Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Jennifer Babik specializes in clinical infectious diseases with a particular focus on infections in immunocompromised hosts. She attends on the Immunocompromised Host and General Infectious Diseases Consult Services and has clinic in the Infectious Diseases Practice at UCSF Health.

EDUCATIONAL PURSUITS Jennifer Babik is the Program Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship at UCSF. She gives clinical lectures for students, residents and fellows in residency and fellowship core lecture series. Her primary interests in medical educational are developing best practices for effective teaching by consultants and curriculum development in subspecialty education. She is also the Mentoring Facilitator for the ID Division at UCSF Health.

• A silver lining.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2022 Fretz A, Penner JC, Bainbridge ED, Babik JM
• Not your usual tonsillitis: a lesson for recognizing primary tonsillar syphilis.
  Histopathology 2022 Wu R, Babik J, Russell M, van Zante A, Chan E
• COVID-19 in vaccinated versus unvaccinated hematologic malignancy patients.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2022 DeVoe C, Pandey S, Shariff D, Arora S, Henrich TJ, Yokoe DS, Langelier CR, Servellita V, Chiu C, Miller S, Babik JM, Chin-Hong P, Fung M
• Development and Evaluation of a Five-Component Toolkit for Internal Medicine Residents Applying for Subspecialty Fellowships.
  MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2022 Huppert LA, Babik JM
• A single center evaluation of applicant experiences in virtual interviews across eight internal medicine subspecialty fellowship programs.
  Medical education online 2021 Huppert LA, Hsu G, Elnachef N, Flint L, Frank JA, Gensler LS, Hsiao EC, Khanna RR, Qasim A, Schwartz BS, Widera E, Zapata C, Babik JM
• Evaluation of a longitudinal subspecialty clinic for internal medicine residents.
  Medical education online 2021 Consunji MV, Kohlwes RJ, Babik JM
• A Short-Lived Crisis.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2021 Saxena K, Dhaliwal G, Rao MN, Babik JM
• The Reverse Halo Sign in an Immunocompromised Host.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2021 Penner JC, Dyster TG, Babik JM
• Correction to: Evaluating an Oncology Video Curriculum Designed to Promote Asynchronous Subspecialty Learning for Internal Medicine Residents.
  Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2021 Iverson N, Subbaraj L, Babik JM, Brondfield S
• Trends in US Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship Applications During the COVID-19 Pandemic vs Previous Years.
  JAMA network open 2021 Huppert LA, Santhosh L, Babik JM
• Disseminated Legionella micdadei infection in a liver transplant patient presenting as pulmonary nodules and a laryngeal lesion.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2021 Bond AR, Bainbridge E, Doernberg SB, Babik JM, Miller S, Khanafshar E, Henry T, David A, Russell M, Brandman D, Sherman CB, Yao F, Fung M
• Evaluating an Oncology Video Curriculum Designed to Promote Asynchronous Subspecialty Learning for Internal Medicine Residents.
  Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2021 Iverson N, Subbaraj L, Babik JM, Brondfield S
• COVID-19 in Immunocompromised Hosts: What We Know So Far.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2021 Fung M, Babik JM
• 1118. Development of a Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents on Latent and Active Pulmonary TB: A Targeted Needs Assessment.
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2020 Kyla Sherwood, Jennifer M Babik
• Zoonotic coronavirus epidemics: Severe acute respiratory syndrome, Middle East respiratory syndrome, and coronavirus disease 2019.
  Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology 2020 Fung M, Otani I, Pham M, Babik J
• Virtual Interviews at Graduate Medical Education Training Programs: Determining Evidence-Based Best Practices.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2020 Huppert LA, Hsiao EC, Cho KC, Marquez C, Chaudhry RI, Frank J, Goglin SE, Hsu G, Kathpalia P, Khanna R, Kompala T, Rao MN, Bower BA, Trafas V, Santhosh L, Schwartz BS, Babik JM
• Treatment of immunocompromised COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2020 Fung M, Nambiar A, Pandey S, Aldrich JM, Teraoka J, Freise C, Roberts J, Chandran S, Hays SR, Bainbridge E, DeVoe C, Roque Gardner A, Yokoe D, Henrich TJ, Babik JM, Chin-Hong P
• Upper airway gene expression reveals suppressed immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 compared with other respiratory viruses.
  Nature communications 2020 Mick E, Kamm J, Pisco AO, Ratnasiri K, Babik JM, Castañeda G, DeRisi JL, Detweiler AM, Hao SL, Kangelaris KN, Kumar GR, Li LM, Mann SA, Neff N, Prasad PA, Serpa PH, Shah SJ, Spottiswoode N, Tan M, …
• Best Practices to Successfully Navigate a Virtual Interview: a Five-Step Guide for Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Applicants.
  Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2020 Huppert LA, Babik JM
• Clinical Utility of Universal Broad-Range Polymerase Chain Reaction Amplicon Sequencing for Pathogen Identification: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2020 Kerkhoff AD, Rutishauser RL, Miller S, Babik JM
• Clinical features, diagnostics, and outcomes of patients presenting with acute respiratory illness: A retrospective cohort study of patients with and without COVID-19.
  EClinicalMedicine 2020 Shah SJ, Barish PN, Prasad PA, Kistler A, Neff N, Kamm J, Li LM, Chiu CY, Babik JM, Fang MC, Abe-Jones Y, Alipanah N, Alvarez FN, Botvinnik OB, Castaneda G, CZB CLIAhub Consortium, Dadasovich RM, …
• Gender Differences in Authorship of Clinical Problem-Solving Articles.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2020 Adler E, Hobbs A, Dhaliwal G, Babik JM
• Clinical outcomes and serologic response in solid organ transplant recipients with COVID-19: A case series from the United States.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020 Fung M, Chiu CY, DeVoe C, Doernberg SB, Schwartz BS, Langelier C, Henrich TJ, Yokoe D, Davis J, Hays SR, Chandran S, Kukreja J, Ng D, Prostko J, Taylor R, Reyes K, Bainbridge E, Bond A, Chin-Hong P, …
• Diversity of the Infectious Diseases Trainee Pipeline: The Future Looks Bright, but We Must Not Be Complacent.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2020 Santhosh L, Babik JM
• Diversity in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Pipeline. Trends in Gender, Race, and Ethnicity among Applicants and Fellows.
  2020 Lekshmi Santhosh, Jennifer M. Babik
• Getting Neighborly in 2030: A Shared Fellow Workspace Improves Communication, Teaching, and Burnout.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2020 Block BL, Anderson D, O'Brien B, Babik J
• Upper airway gene expression differentiates COVID-19 from other acute respiratory illnesses and reveals suppression of innate immune responses by SARS-CoV-2.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Mick E, Kamm J, Pisco AO, Ratnasiri K, Babik JM, Calfee CS, Castañeda G, DeRisi JL, Detweiler AM, Hao S, Kangelaris KN, Kumar GR, Li LM, Mann SA, Neff N, Prasad PA, Serpa PH, Shah SJ, Spottiswoode N, …
• Response to: Is Burnout Infectious? Understanding Drivers of Burnout and Job Satisfaction Among Academic Infectious Diseases Physicians.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2020 Budak JZ, Brickman CE, Abdoler EA, Wallender EK, Mulliken JS, Kerkhoff AD, Lampiris H, Babik JM, Koss CA, Schwartz BS
• Coccidioidomycosis Presenting with Fever and Back Pain.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Pillsbury MM, Rubio LA, Lucas CG, Babik JM
• Diversity in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Pipeline. Trends in Gender, Race, and Ethnicity among Applicants and Fellows.
  ATS scholar 2020 Santhosh L, Babik JM
• Trends in Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Internal Medicine Subspecialty Fellowships From 2006 to 2018.
  JAMA network open 2020 Santhosh L, Babik JM
• Creating and Presenting an Effective Lecture.
  The Journal of continuing education in the health professions 2020 Babik JM, Luther VP
• Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Invasive Fungal Sinusitis in Cancer and Transplant Patients.
  Current infectious disease reports 2019 Fung M, Babik J, Humphreys IM, Davis GE
• 236. The Comparative Utility Of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing and Universal PCR for Pathogen Detection on Cerebrospinal Fluid: A Retrospective Analysis From a Tertiary Care Center.
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2019 Andrew D Kerkhoff, Michelle Matzko, Charles Chiu, Steve Miller, Jennifer M Babik
• 2534. Development of an Infectious Diseases Fellowship Well-Being Program.
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2019 Jehan Budak, Cristina Brickman, Emily Abdoler, Erika Wallender, Jennifer S Mulliken, Andrew D Kerkhoff, Harry Lampiris, Jennifer M Babik, Catherine Koss, Brian Schwartz, Brian Schwartz
• Disseminated Cutaneous and Osteoarticular Sporotrichosis Mimicking Pyoderma Gangrenosum.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2019 Saeed L, Weber RJ, Puryear SB, Bahrani E, Peluso MJ, Babik JM, Haemel A, Coates SJ
• Feasibility of implementing a resident oncology video curriculum.
  Journal of Clinical Oncology 2019 Sam Brondfield, Nicholas Iverson, Lakshmi Subbaraj, Jennifer Babik
• Strategies to build a clinician-educator career.
