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Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD

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Chair, Charles W. Duncan Jr. Department of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital · Houston Methodist

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Region🇺🇸 Houston, TX · South Central · United StatesSpecialtyInfectious DiseaseFocusAntifungal resistance and susceptibility+4
Active KOLfindmyKOL type: EliteLatest publication2026Online presenceverified 2026Payments2024–2025NIH funding2024–2026

Eleftherios Mylonakis is Chair, Charles W. Duncan Jr. Department of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital at Houston Methodist. OpenAlex indexes 596 publications with 33,802 citations (h-index 96); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 1 registered study with this person as an investigator. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 5% of Infectious Disease profiles in the findmyKOL directory.

Data verified 16 Oct 2026

Overview

Updated 18 Oct 2026

Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD PHD, is Chair, Charles W. Duncan Jr. Department of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital. The public record shows 596 publications with 33,802 citations (h-index 96), centered on Antifungal resistance and susceptibility, Fungal Infections and Studies, Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus. It also documents an investigator role on 1 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 2 companies, 2 NIH-funded awards (2024–2026).

  • Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · Expert review of anti-infective therapy
  • Top research focus: Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • 1 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
  • Open Payments reporting from 2 companies

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Indications focus

from trials led + research topics
COVID-191 trial

Research focus

OpenAlex concept fingerprint
Antifungal resistance and susceptibilityFungal Infections and StudiesAntimicrobial Resistance in StaphylococcusCOVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesFungal and yeast genetics research

Drugs & molecules

across trials, industry payments and publications
EnsitrelvirClinical trials—Industry payments1Publications—

Works with

trial sponsors and companies reporting payments
Rhode Island HospitalClinical trials1Industry payments—Seqirus USA IncClinical trials—Industry payments1Shionogi IncClinical trials—Industry payments1

Scholarship

indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)
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596publications

Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 58 in PubMed.

33,802citations

Total citations across indexed works.

96h-index

Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 379.

Clinical & industry

trials, payments and federal funding
1clinical trials

Investigator role on registered studies.

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2companies · 2024–2025

Companies reporting payments to CMS. Facts, not judgments.

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2NIH grants · 2024–2026

Federally funded research awards.

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Public positions

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  • Member and Vice Chair

    New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council

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Contact

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Practice address

Telephone

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Clinical trials

Updated 18 Oct 2026

Listed as an investigator on 1 registered study on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:

Industry payments

Updated 18 Oct 2026

2 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2024–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:

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NIH funding

Updated 18 Oct 2026

2 NIH research awards on record, funded 2024–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:

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Congress activity

Updated 18 Oct 2026

2 congress contributions (2025–2026) across AACR, ASH per OpenAlex. The most recent:

Published abstracts are attributed via the same ORCID-disambiguated authorship as publications, so each is DOI-verified. Podium roles (invited talks, session chairs) and oral/poster type are added as program data is confirmed.

Publications

Updated 18 Oct 2026

Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.

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Most-cited works

by citation count (OpenAlex)
  1. 01
    Infective Endocarditis in Adults
    Article1,329 citations2001
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  2. 02
    Google Trends: A Web‐Based Tool for Real‐Time Surveillance of Disease Outbreaks
    Article815 citations2009
    doi.org ↗
  3. 03
    Medically important bacterial–fungal interactions
    Review617 citations2010
    doi.org ↗
  4. 04
    The Effect of Molecular Rapid Diagnostic Testing on Clinical Outcomes in Bloodstream Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
    Review569 citations2016
    doi.org ↗
  5. 05
    A simple model host for identifying Gram-positive virulence factors
    Article569 citations2001
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Network

Updated 18 Oct 2026

The people this person publishes with most, by number of co-authored papers. Names link to their own profile when we have one.

Fadi Shehadeh89Beth Burgwyn Fuchs87Markos Kalligeros54Panayiotis D. Ziakas48Ioannis M. Zacharioudakis43Evangelia K. Mylona42Frederick M. Ausubel38Fainareti N. Zervou36Wooseong Kim31Nagendran Tharmalingam24Juliana Campos Junqueira23Josiah D. Rich22Jeffrey J. Coleman22Athanasios Vassilopoulos21Stephen B. Calderwood20Marios Arvanitis19Gregorio Benitez19Michail Alevizakos18Matthew Kaczynski18Elamparithi Jayamani17Christos A. Grigoras16Timothy Flanigan16Themistoklis K. Kourkoumpetis16Rajmohan Rajamuthiah16Maged Muhammed16Elina Eleftheria Pliakos14Nikolaos Andreatos14Myrto Eleni Flokas14Eleftheria Atalla14Lewis Oscar Felix14Konstantinos Ouranos13Patrícia Pimentel de Barros13Annie L. Conery12Rodnei Dennis Rossoni12Xiaowen Huang12Dedong Li11Selin Somersan-Karakaya11Anton Yariv Peleg11Michael R. Hamblin10Felix LewisOscar10

Online presence

Updated 18 Oct 2026

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  • Doximity

    doximity.com/pub/eleftherios-mylonakis-md

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  • LinkedIn

    linkedin.com/in/eleftherios-mylonakis-md-phd-fidsa-faam-0b557a15a

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Background & recognition

Updated 18 Oct 2026

Credentials, appointments and honors, newest first, each linked to the public source it came from.

Education

degrees and training on record
  • PhD (Infectious Diseases)

    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

    1994
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  • MD

    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

    1990
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Editorial & leadership roles

journal and society appointments
  • Fellow

    American Academy of Microbiology

    2019
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  • Member

    Association of American Physicians

    2019
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  • Associate Editor

    ACP Journal Club

    2017
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  • Member

    IDWeek Program Committee

    2015
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  • Member

    American Society for Clinical Investigation

    2011
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  • Fellow

    Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA)

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  • Founding editor and Editor in Chief

    Virulence

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Awards & honors

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