Prakhar Vijayvargiya, MD

Prakhar Vijayvargiya, MD

Assistant Professor

Department:
SOM-Medicine-ID

Email:
pvijayvargiya@umc.edu

Work Phone:
(601) 984-5560

Education

Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, Transplant Infectious Diseases2020
Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, Infectious Diseases2019
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Palm Beach Campus/JFK Hospital, Internal Medicine2016
Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, MBBS, Medicine and Surgery2012

Specialty Certification Licensure

Licensure, Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure04/2020 - 06/2024
NPI, National Provider Identification, CMS06/2013 - Present
DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration05/2022 - 05/2025
Certification, Infectious Diseases, American Board of Internal Medicine12/2020 - Present
Certification, Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine10/2016 - Present
Certification, Basic Medical Spanish Course, UMMC Office of Diversity and Inclusion01/2024 - Present

Current Positions

Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine07/2020 - Present
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi 39216

Sponsored Program Funding

Intramural, Whole Genome Sequencing of Vancomycin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus
anginosus, Division of Infectious Diseases Small Grants Program $10K
04/2018 - 06/2020
Intramural, Metagenomic Shotgun Sequencing of Blood to Identify Pathogens in Patients with
Neutropenic Fever, Center for Individualized Medicine Research Grant Program $50,000
03/2017 - 06/2020

Publications

Letter

Vijayvargiya P, Esquer Garrigos Z, Castillo Almeida NE, Gurram PR, Stevens RW, Razonable RR, In reply-The "Perfect Cytokine Storm" of COVID-19. Mayo Clinic proceedings, 2020 Sep;95(9):2037-20382020
Koehler AB, Vijayvargiya P, Ding W, Probable Invasive Pulmonary Cryptococcosis and Possible Cryptococcal Empyema in CLL Treated With Frontline Ibrutinib. Mayo Clinic proceedings, 2019 May;94(5):915-9172019
McCarter SJ, Vijayvargiya P, Sidana S, Nault AM, Lane CE, Lehman JS, Wilson JW, Parikh SA, Nowakowski GS, Al-Kali A, A case of ibrutinib-associated aspergillosis presenting with central nervous system, myocardial, pulmonary, intramuscular, and subcutaneous abscesses. Leukemia & lymphoma, 2019 Feb;60(2):559-5612019

