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Joan-Miquel Balada-Llasat, PharmD, PhD

Professor-Clinical

Joan-Miquel Balada-Llasat, PhD

Phone:

614-257-2785

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Mailing Address:

OSU Hospitals East
181 Taylor Avenue
Columbus, OH 43203

Biosketch

Dr. Balada-Llasat is the Director of Immunology and Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Pathology at the Ohio State University. His major research and clinical interest focuses on the implementation of rapid laboratory tests for the diagnosis of infectious diseases with special interest in low cost tests for use in areas of limited resources. He is working on tuberculosis and HPV global health initiatives in Central America, Africa and India.

Board Certifications

d(ABMM), American Board of Medical Microbiology

Academic and Medical Appointments

2016-Present Associate Professor-Clinical, Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio.

2014-2016 Assistant Professor-Clinical, Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio.

Education and Training

2006-2008 Fellowship, Clinical Microbiology, CPEP Postgraduate Training Program at University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2000-2006 Ph.D., Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

1998-2000 Fellowship, Molecular Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

1991-1997 Pharm.D., College of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona, Spain

Selected Publications

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  • Srinivas P, Hunt LN, Pouch SM, Thomas K, Goff DA, Pancholi P Balada-Llasat JM, Bauer KA. Detection of colistin heteroresistance in Acinetobacter baumannii from blood and respiratory isolates Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. Diag. Micro Inf. Dis. 2018.
  • Duff S, Hasbun R, Ginocchio CC, Balada-Llasat JM, Zimmer L, Bozzette S. Economic Analysis of Rapid Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing for Meningitis/Encephalitis in Pediatric Patients. Future Microbiology. 2018
  • Chavez JA, Alexander AJ, Balada-Llasat JM, Pancholi P. A case of Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica bacteremia in continental United States. JMM Case Reports. 2017
  • Domingo-Gonzalez R, Das S, Griffiths K, Ahmed M, Bambouskova M, Gopal R, Gondi S, Munoz-Torrico M, Salazar-Lezama M, Cruz-Lagunas A, Jimenez-Alvarez L, Ramirez-Martinez G, Espinosa-Soto R, Sultana T, Lyons-Weiler J, Reinhart T, Arcos J, Garcia-Hernandez ML, Mastrangelo M, Al-Hammadi N, Townsend T, Balada-Llasat JM, Torrelles J, Kaplan G, Horne W, Kolls JK, Artyomov M, Rangel-Moreno J, Zuñiga J, Khader S. Interleukin-17 limits Hypoxia-inducible factor 1alpha and development of hypoxic granulomas during tuberculosis. JCI. 2017
  • Zhang W, Aurosree B, Gopalakrishnan B , Balada-Llasat JM, Pancholi V, Pancholi P. The role of LpxA/C/D and pmrA/B gene systems in colistin-resistant clinical strains of Acinetobacter baumannii. Front. Lab. Med. 2017; 1:2.
  • Impact of the NAP-1 strain on disease severity, mortality, and recurrence of healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection Bauer KA, Johnston J, Wenzler E, Goff DA; Cook CH, Balada-Llasat JM, Pancholi P, Mangino JE. Anaerobe. 2017
  • Hasbun R, Rosenthal N, Balada-Llasat JM, Chung J, Duff S, Bozzette S, Zimmer L, Ginocchio CC. Epidemiology of Meningitis and Encephalitis in the United States from 2011-2014.Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Apr 17.
  • Scordo J, Arcos J, Kelley H, Sasindran S, Diangelo L, Lee E, Wewers M, Wang SH, Balada-Llasat JM, Torrelles J. Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell wall fragments released upon bacterial contact with the human lung mucosa alter the neutrophil response to infection. Frontiers in Immunology. 2017. Mar 20;8:307
  • Bremmer DN, Balada-Llasat JM, Goff DA, Bauer KA. Ceftriaxone Etest Non-susceptible Methicillin Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Time-kill Responses. Diag. Micro Inf. Dis. 2017. Mar 2.
  • Smith SM, Balada-Llasat JM, Chen W. Sarcina species-associated gastrointestinal disease. AJCP Case Reports. 2016. MB16-5:1-10.
  • Correction for Samuel et al., Multicenter Assessment of Gram Stain Error Rates.Samuel LP, Balada-Llasat JM, Harrington A, Cavagnolo R. J Clin Microbiol. 2016 Sep;54(9):2405. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01465-16.
  • Bremmer D, Bauer K, Pouch S, Thomas K, Smith D, Goff D, Pancholi P, Balada-Llasat JM. Correlation of checkerboard synergy testing with time-kill analysis and clinical outcomes of extensively drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii respiratory infections. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2016 Aug 15
  • Samuel LP, Balada-Llasat JM, Harrington A, Cavagnolo R. Correction for Samuel et al., Multicenter Assessment of Gram Stain Error Rates. J Clin Microbiol. 2016 Sep;54(9):2405
  • Hussain CK , de Man TJB, Toney NC, Kamboj K, Balada- Llasat JM, Wang SH. A novel rapidly growing mycobacterium causing an abdominal cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst infection. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Jul 13;3(3):ofw146.
  • Leber, Everhart K, Balada-Llasat JM, Cullison J, Daly J, Holt S, Lephart P, Salimnia H, Schreckenberger P, DesJarlais S, Reed S, Chapin K, Leblanc L, Johnson J, Soliven N, Carroll K, Miller JA, Bard JD, Mestas J, Bankowski M, Enomoto T, Hemmert A, Bourzac K. Multicenter Evaluation of the BioFire FilmArray Meningitis Encephalitis Panel for the Detection of Bacteria, Viruses and Yeast in Cerebrospinal Fluid Specimens, J Clin Microbiol. 2016
  • Blosser SJ, Drake SK, Andrasko JL, Henderson CM, Kamboj K, Antonara S, Mijares L, Conville P, Frank KM, Harrington SM, Balada-Llasat JM, Zelazny AM. Multi-Center MALDI-TOF MS Study for the Identification of Clinically-Relevant Nocardia spp. J Clin Microbiol. 2016 Feb 24.
  • Samuel LP, Balada-Llasat JM, Harrington A, Cavagnolo R. Multicenter Assessment of Gram Stain Error Rates. J Clin Microbiol. 2016 Feb 17
  • Identification and significance of Weissella species infections. Kamboj K, Vasquez A, Balada-Llasat JM. Front Microbiol. 2015 Oct 31;6:1204.