Ivo M. Foppa
assistant professor
Department(s):
Epidemiology
Email:
ifoppa@tulane.edu
Research Interests:
vector-borne diseases; transmission dynamics of infectious diseases; mathematical and statistical models of infectious disease transmission
Educational Background:
DSc, Harvard School of Public Health
MS, Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. med. (Doctorate in Medicine), University of Bern, Switzerland
Arzt Diploma (MD equiv.), University of Bern, Switzerland
Publications:
Caillouët KA, Michaels SR, Xiong X, Foppa I, Wesson DM. Increases in West Nile neuroinvasive disease following Hurricane Katrina. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2008. In Press.
Krause PJ, Gewurz BE, Hill D, Marty FM, Vannier E, Foppa IM, Furman RR, Neuhaus E, Skowron G, Gupta S, McCalla C, Pesanti EL, Young M, Heiman D, Hsue G, Gelfand JA, Wormser GP, Dickason J, Bia FJ, Hartman B, Telford SR 3rd, Christianson D, Dardick K, Coleman M, Girotto JE, Spielman A. Persistent and relapsing babesiosis in immunocompromised patients. Clin Infect Dis. 2008 46(3):370-6.
Hughes AL, Piontkivska H, Foppa IM. Rapid Fixation of a Distinctive Sequence Motif in the 3'Non-coding Region of the Clade of West Nile Virus Invading North America. Gene 2007;399(2):152-61.
Foppa IM, Spielman A. Does Reservoir Host Mortality Enhance Transmission of West Nile Virus? Theor Biol Med Model. 2007 May 11;4(1):17
Edillo FE, Tripet F, McAbee RD, Foppa IM, Lanzaro GC, Cornel AJ, Spielman A. A Set of Broadly Applicable Microsatellite Markers for Analyzing the Structure of Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culici-dae) Populations. J Med Entomol 2007; 44 (1): 145-149.
Alarcon-Chaidez F, Ryan R, Wikel S, Dardick K, Lawler K, Foppa IM, Tomas P, Cushman A, Hsieh A, Spielman A, Bouchard KR, Dias F, Aslanzadeh J, and Krause PJ. Confirmation of Tick Bite by Detecting Antibody to Ixodes. Calreticulin Salivary Protein. 2006; 13(11):1217-22.
Krause PJ, Foley DT, Burke GS, Christianson D, Closter L, Spielman A, and the Tick-Borne Dis-ease Study Group (Foppa I, Ryan R, Baute P, Miller J, Wikel S, Tomas P, Dias F, George T, Pollack R, Telford III SR). Reinfection and Relapse in Early Lyme Disease. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006;75(6):1090-1094.
Foppa IM, Karmaus W, Ehlken B, Fruehwirth M, Heininger U, Plenge-Bonig A, Forster J. Health care-associated rotavirus illness in pediatric inpatients in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. In-fect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2006 Jun;27(6):633-5.
Ulbricht C, Basch E, Bent S, Boon H, Corrado M, Foppa I, Hashmi S, Hammerness P, Kingsbury E, Smith M, Szapary P, Vora M, Weissner W. Evidence-based systematic review of saw palmetto by the Natural Standard Research Collaboration. J Soc Integr Oncol. 2006;4(4):170-86.
Roberts RS&, Foppa IM. Prediction of Equid Risk of West Nile Virus Infection Based on Dead Bird Surveillance. Journal of Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2006; 6(1):1-6.
Foppa IM. The Basic Reproductive Number of Tick--Borne Encephalitis Virus: An Empirical Ap-proach. J Math Biol. 2005 Dec;51(6):616-28.
Basch E, Ulbricht C, Basch S, Dalton S, Ernst E, Foppa I, Szapary P, Tiffany N, Orlando CW, Vora M. An evidence-based systemic review Echinacea E. angustifolia DC, E. pallida, E. purpurea by the Natural Standard Research Collaboration. J Herb Pharmacother. 2005;5(2):57-88
Basch E, Foppa I, Liebowitz R, Nelson J, Smith M, Sollars D, Ulbricht C. Lavender (Lavandula an-gustifolia Miller). J Herb Pharmacother. 2004;4(2):63-78.
Hammerness P, Basch E, Ulbricht C, Barrette EP, Foppa I, Basch S, Bent S, Boon H, Ernst E; Natural Standard Research Collaboration. St John's wort: a systematic review of adverse effects and drug interactions for the consultation psychiatrist. Psychosomatics. 2003; 44:271-82.
Krause PJ, Closter L, Lepore T, Telford III SR, Sikand V, Ryan R, Persing D, Radolf JD, and Spiel-man A and The Tick-Borne Infection Study Group: Cable R, Foppa I, Pollack RJ, et al. Increas-ing Health Burden of Human Babesiosis in Endemic Sites. American Journal of Tropical Medi-cine and Hygiene, 2003; 68: 431-6.
Foppa IM, Krause PJ, Spielman A, Goethert H, Gern L, Brand B, Telford SR 3rd. Entomologic and serologic evidence of zoonotic transmission of Babesia microti, eastern Switzerland. Emerg In-fect Dis. 2002; 8:722-6.
Ebel GD, Foppa I, Spielman A, Telford SR III. A Focus of Deer Tick Virus Transmission in the North-Central United States. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 3(2):1999.
Telford SR 3rd, Armstrong PM, Katavolos P, Foppa I, Garcia AS, Wilson ML, Spielman A. A new tick-borne encephalitis-like virus infecting New England deer ticks, Ixodes dammini. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 3(2):165-70, 1997.
Foppa I, Spiegelman D. Power and sample size calculations for case-control studies of gene-environment interactions with a polytomous exposure variable. Am J Epidemiol. 146(7):596-604, 1997.
Foppa I, Noack RH. The relation of self-reported back pain to psychosocial, behavioral, and health-related factors in a working population in Switzerland. Social Science & Medicine. 43(7):1119-26, 1996.
Foppa I, Calmonte R, Noack H, Abelin T. Berufliche Stellung und Pravalenz kardiovaskularer Risi-koindikatoren bei berufstatigen Mannern in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz. Sozial- und Präventivmedizin. 41(1):11-8, 1996.
Foppa I, Noack H, Minder CE. The relation of reported symptoms to social, individual, and behav-ioral indicators of ill-health: is the number of reported symptoms a unique general dimension of ill-health? J Clin Epidemiol. 48(7):941-8, 1995.
Noack H, Calmonte R, Foppa I. Gesundheit, gesundheitsrelevantes Verhalten und Erwerbstätig-keit. Sozial- und Präventivmedizin. 38 Suppl 2:S77-82, 1993.
Noack RH, Foppa I, Calmonte R. Reported disease and psychological well-being in Swiss adults. Sozial- und Präventivmedizin. 38(5):297-312, 1993.
Foppa I, Minder CE. Oral, pharyngeal and laryngeal cancer as a cause of death among Swiss cooks. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health. 18(5):287-92, 1992.
Contact Information:
Department of Epidemiology
1440 Canal Street, Suite 2000
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: 504.988.3056
Fax: 504.988.1568
ifoppa@tulane.edu
Level of Instruction:
graduate
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