Department of Internal Medicine
Infectious Diseases Faculty
Medical School:
The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Residency:
The University of Iowa
Fellowship:
The University of Iowa
Ambar Haleem, M.D.
Associate
Clinical interests: Dr. Haleem's clinical interests lay within internal medicine and general infectious disease. Her main areas of interest are musculoskeletal nosocomial infections and International health/ tropical infectious diseases.
Honors, Awards, and Organizations
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2006-
Recent Publications
- Haleem, Ambar and Wilson, Mary E. Chapter: Visceral leishmaniasis (Kala azar). In: Parasitology Handbook. In press.
- Olakanmi O, Schlesinger LS, Ahmed A, Britigan BE. The nature of extracellular iron influences iron acquisition by Mycobacterium tuberculosis residing within human macrophages. Infection and Immunity 2004 Apr; 72(4):2022-8.
- Olakanmi O, Schlesinger LS, Ahmed A, Britigan BE. Intraphagosomal Mycobacterium tuberculosis acquires iron from both extracellular transferrin and intracellular iron pools: Impact of interferon-gamma and hemochromatosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2002 Dec 20; 277(51):49727-34.
- Ahmed, Raheel; Shakir, A. H.; Moizuddin, Sonia; Haleem, Ambar; Ali, Sadia; Durrani, Khayyam; Khan, Amanullah; Baig, Shahid. Predictors of In-hospital Mortality for Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A hospital Based Study in Pakistani Adults. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2001; 10(3):122-127.
Chapters
- Haleem, A, Wilson. E. M (2009). Visceral leishmaniasis (Kala azar). In. A.R.Satoskar, G.L.Simon, P.J.Hotez and M. Tsuji (Eds.), Medical Parasitology (pp. 171-181). Austin, Texas, USA: Landes Bioscience.