Kaede Ota, MD,MSc,FRCPC,FAAP,FCCM,D(ABMM)
Kaede Ota, MD,MSc,FRCPC,FAAP,FCCM,D(ABMM)
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Contact information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard
Main Building, Room 5112A
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard
Main Building, Room 5112A
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399
Office: 267-426-5023
Fax: 215-590-2171
Fax: 215-590-2171
Email:
otak@email.chop.edu
otak@email.chop.edu
Education:
B.ArtSc.
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1998.
MD (Medicine)
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2001.
MSc (Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research)
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2010.
Permanent linkB.ArtSc.
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1998.
MD (Medicine)
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2001.
MSc (Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research)
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2010.
Selected Publications
Ota, K.V., Blecker-Shelly, D.L. : Use of the Rapid BinaxNOW Malaria Test in a 24-Hour Laboratory Associated with Accurate Detection and Decreased Malaria Testing Turnaround Times in a Non-Endemic, Pediatric Setting. Journal of Clinical Microbiology (in press) 2013.Ellison, A.M., Ota, K.V., McGowan, K.L., Smith-Whitley, K. : Epidemiology of Bloodstream Infections in Children with Sickle Cell Disease. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (in press) 2013.
Ota, K.V., Turner, N.N., Roundtree S.S., McGowan, K.L. : Accurate and rapid detection of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) using the MicroPhage MRSA/MSSA blood culture test and the BacT/Alert system in a pediatric population. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (in press) 2013.
Turner, N.N., Roundtree S.S., Blecker-Shelly D.L., Ota, K.V.: Accurate and Rapid Detection of Gram-Positive Organisms in Positive Blood Cultures Using the Verigene Gram-Positive Blood Culture Test in a Tertiary Pediatric Population. American Society of Microbiology 2013 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA (accepted) 2013.
Ota, K.V., McGowan, K.L. : Clostridium difficile Testing Algorithms Using Glutamate Dehydrogenase Antigen and C. difficile Toxin Enzyme Immunoassays with C. difficile Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing Increase Diagnostic Yield in a Tertiary Pediatric Population. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2012.
Larru, B., Gerber, J.S., Ota K.V. : Medical treatment failure and complete left pneumonectomy after Legionella pneumophila pneumonia in a bone marrow transplant recipient. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2012.
Ota, K.V., Blecker-Shelly, D., McGowan, K.L. : Use of the Rapid BinaxNOW Malaria Test in a 24-Hour Laboratory with Microbiology Technologists and Clinical Laboratory Generalists Decreased Malaria Testing Turnaround Times in a Non-Endemic, Pediatric Setting. Presented at American Society of Microbiology 2012 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA 2012.
Ota, K.V., McGowan, K.L. : Declining Incidence of Candidemia in a Pediatric Population. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2012.
Ellison, A.M., Ota, K.V., McGowan, K.L., Smith-Whitley, K. : Pneumococcal bacteremia in a vaccinated pediatric sickle cell disease population. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2012.
Ota, K.V., Turner, N.N., Roundtree S.S., McGowan, K.L. : Accurate and rapid detection of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) using the MicroPhage MRSA/MSSA blood culture test in a pediatric population. Presented at the American Society of Microbiology annual meeting, New Orleans, 2011 May 2011.