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Eric A. Meyerowitz, M.D.

Eric A. Meyerowitz

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

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718.920.8564718.405.0610emeyerowit@montefiore.org

Montefiore Medical Center
3444 Kossuth Avenue
Bronx, NY 10467

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Professional Interests

Dr. Meyerowitz is a clinician educator with interests in HIV and other viral diseases, complex infectious diseases, and sexually transmitted infections. His goal is to provide excellent and compassionate care that meets the needs of all of his patients.

Dr. Meyerowitz received his MD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his internship and residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he was a member of the HIV Medicine Pathway, training in the Madison Clinic, a dedicated HIV clinic. He then completed his fellowship in infectious diseases in the HIV Clinician Educator track at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He joined the infectious diseases division at Albert Einstein Montefiore Medical Center in July 2020, spending time in outpatient clinics at the Oval Center and the Center for Positive Living, as well as time on the inpatient consultation services at the Moses Campus of Montefiore Medical Center.

Clinical interests:

- HIV prevention and treatment, including treatment of opportunistic infections

- Gender affirming care

- Care for people who inject drugs

- SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 transmission, pathogenesis, treatment, and outcomes

- Mycobacterial infections

- Chronic viral infections, including viral hepatitis and HTLV-1

- Treatment of highly resistant bacterial infections


Selected Publications

Richterman A, Meyerowitz EA, Cevik M. Hospital-Acquired SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Lessons for Public Health. JAMA. 2020 Nov 13. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.21399. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33185657.

Meyerowitz EA, Sanchez S, Mansour MK, Triant VA , Goldberg MB, Isolated Cerebral Mucormycosis in Immunocompetent Adults Who Inject Drugs: Case Reports and Systematic Review of the Literature, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, , ofaa552,  https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa552

Stone JH, Frigault MJ, Serling-Boyd NJ, Fernandes AD, Harvey L, Foulkes AS, Horick NK, Healy BC, Shah R, Bensaci AM, Woolley AE, Nikiforow S, Lin N, Sagar M, Schrager H, Huckins DS, Axelrod M, Pincus MD, Fleisher J, Sacks CA, Dougan M, North CM, Halvorsen YD, Thurber TK, Dagher Z, Scherer A, Wallwork RS, Kim AY, Schoenfeld S, Sen P, Neilan TG, Perugino CA, Unizony SH, Collier DS, Matza MA, Yinh JM, Bowman KA, Meyerowitz E, Zafar A, Drobni ZD, Bolster MB, Kohler M, D'Silva KM, Dau J, Lockwood MM, Cubbison C, Weber BN, Mansour MK; BACC Bay Tocilizumab Trial Investigators. Efficacy of Tocilizumab in Patients Hospitalized with Covid-19. N Engl J Med. 2020 Oct 21:NEJMoa2028836. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2028836. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33085857; PMCID: PMC7646626.

Meyerowitz EA, Richterman A, Gandhi RT, Sax PE. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A Review of Viral, Host, and Environmental Factors. Ann Intern Med. 2020 Sep 17:M20-5008. doi: 10.7326/M20-5008. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32941052; PMCID: PMC7505025.

Meyerowitz EA, Kim AY, Ard KL, Basgoz N, Chu JT, Hurtado RM, Lee CK, He W, Minukas T, Nelson S, Ojikutu BO, Robbins G, Sanchez S, Triant VA, Zachary K, Gandhi RT. Disproportionate burden of coronavirus disease 2019 among racial minorities and those in congregate settings among a large cohort of people with HIV. AIDS. 2020 Oct 1;34(12):1781-1787. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002607. PMID: 32604138; PMCID: PMC7499878.

Meyerowitz EA, Vannier AGL, Friesen MGN, Schoenfeld S, Gelfand JA, Callahan MV, Kim AY, Reeves PM, Poznansky MC. Rethinking the role of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19. FASEB J. 2020 May;34(5):6027-6037. doi: 10.1096/fj.202000919. Epub 2020 Apr 29. PMID: 32350928; PMCID: PMC7267640.

Bloom PP, Meyerowitz EA, Reinus Z, Daidone M, Gustafson J, Kim AY, Schaefer E, Chung RT. Liver Biochemistries in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19. Hepatology. 2020 May 16. doi: 10.1002/hep.31326. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32415860.

McCarthy CP, Murphy S, Jones-O'Connor M, Olshan DS, Khambhati JR, Rehman S, Cadigan JB, Cui J, Meyerowitz EA, Philippides G, Friedman LS, Kadar AY, Hibbert K, Natarajan P, Massaro AF, Bohula EA, Morrow DA, Woolley AE, Januzzi JL Jr, Wasfy JH. Early clinical and sociodemographic experience with patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at a large American healthcare system. EClinicalMedicine. 2020 Sep;26:100504. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100504. Epub 2020 Aug 19. PMID: 32838244; PMCID: PMC7434634.

Gong J, Meyerowitz EA, Isidro RA, Kaye KM. Primary cytomegalovirus infection with invasive disease in a patient with inflammatory bowel disease. BMJ Case Rep. 2019 Sep 30;12(9):e230056. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2019-230056. PMID: 31570344; PMCID: PMC6768388.

Meyerowitz EA, Prager S, Stout K, Roxby A. Endocarditis following IUD insertion in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot. BMJ Case Rep. 2019 Feb 7;12(2):e227962. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2018-227962. PMID: 30737328; PMCID: PMC6381954.

Meyerowitz, E. and S. Dhanireddy. “Care of the Elderly Patient with Infective Endocarditis.” Current Geriatrics Reports 6 (2017): 290-296.

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    Eric Meyerowitz, M.D., discusses his study suggesting that transmission of COVID-19 most often occurs indoors in poorly ventilated spaces, with a large portion originating from people who don’t show symptoms. Dr. Meyerowitz is assistant professor of medicine at Einstein and an internist and infectious disease specialist at Montefiore.

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