Renuga Vivekanandan

Department

Medicine

Position

Professor

Articles

• Prathipati Pavan Kumar, etal Correction to 2019
• Olivera-Martinez Marco, etal Erratum 2012

Publications

• The Annals of pharmacotherapy
  Destache Chris, etal Evaluating Cefepime Dosing Strategies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bacteremia: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis, p. 10600280251339770 2025
• Urology (Ridgewood, N.J.)
  Palencia Peter S, etal Demographics, Complications, and Management of Genitourinary Gunshot Wounds: National Trauma Data Bank Analysis 2025
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Pavlovsky Lacey, etal P-386. Assessing Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice Recommendations for Prevention of Surgical Site Infections Through a Statewide Survey of Nebraska Hospitals
  12:Suppl 1 2025
• Current medical research and opinion
  Chatterjee Archana, etal The association between influenza vaccine effectiveness and egg-based manufacturing technology: literature review and US expert consensus, p. 1 - 9 2023
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Vivekanandan Renuga, etal 185. Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) Bacteremia and Patient Outcome during COVID-19 Pandemic
  10:Supplement_2 2023
• Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
  Destache Christopher J, etal Assessment of the impact of centralized bioMérieux BACT/ALERT® VIRTUO® blood culture system (VIRTUO) implementation on outcomes in patients with gram-negative bacteremia, p. 116085 2023
• International journal of infectious diseases
  Patel Shiv, etal Discharge disposition and clinical outcomes of patients hospitalized with COVID-19
  130, p. 1 - 5 2023
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Cooper Stephen J, etal 956. Improving Understanding and Utilization of the Antibiogram among Medical Residents
  9 2022
• Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology
  Cooper Stephen J., etal Improving understanding and utilization of the antibiogram among medical residents
  2:1 2022
• Pharmacy
  Destache Christopher J, etal COVID-19 Mortality and Therapeutics in Nebraska and Southwest Iowa during Early Pandemic
  10:4, p. 69 - 2022
• Swaney R., etal Clinical Outcomes of Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 Infection Treated with Tocilizumab 2022
• Jokomo-Nyakabau R., etal A Rare Presentation of 'the Forgotten Disease': Septic Thrombophlebitis of the Internal Jugular Vein (Lemierre’s Syndrome) Complicated by Empyema and Pyogenic Brain Abscess 2022
• Maclean Alyssa K.W., etal Intrapatient transfer of an uncommon carbapenemase in Nebraska 2022
• Critical care medicine
  Creech Zachary, etal 219: DISCHARGE DISPOSITION OF COVID-19 PATIENTS ADMITTED TO THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
  50:1, p. 94 - 94 2022
• Chest
  Ahmad FARAN, etal SPONTANEOUS CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION: A RARE SEQUELA OF COVID-19
  160:4, p. A94 - A95 2021
• Pharmacotherapy
  Destache Christopher J., etal Bamlanivimab use in mild-to-moderate COVID-19 disease
  41:9, p. 743 - 747 2021
• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  Ahmad Faran, etal Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults
  108, p. 209 - 211 2021
• Critical Care Medicine
  Rajendraprasad Sanu, etal COVID-19 Therapeutics: What Works?
  49:1, p. 93 - 93 2021
• Critical Care Medicine
  Ahmad Faran, etal Influence of Health Disparities on COVID-19 Critical Care Admissions
  49:1, p. 101 - 101 2021
• 3D Printing in Medicine
  Cote John, etal COVID-19 and a novel initiative to improve safety by 3D printing personal protective equipment parts from computed tomography
  6, p. 20 - 2020
• Pharmacy
  Anthone Jennifer, etal Implementation of a Health-System Wide Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in Omaha, NE
  7:4, p. 156 - 156 2019
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Gummadi Padma Priya, etal 2691. Comparison of Incidence and Mortality of Kaposi’s Sarcoma Amongst Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients
  6:Supplement_2, p. S945 - S946 2019
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Ased Sumaya J, etal 2095. Antimicrobial Stewardship (ASP) in Rural and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) Using TeleStewardship® Services
  6:Supplement_2, p. S708 - S708 2019
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Destache Christopher J, etal 2394. A Longitudinal Study of the Effect of Renal Failure on Readmission Rates of Patients with Clostridioides difficile
  6:Supplement_2, p. S826 - S827 2019
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Boldt Dayla, etal 1069. Implementation and Results of a Health-System Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Program
  6:Supplement_2, p. S379 - S379 2019
• Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
  Cavalieri Stephen J., etal Effect of antimicrobial stewardship with rapid MALDI-TOF identification and Vitek 2 antimicrobial susceptibility testing on hospitalization outcome
