Department or Service
Department of Pediatric Medicine, Retrovirology and Global Health
Specialty
Retrovirology and Global Health
Primary Location
Texas Children's Hospital
Contact Information
1102 Bates
Ste. 630
Houston, TX 77030
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Phone: 832-822-1038
Saeed Ahmed, M.D.
Physician - Texas Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
Medical School
Yale University School of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine, 2003
Residency
New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia, Pediatrics, 2006
From Dr. Ahmed
Dr. Ahmed was a member of the original class of the Pediatric AIDS Corps in 2006 and worked in Malawi from 2006 until March 2010. In addition to his direct clinical care responsibilities, Dr. Ahmed focused on developing strategies to improve community outreach, Early Infant Diagnosis (EID), and Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT). Along with Dr. Maria Kim, he started a community outreach program called Tingathe (meaning “Yes we can” in the local Chichewa), which uses community health workers to improve EID, PMTCT, and Pediatric HIV Care and Treatment Outcomes. In the first three years of the program, Tingathe CHW’s conducted over 60,000 HIV tests resulting in the identification and enrollment of over 4,500 HIV-infected and exposed children, an over 50-fold increase at participating clinics. Dr. Ahmed has joined the Section of Retrovirology and Global Health at Texas Children’s Hospital but continues his involvement with Malawi and the Tingathe program.
Professional Organizations *
- BCM-CFM Tingathe Outreach Program
Director - Interagency Task Team (IATT)
Member - IATT Child Survival Working Group
Member - American Academy of Pediatrics
Fellow
Selected Publications
Kim MH*, Ahmed SA*, Buck W, Preidis G, Hosseinipour MC, Bhalakia A, Nanthuru D, Kazembe PN, Chimbwandira F, Giordano T, Chiao E, Schutze G, Kline MW (*co-first authors). The Tingathe program: a pilot intervention using community health workers to create a continuum of care in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) cascade of services in Malawi. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2012, 15:17389 (in press).
Kabue M, Buck W, Wanless R, Cox C, McCollum E, Caviness A, Ahmed S, Kim MH ; Thahane L, Devlin A, Kochelani D, Kazembe PN, Calles N, Schutze GS, Mizwa M, Kline MW. Mortality and Clinical Outcomes in HIV-infected Children on Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Pediatrics 2012 (in press).
Kim MH, Cox C, Dave A, Draper HR, Kabue M, Schutze GS, Ahmed S, Kazembe PN, Kline MW, Manary M. Prompt initiation of ART with therapeutic food is associated with improved outcomes in HIV infected Malawian children with malnutrition. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 2011 Nov 20.
Braun M, Kabue MM, McCollum ED, Ahmed S, Kim MH, Aertker L, Chirwa M, Eliya M, Mofolo I, Hoffman I, Kazembe PN, van der Horst C, Kline MW, Hosseinipour MC. Inadequate Coordination of Maternal and Infant HIV Services Detrimentally Affects Early Infant Diagnosis Outcomes in Lilongwe, Malawi.Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 2011 Jan 10.
E. Carrillo, S. Ahmed, K. Goldsmith Pestana, J. Nieto, Y. Osorio, B. Travi, J. Moreno, D. McMahon-Pratt. Immunogenicity of the P8 amastigote antigen in the experimental model of canine visceral leishmaniasis. Vaccine 2007. 25: 1534-1543.
* Texas Children's Hospital physicians' licenses and credentials are reviewed prior to practicing at any of our facilities. Sections titled From the Doctor, Professional Organizations and Publications were provided by the physician's office and were not verified by Texas Children's Hospital.
