Alyse Wheelock, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow (previously held)
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Preventive Medicine




Dr. Wheelock grew up in Massachusetts, attended the University of Massachusetts for medical school, and completed her internal medicine residency at BMC. She is passionate about infectious diseases, global health, and refugee health. During residency at BMC, she was active in the Refugee and Immigrant Health Program, Global Health Pathway, and projects on Chagas disease at BMC. Her work on Chagas disease includes research on local diagnostic testing as well as educational programs to encourage screening for Chagas disease in people from endemic regions. She is a member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Student/Trainee Leadership Group.

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  1. Reifler K, Wheelock A, Hall SM, Dauphinais M, Roytburd S, Maiullari M, Salazar A, Maldonado A, West HM, Köhler JR, Barnett ED, Gopal DM, Hamer DH, Bourque DL. Antitrypanosomal therapy for Chagas disease: A single center experience with adverse drug reactions and strategies for enhancing treatment completion. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2025 Jul; 19(7):e0013218.View Related Profiles. PMID: 40622934; PMCID: PMC12233308; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0013218;
     
  2. Navalkar K, Wheelock A, Gregory M, Clark D, Kibuuka H, Okello S, Atukunda S, Wailagala A, Waitt P, Kakooza F, Oduro G, Adams N, Dietrich M, von der Forst M, Schultz MJ, Aggarwal NR, Greenberg JA, Yager TD, Brandon RB. Likelihood of blood culture positivity using SeptiCyte RAPID. medRxiv. 2025 May 13. PMID: 40492079; PMCID: PMC12148071; DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.09.25327025;
     
  3. Wheelock A, Chasaya M, Namuziya N, Jumbe Marsden E, Kapasa M, Mumba C, Mulenga B, Nkole L, Pieciak R, Mudenda V, Chikoti C, Ngoma B, Chimoga C, Chirwa S, Pemba L, Nzara D, Lungu J, Forman L, MacLeod W, Moyo C, Wa Somwe S, Gill C. Using Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling and Determination of Cause of Death to Establish Etiologies of Community Respiratory Deaths Among Zambian Infants and Children. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2025 Jan 20; 14(1).View Related Profiles. PMID: 39786450; PMCID: PMC11748213; DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piae129;
     
  4. Wheelock A, Sandhu S, Reifler K, Carrion M, Bourque DL, Hamer DH, Hochberg NS. Improving Clinician Awareness of and Screening for Chagas Disease with an Educational Intervention. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Aug 07; 111(2):380-386.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38889732; PMCID: PMC11310624; DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.23-0483;
     
  5. Etter L, Betke M, Camelo IY, Gill CJ, Pieciak R, Thompson R, Demi L, Khan U, Wheelock A, Katanga J, Setty BN, Castro-Aragon I. Curated and Annotated Dataset of Lung US Images in Zambian Children with Clinical Pneumonia. Radiol Artif Intell. 2024 Mar; 6(2):e230147.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38381039; PMCID: PMC10982815; DOI: 10.1148/ryai.230147;
     
  6. Reifler KA, Wheelock A, Hall SM, Salazar A, Hassan S, Bostrom JA, Barnett ED, Carrion M, Hochberg NS, Hamer DH, Gopal DM, Bourque D. Chagas cardiomyopathy in Boston, Massachusetts: Identifying disease and improving management after community and hospital-based screening. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2024 Jan; 18(1):e0011913.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38241361; PMCID: PMC10830043; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011913;
     
  7. Barnett ED, Wheelock AB, MacLeod WB, McCarthy AE, Walker PF, Coyle CM, Greenaway CA, Castelli F, López-Vélez R, Gobbi FG, Trigo E, Grobusch MP, Gautret P, Hamer DH, Kuhn S, Stauffer WM. Infections with long latency in international refugees, immigrants, and migrants seen at GeoSentinel sites, 2016-2018. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2023; 56:102653.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37852594; PMCID: PMC10760402; DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102653;
     
  8. Rawlins-Pilgrim S, Wheelock A, Streed CG, Higham M, Krakower DS, Taylor JL. Survey assessment of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis availability in student health services in New England colleges and universities. J Am Coll Health. 2025 Feb; 73(2):458-461.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37463515; PMCID: PMC10836149; DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2023.2232465;
     
  9. Hochberg NS, Wheelock A, Hamer DH, Marcus R, Nolan MS, Meymandi S, Gilman RH. Chagas Disease in the United States: A Perspective on Diagnostic Testing Limitations and Next Steps. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 02 01; 104(3):800-804.View Related Profiles. PMID: 33534741; PMCID: PMC7941835; DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0871;
     
  10. Wheelock A, Bechtel C, Leff B. Human-Centered Design and Trust in Medicine. JAMA. 2020 Dec 15; 324(23):2369-2370. PMID: 33320236
     
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