  95:2, p. 208 - 211 2019
• Echocardiography
  Urja Prakrity, etal Trends in the use of echocardiography in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
  36:9, p. 1625 - 1632 2019
• BMJ case reports
  Latif Azka, etal A rare case of Shewanella septicemia
  12:9 2019
• Gastroenterology (New York, N.Y. 1943)
  Rahma Ahmed, etal Tu1564 – Predictors of Outcome and Rate of Graft Failure in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Due to Inflammatory Bowel Disease After Receiving Liver Transplant. A Descriptive Study from the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) Database
  156:6, p. S-1359 - S-1360 2019
• Open forum infectious diseases
  George Elizabeth, etal 1195. Where You Live Matters: United States Region as a Significant Predictor of Mortality for ESBL Infection Based on a Descriptive Study Using NIS Database
  5:suppl_1, p. S361 - S362 2018
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Anthone Jennifer, etal 527. New Robust Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) Results in Reduction of Clostridium difficile 30-Day Readmission
  5:Suppl 1, p. S195 - S195 2018
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Cavalieri Stephen, etal 1808. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Time of Flight (MALDI-TOF) and Vitek 2 Along With Antimicrobial Stewardship (ASP) Result in Faster Antimicrobial Therapy for Infected Patients: The CHI Health Experience
  5:Suppl 1, p. S513 - S513 2018
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Wintheiser Grant, etal 1580. Characteristics of Early vs. Late Onset Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder After Liver Transplant:– A Descriptive Study of the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) Database
  5:Suppl 1, p. S493 - S494 2018
• Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  Abbas Anum, etal Health Disparities in HIV and Pregnancy
  5:suppl_1, p. S21 - S21 2018
• American Journal of Gastroenterology
  Jhand Aravdeep S., etal Impact of Timing of Paracentesis on Readmission Rates in Patients with Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis: Analysis of National Readmission
  113:Supplement, p. S549 - S549 2018
• Chest
  Munir AHMED, etal HIV WITH DISSEMINATED TULAREMIA: A RARE PRESENTATION
  154:4, p. 204 - 205A 2018
• Cureus
  Nguyen Michelle, etal Postpartum Invasive Group A Streptococcus Infection: Case Report and Mini-review 2018
• Gastroenterology
  Buddam Avanija, etal Tu1378 - Incidence of Pancreatitis and Graft Failure Resulting from Pancreatitis after Pancreas Transplantation: A Descriptive Study using UNOS Database
  154:6, p. S - 948 2018
• Cureus
  Rainwater Ellecia, etal Maxillary Teeth Abscesses Result in Atypical Liver Abscesses, p. 2353 - 2353 2018
• Critical care medicine
  Munir Ahmed, etal 676: ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF Q FEVER PRESENTING AS SEPTIC SHOCK AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE
  46:1, p. 324 - 324 2018
• Pharmaceutical Research
  Prathipati Pavan Kumar, etal Pharmacokinetic and Tissue Distribution Profile of Long Acting Tenofovir Alafenamide and Elvitegravir Loaded Nanoparticles in Humanized Mice Model
  34:12, p. 2749 - 2755 2017
• Curēus (Palo Alto, CA)
  Onaiwu Cherry O, etal Rare Multidrug-Resistant Pulmonary Nocardiosis in AIDS
  9:11, p. e1839 2017
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Shipley Scott, etal Evaluation of the Management of ESBL Producing Enterobacteriaceae Infections: CHI health Omaha
  4:suppl_1, p. S151 - S151 2017
• Chest
  Gupta Vritti, etal Health Disparaties Affecting Mortality After Lung Transplant: A Retrospective Analysis Using UNOS Database
  152:4, p. A1109 - A1109 2017
• Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  Ased S., etal Evaluation of Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia: Academic and Community-Based Management within the Same Health System
  38:6, p. 740 - 742 2017
• Burns
  Al Ashry H. S., etal Response to Letter to the Editor regarding 'Incidence of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in Burn Patients with Inhalation Injury Treated with High Frequency Percussive Ventilation Versus Volume Control Ventilation: A Systematic Review'
  43:3, p. 689 - 690 2017
• Journal of Spine & Neurosurgery
  M Velagapudi, etal Otogenic Temporal Lobe Abscess: A Mini-review
  06:02, p. 2325 - 9701 2017
• Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  Urja Prakrity, etal TRENDS AND USE OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN PATIENTS WITH STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS BACTEREMIA: AN ANALYSIS USING THE NATIONWIDE INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS) DATA
  69:11, p. 1641 - 2017
• Circulation Cardiovascular quality and outcomes
  Urja Prakrity, etal Abstract 120: A Retrospective Study on Heart-lung Transplantation Patient Utilizing United Network for Organ Sharing Database to Identify the Effect of CMV Donor Recipient Serostatus, Age, Sex, or Anti-thymocyte Immunoglobulin Therapy on Mortality
