Monica Fung, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Monica Fung specializes in infectious diseases with a focus on patients with compromised immune systems, including those with solid organ or stem cell transplants. She attends on the Immunocompromised and General Infectious Diseases Consult Services, and has clinics in the 360 Wellness Center and Infectious Diseases Faculty Practice at UCSF-Parnassus.

RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL PURSUITS Monica serves as Co-Director of the Transplant/Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Program. Her research focuses the application of novel diagnostics to improve diagnosis of infections among transplant recipients. She directs the Transplant/Immunocompromised Host track within the UCSF Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program, and serves as a small group leader for the Pathogen Host Defense course in the School of Medicine.

• Diagnosis, Prognosticators, and Management of Acute Invasive Fungal Rhinosinusitis: Multidisciplinary Consensus Statement and Evidence-Based Review with Recommendations.
  International forum of allergy & rhinology 2023 Roland LT, Humphreys IM, Le CH, Babik JM, Bailey CE, Ediriwickrema LS, Fung M, Lieberman JA, Magliocca KR, Nam HH, Teo NW, Thomas PC, Winegar BA, Birkenbeuel JL, David AP, Goshtasbi K, Johnson PG, …
• Solid organ transplant recipients with tuberculosis disease in California, 2010 to 2020.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023 Katrak S, Han E, Readhead A, Fung M, Keh C, Flood J, Barry P
• Maribavir for Cytomegalovirus Treatment in the Real World-Not a Silver Bullet.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2022 Fung M, DeVoe C, Spottiswoode N, Doernberg SB
• Metagenomic prediction of antimicrobial resistance in critically ill patients with lower respiratory tract infections.
  Genome medicine 2022 Serpa PH, Deng X, Abdelghany M, Crawford E, Malcolm K, Caldera S, Fung M, McGeever A, Kalantar KL, Lyden A, Ghale R, Deiss T, Neff N, Miller SA, Doernberg SB, Chiu CY, DeRisi JL, Calfee CS, Langelier …
• 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
• Prevalence of carbapenemase-producing organisms among hospitalized solid organ transplant recipients, five US hospitals, 2019-2020.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2022 Chan JL, Nazarian E, Musser KA, Snavely EA, Fung M, Doernberg SB, Pouch SM, Leekha S, Anesi JA, Kodiyanplakkal RPL, Turbett SE, Spalding Walters M, Epstein L
• Delayed diagnosis and treatment of secondary syphilis in pancreas-kidney transplant recipient: Need for increased awareness of sexually transmitted infections in solid organ transplantation.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2021 Crossman H, Guterman E, Fung M
• Brain Abscess Caused by Bordetella hinzii.
  Neurology. Clinical practice 2021 Mehta N, Gerdts J, Fung M, Guterman EL
• Characteristics of High-Titer Convalescent Plasma and Antibody Dynamics After Administration in Patients With Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2021 Bainbridge ED, Hsue PY, Esensten JH, Lynch KL, Hendrickson CM, Doernberg SB, Fung M, Chin-Hong P, Di Germanio C, Norris PJ, Simmons G, Glidden DV, Luetkemeyer AF
• Parapharyngeal tuberculoid mass: A rare complication of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy for urothelial carcinoma in situ.
  Clinical case reports 2021 Plonowska-Hirschfeld KA, Fung M, Glastonbury C, Ha PK
• 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
• 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
• 918. Pilot Surveillance for Carbapenemase Gene-positive Organisms Among Hospitalized Solid Organ Transplant Recipients.
