Publications

Papers

Colin J Forsyth, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Caryn Bern, Jeffrey Whitman, Natasha S Hochberg, Morven Edwards, Rachel Marcus, Norman L Beatty, Yagahira E Castro-Sesquen, Christina Coyle, Paula Stigler Granados, Davidson Hamer, James H Maguire, Robert H Gilman, Sheba Meymandi, US Chagas Diagnostic Working Group, Recommendations for Screening and Diagnosis of Chagas Disease in the United States, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021;, jiab513, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiab513

Wheelock AE, Sandhu SK, Loskill AJ, Marcus RR, Gopal DM, Hamer DH, Hochberg NS. Testing for Chagas disease in an at-risk population. J Card Fail. 2021 01; 27(1):109-111. PMID: 32905847. PubMed

Hochberg NS, Wheelock A, Hamer DH, Marcus R, Nolan MS, Meymandi S, Gilman RH. Chagas Disease in the United States: A Perspective on Diagnostic Testing Limitations and Next Steps. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Feb 1;104(3):800-804. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0871. PMID: 33534741; PMCID: PMC7941835. PubMed

Abstracts

Reifler K, Wheelock A, Hall SM, Dauphinais M, Roytburd S, Maiullari M, Salazar A, Maldonado A, West HM, Kohler JR, Barnett ED, Gopal DM, Hamer DH, Bourque DL. Antitrypanosomal therapy for Chagas Disease: A single center experience with adverse drug reactions and strategies for enhancing treatment completion. Antitrypanosomal Chagas PLoS abstract.

Reifler K, Campbell JI, Barnett ED, Bourque DL, Hamer DH, Samra H, Camelo I. Diagnosing Chagas disease in pregnancy and childhood—what’s old and new.  Chagas Diagnosis in Pregnancy and Childhood Clin Lab abstract . 

Wheelock A, Sandhu S, Reifler K, Carrion M, Bourque DL, Hamer DH, Hochberg NS. Improving clinician awareness and screening for Chagas disease with an educational Intervention. Chagas Awareness and Screening AJTMH abstract.

Reifler KA, Wheelock A, Hall SM, Salazar A, Hassan S, Bostrom JA, Barnett E, Carrion M, Hochberg NS, Hamer DH, Gopal DM, Bourque D. Chagas cardiomyopathy in Boston, Massachusetts: identifying disease and improving management after community and hospital-based screening. Chagas Cardiomypoathy PLoS abstract.

Wheelock, A., Sandhu, S., Bielick, C., Reifler, K., Carrion, M., Janiszewski, K., Hamer, D., & Hochberg, N. (n.d.). 2021 ASTMH Annual Meeting . In Is education enough? An intervention to improve screening for Chagas disease at an academic safety net hospital in the US. Chagas Ed ASTMH abstract

Kimball, A., Bourque, D., Hochberg, N. 2021 SGIM Annual Conference. In Caring for the Cross-Border Migrant: Addressing Equity in Care. SGIM 2022

Presentations

Reifler K, Sinha P, Dauphinais M, Bourque DL. “Good for Hearts, Better for Budgets: a cost-effectiveness evaluation of screening for Chagas disease. Oral presentation at American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), Toronto, CA. 2025.

Reifler K, Dauphinais M, Wheelock A, Carrion M, Kimball S, Barnett E, Hochberg N, Bourque DL, Hamer DH. “Impact of Educational Activities and an Electronic Medical Record Template on Chagas Disease Screening.” Poster presentation at American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), New Orleans, LA.  2024.

Reifler K, Wheelock AW, Dauphinais M, Hamer DH, Bourque DL. “Navigating Barriers: Chagas disease treatment tolerability and adverse events in Boston.” Oral presentation at the Novartis New England Neglected Tropical Diseases Consortium, Cambridge, MA. 2024.

Reifler K, Wheelock A, Hochberg N, Hamer DH, Gopal D, Bourque DL. “Chagas Cardiomyopathy in Boston, Massachusetts: Identifying Disease and Improving Management After Community and Hospital-Based Screening.” Oral and poster presentations at University of Texas Medical Branch 1st Annual Symposium on Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases for Clinicians and Translational Scientists, Galveston, TX. 2024.

Wheelock A, Reifler K, Salazar A, Hall S, Hamer DH, Hochberg N, Bourque DL. “Facing Adversity: Chagas Disease Treatment Tolerability and Adverse Events at an Academic Safety-Net Hospital in New England.” Oral presentation at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting, Chicago, IL. 2023.

Wheelock A, Reifler K, Hochberg N, Hamer D, Gopal D, Bourque DL. “Migration Timing and its Association with Chagas Disease Features in a Chagas Disease Cohort in New England.” Poster presented at ID Week, Boston, MA. 2023.

Hamer D, Reifler K. “Chagas Disease at Boston Medical Center: Not as Exotic as It Sounds.” Department of Family Medicine Grand Rounds, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. 2023.

Reifler K, Hall S, Wheelock A, Gopal D, Hochberg N, Hamer DH, Bourque DL. “Without Skipping a Beat: Symptoms and Sequelae of Chagas Disease Among Migrants in a Non-Endemic Region.” Oral presentation at the Conference of International Society of Travel Medicine, Basel, Switzerland. 2023.

Reifler K, Hall S, Wheelock A, Hamer D, Gopal D, Hochberg N. “The Heart of the Matter: Cardiac Involvement of Chagas Disease at a Tropical Medicine Clinic in Boston.” Oral presentation at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting (virtual due to COVID-19). 2021.

Wheelock A, Sandhu S, Reifler K, Bielick C, Niemierko M, Hamer DH, Hochberg, N. “Is Education Enough? An Intervention to Improve Screening for Chagas Disease at an Academic Safety Net Hospital in the US.” Poster presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting (virtual due to COVID-19). 2021.

Reifler K, Hall S, Hamer DH, Gomes J, Yarrington C, Barnett E, Carrion M, Manne-Goehler J, Koehler J, Gopal D, Salazar A, Hochberg N. “Treatment of Chagas Disease at an Urban Academic Medical Center in Boston.” Poster presented at the Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine (virtual due to COVID-19). 2021.

Wheelock A, Reifler K. “Chagas Disease at Boston Medical Center: Optimizing Screening and Referral Practices in General Internal Medicine.” Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. 2021.

Alyse Wheelock, MD, Sukhmeet Sandhu, MD, Alyssa Loskill, BA, Rachel Marcus, MD, Deepa Gopal, MD, Davidson. H. Hamer, MD  Natasha Hochberg, MD, MPH. Testing for Chagas Cardiac Disease at a Large Safety-net Hospital in New England. Boston University Internal Medicine Residency Program. 2020. [Link]

Media

Bailey August 26, M. (2021, August 26). Bettering Chagas Disease Screening is an immigrant health equity issue. HealthCity. Retrieved March 15, 2022, from https://healthcity.bmc.org/policy-and-industry/bettering-chagas-disease-screening-immigrant-health-equity-issue