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.


Gloria Heresi, MD

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Education:

M.D., University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Internship Rotating, Hospitals El Salvador and Luis Calvo Mackenna,

Fellowship: Human Nutrition, University of Chile, Santiago

Fellowship: Human Immunology and Nutrition, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Residency, Pediatrics: University of Maryland Hospital

Fellowship, Pediatric Infectious Disease: University of Texas - Houston Medical School

Clinical and Research Interests:

  1. HIV
  2. Resident and Student Education

Publications (selected):

  • Heresi GP, Gerstmann DR, Reed MD, van den Anker JN, Blumer JL, Kovanda L, Keirns JJ, Buell DN, Kearns GL. The pharmacokinetics and safety of micafungin, a novel echinocandin, in premature infants. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2006 Dec;25(12):1110-5.
  • Ochoa TJ, Mohr J, Wanger A, Murphy JR, Heresi GP. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pediatric patients. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Jun;11(6):966-8.
  • Heresi GP, Mancias P, Mazur LJ, Butler IJ, Murphy JR, Cleary TG. Poliomyelitis-like syndrome in a child with West Nile virus infection. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2004 Aug;23(8):788-9
  • Baqar S, Rice B, Lee L, Bourgeois AL, El Din AN, Tribble DR, Heresi GP, Mourad AS, Murphy JR. Campylobacter jejuni enteritis. Clin Infect Dis. 2001 Sep 15;33(6):901-5.
  • Atkins JT, Heresi GP, Coque TM, Baker CJ. Recurrent group B streptococcal disease in infants: Who should receive rifampin? J Pediatr. 1998 Mar;132(3 Pt 1):537-9.
  • Heresi GP, Caceres E, Atkins JT, Reuben J, Doyle M. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in infants who were exposed to human immunodeficiency virus but were not infected: an exception to the AIDS surveillance case definition. Clin Infect Dis. 1997 Sep;25(3):739-40.
  • Munoz C, Baqar S, van de Verg L, Thupari J, Goldblum S, Olson JG, Taylor DN, Heresi GP, Murphy JR. Characteristics of Shigella sonnei infection of volunteers: signs, symptoms, immune responses, changes in selected cytokines and acute-phase substances. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1995 Jul;53(1):47-54.
  • Heresi GP, Saitua MT, Schlesinger L. Leukocyte migration inhibition factor production in marasmic infants. Am J Clin Nutr. 1981 May;34(5):909-13.

 

Faculty Biography

Gloria Heresi, MD
  • Gloria Heresi, MD
    Associate Professor
  • Department of Pediatrics
    Division of Infectious Diseases
  • University of Texas-Houston Medical School
    6431 Fannin Street, MSB 6.132b
    Houston, Texas 77030
  • phone: (713) 500-5718
    e-mail: Gloria.P.Heresi@ uth.tmc.edu
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