Research Interests
Opportunistic infections, vaccine development, infectious disease epidemiology, the benefits of physician assistant-physician team clinical consultant models
Overview
Alexis is a clinician and educator within the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). Alexis received her undergraduate education at Vassar College and a master’s degree in physician assistant studies from Albany Medical College. For over 8 years she has served as an inpatient infectious disease consultant at BWH/DFCI, specializing in infections in the immunocompromised host. Alexis has a passion for pathophysiology and immunology, believing that both fundamental sciences are crucial to understanding infectious diseases. She is the lead preceptor for PA students and PA fellows in infectious disease rotations and a member of the Brigham Health Hospital Medicine PA Fellowship faculty.
Alexis also participates as a mentor to high school students in the Student Jobs Success Program through Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a program developed to help increase health professionals from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds.
Selected Publications
Powell, M., Sherman, A., Klopfer, J., Desjardins, M., Cheng, C., Senussi, Y., Ratnaparkhi, S., Mitre, X., Feeley, M., Paz, A., Kim, A., Rutherford, H., Cauley, J., Kim, A., Chang, J., Liakos, A., Woolley, A., Walt, D., Baden, L. Longitudinal Assessment of Immune Responses to COVID-19 Vaccines in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. S16-S17. 2021
Cheng, M., Orejas, J., Arbona, E., Bold, T., Solomon, I., Chen, K., Pandit, A., Kusztos, A., Cummins, K., Liakos, A., Marty, F., Koo, S., Hammond, S. Use of triazoles for the treatment of invasive aspergillosis: A three-year cohort analysis. Mycoses. vol. 63 no. 1, 2019 pp. 58-64
Issa, N., Arbona, E., Nevett-Fernandez, A., Prestes, D., Liakos, A., Woolley, A., Hammond, S., Brown, J., Baden, L., Marty, F. Opportunistic Infections (OIs) in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies (HM) Treated with Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) and Phosphoinositide 3 Kinase (PI3K) Inhibitors: An 8-Year Retrospective Cohort Study. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. vol. 4, 2017. S699-S699
Farmakiotis, D., Liakos, A., Miller, M., Krane, J., Baden, L., Hammond, S. An Avid Imitator. Journal of Clinical Medicine Research. vol. 8, 2016, pp. 257-259
Courses
PA 6312 Principles of Medicine – Infectious Disease
PA 6313 Principles of Medicine – Oncology
PA 6203, 6204 Physical Diagnosis and Patient Evaluation – Labs and Simulations
