Rouba Sayegh, MD

• American Academy of Pediatrics, Member, 2019 – present
• Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, Member, 2019 – present
• Infectious Diseases Society of America, Member, 2019 – present
• Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Member, 2019 – present

American Board of Pediatrics, 2024

West Virginia Beard of Medicine: 2024-present

New York State license: 2024-present

• Sayegh R, Tang L, Yun KW, Xu Z, Marzec SA, El-Assal O, Leber, AL, Everhart K, Mertz S, Desai A, Cohen DM, Alter, SJ; Ambrogio L, Florin TA, Keaton M, Shah SS, Ruddy R, Wallihan R, Mejias A, Octavio R. Nasal Mucosal Cytokines as Potential Biomarkers for Assessing Disease Severity and Class of Pathogen in Children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia. J Infect Dis. 2025 Apr 15;231(4):1031-1040. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae465. PMID: 39361598
• Quintero AM, Eisner M, Sayegh R, Wright T, Ramilo O, Leber AL, Wang H, Mejias A. Differences in SARS-CoV-2 Clinical Manifestations and Disease Severity in Children and Adolescents by Infecting Variant. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 Nov;28(11):2270-2280. doi: 10.3201/eid2811.220577. PMID: 36285986; PMCID: PMC9622241.
• Bline K, Andrews A, Moore-Clingenpeel M, Mertz S, Ye F, Best Y, Sayegh R, Tomatis-Souverbielle C, Quintero AM, Maynard Z, Glowinski R, Mejias A, Ramilo O. Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells and Clinical Outcomes in Children With COVID-19. Front Pediatr. 2022 Jun 6;10:893045. doi: 10.3389/fped.2022.893045. eCollection 2022.PMID: 35733812
• Belsky JA, Tullius BP, Lamb MG, Sayegh R, Stanek JR, Auletta JJ. COVID-19 in immunocompromised patients: A systematic review of cancer, hematopoietic cell and solid organ transplant patients. J Infect. 2021 Mar;82(3):329-338. doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2021.01.022. Epub 2021 Feb 4. PMID: 33549624; PMCID: PMC7859698.
• Assaf-Casals A, Saleh Z, Khafaja S, Fayad D, Ezzeddine H, Saleh M, Chamseddine S, Sayegh R, Sharara SL, Chmaisse A, Kanj SS, Kanafani Z, Hanna-Wakim R, Araj GF, Mahfouz R, Saito R, Suzuki H, Zaraket H, Dbaibo GS. The burden of laboratory-confirmed influenza infection in Lebanon between 2008 and 2016: a single tertiary care center experience. BMC Infect Dis. 2020 May 12;20(1):339. doi: 10.1186/s12879-020-05013-7.PMID: 32397965

Kojima K, Varier I, Sayegh R, Shimamura M, Chaudhari B M, Bernieh A, Schulz, MJ, WHite P, Fitch J, Medoro A, Lorenzi HA, McLeod R. Fatal Congenital Toxoplasmosis with Progressive Liver: Delayed Diagnosis and Genomic Characterization of a Novel US Isolate. Under review in microrganisma journal

• Cruz V D; Sayegh R; Ouellette C; Song E; Ardura M I. Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Among Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell and Solid Organ Transplantation Recipients: A Contemporary Review 2022 BMC Infectious Diseases

• Sayegh R, Quintero A.M, Chaparro J, Washam M.C, Buckingham D.A, Clark D, Barson W.J, Guliz E. Improving Pediatric Inpatient Influenza Vaccination Rates during the COVID-19 Pandemic, PAS 2022, poster.
• Sayegh R, Azzo Majd, Assaf Casal A, Shaker R, Wakim R H, Dbaibo G. Neonatal Sepsis: Etiologies and Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistance, Research Day , AUBMC, 2019, poster.
• Sayegh R, Tarraf N, Abi Hanna P. Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis: Rafic Hariri university hospital experience, Research Day, Lebanese University, 2017, oral presentation.

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2025

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022

Sayegh R, Ramilo O, Community-Acquired Pneumonia In Children, Rudolph’s Pediatrics, 2025

Teaching faculty- Medical School Curriculum, West Virginia University, 2024-present

Monthly didactic sessions to residents as part of the graduate medical education curriculum, West Virginia University, 2024-present

Lectures to medical students and pediatric residents, New York Medical College, 2024

Lectures to pediatric residents, Nationwide Children's Hospital 2021-2022

Lectures to nurse practitioners, Nationwide Children's Hospital 2021