Rima El-Herte, MD

Assistant Professor

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School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Infectious Diseases Division
Infectious Diseases Fellowships

Rima El-Herte, MD

Assistant Professor

Board Certifications: Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease.
Areas of Interest: Virology, CMV
Fellowship: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics; and American Universify of Beirut Medical Center.
Residency: University of Iowa-Des Moines and American University of Beirut Medical Center.
Medical School: Lebanese University Faculty of Medical Sciences, Lebanon.

Teaching Interests

  • infectious Disease consultant

Research Focus

CMV
EBV
Herpes Viruses
HIV
Viral disease
 

Department

Medicine

Position

Assistant Professor

Books

  • Clinical Infectious Disease, Second Edition
    El-Herte Rima I., Meier Jeffery L., Cytomegalovirus [Book Chapter] 2015

Publications

  • Open forum infectious diseases
    Samuel Shrestha, Thomas Samantha, Asleson Louise, Nguyen Anny, Meier Jeffery L, El-Herte Rima, Deciphering Positive Cytomegalovirus Immunoglobulin M Test Results in Immunocompetent Adults Hospitalized With Illness Suspicious for Acute Cytomegalovirus Infection: A Multihospital Study
    12:3, p. ofaf144 2025
  • Antibiotics (Basel)
    Destache Christopher J., Isern Raul, Kenny Dorothy, El-Herte Rima, Palmer Catherine, Inouye Brent S., Wong Maura, Plambeck Robert, North E. Jeffrey, Sotelo Mariaelena Roman, Velagapudi Manasa, Impact of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) on Serum Concentrations of Cefepime
    13:11, p. 1024 2024
  • Chest
    Isern RAUL, Plambeck ROBERT W, EL-HERTE RIMA, North ELTON, ROMAN SOTELO MARIAELENA, Destache CHRIS, Azeem AHAD, Kenny DOROTHY, Velagapudi MANASA, Nguyen ANNY, IMPACT OF EXTRA-CORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION (ECMO) ON PLASMA CONCENTRATIONS OF CEFEPIME
    164:4, p. A1615 2023
  • BMC infectious diseases
    Azeem Ahad, Baartman Brandon, Conrady Christopher D, Meier Jeffery L, El-Herte Rima, Herpes simplex virus dissemination with necrotizing hepatitis following Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty
    23:1, p. 465 - 465 2023
  • Wisconsin medical journal (Madison, Wis.)
    Jerabek Julie, Abdulrahim Ahmed, Cavalieri Stephen, El-Herte Rima, Witherspoon Kelsey, Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis With Fungemia and Possible Strongyloides Co-infection
    122:3, p. 200 - 204 2023
  • Jerabek Julie, Abdulrahim Ahmed, Cavalieri Stephen, Witherspoon Kelsey, El-Herte Rima, Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis With Fungemia and Possible Strongyloides Co-infection 2023
  • Case reports in infectious diseases
    Elliott Ross P., Freeman Brian P., Meier Jeffery L., El-Herte Rima, Acute Cytomegalovirus Illness in an Immunocompetent Adult Causing Intravascular Hemolysis and Suspected Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
    2022, p. 1 - 7 2022
  • Curēus (Palo Alto, CA)
    Creech Zachary A, Truong Gia Thinh D, Kenny Dorothy X, Butt Dua Noor, Li Changzhao, Cavalieri Stephen, El-Herte Rima, Unusual Freshwater-Related Infections Caused by Haematospirillum jordaniae
    14:5 2022
  • IDCases
    El-Herte Rima I., Wanat Karolyn A., Ford Bradley A., Schouweiler Katie E., Farah Ronda S., Arbulu Ricardo, Diekema Daniel, Phaeoacremonium parasiticum phaeohyphomycosis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus treated successfully with surgical debridement and voriconazole
    1:4, p. 84 - 88 2014
  • Journal of Infection and Public Health
    El-Herte Rima I., Kanj Souha S., Matar Ghassan M., Araj George F., The threat of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Lebanon
    5:3, p. 233 - 243 2012
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    El-Herte Rima I., Araj George F., Matar Ghassan M., Baroud Maysa, Kanafani Zeina A., Kanj Souha S., Detection of carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae producing NDM-1 in Lebanon
    6:5, p. 457 - 461 2012
  • Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
    El-Herte Rima I., Baban Tania A., Kanj Souha S., Recurrent refractory Clostridium difficile colitis treated successfully with rifaximin and tigecycline
    44:3, p. 228 - 230 2012
  • Case reports in infectious diseases
    El-Herte Rima I., Kanj Souha S., Araj George F., Gharzuddine Walid, Chami Hassan, First Report of Nocardia asiatica Presenting as an Anterior Mediastinal Mass in a Patient with Myasthenia Gravis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
    2012, p. 1 - 4 2012
  • Advances in infectious diseases
    I. El-Herte Rima, A. Baban Tania, S. Kanj Souha, Mucormycosis: A Review on Environmental Fungal Spores and Seasonal Variation of Human Disease
    2:3, p. 76 - 81 2012
  • Journal Medical Libanais
    El-Herte Rima I., Haidar Rachid K., Uthman Imad W., Kanj Souha S., Salmonella enteritidis bacteremia with septic arthritis of the sacroiliac joint in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus
    59:4, p. 235 - 237 2011
  • Journal Medical Libanais
    El-Herte Rima, Atweh Samir, A patient with headache, right upper extremity and right hemithorax hypothermalgesia
    59:2, p. 109 - 113 2011