Ana M Alvarez

Ana M Alvarez, M.D.

Associate Professor

Department: Pediatrics – Jacksonville
Business Phone: (904) 244-2121
Business Email: ana.alvarez@jax.ufl.edu

Accomplishments

10-Year Service Pin
2011 · University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2018
MDC7400 Pediatric Clerkship

Board Certifications

  • Pediatric Infectious Diseases
    American Board of Pediatrics

Clinical Profile

Specialties
  • Pediatrics
Subspecialties
  • Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Areas of Interest
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Infectious diseases
  • Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Research Profile

Areas of Interest
  • HIV
  • Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Publications

Academic Articles
2025
Update in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Tuberculosis in Children.
Pediatrics in review. 46(3):148-158 [DOI] 10.1542/pir.2024-006539. [PMID] 40020731.
2023
Report of Haemophilus Influenzae serotype a intracranial infections in older children.
Pediatric investigation. 7(2):132-136 [DOI] 10.1002/ped4.12369. [PMID] 37324595.
2023
Traveling Does More Than Widen One’s Horizon: Travel History as Key to Diagnosing Blastomycosis.
Cureus. 15(5) [DOI] 10.7759/cureus.38551. [PMID] 37288195.
2022
Charge Nurses Taking Charge, Challenging the Culture of Culture-Negative Sepsis, and Preventing Central-Line Infections to Reduce NICU Antibiotic Usage.
American journal of perinatology. 39(8):861-868 [DOI] 10.1055/s-0040-1719079. [PMID] 33142341.
2020
Essential Components of a Public Health Tuberculosis Prevention, Control, and Elimination Program: Recommendations of the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis and the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association
MMWR. Recommendations and Reports. 69(7):1-27 [DOI] 10.15585/mmwr.rr6907a1. [PMID] 32730235.
2019
Clostridium difficile Infection in Children.
Advances in pediatrics. 66:263-280 [DOI] 10.1016/j.yapd.2019.03.010. [PMID] 31230698.
2018
Pediatric tuberculosis consultations across 5 CDC regional tuberculosis training and medical consultation Centers.
Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases. 11:23-27 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jctube.2018.04.004. [PMID] 31720388.
2014
Endocarditis.
Pediatrics in review. 35(4):162-7; quiz 168 [DOI] 10.1542/pir.35-4-162. [PMID] 24692156.
2012
Immunogenicity, immunologic memory, and safety following measles revaccination in HIV-infected children receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy.
The Journal of infectious diseases. 206(4):512-22 [DOI] 10.1093/infdis/jis386. [PMID] 22693229.
2007
Hot Topics in Pediatric HIV/AIDS
Pediatric Annals. 36(7):423-432 [DOI] 10.3928/0090-4481-20070701-10.
2003
Impact of Protease Inhibitor Substitution With Efavirenz in HIV-Infected Children: Results of the First Pediatric Switch Study
Pediatrics. 111(3):e275-e281 [DOI] 10.1542/peds.111.3.e275.
2002
Higher occurrence of hepatotoxicity and rash in patients treated with oxacillin, compared with those treated with nafcillin and other commonly used antimicrobials.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 34(1):50-4 [PMID] 11731945.
2001
Complications of outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy in childhood.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal. 20(5):541-3 [PMID] 11368116.
1999
Usefulness of acute phase reactants in the diagnosis of acute infections in HIV-infected children.
Southern medical journal. 92(2):209-13 [PMID] 10071669.
1995
Lemierre’s syndrome in adolescent children–anaerobic sepsis with internal jugular vein thrombophlebitis following pharyngitis.
Pediatrics. 96(2 Pt 1):354-9 [PMID] 7630700.

Grants

Jul 2024 ACTIVE
CMS Medical Foster Director Dr. Alvarez POC48194
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: FL DEPT OF HLTH CHILDRENS MED SERVS
Jul 2023 ACTIVE
TB Pediatrics Physician Services DVB18
Role: Faculty
Funding: FL DEPT OF HLTH DUVAL CO
Jul 2022 ACTIVE
Childrens Multidisciplinary Assessment Team (CMAT) Medical Director
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: FL DEPT OF HLTH CHILDRENS MED SERVS via US HLTH RESOURCES AND SERV ADMN
Jul 2022 ACTIVE
CMS CQVT R2
Role: Co-Project Director/Principal Investigator
Funding: FL DEPT OF HLTH CHILDRENS MED SERVS via US DEPT OF HLTH & HUMAN SER OFFICE OF RE
Jul 2020 – Jun 2022
Childrens Multidisciplinary Assessment Team (CMAT) Medical Director
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: FL DEPT OF HLTH via US DEPT OF HLTH AND HUMAN SER
Feb 2020 – Jun 2020
EtHE-Ending the HIV Epidemic
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: FL DEPT OF HLTH DUVAL CO
Jan 2018 – Dec 2019
CMS Employee Interchange Agreement, Dr. Alvarez, CMS Medical Foster Care, COQYX
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: FL DEPT OF HLTH CHILDRENS MED SERVS
Jul 2015 – Jun 2020
CMAT Med Dir 2015-2020 COQWA
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: FL DEPT OF HLTH via US DEPT OF HLTH AND HUMAN SER
Jul 2014 – Dec 2017
CMS Medical Foster Care Director – COQSZ (R1A1)
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: FL DEPT OF HLTH

Education

Master Educator in Medical Education Program
2007-2008 · University of Florida College of Medicine
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship
1996 · Case Western Reserve University
Pediatrics Residency
1993 · Case Western Reserve/MetroHealth Medical Center
Doctor of Medicine
1986 · University of Panama

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(904) 244-2121
Emails:
Administrative Assistant:
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
910 North Jefferson Street
UF CARES
JACKSONVILLE FL 32209
Business Street:
910 North Jefferson Street
UF CARES
JACKSONVILLE FL 32209