Andre N. Sofair

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of General Internal Medicine

Research Activities

My research interests lie primarily in the area of emerging infectious diseases. I have worked to develop surveillance systems for the detection of emerging pathogens, developed hospital and practice–based cohorts to define infectious disease burden and epidemiology, and performed a number of validation studies to limit biases in estimation of incidence rates. My current work focuses largely on the epidemiology of chronic liver disease with an emphasis on liver disease due to hepatitis C infection.

Clinical Activities

As a general internist, I see patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. I attend on the inpatient service three months per year, lead physical diagnosis rounds for the medical housestaff and students, and participate in didactic sessions for the medical housestaff and medical students.

Selected Recent Publications

• Sofair, AN and Kaldjian, LC. Eugenical Sterilization and a Nazi Analogy: the United States and Germany 1933-1945 Annals of Internal Medicine, 2000; 132: 312-319.
• Brandt, ME, Harrison, LH, Pass, M, Sofair, AN, Huie, S Li, RK, Morrison, CJ, Warnock, DW, Hajjeh, RA. Candida dubliniensis fungemia: report of the first four cases in North America. Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, 2000; 6: 46-49.
• Kluger, M, Sofair, AN, Heye, C, Meek, J, Sodhi, R, Hadler, J. Retrospective Validation of the Prospective Surveillance of Unexplained Illness and Death due to Potentially Infectious Causes. American Journal of Public Health 2001; 91: 1214-1219.
• Bia, F. and Sofair, AN. Anthrax-what you-and your patients-need to know now. Consultant. 2001; 41(14): 1797-1805.
• Hajjeh, R, Relman, D, Cieslak, P, Sofair, AN, Fisher, M, Zaki, S, Shieh, W, Passaro, D, Johnson, J. , Perkins, B, Surveillance for Unexplained Illness and Deaths, 1995-1999. Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal. 2002; 8: 145-153.
• Sofair, AN. Hepatitis C. Part 1. Consultant. 2002; 42(2): 157-161.
• Sofair, AN. Hepatitis C. Part 2. Consultant. 2002; 42(4): 465-473.
• Arthington-Skaggs, BA, Lee-Yang, W., Ciblak, MA, Frade, JP, Brandt, ME, Hajjeh, RA, Harrison, LH, Sofair, AN, Warnock, DW. Comparison of Visual and Spectrophotometric Methods of Broth Microdilution MIC Endpoint Determination and Evaluation of a Sterol Quantitation Method for In Vitro Susceptibility Testing of Fluconazole and Itraconazole against Trailing and Non-Trailing Isolates of Candida Species. Journal of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapeutics 46(8): 2477-81.

Education:	Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine Masters of Public Health: Infectious diseases (Yale)
Training:	Residency:Internal Medicine (Yale) Chief Resident: Internal Medicine (Yale)

Contact

Campus Address
Waterbury Hospital
64 Robbins Street
Waterbury, CT 06708

E-mail
andre.sofair@yale.edu
Office Phone
203-573-6574
Fax
203-573-6707