Carla McWilliams, MD

Appointed
2016

Education & Fellowships

Fellowship - Northwell Health
Infectious Disease
New Hyde Park, NY
2013

Residency - Lutheran Medical Center
Internal Medicine
Brooklyn, NY
2011

Internship - NYU Langone Brooklyn Campus

2009

Medical Education - Medical University of the Americas
Nevis, St. Kitts,
2006

Additional Training

• Board Certified in Internal Medicine
• Board Certified in Infectious Disease
• HIV Specialist, American Academy of HIV Medicine

Professional Highlights

• Professional educational materials

  MCWILLIAMS C. and Giaccio, D. USMLE Step 2 & 3 In Your Pocket, Kaplan Publishing, New York, New, York © 2013
• Fischer, C. USMLE Step Three-Master the Boards (Content and Peer Reviewer), Kaplan Publishing, New York, New, York © 2012
• MCWILLIAMS C. and Giaccio, D. USMLE Step 3 White Coat Pocket Guide Pocket Guide, Kaplan Publishing, New York, New, York © 2010
• MCWILLIAMS C. and multiple authors, USMLE Step Three Online Question Bank, Kaplan Medical Test Prep and Admissions, New York, New, York © 2009
• MCWILLIAMS C. and multiple authors, USMLE Step Two Online Question Bank, Kaplan Medical Test Prep and Admissions, New York, New, York © 2008
• Fischer, C. and Faselis, C., USMLE Step Two CK Lecture Notes, Internal Medicine (Content and Peer Reviewer), Kaplan Medical Test Prep and Admissions, New York, New, York © 2008
• Cvetnic W., Pino E., Koerner C., and MCWILLIAMS C., USMLE Step Two CK Lecture Notes, Pediatrics, Kaplan Medical Test Prep and Admissions, New York, New, York © 2008
• MCWILLIAMS C. and multiple authors, USMLE Step Two PowerPoint Presentations for DVD Lecture Series (Contributing Author and Editor), Kaplan Medical Test Prep and Admissions, New York, New, York © 2007

  Peer Reviewed Publications and Posters

  CARLA MCWILLIAMS MD, Susan Condon, Rebecca M. Schwartz, Christine C Ginocchio. Incidence of Extended Spectrum β Lactamase Producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumonia Isolates That Test Susceptible to Cephalosporins and Aztreonam by the Revised CLSI Breakpoints. Journal of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Doi:10.1128/JCM03613-13, Published April 30^th, 2014
• CARLA MCWILLIAMS MD, Kourosh Golestany, MD, Rohit Sharma, MD, Golali Nejati, MD, Anna Cyrus-Murden, MD, MPH and Dmitri Kirpichnikov, MD. Correlation of admitted nursing home residents’ hospital length of stay and vitamin D levels. Department of Internal Medicine, Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA (http://www.jchimp.net/index.php/jchimp/article/view/6313/html) Vol 1, No 3, October 2011
• Oikonomou KG MD, MCWILLIAMS C, MD Moussa MM MD. Oerskovia Species Bacteremia in a Diabetic Patient. J Global Infectious Disease. 2018 April-June. PMID 29910574.
• Rojas E MD, Gillenwater S MD, Rivas A MD, Wulff L MD, Kaur J MD, Gonzalez M MD, De Armas Y MD, MCWILLIAMS C MD, Martinez F MD, Bejarano P MD, Hadah A MD. Incidental Pulmonary Cryptococcocus in an Asymptomatic Liver Transplant Patient. American Thoracic Society Meeting, 5/22/19, Dallas Texas 
• CARLA MCWILLIAMS MD, Orly Hadar MD, Amy Van MS. Factors Associated with Positive Follow Up Blood Cultures in Gram Negative Septicemia. 10/3/19. IDSA Annual Meeting, Washington DC
• Nicholas Brozzi, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort, Edward Noguera, CARLA MCWILLIAMS, Cedric Sheffield, Steven Minear, Jeffrey Jacobs, Viviana Navas, Mauricio Velez, Robert Cubeddu, Jose L Navia "Successful mobile extracorporeal member oxygenator for COVID-19 severe respiratory failure" Journal of Cardiac Surgery Case Reports, December 2020
• Gilda Portalatin, Jodi Ann Chin, Brian Foster, Kevin Perry, CARLA MCWILLIAMS "Daptomycin Induced Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia" Cureus Feb 2021
• Suma Thomas, Divyang Patel, Barbara Bittel, Kathy Wolski, Qiuqing Wang, Anirudh Kumar, Zachary Il'Giovine, Reena Mehra, CARLA MCWILLIAMS, Steve Nissen, Milind Desai "Effect of High Dose Zinc and Ascorbic Acid Supplementation vs. Usual Care on Symptom Length and Reduction Among Ambulatory Patients with SARS-Co-V-2 Infection" JAMA Open Network April 2021
• Paul C Cremer, Prof Antonio Abbate, MD, Kristin Hudock MD, CARLA MCWILLIAMS MD, Jinesh Mehta MD, Prof Steven V. Chang et al "Mavrilimumab in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia and systemic hyperinflammation (MASH-COVID): an investigator initiated, multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial" The Lancet Rheumatology March 2021
• Jesus Villa, Tejbir Pannu, CARLA MCWILLIAMS, Chandra Kizer, Raul Rosenthal, Carlos Higuera, Preetesh Patel "Results of Preoperative Screening for COVID-19 Correlate with the Incidence of Infection in the General Population-A Tertiary Care Experience" Journal of Hospital Practice March 2021

Certifications

• Internal Medicine
• Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease

Awards & Honors

• The Jose M Muniz Best Teaching Faculty Award, Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Florida 2017-2018
• Clinician of the Year Award 2019, Women’s Professional Staff Association, Cleveland Clinic Florida
• Clinician of the Year Award 2020, Cleveland Clinic Florida Professional Staff Association
• Excellence Award Q1 2021, Cleveland Clinic Florida Quality and Safety

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