Elly Karamooz, M.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine

Biography

Elly is a native of Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Reed College in 2004, with her senior thesis focused on the manganese transport regulator, MntR, from Bacillus subtilis. She received her MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 2005 and completed residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care at OHSU. Elly was appointed to the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division’s T32 training grant during her fellowship, allowing her to pursue basic science research. She joined the Lewinsohn Lab in 2014 where she studied endosomal trafficking proteins and how they affect MR1-dependent presentation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Elly joined the faculty at OHSU in 2016 and in 2017, she won the Rising Star Award for the PI-TB Assembly (formerly MTPI) of the American Thoracic Society. She joined the Portland VA Health Care System in 2018 where she works as a Pulmonary & Critical Care physician. In 2020, Elly received an NIH R21 and then an NIH K08 to continue her research on MR1. Her clinical interests include non-CF bronchiectasis and nontuberculous mycobacterial infections.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • B.A., 2004, Reed College
    • M.D., 2009, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria

  • Residency

    • Internal Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 2009

  • Fellowship

    • Pulmonary and Critical Care, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 2012
    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Research Fellow, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 2015

  • Certifications

    • American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, 2012
    • American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, 2014
    • American Board of Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, 2015

Memberships and associations:

  • American Thoracic Society

Areas of interest

  • Immunology
  • Tuberculosis

Additional information

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Prevalence of pulmonary artery dilation in non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis

    Journal of Thoracic Disease
    1. Elham Karamooz
    2. Anupama G. Brixey
    3. Chara E. Rydzak
    4. Steven L. Primack
    5. Sheila Markwardt
    6. Alan F. Barker

  • Human lung-resident mucosal-associated invariant T cells are abundant, express antimicrobial proteins, and are cytokine responsive

    Communications Biology
    1. Erin W. Meermeier
    2. Christina L. Zheng
    3. Jessica G. Tran
    4. Shogo Soma
    5. Aneta H. Worley
    6. David I. Weiss
    7. Robert L. Modlin
    8. Gwendolyn Swarbrick
    9. Elham Karamooz
    10. Sharon Khuzwayo
    11. Emily B. Wong
    12. Marielle C. Gold
    13. David M. Lewinsohn

  • Construction and validation of an ultraviolet germicidal irradiation system using locally available components

    PloS one
    1. Eric Schnell
    2. Elham Karamooz
    3. Melanie J. Harriff
    4. Jane E. Yates
    5. Christopher Pfeiffer
    6. Stephen M. Smith

  • Alternative splicing of MR1 regulates antigen presentation to MAIT cells

    Scientific Reports
    1. Gitanjali A. Narayanan
    2. Abhinav Nellore
    3. Jessica Tran
    4. Aneta H. Worley
    5. Erin W. Meermeier
    6. Elham Karamooz
    7. Megan E. Huber
    8. Regina Kurapova
    9. Fikadu G. Tafesse
    10. Melanie J. Harriff
    11. David M. Lewinsohn

  • Rab6 regulates recycling and retrograde trafficking of MR1 molecules

    Scientific Reports
    1. Megan E. Huber
    2. Regina Kurapova
    3. Chelsea M. Heisler
    4. Elham Karamooz
    5. Fikadu G. Tafesse
    6. Melanie J. Harriff

  • MR1 recycling and blockade of endosomal trafficking reveal distinguishable antigen presentation pathways between Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and exogenously delivered antigens

    Scientific Reports
    1. Elham Karamooz
    2. Melanie J. Harriff
    3. Gitanjali A. Narayanan
    4. Aneta Worley
    5. David M. Lewinsohn

  • Bordetella bronchiseptica in non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis

    Respiratory Medicine Case Reports
    1. Elham Karamooz
    2. Vanessa L. Yap
    3. Alan F. Barker
    4. Mark L. Metersky

  • MAIT cells and microbial immunity

    Immunology and Cell Biology
    1. Erin W. Meermeier
    2. Melanie J. Harriff
    3. Elham Karamooz
    4. David M. Lewinsohn

  • Rapid onset of hypoxemia in a man with graft-versus-host disease after stem cell transplant leukemia

    Annals of the American Thoracic Society
    1. Elham Karamooz
    2. Nathan Nguyen
    3. Jeffrey A. Gold

  • Endosomal MR1 Trafficking Plays a Key Role in Presentation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ligands to MAIT Cells

    PLoS pathogens
    1. Melanie J. Harriff
    2. Elham Karamooz
    3. Ansen Burr
    4. Wilmon F. Grant
    5. Elizabeth T. Canfield
    6. Michelle L. Sorensen
    7. Luis F. Moita
    8. David M. Lewinsohn

  • Crystal Structures of T. brucei MRP1/MRP2 Guide-RNA Binding Complex Reveal RNA Matchmaking Mechanism

    Cell
    1. Maria A. Schumacher
    2. Elham Karamooz
    3. Alena Zíková
    4. Lukáš Trantírek
    5. Julius Lukeš