Practice Address:

Infectious Disease Center - Holmes Hospital
Eden and Bethesda Avenues
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0405

Education:

• Northwestern University: B.S.
• University of Sussex, Falmer, Sussex, UK
• Northwestern University Medical School: M.D.

Post Graduate Training:

• 1989-1992 Intern and resident, Cornell University Medical College, North Shore University Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• 1992-1993 Clinical Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
• 1993-1995 Research Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• 1995 Training course in Hospital Epidemiology, Society for Health care Epidemiology of America

Licensure or Certification:

• Diplomate National Board of Medical Examiners
• Diplomate American Board of Internal Medicine
• Diplomate American Board of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases
• Ohio State Medical license

Associations:

• Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
• Infectious Disease Society of America

Partial List of Publications:

• Jonathan Shuter, Amy Beth Kressel, Carlos Gallegos Rivera, Catherine Buthkas Small, Liise-anne Pirofski. Cryptococcal meningitis in an HIV-infected man with normal absolute CD4+ lymphocyte count. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 1997; 6(6): 408-10.
• Liise-anne Pirofski, Rui Lui, Max DeShaw, Amy Beth Kressel, Zaojing Zhong. Human monoclonal antibodies to the Cryptococcus neoformans polysaccharide capsule. Infection and Immunity. 1995; 63(8): 3005-14.
• Hugh R. Wilson, Marilyn B. Mets, Stephanie E. Nagy, Amy B. Kressel. Albino spatial vision as an instance of arrested visual development. Vision Research. 1988; 28(9): 970-90.
• Amy Beth Kressel. Transmission of hepatitis viruses by surgeons (letter). New England Journal of Medicine. 1996; 335(4): 285.
• Amy Beth Kressel. Pneumococcal infections: changing etiology and emerging drug resistance. Resident and Staff Physician. (Suppl.) 1994: 7-12.

Research:

• 1997 AIDS Clinical Trials Group, ACTG 316, Site Investigator, University of Cincinnati Phase III, randomized, blinded study of nevirapine in HIV (+) pregnant women to prevent maternal-fetal HIV transmission.
• 1997 University of Cincinnati, Faculty Development Award

Hospital Appointments:

Partial List of Presentations:

• Amy Beth Kressel and Liise-anne Pirofski. Subclass analysis of serum anti-Cryptococcus neoformans capsular polysaccharide antibodies in HIV(+) and HIV(-) children. 34th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Oct 1994.
• Amy Beth Kressel, Bruce F. Farber, Marvin J. Tanenbaum. Acute bactermic S. aueus prostatistis (Poster). Downstate New York medical Society Meeting, 1992.