Director, Infection Control Program
Infectious Disease
Dr. Loren G. Miller, MD
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Loren Miller works in the field of Infectious Disease. He went to medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons is a one of the best medicals schools. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons has a rank of 8 in research and a 52 in primary care He over the years received 11 awards: "Harbor-UCLA Collegium Award for Research Instrument", "Man of the Year Award", "Richard Weitzman Memorial Research Award for Outstanding Young Investigator", "Investigator Travel Award", "National Institute of Health (NIH) Young Investigator", "International AIDS Society-USA Fellow Travel Grant for 6th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections", "SHEA/CDC (Pfizer) Scholarship for Hospital", "Fellow Travel Grant", "Program Faculty Award", "President, Joint Council of Interns and Resident" and "Bruce Howard Memorial Scholarship". Loren G. Miller is a published physician as well. He has 79 publications published. The latest was: Treatment for Positive Urine Cultures in Hospitalized Adults: A Survey of Prevalence and Risk Factors in 3 Medical Centers. Loren Miller accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Treatment for Positive Urine Cultures in Hospitalized Adults: A Survey of Prevalence and Risk Factors in 3 Medical Centers.
- Treatment Failure Outcomes for Emergency Department Patients with Skin and Soft Tissue Infections.
- Tolerance of benznidazole in a United States chagas disease clinic.
- Staphylococcus aureus Skin Infection Recurrences Among Household Members: An Examination of Host, Behavioral, and Pathogen-Level Predictors.
- Clindamycin versus trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for uncomplicated skin infections.
- Risk factors for central line-associated bloodstream infections in the era of prevention bundles.
- Cost-benefit analysis from the hospital perspective of universal active screening followed by contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carri...
- Redefining the National Healthcare Safety Network's Definition of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections: The Hazard of Including Candida Species.
- Persistent Environmental Contamination with USA300 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Other Pathogenic Strain Types in Households with S. aureus Skin Infe...
- Variation in Antibiotic Prophylaxis Selection for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Procedures in an Era of Increasing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Prevalence.
- Survey of preoperative infection prevention for coronary artery bypass graft procedures.
- Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia at Five U.S. Academic Medical Centers, 2008-2011: Significant Geographic Variation in Community-Onset Infections.
- The evolving landscape of healthcare-associated infections: recent advances in prevention and a road map for research.
- Physician antibiotic prescriptions for skin infections in the outpatient setting are often unnecessarily long and include unnecessary antibiotics.
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of linezolid and daptomycin for treatment of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal bloodstream infections.
- A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Associated with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization at Time of Hospital or Intensive C...
- A comparison of clinical outcomes between healthcare-associated infections due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains and healthca...
- Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections Among Adult Women: Comparative Effectiveness of Five Prevention and Management Strategies Using A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Model.
- Quantifying the impact of extranasal testing of body sites for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization at the time of hospital or intensive care unit ...
- Association between Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Bacteremia and Ceftriaxone Usage.
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Burden in Nursing Homes Associated with Environmental Contamination of Common Areas.
- Staphylococcus aureus colonization among household contacts of patients with skin infections: risk factors, strain discordance, and complex ecology.
- Where We Are With Community-Associated Staphylococcus aureus Prevention--And in the Meantime, What Do We Tell Our Patients?
- A Prospective Investigation of Nasal Mupirocin, Hexachlorophene Body Wash, and Systemic Antibiotics for Prevention of Recurrent Community-Associated Methicillin Resist...
- Nitrofurantoin compares favorably to recommended agents as empirical treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections in a decision and cost analysis.
- Daily cranberry prophylaxis to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections may be beneficial in some populations of women.
- Simultaneous use of other antimicrobials may have influenced clinical outcomes.
- Impact of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Prevalence among S. aureus Isolates on Surgical Site Infection Risk after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery.
- Survival and transmission of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from fomites.
- Prospective, open-label investigation of the pharmacokinetics of daptomycin during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.
- Diagnostic accuracy in patients admitted to hospitals with cellulitis.
- Risk factors for infection and colonization with community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Los Angeles County jail: a case-control study.
- Serious infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Predicting bacteremia among patients hospitalized for skin and skin-structure infections: derivation and validation of a risk score.
- Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin targets muscle tissues in a child with myositis and necrotizing fasciitis.
- Rifampin-containing regimens for community-associated skin infection: a hazard without known benefit.
