Jennifer Mulliken, MD

Assoc Professor Clinical Med

OVERVIEW
Jennifer Mulliken is an infectious disease specialist who attends at San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) where she sees patients on the infectious disease consult service and in the outpatient HIV/infectious disease clinic. She completed her medical education and internal medicine residency at NYU, where she also served as senior chief resident, before completing fellowship training in infectious diseases at UCSF. In addition to her clinical activities, Jennifer serves as Associate ID Chief for Clinical Operations at SFVAMC and Medical Director of the Antibiotic Stewardship and Home IV Therapy Programs at SFVAMC.

EDUCATIONAL PURSUITS
Jennifer is the Associate Program Director for Curriculum & Recruitment for the UCSF ID Fellowship Program. She serves as a core preceptor for trainees on clinical rotations at SFVA both on inpatient ID consults and the outpatient ID/HIV clinic. Additionally, she gives lectures to students, residents, and fellows in the medicine residency and the ID fellowship lecture series.

Education
Fellowship, 2019 - Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco
Chief Residency, 2017 - Internal Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center
Residency, 2016 - Internal Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center
MD, 2013 - Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
MA, 2006 - History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art
AB, 2004 - Art History, Dartmouth College
Publications

  1. Mulliken JS, Bainbridge ED. Infective Endocarditis. The Medical clinics of North America 2025. PMID: 40185554


  2. Otani IM, Tang M, Wang L, Anstey KM, Hilts-Horeczko A, Li F, Le VP, Lee M, Bystritsky R, Mulliken JS, Wattier RL, Blumenthal KG, Doernberg SB. Impact of an Inpatient Allergy Guideline on β-Lactam and Alternative Antibiotic Use. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice 2023. PMID: 37182569


  3. Mulliken JS, Hampshire KN, Rappold AG, Fung M, Babik JM, Doernberg SB. Risk of systemic fungal infections after exposure to wildfires: a population-based, retrospective study in California. The Lancet. Planetary health 2023. PMID: 37164514


  4. Ward LM, Peluso MJ, Budak JZ, Elicker BM, Chin-Hong PV, Lampiris H, Mulliken JS. Opportunistic coinfection with Pneumocystis jirovecii and Coccidioides immitis associated with idelalisib treatment in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. BMJ case reports 2020. PMID: 32354764


  5. Budak JZ, Brickman CE, Abdoler EA, Wallender EK, Mulliken JS, Kerkhoff AD, Lampiris H, Babik JM, Koss CA, Schwartz BS. Response to: Is Burnout Infectious? Understanding Drivers of Burnout and Job Satisfaction Among Academic Infectious Diseases Physicians. Open forum infectious diseases 2020. PMID: 32284950


  6. Mulliken JS, Bystritsky R, Anstey K, Otani IM, Doernberg SB. 2543. Implementation of a Fellow-Driven ?eta-Lactam Allergy De-Labeling Initiative on an Inpatient ID Consult Service Open Forum Infectious Disease 2019. PMID:


  7. Budak JZ, Brickman C, Abdoler E, Wallender E, Mulliken JS, Kerkhoff AD, Lampiris H, Babik JM, Koss C, Schwartz B. Development of an Infectious Diseases Fellowship Well-Being Program Open Forum Infectious Disease 2019. PMID:


  8. Mulliken JS, Langelier C, Budak JZ, Miller S, Dynerman D, Hao S, Li LM, Crawford E, Lyden A, Woodworth MH, DeRisi JL, Desmond E, Browne C, Luu A, Grandis DJ, Grossman W, Deuse T, Melcher GP. Bergeyella cardium: Clinical Characteristics and Draft Genome of an Emerging Pathogen in Native and Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis. Open forum infectious diseases 2019. PMID: 31024974