  10:suppl_3 2017
• Journal of clinical oncology
  Krishnan Mridula, etal Incidence of colorectal carcinoma following liver transplantation: A retrospective analysis using the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database
  35:4_suppl, p. 542 - 542 2017
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Anthone Jennifer, etal Impact of Pharmacist-Led Education on Prescribing Habits for Acute Treatment of Suspected Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in an Academic Medical Center Emergency Department (ED)
  3:suppl_1 2016
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Ased Sumaya, etal A Comparison of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia (SAB) Diagnosis and Management: Differences Between Academic and Community Hospital Settings
  3:suppl_1 2016
• Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management
  Wethington Anna, etal Bovine pericardium duraplasty
  6, p. 18 - 19 2016
• Burns
  Al Ashry H. S., etal Incidence of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in Burn Patients with Inhalation Injury Treated with High Frequency Percussive Ventilation Versus Volume Control Ventilation: A Systematic Review
  42:6, p. 1193 - 1200 2016
• Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  Destache Christopher J., etal Topical Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Nanoparticles Prevent HIV-1 Vaginal Transmission in a Humanized Mouse Model
  60:6, p. 3633 - 3639 2016
• Heart (British Cardiac Society)
  Anantha Narayanan M., etal Early versus late surgical intervention or medical management for infective endocarditis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  2016, p. (8 pages) - 2016
• American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
  Dhami J, etal D49 LUNG INFECTION CASE REPORTS II: INFECTIONS OTHER THAN FUNGAL INFECTIONS: Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas And Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: A Case Report And Review Of Literature
  193, p. 1 2016
• Case reports in infectious diseases
  Bhatty Osman, etal A Rare Manifestation of Tuberculosis Presenting in the United States.
  2016, p. 8216040 - 8216040 2016
• The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
  Foral Pamela A., etal Education and Communication in an Interprofessional Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
  116:9, p. 588 - 593 2016
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Foral Pamela, etal 428Incorporating Interprofessional Practice Education and Motivational Interviewing Techniques in Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs at Two Academic Medical Centers
  2:suppl_1, p. S166 - S166 2015
• Chest
  Huss Gina, etal ANCA Positivity and a Red Herring
  148:4, p. 282A - 282A 2015
• Chest
  Mansour George, etal COPD Exacerbation, Does Procalcitonin Help? A Meta-analysis
  148:4, p. 754 - 754B 2015
• BMJ Case Reports
  Vallabhajosyula S., etal Fatal Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in a HIV-negative adult
  2015, p. - 2015
• Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
  Anantha Narayanan M., etal Fatal Case of Probable Invasive Aspergillosis after Five Years of Heart Transplant: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
  2015, p. (4 pages) - 2015
• BMJ Case Reports
  Veerappan Kandasamy V., etal Multidrug-resistant Nocardia pseudobrasiliensis presenting as multiple muscle abscesses
  2015 2015
• BMJ Case Reports
  Vallabhajosyula Saraschandra, etal Mycotic pseudoaneurysm by vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus: a rare cause of persistent bacteraemia
  2015, p. - 2015
• Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
  Au Trang H, etal Hepatitis C Therapy: Looking Toward Interferon-Sparing Regimens
  55:2, p. 209 - 209 2015
• Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
  Au Trang H., etal Hepatitis C therapy
  55:2, p. e72 - e86 2015
• American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
  Narayanan M, etal B41 DON'T LET ME DOWN: ADVANCES IN THORACIC SURGERY: Evidence Of Lower Mortality In Early Surgical Intervention For Infective Endocarditis: A Meta-Analysis
  191, p. 1 2015
• Journal of clinical and experimental hematopathology : JCEH
  Goyal Gaurav, etal Multicentric Castleman Disease with Monoclonal Incomplete IgH Restriction
  55:2, p. 103 - 108 2015
• Open forum infectious diseases
  Anthone Jennifer, etal 227Evaluation of Antimicrobial Stewardship in an Academic Medical Center Emergency Department (ED)
  1:suppl_1, p. S99 - S99 2014
• BMJ Case Reports
  Vallabhajosyula Saraschandra, etal False-positive tuberculous meningitis due to laboratory contamination: importance of a holistic clinical evaluation
  2014, p. 10.1136/bcr - 2014 2014
• Digestive Diseases and Sciences
  Martinez Marco Olivera, etal Hepatorenal syndrome
  57:1, p. 210 - 214 2012
• Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
  Florescu Diana F., etal Risk factors and outcomes of staphylococcus aureus infections after small bowel and multivisceral transplantation
  31:1, p. 25 - 29 2012

