Sejal Morjaria

Board-certified Infectious Diseases physician and Associate Professor with expertise in OPAT, antimicrobial stewardship, and care transitions. Experienced in managing complex infections in immunocompromised and outpatient settings, with a focus on improving safety and outcomes through multidisciplinary care and quality improvement initiatives. Active in clinical research, medical education, and medico-legal consulting.

• Internal Medicine Board Certified, August 8th, 2014
• Infectious Disease Board Certified, December 28th, 2015

• Taur Y, Jeng RR, Perales MA, Littmann ER, Morjaria S, Ling L, No D, Gobourne A, Viale A, Dahi PB, Ponce DM, Barker JN, Giralt S, Van Den Brink M, Pamer EG. The effects of intestinal tract bacterial diversity on mortality following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Blood. 2014,Aug;124:1174-1182. PMCID:PMC4133489
• Morjaria S, Arguello E, Taur Y, Sepkowitz K, Hatzoglou V, Nemade A, Rosenblum M, Cavalcanti MS, Lia Palomba M, Kaltsas A. West Nile virus central nervous system infection in patients treated with rituximab: Implications for diagnosis and prognosis, with a review of literature. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2015,Jan;2:ofv136. PMCID:PMC4643542
• Morjaria S, Otto C, Moreira A, Chung R, Hatzoglou V, Pillai M, Banaei N, Tang YW, Figueroa CJ. Ribosomal RNA gene sequencing for early diagnosis of Blastomyces dermatitidis infection. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2015,Aug;37:122-124.
• Morjaria S, Epstein DJ, Romero FA, Taur Y, Seo SK, Papanicolaou GA, Hatzoglou V, Rosenblum M, Perales MA, Scordo M, Kaltsas A. Toxoplasma encephalitis in atypical hosts at an academic cancer center. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2016,Jan;3:ofw070. PMCID:PMC4834739
• Harris B, Morjaria S, Littmann ER, Geyer AI, Stover DE, Barker JN, Giralt SA, Taur Y, Pamer EG. Gut microbiota predict pulmonary infiltrates after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical CareMMedicine. 2016,Aug;194:450-463. PMCID:PMC5003327
• Becattini S, Littmann ER, Carter RA, Kim SG, Morjaria S, Ling L, Gyaltshen Y, Fontana E, Taur Y, Leiner IM, Pamer EG. Commensal microbes provide first line defense against Listeria monocytogenes infection. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 2017,Jul;214:1973-1989. PMCID:PMC5502438
• Romero FA, Powell EA, Babady NE, Kaltsas A, Figueroa CJ, Pulitzer M, Mehrara BJ, Glickman MS, Morjaria S. Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections after silicone breast implant reconstruction emphasize a diversity of infecting mycobacteria. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2017,Oct;4:ofx189. PMCID:PMC5751029
• Haak BW, Littmann ER, Chaubard JL, Pickard AJ, Fontana E, Adhi F, Gyaltshen Y, Ling L, Morjaria S, Peled JU, van den Brink M, Geyer AI, Cross JR, Pamer EG, Taur Y. Impact of gut colonization with butyrate-producing microbiota on respiratory viral infection following allo-HCT. Blood. 2018,Jun;131:2978-2986. PMCID:PMC6024637
• Taur Y, Coyte K, Schluter J, Robilotti E, Figueroa C, Gjonbalaj M, Littmann ER, Ling L, Miller L, Gyaltshen Y, Fontana E, Morjaria S, Gyurkocza B, Perales MA, Castro-Malaspina H, Tamari R, Ponce D, Koehne G, Barker J, Jakubowski A, Papadopoulos E, Dahi P, Sauter C, Shaffer B, Young JW, Peled J, Meagher RC, Jenq RR, van den Brink MRM, Giralt SA, Pamer EG, Xavier JB. Reconstitution of the gut microbiota of antibiotic-treated patients by autologous fecal microbiota transplant. Science Translational Medicine. 2018, Sep;10:eaap9489. PMCID:PMC6468978
• Scordo M, Morjaria S, Littmann ER, Bhatia A, Chung HH, Maloy M, DeAngelis LM, Giralt SA, Taur Y, Sauter CS. Distinctive infectious complications in patients with central nervous system lymphoma undergoing thiotepa, busulfan, and cyclophosphamide-conditioned autologous stem cell transplantation. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 2018,Sep;24:1914-1919. PMCID:PMC6120131
• Seo SK, Gedrimaite Z, Paskovaty A, Seier K, Morjaria S, Cohen N, Riedel E, Tang YW, Babady NE. Impact of QuickFISH in addition to standard culture on vancomycin use and length of stay in patients with coagulase-negative staphylococcal blood culture contamination. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2018,Dec;56:e01296-18. PMCID:PMC6306625
• Kim SG, Becattini S, Moody TU, Shiloh JA, Littmann ER, Seok R, Gjonbalaj M, Eaton V, Fontana E, Amoretti L, Wright R, Caballero S, Wang ZMX, Jung HJ, Morjaria S, Leiner IM, Qin W, Ramos RJJF, Cross JR, Narushima S, Honda K, Peled JU, Hendrickson RC, Taur Y, van den Brink MRM, Pamer EG. Microbiota-derived lantibiotic restores resistance against vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus. Nature. 2019,Aug;572:665-669. PMCID:PMC6717508
• Morjaria S, Schluter J, Taylor BP, Littmann ER, Carter RA, Fontana E, Peled JU, van den Brink MRM, Xavier JB, Taur Y. Antibiotic-induced shifts in fecal microbiota density and composition during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Infection and Immunity. 2019,Sep;87:e00206-19. PMCID:PMC6704593
