch L, Sweeney K, Seidman R, Marcos LA. The Burden of Neurocysticercosis at a Single New York Hospital. J Pathog 2020:8174240, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32802516.
- Atkinson T, Mahatme S, Spallone A, Fundin J. The Preliminary Impact of Pain Management Integration into an HIV Specialty Clinic. The Scientific Journal of Anesthesia and Pain Management 1(1):7-12, 2017.
- Spallone A, Tobin E, Chaturvedi S, and Jiang Q. Central Nervous System Blastomycosis Without Travel To Known Endemic Region: A Case Report. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice 24(5):e30-e32, 2016.
- Daher M, Khawaja F, Spallone A, Shigle TL, Ariza-Heredia E, Bhatti M, Chemaly RF. Real-World Experience with Maribavir for Treatment of Refractory or Resistant Cytomegalovirus Infection in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients. CMI.
Editorials
- Spallone A, Ariza-Heredia EJ, Chemaly RF. Acute and Latent Viral Infections in Immunocompromised Patients: A Tale of Brave Battles and Menacing Foes. Clin Microbiol Infect 28(10):1319-1320, 2022. PMID: 35724870.
Abstracts
- Amy Spallone, MD, Krithika Srinivasan, MD, Joseph Sassine, MD, Terri Lynn Shigle, PharmD, Victoria Handy, PharmD, Jeremy Ramdial, MD, Fareed Khawaja, MBBS, Ella Ariza Heredia, MD, Roy F Chemaly, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA. The Impact of Clinically Significant CMV Infections on Other Viral Infections in the Era of Letermovir Primary Prophylaxis. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 8(1):S552–S553, 2021.
- Joseph Sassine, MD, Fareed Khawaja, MBBS, Brandon R Shank, PharmD, Alexandra Lovell, PharmD, Jenessa Lee, PharmD, Adam DiPippo, PharmD, Caitlin R Rausch, PharmD, Amy Spallone, MD, Ella Ariza Heredia, MD, Roy F Chemaly, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA. Clinically Significant CMV Infections in Patients with Lymphoma or Multiple Myeloma. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 8(1):S557–S558, 2021.
- Alexander Franklin, M.D, Dierdre B Axell-House, MD, Amy Spallone, MD, Jeffery Tarrand, MD, Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis, MD. Comparison of Initial CXR to CT in Patients (pts) with Hematologic Malignancy (HEM) and Documented Symptomatic Pulmonary Mucormycosis (PM). Open Forum Infectious Diseases 8(1):S454,, 2021.
- Teresa Khoo, MD,1 Amy Spallone, MD,2 Audun Lier, MD, MPH,2 Yasin Abul, MD,3 Anna-Marie Wellins, DNP,4 Fredric Weinbaum, MD,5 Benjamin Luft, MD, FIDSA,3 and Luis A Marcos, MD, MPH3. Lyme Disease in Hispanics in Long Island, New York: A New Health Disparity in the U.S. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 4(1):S308, 2017.
- Teresa Khoo, MD,1 Zachary Fleischner, MD,2 Robert Chow, MD,3 Melinda Monteforte, PharmD,4 and Luis A Marcos, MD, MPH1. Comparison of Fidaxomicin and Vancomycin for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Colitis. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 4(1):S386, 2017.
- Amy Spallone, MD, Robert Chow, MD, Luis A. Marcos, MD. Epidemiology of Neurocysticercosis at Stony Brook University Hospital, Long Island, New York. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 3(1):584, 2016.
- Yasin Abul, MD, Robert Chow, MD, Amy Spallone, MD, Benjamin Luft, MD, FIDSA, Luis a. Marcos, MD. Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in Hispanics Admitted to a Tertiary Medical Center in Long Island. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 3(1):1422, 2016.
Book Chapters
- Amy Spallone and Daniel Musher. 138. Haemophilus. In: Schlossberg's Clinical Infectious Disease. 3rd. Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Spallone A, Woc-Colburn L. Mycoses’ Eugene Toy. In: Case Files: Microbiology. 4th. McGraw-Hill.
- Spallone A, Franklin A, Chemaly RF. Pulmonary and Critical Care Considerations of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. In: CMV.
Grant & Contract Support
| Title: | The impact of a Filtered Far ultraviolet-C handheld disinfection device on reducing healthcare environmental pathogens from high-touch surfaces in clinical working rooms |
| Funding Source: | FreeStyle, LLC |
| Role: | Principal Investigator |
| Title: | Infection and Immunity NIH T32 AI055413 Training Grant |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NIAID |
| Role: | Postdoctoral Fellow |