Journal Article

Gupta S, Grant LM, Powers HR, Kimes KE, Hamdi A, Butterfield RJ, Gea-Banacloche J, Vijayvargiya P, Hata DJ, Meza Villegas DM, Dumitrascu AC, Harris DM, Chirila RM, Zhang N, Razonable RR, Kusne S, Alvarez S, Vikram HR, Invasive Nocardia Infections across Distinct Geographic Regions, United States. Emerging infectious diseases, 2023 Dec;29(12):2417-252023
Vance MK, Cretella DA, Ward LM, Vijayvargiya P, Garrigos ZE, Wingler MJB, Risk Factors for Bloodstream Infections Due to ESBL-Producing Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp., and Proteus mirabilis. Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland), 2023 Apr 13;11(2)2023
Keck JM, Cretella DA, Stover KR, Wagner JL, Barber KE, Jhaveri TA, Vijayvargiya P, Garrigos ZE, Wingler MJB, Evaluation of an Antifungal Stewardship Initiative Targeting Micafungin at an Academic Medical Center. Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023 Jan 17;12(2)2023
Vijayvargiya P, Esquer Garrigos Z, Kennedy CC, Daly RC, Wylam ME, Patel R, Beam E, Routine Donor and Recipient Screening for Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma Species in Lung Transplant Recipients. Open forum infectious diseases, 2022 Nov;9(11):ofac6072022
Hernandez Acosta RA, Esquer Garrigos Z, Marcelin JR, Vijayvargiya P, COVID-19 Pathogenesis and Clinical Manifestations. Infectious disease clinics of North America, 2022 Jun;36(2):231-2492022
Esquer Garrigos Z, Wingler MJB, Svoronos PA, Vijayvargiya P, Goodman-Meza D, O'Horo JC, Navalkele BD, Cretella D, Frame IJ, Parham J, Lucar J, Increased rates of blood culture contamination during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2022 Nov;43(11):1719-17212022
George MP, Esquer Garrigos Z, Vijayvargiya P, Anavekar NS, Luis SA, Wilson WR, Baddour LM, Sohail MR, Discriminative Ability and Reliability of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Characterizing Cases of Cardiac Device Lead Vegetations Versus Noninfectious Echodensities. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2021 Jun 1;72(11):1938-19432021
Fida M, Wolf MJ, Hamdi A, Vijayvargiya P, Esquer Garrigos Z, Khalil S, Greenwood-Quaintance KE, Thoendel MJ, Patel R, Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria From Septic Patients Using 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene-Targeted Metagenomic Sequencing. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2021 Oct 5;73(7):1165-11722021
Vijayvargiya P, Lara Abad C, Esquer Garrigos Z, O'Horo JC, Walker RC, Hogan WJ, Tande AJ, D-index as a marker of bloodstream infections in patients with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society, 2021 Aug;23(4):e135882021
Esquer Garrigos Z, Jandhyala D, Vijayvargiya P, Castillo Almeida NE, Gurram P, Corsini Campioli CG, Stulak JM, Rizza SA, O'Horo JC, DeSimone DC, Baddour LM, Sohail MR, Management of Bloodstream Infections in Left Ventricular Assist Device Recipients: To Suppress, or Not to Suppress? Open forum infectious diseases, 2021 Jan;8(1):ofaa5322021
Kusejko K, Auñón Á, Jost B, Natividad B, Strahm C, Thurnheer C, Pablo-Marcos D, Slama D, Scanferla G, Uckay I, Waldmann I, Esteban J, Lora-Tamayo J, Clauss M, Fernandez-Sampedro M, Wouthuyzen-Bakker M, Ferrari MC, Gassmann N, Sendi P, Jent P, Morand PC, Vijayvargiya P, Trebše R, Patel R, Kouyos RD, Corvec S, Kramer TS, Stadelmann VA, Achermann Y, The Impact of Surgical Strategy and Rifampin on Treatment Outcome in Cutibacterium Periprosthetic Joint Infections. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2021 Jun 15;72(12):e1064-e10732021
Shah A, Vijayvargiya P, O'Horo JC, Shah V, Shah S, Dutt T, Bansal V, Kashyap R, India Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance (INTEREST) 2018: A needs assessment survey. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2021 May;42(5):616-6182021
Vijayvargiya P, Esquer Garrigos Z, Castillo Almeida NE, Gurram PR, Stevens RW, Razonable RR, Treatment Considerations for COVID-19: A Critical Review of the Evidence (or Lack Thereof). Mayo Clinic proceedings, 2020 Jul;95(7):1454-14662020
Gurram PR, Castillo NE, Esquer Garrigos Z, Vijayvargiya P, Abu Saleh OM, A Dimorphic Diagnosis of a Pleomorphic Disease: An Unusual Cause of Hypercalcemia. The American journal of medicine, 2020 Nov;133(11):e659-e6622020
Abad CLR, Lahr B, O'Horo JC, Vijayvargiya P, Walker RC, Hogan WJ, Tande AJ, The D-index is not correlated with invasive fungal infection during the early-post engraftment phase among allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. International journal of hematology, 2020 Feb;111(2):293-3022020
Vijayvargiya P, Garrigos ZE, Rodino KG, Razonable RR, Abu Saleh OM, Clostridium paraputrificum septic arthritis and osteomyelitis of shoulder: A case report and review of literature. Anaerobe, 2020 Apr;62:1021052020
Esquer Garrigos Z, Sohail MR, Greenwood-Quaintance KE, Cunningham SA, Vijayvargiya P, Fida M, Friedman PA, Mandrekar J, DeSimone DC, Baddour LM, Patel R, Molecular Approach to Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Infection. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020 Feb 14;70(5):898-9062020
Apostolopoulou A, Esquer Garrigos Z, Vijayvargiya P, Lerner AH, Farmakiotis D, Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2020 Oct 10;10(10)2020
Esquer Garrigos Z, Castillo Almeida NE, Gurram P, Vijayvargiya P, Corsini Campioli CG, Stulak JM, Rizza SA, Baddour LM, Rizwan Sohail M, Management and Outcome of Left Ventricular Assist Device Infections in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Transplantation. Open forum infectious diseases, 2020 Aug;7(8):ofaa3032020
Esquer Garrigos Z, George MP, Khalil S, Vijayvargiya P, Abu Saleh OM, Friedman PA, Steckelberg JM, DeSimone DC, Wilson WR, Baddour LM, Sohail MR, Predictors of Bloodstream Infection in Patients Presenting With Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Pocket Infection. Open forum infectious diseases, 2019 Apr;6(4):ofz0842019
Esquer Garrigos Z, George MP, Vijayvargiya P, Tan EM, Farid S, Abu Saleh OM, Friedman PA, Steckelberg JM, DeSimone DC, Wilson WR, Baddour LM, Sohail MR, Clinical Presentation, Management, and Outcomes of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Infections Due to Gram-Negative Versus Gram-Positive Bacteria. Mayo Clinic proceedings, 2019 Jul;94(7):1268-12772019
Esquer Garrigos Z, George MP, Farid S, Abu Saleh OM, Vijayvargiya P, Mahmood M, Friedman PA, Steckelberg JM, DeSimone DC, Wilson WR, Baddour LM, Sohail MR, Diagnostic evaluation and management of culture-negative cardiovascular implantable electronic device infections. Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE, 2018 May 31;2018
Wieruszewski PM, Vijayvargiya P, Wilhelm MP, Razonable RR, Cytomegaloviraemia clearance with foscarnet during renal replacement therapy. The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2018 Feb 1;73(2):548-5492018
Vijayvargiya P, Jeraldo PR, Thoendel MJ, Greenwood-Quaintance KE, Esquer Garrigos Z, Sohail MR, Chia N, Pritt BS, Patel R, Application of metagenomic shotgun sequencing to detect vector-borne pathogens in clinical blood samples. PloS one, 2019;14(10):e0222915
Shah AS, Vijayvargiya P, Jung S, Wilson JW, Postoperative Hardware-Related Infection from Kytococcus schroeteri: Its Association with Prosthetic Material and Hematological Malignancies-A Report of a Case and Review of Existing Literature. Case reports in infectious diseases, 2019;2019:6936472
Keck JM, Wingler MJB, Cretella DA, Vijayvargiya P, Wagner JL, Barber KE, Jhaveri TA, Stover KR, Approach to fever in patients with neutropenia: a review of diagnosis and management. Therapeutic advances in infectious disease, 2022 Jan-Dec;9:20499361221138346
Vijayvargiya P, Feri A, Mairey M, Rouillon C, Jeraldo PR, Esquer Garrigos Z, Thoendel MJ, Greenwood-Quaintance KE, Sohail MR, Sampathkumar P, Spychalla MT, Stewart AK, Patnaik MM, Tande AJ, Cruveiller S, Hannet I, Beurdeley P, Patel R, Metagenomic shotgun sequencing of blood to identify bacteria and viruses in leukemic febrile neutropenia. PloS one, 2022;17(6):e0269405

