Shereen Katrak, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Katrak's research focuses on how to ensure that patients get appropriate screening and treatment to prevent tuberculosis. She also studies the treatment of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis and the management of immunocompromised patients with tuberculosis.

After earning a master of public health degree at the University of California, Berkeley, Katrak earned her medical degree at Oregon Health & Science University. She completed a residency in internal medicine at the Duke University Health System, followed by a fellowship in infectious diseases at UCSF.

• Bedaquiline for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and QTc prolongation in California.
  Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases 2021 Katrak S, Lowenthal P, Shen R, True L, Henry L, Barry P
• Preventing Tuberculosis Disease: Making a Case for Enhanced Tuberculosis Screening in People Immigrating to Low-incidence Countries.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019 Katrak S, Barry P
• 1392. Tuberculosis Disease in Recipients of Organ-Transplantation, California 2010–2017.
  Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2019 Shereen Katrak, Janice Westenhouse, Pennan BARRY, Jennifer Flood
• Persistent Parasitemia Despite Dramatic Reduction in Malaria Incidence After 3 Rounds of Indoor Residual Spraying in Tororo, Uganda.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2019 Nankabirwa JI, Briggs J, Rek J, Arinaitwe E, Nayebare P, Katrak S, Staedke SG, Rosenthal PJ, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Kamya MR, Dorsey G, Greenhouse B
• Latent Tuberculosis and Current Health Disparities in California: Making the Invisible Visible.
  American journal of public health 2018 Katrak S, Flood J
• Clinical consequences of submicroscopic malaria parasitaemia in Uganda.
  Malaria journal 2018 Katrak S, Nayebare P, Rek J, Arinaitwe E, Nankabirwa JI, Kamya M, Dorsey G, Rosenthal PJ, Greenhouse B
• Performance of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for the Identification of Submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum Infection in Uganda.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2017 Katrak S, Murphy M, Nayebare P, Rek J, Smith M, Arinaitwe E, Nankabirwa JI, Kamya M, Dorsey G, Rosenthal PJ, Greenhouse B
• Characterizing microscopic and submicroscopic malaria parasitaemia at three sites with varied transmission intensity in Uganda.
  Malaria journal 2016 Rek J, Katrak S, Obasi H, Nayebare P, Katureebe A, Kakande E, Arinaitwe E, Nankabirwa JI, Jagannathan P, Drakeley C, Staedke SG, Smith DL, Bousema T, Kamya M, Rosenthal PJ, Dorsey G, Greenhouse B
• Patterns of Healthcare Utilization Among Veterans Infected With Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Coinfected With HIV/HCV: Unique Burdens of Disease.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2016 Katrak S, Park LP, Woods C, Muir A, Hicks C, Naggie S
• Evaluating the epidemiology of P. falciparum parasitemia in three areas of Uganda with different transmission intensities.
  Annals of Global Health 2016 H. Obasi, J. Rek, P. Nayebare, A. Katureeba, E. Kakande, E. Arinaitwe, S. Staedke, M. Kamya, S. Katrak, P. Jagannathan, G. Dorsey, B. Greenhouse
• Community-wide Prevalence of Malaria Parasitemia in HIV-Infected and Uninfected Populations in a High-Transmission Setting in Uganda.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2016 Katrak S, Day N, Ssemmondo E, Kwarisiima D, Midekisa A, Greenhouse B, Kamya M, Havlir D, Dorsey G
• 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
• Visceral leishmaniasis-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in a traveler returning from a pilgrimage to the Camino de Santiago.
  Journal of travel medicine 2014 Watkins ER, Shamasunder S, Cascino T, White KL, Katrak S, Bern C, Schwartz BS
• Integrated screening for tuberculosis and HIV in tuberculosis contact investigations: lessons learned in North Carolina.
  Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 2014 Stout JE, Katrak S, Goswami ND, Norton BL, Fortenberry ER, Foust E, Leone PA
• Safety and tolerability of artemether-lumefantrine versus dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for malaria in young HIV-infected and uninfected children.
  Malaria journal 2009 Katrak S, Gasasira A, Arinaitwe E, Kakuru A, Wanzira H, Bigira V, Sandison TG, Homsy J, Tappero JW, Kamya MR, Dorsey G
• Effect of a US National Institutes of Health programme of clinical trials on public health and costs.
  Lancet (London, England) 2006 Johnston SC, Rootenberg JD, Katrak S, Smith WS, Elkins JS