Michael Evan Sebert, MD
Infectious Disease Specialist
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Stanford University School of Medicine (1995)
- Residency
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (1998), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2002), Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Infectious Disease
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Bacterial pathogenesis
- Genomic epidemiology
- Hospital epidemiology
- Microbial evolution
- Pathogen transmission
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Publications
Publications
- Low Utility of the Pediatric Isolator Blood Culture System for the Detection of Fungemia in Children: A Ten Year Review. Campigotto A, Richardson SE, Sebert M, McElvania TeKippe E, Chakravarty A, Doern CD J. Clin. Microbiol. 2016 Jun
- Competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae is a response to an increasing mutational burden. Gagne AL, Stevens KE, Cassone M, Pujari A, Abiola OE, Chang DJ, Sebert ME PLoS ONE 2013 8 8 e72613
- The HtrA protease from Streptococcus pneumoniae digests both denatured proteins and the competence-stimulating peptide. Cassone M, Gagne AL, Spruce LA, Seeholzer SH, Sebert ME J. Biol. Chem. 2012 Nov 287 46 38449-59
- Frequent beneficial mutations during single-colony serial transfer of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Stevens KE, Sebert ME PLoS Genet. 2011 Aug 7 8 e1002232
- Competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae is regulated by the rate of ribosomal decoding errors. Stevens KE, Chang D, Zwack EE, Sebert ME MBio 2011 2 5
Books
- Gastroenteritis. In Bergelson JM, Shah SS, Zaoutis TE, eds. Pediatric Infectious Diseases: The Requisites in Pediatrics. Sebert M. (2008). Philadelphia: Mosby Elsevier; 157-168.
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Pediatrics (2005)
- American Society for Microbiology (2000-2014)
- Infectious Disease Society of America (2003)
- Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (2014)
- Society for Pediatric Research (2009)
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Awards and Honors
- D Magazine Best Pediatric Specialist (2020)
- DFW Hospital Council Physician of the Year Nominee (2015), Children's Medical Center
- Dean's Award for Research, Stanford University School of Medicine (1995)