- Staphylococcus aureus: a community pathogen.
- Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin contributes to inflammation and muscle tissue injury.
- Asymptomatic sexually transmitted infections in HIV-infected men who have sex with men: prevalence, incidence, predictors, and screening strategies.
- Adjunctive use of rifampin for the treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infections: a systematic review of the literature.
- Clinical practice: colonization, fomites, and virulence: rethinking the pathogenesis of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.
- Emergence of multidrug-resistant, community-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone USA300 in men who have sex with men.
- In vitro production of panton-valentine leukocidin among strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing diverse infections.
- Postpartum iliopsoas pyomyositis due to community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Hepatitis C virus and death risk in hemodialysis patients.
- A prospective investigation of outcomes after hospital discharge for endemic, community-acquired methicillin-resistant and -susceptible Staphylococcus aureus skin infe...
- Clinical and epidemiologic characteristics cannot distinguish community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection from methicillin-susceptible S...
- Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing healthcare-associated infections.
- A practical method to calibrate self-reported adherence to antiretroviral therapy.
- A comprehensive evaluation of survey questions for adherence to antiretroviral medications and exploratory analyses for identifying optimal sets of survey questions.
- Repeated measures longitudinal analyses of HIV virologic response as a function of percent adherence, dose timing, genotypic sensitivity, and other factors.
- Levofloxacin penetration into a renal cyst in a patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
- Incidence of and risk factors for clinically significant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in a cohort of HIV-infected adults.
- Diagnostic discordance for hepatitis C virus infection in hemodialysis patients.
- Necrotizing fasciitis caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Los Angeles.
- An estimate of the incidence of Candiduria among hospitalized patients in the United States.
- Treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections in an era of increasing antimicrobial resistance.
- Treatment of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections with drainage but no antibiotic therapy.
- Trends in antimicrobial drug development: implications for the future.
- No evidence of an association between transient HIV viremia ("Blips") and lower adherence to the antiretroviral medication regimen.
- Is the influence of social desirability on patients' self-reported adherence overrated?
- Spider bites and infections caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Knowledge of antiretroviral regimen dosing and adherence: a longitudinal study.
- A prospective study of predictors of adherence to combination antiretroviral medication.
- Impact of antiretroviral regimen switches on adherence.
- Human immunodeficiency virus infection unresponsive to highly active antiretroviral therapy: denial of poor medication adherence or recalcitrant infection?
- How well do clinicians estimate patients' adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy?
- International clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of acute uncomplicated cystitis and pyelonephritis in women: A 2010 update by the Infectious Diseases Soci...
- Clinical characteristics and mortality in hepatitis C-positive haemodialysis patients: a population based study.
- Patient preferences regarding antiretroviral therapy.
- Does in vitro fluoroquinolone resistance predict clinical failure in urinary tract infections?
- Evidence for the insufficient evaluation and undertreatment of chronic hepatitis B infection in a predominantly low-income and immigrant population.
- Cognitive-behavioral intervention to enhance adherence to antiretroviral therapy: a randomized controlled trial (CCTG 578).
- Hepatitis C infection in dialysis patients: a link to poor clinical outcome?
- Repeated measures analyses of dose timing of antiretroviral medication and its relationship to HIV virologic outcomes.
- Visualizing coronary calcium is associated with improvements in adherence to statin therapy.
- Incidence and cost of hospitalizations associated with Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections in the United States from 2001 through 2009.
- Modeling the transmission of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a dynamic agent-based simulation.
Schools
Columbia University College of Physicians And Surgeons
Harbor UCLA Med Center
University Of California Los Angeles
Vet Adm Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Harbor-UCLA Collegium Award for Research Instrument
- “Man of the Year†Award
- Richard Weitzman Memorial Research Award for Outstanding Young Investigator
- Investigator Travel Award
- National Institute of Health (NIH) Young Investigator
- International AIDS Society-USA Fellow Travel Grant for 6th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
- SHEA/CDC (Pfizer) Scholarship for Hospital
- Fellow Travel Grant
- Program Faculty Award
- President, Joint Council of Interns and Resident
- Bruce Howard Memorial Scholarship
Education
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UCLA Medical Center -
Harbor - UCLA Medical Center -
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Hospital
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center -
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1346286606 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | MILLER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | LOREN | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 905022047 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | Infectious Disease | |
| Total Claim Count | 23.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1346286606 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | MILLER |
| First Name Of The Provider | LOREN |
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