Presentations

• Project Gram, Improving the Understanding and Utilization of Antibiograms in an Academic Medical Center in the Midwest. Cooper, Stephen M.D., M.P.H., Destache, Christopher Pharm. D., Vivekanandan, Renuga MD. May 2022 Creighton School of Medicine Quality symposium. Winner of the best abstract award. 2022
• Advancing Inclusion at Creighton University School of Medicine (CUSOM). Renuga Vivekanandan MD, Robert Dunlay MD, Joann Porter MD, Maureen Tierney MD, Poonam Sharma MD, Randy Pritza MD, Chris Destache PharmD, Nicole Thomas MHA, Laurie Baedke MHA, Katie McKillip MD, Claudia Chambers MD, Tom Svolos MD, Ronn Johnson PhD. April 2022. ELAM Meeting in Philadelphia. 2022
• Ahmad F, Mendoza N, Vivekanandan R, Velagapudi M.ID week 2020 case: A headache that persists may have a fungus that exists.ID week 2020 presented at Fellow workshop 2020
• A longitudinal Study of the Effect of Renal Failure on Readmission Rates of Patients with Clostridioides difficile. CJ Destache, B Detweiler and R Vivekanandan. Oct 2019, IDSA Meeting 2019
• Antibiotics Stewardship (ASP) in Rural and Critical access hospitals using teleStewardship services. Oct 2019. IDSA Meeting. S Ased, J Horne, R Vivekanandan and C Destache. 2019
• Implementation and Results of a Health-System Antimicrobial Stewardship Program. Oct 2019 IDSA Meeting. J Anthone, D Boldt, B Alexander, C Carroll, S Ased, D Schmidt, R Vivekanandan and C Destache. 2019
• Comparison of incidence and mortality of Kaposis Sarcoma Amongst Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients. Oct 2019 IDSA Meeting. P Gummadi, S Aurit, C Destache, R Walters, E George, R Vivekanandan and M Velagapudi. 2019
• Munir, A., Rakhra, A., Landeen, C., Velagapudi, M., Vivekanandan, R., Plambeck, R. HIV with disseminated tularemia: A Rare Presentation. CHEST 2018. San Antonio, TX. 2018
• George, E., Aurit, S., Destache, C., Vivekanandan, R. Where You Live Matters: Regional differences in mortality from ESBL Pathogen Infections. IDSA, San Francisco, CA. 2018
• Vivekanandan,R and Baedke, L. Omaha Make Happen Event - Greater Omaha Chambers. Innovation: From Jargon to Execution. Sept 20, 2018 2018
• Vivekanandan, R. Practical Gastroenterology for the primary care conference. Clostridium difficile. August 25, 2018 2018
• Vivekanandan, R, Alexandra, Bryan. Is Antibiotics Stewardship the Answer to Clostridium difficile? June 8th, 2018. CHI Health - St. Francis Hospital. Grand Island, NE. CME Event 2018
• Vivekanandan, R, Horne, John. Is Antibiotics Stewardship the Answer to Clostridium difficile? June 1, 2018. Nebraska Antibiotics Stewardship Summit. Omaha, NE 2018
• An unusual Case of Typhlitis in a Post-Partum Female. A.S. Jhand, A. Ahmad, K. Keeley, R. Norris, and R. Vivekanandan. ATS Journal May 2018. Abstract/Presentation 2018
• Vivekanandan, R, Key Note Speaker. Introduction to Antimicrobial Stewardship Program. 29th Annual Sigma Theta Tau Research Day on May 3, 2018. Omaha, NE 2018
• Buddam A, Walter R, Kassim, T, Mukherjee S and Vivekanandan R. Incidence of Pancreatitis and Graft Failure Resulting from Pancreatitis after Pancreas Transplantation: A Descriptive Study using UNOS Database. Grastroenterology. May 2018. Abstract/Presentation 2018