• Morjaria S, Frame J, Franco-Garcia A, Geyer A, Kamboj M, Babady NE. Clinical performance of (1,3) beta-D glucan for the diagnosis of pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in cancer patients tested with PCP polymerase chain reaction. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2019,Oct;69:1303- 1309. PMCID:PMC6763363
• Zhai B, Ola M, Rolling T, Tosini NL, Joshowitz S, Littmann ER, Amoretti LA, Fontana E, Wright RJ, Miranda E, Veelken CA, Morjaria S, Peled JU, van den Brink MRM, Babady NE, Butler G, Taur Y, Hohl TM. High-resolution mycobiota analysis reveals dynamic intestinal translocation preceding invasive candidiasis. Nature Medicine. 2020,Jan;26:59-64. PMCID:PMC7005909
• Nawar T, Morjaria S, Kaltsas A, Patel D, Perez-Johnston R, Daniyan AF, Mailankody S, Parameswaran R. Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor in COVID-19: Is it stimulating more than just the bone marrow?. American Journal of Hematology. 2020,Aug;95:E210- E213. PMCID:PMC7276914
• Robilotti EV, Babady NE, Mead PA, Rolling T, Perez-Johnston R, Bernardes M, Bogler Y, Caldararo M, Figueroa CJ, Glickman MS, Joannov A, Kaltsas A, Lee YJ, Lucca A, Mariano A, Morjaria S, Nawar T, Papanicolaou GA, Predmore J, Redelman-Sidi G, Schmidt E, Seo SK, Sepkowitz K, Shah MK, Wolchok JD, Hohl TM, Taur Y, Kamboj M. Determinants of COVID-19 disease severity in patients with cancer. Nature Medicine. 2020,Aug;26:1218- 1223. PMCID:PMC7758283
• Chung HH, Morjaria S, Frame J, Riley AM, Zhang AW, Martin SC, Bhatia A, Fenelus M, Fallah F, Inumerables F, Goss C. Rethinking the need for a platelet transfusion threshold of 50 X 10(9)/L for lumbar puncture in cancer patients. Transfusion. 2020,Oct;60:2243-2249.
• Sauter JL, Baine MK, Butnor KJ, Buonocore DJ, Chang JC, Jungbluth AA, Szabolcs MJ, Morjaria S, Mount SL, Rehtman N, Selbs E, Sheng ZM, Xiao Y, Kleiner DE, Pittaluga S, Taubenberger JK, Rapkiewicz AV, Travis WD. Insights into pathogenesis of fatal COVID-19 pneumonia from histopathology with immunohistochemical and viral RNA studies. Histopathology. 2020,Dec;77:915-925. PMCID:PMC7361244
• Schluter J, Peled JU, Taylor BP, Markey KA, Smith M, Taur Y, Niehus R, Staffas A, Dai A, Fontana E, Amoretti LA, Wright RJ, Morjaria S, Fenelus M, Pessin MS, Chao NJ, Lev M, Bohannon L, Bush A, Sung AD, Hohl TM, Perales MA, van den Brink MRM, Xavier JB. The gut microbiota is associated with immune cell dynamics in humans. Nature. 2020,Dec;588:303- 307. PMCID:PMC7725892
• Morjaria S, Inumerables F, Patel D, Cohen N, Seo S, Posthumus S, Martin SC, Kaltsas A, Lee S, Boucher N, Fischer-Cartlidge E. Penicillin allergy testing: An outpatient nurse-driven program for patients with cancer. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. 2021,Apr;25:143-150.
• Navlakha S, Morjaria S, Perez-Johnston R, Zhang A, Taur Y. Projecting COVID-19 disease severity in cancer patients using purposefully-designed machine learning. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2021,May;21:391. PMCID:PMC8092998
• Jani K, McMillen T, Morjaria S, Babady NE. Performance of the Aspergillus galactomannan lateral flow assay in a cancer patient population. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2021,Aug;59:e0059821. PMCID:PMC8373023
• Kothari P, Sauerhaft D, Rodriguez-Sanchez MI, Shia J, Price A, Morjaria S, Gerstle JT, Shukla NN, Ortiz MV. Identification of a TP53 deletion in an undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver: A case report. JCO Precision Oncology. 2021,Sep;5:1421-1425. PMCID:PMC8437321
• Kozak KE, Ouyang L, Derkach A, Sherman A, McCall SJ, Famulare C, Chervin J, Daley RJ, Morjaria S, Mauro MJ, Rampal RK. Serum antibody response in patients with philadelphia-chromosome positive or negative myeloproliferative neoplasms following vaccination with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines. Leukemia. 2021,Dec;35:3578- 3580. PMCID:PMC8569492
• Zhang AW, Morjaria S, Kaltsas A, Hohl TM, Parameswaran R, Patel D, Zhou W, Predmore J, Perez-Johnston R, Jee J, Daniyan AF, Perales MA, Taur Y. The effect of neutropenia and filgrastim (G-CSF) on cancer patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2022,Feb;74:567-574. PMCID:PMC8406899
• Perez-Johnston R, Araujo-Filho J, McKenney AS, Gangai N, Plodkowski AJ, Liu CC, Sawan P, Taur Y, Morjaria S, Ginsberg MS. COVID-19 in patients with cancer: Can baseline radiologic severity and early evolution predict clinical outcomes?. European Radiology. 2022, Apr;32:2661-2671. PMCID:PMC8556839
• Morjaria S, Carmody C, Navlakha S, Zhou W, Bracchia D, Aquino J, Roumm A, Martin S, Syrkin G. Mobility is Medicine, Too: Creating a Culture of Mobility Amongst Hospitalized Patients with Cancer for Improve Patients Outcomes. CANCER NURSING: An International Journal for Cancer Care Research. 2024,Apr;4-2.