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Robert Harold Rubin, M.D.

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Title
Gordon and Marjorie Osborne Professor of Health Sciences and Technology
Institution
Mass Institute of Technology
Department
Health Sciences and Technology
Address
Brigham and Women's Hospital
PBB-A-316, ID Division
75 Francis St
Boston, MA 02115
Telephone
617/732-8716
Fax
617/582-6111
Email
Email Address
Other Positions
Title
Professor of Medicine
Institution
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Department
Medicine
Publications
1. Fischman AJ, Babich JW, Alpert NM, Vincent J, Wilkinson RA, Callahan RJ, Correia JA, Rubin RH. Pharmacokinetics of 18F-labeled trovafloxacin in normal and Escherichia coli-infected rats and rabbits studied with positron emission tomography. Clin Microbiol Infect. 1997 Feb; 3(1):63-72.
2. Fischman AJ, Alpert NM, Rubin RH. Pharmacokinetic imaging: a noninvasive method for determining drug distribution and action. Clin Pharmacokinet. 2002; 41(8):581-602.
3. Rubin RH. The direct and indirect effects of infection in liver transplantation: pathogenesis, impact, and clinical management. Curr Clin Top Infect Dis. 2002; 22:125-54.
4. Alpert NM, Rabito CA, Correia DJ, Babich JW, Littman BH, Tompkins RG, Rubin NT, Rubin RH, Fischman AJ. Mapping of local renal blood flow with PET and H(2)(15)O. J Nucl Med. 2002 Apr; 43(4):470-5.
5. Baden LR, Rubin RH. Fever, neutropenia, and the second law of thermodynamics. Ann Intern Med. 2002 Jul 16; 137(2):123-4.
6. Herbrecht R, Denning DW, Patterson TF, Bennett JE, Greene RE, Oestmann JW, Kern WV, Marr KA, Ribaud P, Lortholary O, Sylvester R, Rubin RH, Wingard JR, Stark P, Durand C, Caillot D, Thiel E, Chandrasekar PH, Hodges MR, Schlamm HT, Troke PF, de Pauw B. Voriconazole versus amphotericin B for primary therapy of invasive aspergillosis. N Engl J Med. 2002 Aug 8; 347(6):408-15.
7. Rubin RH, King ME, Mark EJ. Case record of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 7-2003. A 43-year-old man with fever, rapid loss of vision in the left eye, and cardiac findings. N Engl J Med. 2003 Feb 27; 348(9):834-43.
8. Dropulic LK, Rubin RH, Bartlett JG. Smallpox vaccination and the patient with an organ transplant. Clin Infect Dis. 2003 Mar 15; 36(6):786-8.
9. Rex JH, Pappas PG, Karchmer AW, Sobel J, Edwards JE, Hadley S, Brass C, Vazquez JA, Chapman SW, Horowitz HW, Zervos M, McKinsey D, Lee J, Babinchak T, Bradsher RW, Cleary JD, Cohen DM, Danziger L, Goldman M, Goodman J, Hilton E, Hyslop NE, Kett DH, Lutz J, Rubin RH, Scheld WM, Schuster M, Simmons B, Stein DK, Washburn RG, Mautner L, Chu TC, Panzer H, Rosenstein RB, Booth J. A randomized and blinded multicenter trial of high-dose fluconazole plus placebo versus fluconazole plus amphotericin B as therapy for candidemia and its consequences in nonneutropenic subjects. Clin Infect Dis. 2003 May 15; 36(10):1221-8.
10. Boeckh M, Nichols WG, Papanicolaou G, Rubin R, Wingard JR, Zaia J. Cytomegalovirus in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: Current status, known challenges, and future strategies. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2003 Sep; 9(9):543-58.
11. Ellerin T, Rubin RH, Weinblatt ME. Infections and anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha therapy. Arthritis Rheum. 2003 Nov; 48(11):3013-22.
12. Livni E, Berker M, Hillier S, Waller SC, Ogan MD, Discordia RP, Rienhart JK, Rubin RH, Fischman AJ. Preparation and pharmacokinetics of 11C labeled stavudine (d4T). Nucl Med Biol. 2004 Jul; 31(5):613-21.
13. Pereyra F, Rubin RH. Prevention and treatment of cytomegalovirus infection in solid organ transplant recipients. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2004 Aug; 17(4):357-61.
14. Fischer MA, Winkelmayer WC, Rubin RH, Avorn J. The hepatotoxicity of antifungal medications in bone marrow transplant recipients. Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Aug 1; 41(3):301-7.
15. Baden LR, Rubin RH. Darwinian competition and the pathogenesis of opportunistic infection in the transplant recipient. Transpl Int. 2005 Nov; 18(11):1223-5.
16. Marty FM, Rubin RH. The prevention of infection post-transplant: the role of prophylaxis, preemptive and empiric therapy. Transpl Int. 2006 Jan; 19(1):2-11.
17. Rubin RH, Gilman MD, Kradin RL. Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 1-2006. A 64-year-old male lung-transplant recipient with fever, cough, hemoptysis, and abdominal pain. N Engl J Med. 2006 Jan 12; 354(2):180-7.
18. Rubin RH. Surgical wound infection: epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and management. BMC Infect Dis. 2006; 6:171.
19. Greene RE, Schlamm HT, Oestmann JW, Stark P, Durand C, Lortholary O, Wingard JR, Herbrecht R, Ribaud P, Patterson TF, Troke PF, Denning DW, Bennett JE, de Pauw BE, Rubin RH. Imaging findings in acute invasive pulmonary aspergillosis: clinical significance of the halo sign. Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Feb 1; 44(3):373-9.
20. Rubin RH. The pathogenesis and clinical management of cytomegalovirus infection in the organ transplant recipient: the end of the 'silo hypothesis'. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2007 Aug; 20(4):399-407.
 
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