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2020 June L Chan, Elizabeth Nazarian, Kimberlee A Musser, Monica Fung, Sarah B Doernberg, Stephanie M Pouch, Stephanie M Pouch, Surbhi Leekha, Judith A Anesi, Rosy Priya Kodiyanplakkal, Sarah Turbett, …
• 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
• 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
• Type-1 immunity and endogenous immune regulators predominate in the airway transcriptome during chronic lung allograft dysfunction.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020 Iasella CJ, Hoji A, Popescu I, Wei J, Snyder ME, Zhang Y, Xu W, Iouchmanov V, Koshy R, Brown M, Fung M, Langelier C, Lendermon EA, Dugger D, Shah R, Lee J, Johnson B, Golden J, Leard LE, Ellen …
• Chronic lung allograft dysfunction small airways reveal a lymphocytic inflammation gene signature.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020 Dugger DT, Fung M, Hays SR, Singer JP, Kleinhenz ME, Leard LE, Golden JA, Shah RJ, Lee JS, Deiter F, Greenland NY, Jones KD, Langelier CR, Greenland JR
• Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Recipients Have Suppressed Airway Interferon Responses during Pseudomonas Infection.
  Cell reports. Medicine 2020 Dugger DT, Fung M, Zlock L, Caldera S, Sharp L, Hays SR, Singer JP, Leard LE, Golden JA, Shah RJ, Kukreja J, Gordon E, Finkbeiner W, Kleinhenz ME, Langelier C, Greenland JR
• 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, …
• Decreased Immune Activation in Cystic Fibrosis Airway Epithelium Following Lung Transplant.
  The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2020 D.T. Dugger, M. Fung, L. Zlock, S. Caldera, S.R. Hays, J.P. Singer, L.E. Leard, J.A. Golden, R. Shah, J. Kukreja, W. Finkbeiner, M. Kleinhenz, C. Langelier, J.R. Greenland
• Detection of Pneumonia Pathogens from Plasma Cell-Free DNA.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2020 Langelier C, Fung M, Caldera S, Deiss T, Lyden A, Prince BC, Serpa PH, Moazed F, Chin-Hong P, DeRisi JL, Calfee CS
• 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
• Increased Risk of Infectious Complications in Older Patients With Indolent Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Exposed to Bendamustine.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019 Fung M, Jacobsen E, Freedman A, Prestes D, Farmakiotis D, Gu X, Nguyen PL, Koo S
• Integrating host response and unbiased microbe detection for lower respiratory tract infection diagnosis in critically ill adults.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2018 Langelier C, Kalantar KL, Moazed F, Wilson MR, Crawford ED, Deiss T, Belzer A, Bolourchi S, Caldera S, Fung M, Jauregui A, Malcolm K, Lyden A, Khan L, Vessel K, Quan J, Zinter M, Chiu CY, Chow ED, …
• Plasma Cell-Free DNA Next-Generation Sequencing to Diagnose and Monitor Infections in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2018 Fung M, Zompi S, Seng H, Hollemon D, Parham A, Hong DK, Bercovici S, Dolan E, Lien K, Teraoka J, Logan AC, Chin-Hong P
• 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
• A Furry Friend's Dirty Mouth: Brain Abscess Due to Aggregatibacter (Haemophilus) aphrophilus.
  The American journal of medicine 2017 Miller DC, Fung M, Carbo A
• National Variability and Appropriateness of Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis in US Children's Hospitals.
  JAMA pediatrics 2016 Sandora TJ, Fung M, Melvin P, Graham DA, Rangel SJ
• Meta-Analysis and Cost Comparison of Empirical versus Pre-Emptive Antifungal Strategies in Hematologic Malignancy Patients with High-Risk Febrile Neutropenia.
  PloS one 2015 Fung M, Kim J, Marty FM, Schwarzinger M, Koo S
• Epidemiology and risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection in children.
  The Pediatric infectious disease journal 2011 Sandora TJ, Fung M, Flaherty K, Helsing L, Scanlon P, Potter-Bynoe G, Gidengil CA, Lee GM
• Recent trends in the use of antibiotic prophylaxis in pediatric surgery.
  Journal of pediatric surgery 2011 Rangel SJ, Fung M, Graham DA, Ma L, Nelson CP, Sandora TJ
• Chlamydial and gonococcal reinfection among men: a systematic review of data to evaluate the need for retesting.
  Sexually transmitted infections 2006 Fung M, Scott KC, Kent CK, Klausner JD