• Vivekanandan, R, Horne, John and Jennifer Anthone. Antibiotics Stewardship Panel. Infectious Diseases Spring Symposium 2018. Omaha, NE 2018
• Vivekanandan, R, Boldt, Dayla. Sepsis in Pregnancy. March 8, 2018. St. CHI Health-St. Francis Hospital CME Event. Grand Island, NE 2018
• Munir, Ahmed; Jhand, Aravdeep; Gupta, Vritti; Krishnan, Mridula; Yadav, Niraj; Klug, Michael; Grant, Leah; Lambrecht, Jason; Horne, John; Thibodeau, Joseph, Vivekanandan, Renuga. Atypical Presentation of Q fever presenting as Septic Shock and Respiratory Failure. Critical Care Medicine. January 2018 - Abstract/Presentation 2018
• Marsh S, Ratnaraj F, Norris R, Gass J, Vivekanandan R. Nocardia Mastoiditis in an Immunocompromised Patient with Recurrent Otitis Media. Abstract/Poster Presentation. ACP Regional 2016. National ACP Conference San Francisco, CA. Nov. 1-4, 2017 2017
• Hermes M, Bollom A, Boldt D and and Vivekanandan, R. Brucellosis in the Beff? Abstract/Presentation American College of Physician Conference. Nebraska Oct 27-28, 2017. 2017
• Rieth T, Aurit S, Walters R and Vivekanandan, R. The Effects of Health Disparities on the Outcomes of Small Intestine Transplants: Database Review from UNOS. Abstract/Presentation, American College of Physician Conference. Nebraska Abrstract/Presentation Oct 27-28, 2017. 2017
• Kor B, Ermann D, Loranger A, Bhavsar S and Vivekanandan R. An Unexpected Infection: A Case of Neurobrucellosis. Abstract/Presntation. American College of Physician Conference. Nebraska Oct 27-28, 2017. 2017
• Rahma A, Shaw K, Fine A, Kozlowski I, Krishnan M, and Vivekanandan R. Acute Kidney Injury from Tribulus Terrestris (TT) Supplement in a 52-year-old Male. Abstract/Presentation. American College of Physician Conference. Nebraska Oct 27-28, 2017. 2017
• Lai A, Haddad T, Grant L, Wittenburg G, Breen M, Windish S, Selim M, Vivekanandan R and Townley T. Measured versus calculated Long QT in a patient with Loperamide Overdose. Abstract/Presentation. American College of Physician Conference. Nebraska. Oct 27-28, 2017 2017
• Vivekanandan, R, Destache, C and Dayla Boldt. Guidelines and Applications to Sepsis Management. CHI Health, St Francis Hospital 2017
• Evaluation of Management of ESBL Producing Enterobacteriaceae Infections: CHI Health Omaha. Scott Shipley, Stephen Cavalieri, Renuga Vivekananda and Christopher Destache. IDWeek2017. San Diego. 2017
• Gupta V, Narayanan M, Walters R and Vivekanandan, R. Health Disparities Affecting Mortality After Lung Transplant: A Retrospective Analysis Using UNOS Database. Chest. October 2017. Abstract/Presentation. 2017
• Vivekanandan, R, and Horne J. Antibiotic Stewardship. Kentucky Hardin Memorial. 2017
• Vivekanandan, R, Gorgy G, Horne J and Anthone J. Fired up and not Burned out: Provider Burnout. Nebraska Pharmacy Association. 2017

Awards

• Master Clinician Award
  Creighton University School of Medicine
• Leadership Excellence Award
  CHI Health Board of Directors Meeting
• 40 Under 40 Winner
  Midlands Business Journal Publications
• 
  Best Doctors in America
• James F. Sullivan Award
  Given by the medical resident in recognition for the excellence and dedication to house staff education
  Creighton University Department of Medicine
• Best Doctors in America