Editorial

Vijayvargiya P, Thoendel MJ, Sequencing for Infection Diagnostics: Is It Time to embrace the Next Generation? Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2022 May 3;74(9):1669-16702022

Honors, Awards, and Recognition

Teacher of the Year, Department of Medicine, UMMC2021
Patient Safety Award, Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education2019
IDWeek 2018 Trainee Travel Grant, Infectious Diseases Society of America2018
Fellows Symposium on Transplantation 2018 Travel Grant, American Society of Transplantation2018
Best Poster Presentation, 15th Annual Infectious Diseases Fellows Forum, Mayo Clinic Rochester2018
Best Oral Presentation, American College of Physician's Florida Chapter Annual Scientific Meeting, Tampa, Florida2015
Best Oral Presentation Annual Scholarship Day, JFK Medical Center, Atlantis, Florida2015
Best Research Oral Presentation, American College of Physician's Florida Chapter Residents and Medical Students Meeting2015
Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Sir Dorabji Tata Trust/JRD Tata Trust2010

Professional Membership and Service

Mayo Fellows Association, Member2016 - 2020
HIV Medical Association, Member2015 - Present
Infectious Diseases Society of America, Member2015 - Present
American College of Physicians, Member2013 - 2016
Palm Beach County Medical Society, Member2013 - 2016

Committee Service

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION, Member2023 - Present
Infectious Diseases Division Program Evaluation Committee, Chair2021 - Present
Infectious Diseases Division Program Evaluation Committee, Member2020 - 2021

Community Service

Department of Community Service (DOCS), University of Miami Medical School, Member10/2013 - 06/2016

Other Service

Scientific reports
Journal of Fungi
Annals of Internal Medicine
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy – Antimicrobial Resistance
Lancet Microbe
Transplant Infectious Diseases
Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Clinical Infectious Diseases

Directed Student Learning

Preclinical Advisor, Advised: Madison Hanson
Preclinical Advisor, Advised: Elizabeth McKee
Preclinical Advisor, Advised: Sarah Harris
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Dakota White
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Dakota Turner
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Franshayla Poe
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Sarah Boone
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: KriShunda Joiner

Fellows supervised

Infectious Diseases, Program Director, 1 fellows supervised07/2023 - Present
Infectious Diseases, Assistant Fellowship Director, 3 fellows supervised07/2021 - 07/2023

Residency Training

Transplant Infectious Diseases, Subspecialty/Activity Director2023 - Present
Infectious Diseases Outpatient Service, Subspecialty/Activity Director2020 - Present
Infectious Diseases Inpatient Consult Service, Attending Physician2020 - Present