Shu-Hua Wang, MD, MPH&TM, PharmD, FIDSA

1996 – 97 Intern,  Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

1997 – 99 Medical Resident, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

2000 – 01 Clinical Fellow in Infectious Diseases, University of Wisconsin, Diseases Madison, WI

2002 – 04 Clinical Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Louisiana State University Health, Diseases Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA

2004 – 05 Clinical and Research Fellow, in Tulane University Health Sciences Tuberculosis Center, New Orleans, LA

Infectious Diseases Society of America 

National Tuberculosis Controller Association

International Union of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

National Society of TB Clinicians, Chartered Member

Aaron Scholar, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 2003

Charles C. Bass Award, Tulane Univ School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Delta Omega National Honorary Society in Public Heath, Eta Chapter member, 2004

Ohio TB Coalition Dr. Charles B Payne Memorial Award in recognition for outstanding leadership and efforts towards elimination of TB in Ohio. 2011

Wang SH, Mangino JE, Stevenson S, Yakrus MA, Cooksey R, Butler WR, Healy M, Wise MG, Schlesinger LS, Pancholi P.  Characterization of “Mycobacterium paraffinicum” associated with a pseudo-outbreak. Journal of Clinical Microbiolgy 2008. 46:1850-1853.

Powell DA, Perkins L, Wang SH, Hunt WG, Ryan-Wenger N.   Completion of therapy for latent tuberculosis in children of different nationalities.  Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2008. 27:272-274.

Wang SH, Pancholi P, Stevenson S, Yakrus MA, Butler WR, Schlesinger LS, Mangino JE.  Psuedo-outbreak of “Mycobacterium paraffinicum” infection and or colonization n a tertiary medical center. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2009. 30:848-853. 

Wang SH, Powell DA, Nagaraja HN, Morris JD, Schlesinger LS, Turner J.  Evaluation of a modified interferon gamma release assay in adult and pediatric populations that enables overnight blood storage. Scand J Infect Dis. 2010. 42:845-50.  

Wang SH, Carruthers B, Turner J.  The influence of increasing age on susceptibility of the elderly to tuberculosis. Open Longevity Science. 2012.  6:73-82 (Formerly “The Open Aging Journal”)

Wang SH, Stew SS, Cyktor J, Vesosky BJ, Turner J, Restrepo BI.  Validation of increased blood storage times with the T-SPOT.TB assay in patients with active TB disease and latent TB infection. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2012, 50(7):2469-71.  PMID: 22518862.  doi: 10.1128/JCM.00674-12.

Wang SH, Khan Y, Hines L, Mediavilla J, Zhang L, Chen L, Hoet A, Bannerman T, Pancholi P, Robinson A, Kreiswirth B, Stevenson K for the CDC Prevention Epicenter Program.  Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Sequence type 239-III, Ohio, USA, 2007-2009. Emerging Infectious Disease 2012. 18:1557-1565. PMID: 23018025.  doi: 10.3201/eid1810.120468

Kowatsch-Beyer K, Norris-Turner A, Love R, Denkowski P, Wang SH. Utilization of latent tuberculosis infection referral system by newly resettled refugees within Franklin County, Ohio.  International Journal of Tuberculosis Lung Disease. 2013. 17(3):1-6.

Stevenson KB, Wang SH.  Understanding the Molecular Pathogenesis of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.  J Infect Dis. 2014. 209:488-90. PMID: 24163417. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jit557

Wang SH, Pancholi P.  Mycobacterial skin and soft tissue infection.  Curr Infect Dis Rep. 2014. 16:438. PMID: 25339245.  doi: 10.1007/s11908-014-0438-5.

Spicer K, Turner J, Wang SH, Koranyi K, Powell D.  Tuberculin skin testing and interferon-gamma release assays in internationally adopted children. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2015.  34:599-603. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000680 PMID: 25973937

Wang SH, Stevenson K, Hines L, Mediavilla JR, Khan Y, Soni R, Dutch W, Brandt E, Bannerman T, Kreiswirth BN, Pancholi P  for the Prevention Epicenter Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Evaluation of repetitive element-polymerase chain reaction for surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a large academic medical center and community hospitals. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2015. 81:13-7. PMID: 25439582  

Wang SH, Hines L, van Balen J, Mediavilla J, Pan X, Hoet A, Kreiswirth B, Pancholi P, Stevenson K.  Molecular and clinical characteristics of hospital and community onset methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains associated with blood stream infections. Journal Clinical Microbiology. 2015. 53(5):1599-608. PMID: 25740776 

van Balen J, Bottichio L, Stevenson K, Wang SH, Nava-Hoet R,  Hoet A. Understanding the Introduction and Circulation of Environmental MRSA in a Large Academic Medical Center during a Non-Outbreak, Year-long Period. Am J Infect Control. 2016 Aug 1;44(8):925-30. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2016.02.039. PMID: 27480895  

Sandul A, Nawana N, Gross L, Griffin P, Wang S, Hunt G, Shah N, Lobato M, Marco A, Patil N, Mukasa L, Moro R, Mase S, Chorba T, Jereb J, Webb R, Bamrah-Morris S, Holcomb M, Marks S, Ho C for the 3HP Post-Marketing Surveillance Group. High Rate of Treatment Completion in Program Settings with 12-Dose Weekly Isoniazid and Rifapentine (3HP) for Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection.  Clinical Infectious Disease 2017:65