Ricardo La Hoz, M.D.
Assistant Professor

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Dr. La Hoz received his medical degree from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, Peru and was the “CONTENTA” award recipient of his graduating class. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency and Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). 

He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medine. Dr. La Hoz brings to UT Southwestern a strong background in transplant infectious diseases, as well as an interest in medical education.  His commitment to patient care and medical education resulted in his induction to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society and Fellowship of the American College of Physicians (FACP). His research and clinical endeavors are focused on the prevention and treatment of infectious complications in hematopoietic stem cell and solid organ transplant recipients as well as medical mycology.

His activities in the American Society of Transplantation led to his election as an Executive Committee Member of the Infectious Diseases Community of Practice and served his term from 2016 to 2018. In 2017 he became a Fellow of the American Society of Transplantation (FAST) due to his commitment to the field of transplantation and outstanding service to the society and in 2019 a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA). Additionally, he has been an At Large Member of the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network/United Network of Organ Sharing Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee since 2016 and currently serves as the Vice-Chair. In 2019 he joined the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Transplantation as an Associate Editor. 

Dr. La Hoz’s interests outside of medicine include his family and friends, cooking, travelling, sailing and exploring the Dallas area.

Medical School

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru (2005)

Residency

University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham (2010), Internal Medicine

Fellowship

University of Alabama at Birmingham (2013), Infectious Diseases

• Infectious Complications in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients
• Infectious Complications in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
• Invasive Fungal Infections: Candidiasis, Cryptococcosis, Aspergillosis, Blastomycosis and Histoplasmosis

Featured Publications

Coronavirus disease 2019: Implications of emerging infections for transplantation.

Michaels MG, La Hoz RM, Danziger-Isakov L, Blumberg EA, Kumar D, Green M, Pruett TL, Wolfe CR, Am. J. Transplant. 2020 Feb

Short-Term Outcomes of Deceased Donor Renal Transplants of HCV Uninfected Recipients from HCV Seropositive Non-viremic donors and Viremic Donors in the Era of Direct-Acting Antivirals.

La Hoz RM, Sandikçi B, Ariyamuthu VK, Tanriover B, Am. J. Transplant. 2019 Jun

Intestinal Parasites including Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora, Giardia, & Microsporidia, Entamoeba histolytica, Strongyloides, Schistosomiasis, & Echinococcus: Guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice.

La Hoz RM, Morris MI, Clin Transplant 2019 May e13618

Tissue and blood protozoa including toxoplasmosis, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, Babesia, Acanthamoeba, Balamuthia, and Naegleria in solid organ transplant recipients- Guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice.

La Hoz RM, Morris MI, Clin Transplant 2019 Apr e13546

Reactivation of Chagas disease among heart transplant recipients in the United States, 2012-2016.

Gray AEB, La Hoz RM, Green JS, Vikram HR, Benedict T, Rivera H, Montgomery SP Transpl Infect Dis 2018 Sep e12996

Gain-of-function signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1) mutation-related primary immunodeficiency is associated with disseminated mucormycosis.

Kumar N, Hanks ME, Chandrasekaran P, Davis BC, Hsu AP, Van Wagoner NJ, Merlin JS, Spalding C, La Hoz RM, Holland SM, Zerbe CS, Sampaio EP. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2014.

Cryptococcal infections: changing epidemiology and implications for therapy.

La Hoz RM, Pappas PG. Drugs. 2013.

Delayed febrile response with bloodstream infections in patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices.

Wrobel CA, Drazner MH, Ayers CR, Pham DD, La Hoz RM, Grodin JL, Garg S, Mammen PPA, Morlend RM, Araj F, Amin AA, Cornwell WK, Thibodeau JT J. Investig. Med. 2019 Mar 67 3 653-658

Identification of Biomarkers for Differentiation of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae from Classical K. pneumoniae.

Russo TA, Olson R, Fang CT, Stoesser N, Miller M, MacDonald U, Hutson A, Barker JH, La Hoz RM, Johnson JR, J. Clin. Microbiol. 2018 09 56 9

Training in transplant infectious diseases: A survey of infectious diseases and transplant infectious diseases fellows in the United States and Canada.

Tan SK, Theodoropoulos N, La Hoz RM, Mossad SB, Kotton CN, Danziger-Isakov LA, Kumar D, Huprikar S Transpl Infect Dis 2018 May e12915

 Featured Books

Management and Prevention of Skin Infections. In Infectious Diseases in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients

Barros N, La Hoz RM (2019). Berlin, Germany, Springer

• Nominated for the 2020 AST Clinical Science Career Development Award
  American Society of Transplantation (2020)
• Advanced to Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
  (2019)
• Associate Editor, American Journal of Transplantation
  (2019)
• Infectious Diseases Society of America
  Fellow (2019)
• American Society of Transplantation
  Fellow (2017)
• Division of Infectious Diseases Teaching Award
  UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (2016)
• Finalist Junior Faculty and Trainees Council Clinical Case Dilemmas in Thoracic Transplantation Best Presentation Award
  The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (2016)
• Master Teacher Award
  Internal Medicine Residency Program, Wake Forest University School of Medicine (2014)
• American College of Physicians
  Fellow (2012)
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
  University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine (2011)
• International Antiviral Society USA
  Core Clinical Faculty (2011)
• Best Teaching Fellow Award for Excellence in Teaching
  Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (2010-2011)
• Ben Friedman Award for Excellence in Teaching
  Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (2008-2009)
• "CONTENTA" Award
  Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (2005)

• The Transplantation Society - Transplant Infectious Diseases Section (2018)
• Dallas County Medical Society (2016)
• Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium (2016)
• Texas Medical Association (2016)
• Texas Transplantation Society (2016)
• The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (2015)
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (2011)
• American Society of Transplantation (2011)
• International Antiviral Society USA (2011)
• HIV Medicine Association (2010)
• Infectious Diseases Society of America (2010)
• American College of Physicians (2008)