  The clinical teacher 2019 Santhosh L, Abdoler E, Babik JM
• Clinical Features of Neutrophilic Dermatosis Variants Resembling Necrotizing Fasciitis.
  JAMA dermatology 2019 Sanchez IM, Lowenstein S, Johnson KA, Babik J, Haag C, Keller JJ, Ortega-Loayza AG, Cohen J, McCalmont TH, Demer AM, Mansh MD, Hylwa SA, Liu J, Shinkai K
• 1322. Impact of Hospital Medicine on Trends in Infectious Diseases and Other Subspecialty Fellowship Applications.
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2018 Lekshmi Santhosh, Jennifer Babik
• 415. Breakthrough Invasive Fungal Infections in Adult Hematologic Malignancy Patients Receiving Isavuconazole Prophylaxis.
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2018 Catherine DeVoe, Monica Fung, Brian Schwartz, Sarah B Doernberg, Mimi Lo, Larissa Graff, Marisela Tan, Aaron Logan, Jennifer Babik, Peter Chin-Hong
• Nontyphoidal Salmonella as a Cause of Mediastinal Abscess after Aortic Valve Replacement: A Case Report and Review of Postoperative Salmonella Infections.
  Case reports in infectious diseases 2018 Spottiswoode N, Peluso MJ, Deuse T, Babik JM
• Breakthrough Invasive Fungal Infections on Isavuconazole Prophylaxis and Treatment: What Is Happening in the Real-World Setting?
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2018 Fung M, Schwartz BS, Doernberg SB, Langelier C, Lo M, Graff L, Tan M, Logan AC, Chin-Hong P, Babik JM
• Whither the Pulmonary Ward Attending? Preserving Subspecialty Exposure in United States Internal Medicine Residency Training.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2017 Santhosh L, Babik J, Looney MR, Hollander H
• Disseminated Acanthamoeba infection in a heart transplant recipient treated successfully with a miltefosine-containing regimen: Case report and review of the literature.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2017 Brondfield MN, Reid MJ, Rutishauser RL, Cope JR, Tang J, Ritter JM, Matanock A, Ali I, Doernberg SB, Hilts-Horeczko A, DeMarco T, Klein L, Babik JM
• Raccoon Roundworm Infection Associated with Central Nervous System Disease and Ocular Disease - Six States, 2013-2015.
  MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2016 Sircar AD, Abanyie F, Blumberg D, Chin-Hong P, Coulter KS, Cunningham D, Huskins WC, Langelier C, Reid M, Scott BJ, Shirley DA, Babik JM, Belova A, Sapp SG, McAuliffe I, Rivera HN, Yabsley MJ, …
• Baylisascaris procyonis-Associated Meningoencephalitis in a Previously Healthy Adult, California, USA.
  Emerging infectious diseases 2016 Langelier C, Reid MJ, Halabi C, Witek N, LaRiviere A, Shah M, Wilson MR, Chin-Hong P, Douglas V, Kazacos KR, Babik JM
• Development of the intrinsic and extrinsic innervation of the gut.
  Developmental biology 2016 Uesaka T, Young HM, Pachnis V, Enomoto H
• Broad-range PCR for early diagnosis of nosocomial Enterococcus gallinarum meningitis.
  Infectious diseases (London, England) 2016 Su PY, Miller S, Rutishauser RL, Babik J
• Epstein-Barr virus encephalitis in a renal transplant recipient manifesting as hemorrhagic, ring-enhancing mass lesions.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2015 Babik JM, Katrak S, Miller S, Shah M, Chin-Hong P
• Transplant tourism: understanding the risks.
  Current infectious disease reports 2015 Babik JM, Chin-Hong P
• The human fetal immune response to hepatitis C virus exposure in utero.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2011 Babik JM, Cohan D, Monto A, Hartigan-O'Connor DJ, McCune JM
• Impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy and immunologic status on hepatitis C virus quasispecies diversity in human immunodeficiency virus/hepatitis C virus-coinfected patients.
  Journal of virology 2003 Babik JM, Holodniy M
• The role of Sp1 and NF-kappa B in regulating CD40 gene expression.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2001 Tone M, Tone Y, Babik JM, Lin CY, Waldmann H
• Expression of murine IL-12 is regulated by translational control of the p35 subunit.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 1999 Babik JM, Adams E, Tone Y, Fairchild PJ, Tone M, Waldmann H
• Structure and chromosomal location of the mouse interleukin-12 p35 and p40 subunit genes.
  European journal of immunology 1996 Tone Y, Thompson SA, Babik JM, Nolan KF, Tone M, Raven C, Waldmann H
• Protein design by binary patterning of polar and nonpolar amino acids.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 1993 Kamtekar S, Schiffer JM, Xiong H, Babik JM, Hecht MH