Kline, Susan

Susan Kline, M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor of Medicine.  She joined the Department of Medicine faculty in 1994.  She completed her M.D. and residency in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases fellowship at the University of Minnesota. She also completed her M.P.H. in Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota.  She serves as the Infection Control Medical Director for Fairview-University Medical Center and also is the co-director of the Family HIV clinic, which serves the needs of women and children infected with HIV-1.  She also is interested in International Health and infectious disease epidemiology and in the clinical care of infectious diseases.

Selected Publications:

Kline SE, Filice G, Houston R, Black R, Daulaire N.  Diagnosis of Shigellosis in Nepal.  J Nepal Med Assoc 30:18-22, 1992. 

Kline SE, Hedemark LL, Davies SF.  Outbreak of tuberculosis among regular patrons of a neighborhood bar.  N Engl J Med 333:222-227, 1995.

Kline SE, Larsen TA, Fieber L, Fishbach R, Greenwood M, Harris R, Kline MW, Tennican PO, Janoff EN.  Limited toxicity of prolonged therapy with high doses of amphotericin B lipid complex.  Clin Infect Dis 21:1154-8, 1995. 

Kline SE, Cameron S, Streifel A, Yakrus M, Kairis F, Peacock K, Besser J, Cooksey R.  An outbreak of bacteremias associated with Mycobacterium mucogenicum in a hospital water supply.  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2004;25:1042-1049.