Jeannette Ouyang-Latimer, MD

Dr. Jeannette Ouyang-Latimer earned her Bachelor of Arts in Biological Basis of Behavior and her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, graduating cum laude, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1999. She earned her Doctor of Medicine at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 2003. She completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UCLA-Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 2007 and a fellowship in Infectious Disease at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 2010. Dr. Ouyang-Latimer earned her Masters of Public Health, with a concentration in Epidemiology and Global Health, at the UTHealth School of Public Health in Houston in 2010.

Dr. Ouyang-Latimer  has worked in a variety of positions over the course of her medical career, most recently in private practice as an Infectious Disease (adult) specialist from July 2010 to August 2017, as a telemedicine/urgent care physician at Doctors on Demand from August 2017 to December 2017, and as an Infectious Disease specialist for Memorial Hermann-Greater Heights Hospital and Houston Methodist West Hospital from December 2017 to June 2020.

Dr. Ouyang-Latimer joined Kelsey-Seybold in July 2020.

Dr. Ouyang-Latimer is a member of the Infectious Disease Society and the Christian Medical & Dental Association.

Dr. Ouyang-Latimer enjoys spending time with her husband and four children. She loves to travel and explore new cities on foot and learn about other cultures. She routinely tries to give back to the community and loves to include her children in various service projects in town.

Awards

• Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Fellow’s travel grant for abstract, 2009
• Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (OCAAC) Infectious Disease Fellows grant, 2009
• IDSA/ICAAC Fellow’s travel award for Fellow’s Day case presentation, 2008
• National Institutes of Health T32 training grant – Baylor College of Medicine, 2008
• ICAAC Infectious Disease Fellow’s grant, 2007

Publications

• Ouyang-Latimer J, Jafri S, VanTassel A et al. In vitro antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial enteropathogens isolated from international travelers to Mexico, Guatemala, and India from 2006 to 2008. Antimicrobial Agents of Chemotherapy. 2011 Feb;55(2):874-8.
• Ouyang-Latimer J, Ajami NJ, Jiang ZD, Okhuysen PC, Paredes M, Flores J, Dupont HL. Biochemical and Genetic Diversity of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) Associated with Diarrhea in U.S. Students to Cuernavaca and Guadalajara, Mexico, 2004 – 2007. Journal of Infectious Disease. 2010 Jun 15;201(12):1831-8.
• Ouyang J. A man with HIV/AIDS and progressive weakness in his legs. Partners Infectious Disease Images. 2008 IDSA/ICAAC Fellows’ Day Cases. www.idimages.org.

Research and Presentations

• NFID Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance Oral Presentation, February 2010: “Antibiotic Susceptibility and Resistance among Bacterial Enteropathogens Isolated from International Travelers to Mexico, Guatemala, and India, 2006 –2008” (NFID: National Foundation for Infectious Disease)
• IDSA Abstract Presentation IDSA National Meeting, October 2009: “Biochemical and Genetic Diversity of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia Coli (ETEC) Associated with Diarrhea in U.S. Students to Cuernavaca and Guadalajara, Mexico, 2004 – 2007” 
• IDSA Case Presentation & Publication IDSA/ICAAC National Meeting, October 2008: Case of Disseminated Toxoplasmosis. One of 10 cases presented at the national meeting and published in the Partners Infectious Disease Images.
• IDSA Abstract Presentation Infectious Disease Society National Meeting, October 2007: “Clinical Outcomes Related to Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Decreased Susceptibility to Vancomycin”
• Research Project Cedars Sinai Medical Center, November 2006 to June 2007: Worked on various studies involving hospital epidemiology of MRSA, MIC creep, and rapid diagnostic techniques
• Research Assistant at Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, 1996 to 1998: Worked in lab with Dr. Paul Offit, Chief of Infectious Diseases, studying Rotavirus vaccine for paper on “Determinants of long-lived, virus-specific mucosal immunity” and also ran numerous independent experiments regarding duration of mucosal immunity in mice