Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, MD, PhD

Infectious Disease
Internal Medicine
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Overview

Dr. Anne-Catrin Uhlemann is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated

  • Bacterial Infection
  • Organ Transplant Infections
  • Staphylococcal Infection

Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor of Medicine

Hospital Affiliations

  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital

Gender

  • Female

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180 Fort Washington Avenue
Suite 2-242
New York, NY 10032
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Insurance Accepted

Aetna

  • Aetna Signature Administrators
  • NYP Employee Plan
  • NY Signature
  • Student Health

Affinity Health Plan

  • Medicaid Managed Care

Cigna

  • EPO
  • Great West (National)
  • HMO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • POS
  • PPO

Emblem/GHI

  • Medicare Managed Care
  • PPO

Emblem/HIP

  • ConnectiCare
  • EPO
  • Essential Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • POS
  • PPO
  • Select Care (Exchange)
  • Vytra

Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield

  • EPO
  • HMO
  • PPO

Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care

Fidelis Care

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care

Healthfirst

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Leaf (Exchange)
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care

Local 1199

  • Local 1199

MagnaCare (National)

  • MagnaCare

Medicare

  • Railroad
  • Traditional Medicare

Multiplan

  • Multiplan

MVP Health Care

  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid Managed Care

Quality Health Management

  • Quality Health Management

RiverSpring

  • Special Needs

UnitedHealthcare

  • Compass (Exchange)
  • Empire Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid (Community Plan)
  • Oxford Freedom
  • Oxford HMO
  • Oxford Liberty
  • POS
  • PPO

VNSNY CHOICE

  • SelectHealth
  • Special Needs

WellCare

  • Medicare Managed Care
  • New Jersey Services (Medicaid Managed Care)

World Trade Center Health Plan

  • World Trade Center Health Plan

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Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • Eberhard-Karls University (Germany)
  • Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
  • Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center

Committees, Societies, Councils

Member, American Society of Microbiology
Member, Infectious Diseases Society of America

Board Certifications

  • Internal Medicine
  • Infectious Disease

Honors & Awards

2014 - 2017 Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine

2010 - 2013 Paul A. Marks Scholar, Columbia University

Research

Dr. Anne-Catrin Uhlemann is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) in New York City, where she also directs the Microbiome & Pathogen Genomics Core. She received her MD from the University of Tubingen, Germany, and PhD in Molecular Parasitology from the University of London, where she studied mechanisms of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum. She then completed her residency training in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at CUIMC in 2010. Her research leverages genomic tools and seeks to elucidate the molecular mechanisms and evolutionary underpinnings of drug-resistant microorganisms, spanning Staphylococcus aureus and diverse carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). This includes studies on how CRE establish colonization in the gut microbiome and progress to cause infections in immunocompromised hosts as well as investigations into mechanisms of resistance to last line antibiotics to combat CRE infections such as polymyxins and novel carbapenemase inhibitors. In addition to investigating the evolution of bacterial pathogens, Dr. Anne-Catrin Uhlemann's laboratory is also contributing to research efforts related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Research Interests

  • Bacterial evolution
  • Multi-drug resistant infections

Selected Publications

  1. Austin ED, Sullivan SB, Whittier S, Lowy FD, Uhlemann AC. Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Placement Is an Underrecognized Source of Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016 Apr 6;3(2):ofw072. eCollection 2016 Mar.
  2. Gomez-Simmonds A, Hu Y, Sullivan SB, Wang Z, Whittier S, Uhlemann AC. Evidence from a New York City hospital of rising incidence of genetically diverse carbapenem-resistant Enterobacter cloacae and dominance of ST171, 2007 - 2014. J Antimicrob Chemother 2016; 71(8):2351-3.
  3. Pereira MR, Uhlemann AC. The evolving threat of carbapenem-resistant infections after liver transplantation: The case of Acinetobacter baumannii. Liver Transpl. 2016 May;22(5):579-81.
  4. Gomez-Simmonds A, Greenman M, Sullivan SB, Tanner JP, Sowash MG, Whittier S, Uhlemann AC. Population structure of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing bloodstream infections at a New York City tertiary care hospital: diversification of multidrug-resistant isolates. J Clin Microbiol 2015 Jul;53(7):2060-7.
  5. Uhlemann AC, Dordel J, Knox JR, Raven K, Parkhill J, Holden MT, Peacock SJ, Lowy FD. Molecular tracing of the emergence, diversification and transmission of S. aureus sequence type 8 in a New York community. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111(18):6738-43.
  6. Sowash MG, Uhlemann AC. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus case studies. Methods Mol Biol. 2014;1085:25-69. Review.
  7. Uhlemann AC, Hafer C, Miko BA, Sowash MG, Sullivan SB, Shu Q, Lowy FD. Emergence of sequence type 398 as a community- and healthcare-associated methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in Northern Manhattan. Clin Infect Dis 2013; 57:700-3.
  8. Uhlemann AC, Porcella SF, Trivedi S, Sullivan SB, Hafer C, Kennedy AD, Barbian KD, McCarthy AJ, Street C, Hirschberg DL, Lipkin WI, Lindsay JA, DeLeo FR, Lowy FD. Identification of a highly transmissible animal-independent Staphylococcus aureus ST398 clone with distinct genomic and cell adhesion properties. mBio 2012; 3: e00027-12.
  9. Uhlemann AC, Kennedy AD, Martens C, Porcella SF, Deleo FR, Lowy FD. Toward an understanding of the evolution of Staphylococcus aureus strain USA300 during colonization in community households. Genome Biol Evol 2012; 4:1275-85.
  10. Hafer C, Lin Y, Kornblum J, Lowy FD, Uhlemann AC. Contribution of selected gene mutations to resistance in clinical isolates of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2012; 56:5845-51.
  11. Uhlemann AC, Fidock DA. Loss of malarial susceptibility to artemisinin in Thailand. Lancet 2012 379(9830):1928-30.