Paloma F. Cariello
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Paloma F. Cariello, MD, MPH

Languages spoken: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Paloma F Cariello, MD, MPH is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah. She is a clinical educator who graduated from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 2003 and obtained a Master’s Degree in Public Health from University of Massachusetts in 2013. Dr. Cariello’s clinical work is focused on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of transplant-related infections and immunocompromised hosts, with dedicated training and expertise in caring for that patient population. She believes teamwork is the best approach to patient care, with the patient being the key element of the team.

Dr. Cariello is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. In addition to clinical work, she is highly dedicated to medical education and serves as the Associate Dean for the Office of Academic Culture and Community. During her free time, Dr. Cariello enjoys cooking, puzzles, hiking and outdoor activities.

Specialties

Board Certification

American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Infectious Disease)

Paloma F Cariello, MD, MPH is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah. She is a clinical educator who graduated from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 2003 and obtained a Master’s Degree in Public Health from University of Massachusetts in 2013. Dr. Cariello’s clinical work is focused on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of transplant-related infections and immunocompromised hosts, with dedicated training and expertise in caring for that patient population. She believes teamwork is the best approach to patient care, with the patient being the key element of the team.

Dr. Cariello is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. In addition to clinical work, she is highly dedicated to medical education and serves as the Associate Dean for the Office of Academic Culture and Community. During her free time, Dr. Cariello enjoys cooking, puzzles, hiking and outdoor activities.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Internal Medicine -Professor (Clinical)
Academic Divisions Infectious Diseases
Board Certification
American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Infectious Disease)

Education history

Fellowship Transplant Infectious Diseases - University of Pittsburgh Fellow
Graduate Training University of Massachusetts M.P.H.
Fellowship Infectious Diseases - University of Massachusetts Fellow
Chief Resident MetroWest Medical Center Chief Resident
Residency Internal Medicine - MetroWest Medical Center Resident
Internship Internal Medicine - MetroWest Medical Center Intern
Professional Medical Medicine - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Medical School M.D.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Knight JR, Abril JM, Farhat R, Chow CJ, Cariello PF, Ho T, Jones JL (2026). Language Matters: Integrating Community Voices into the University of Utah Quick Language Guide. Teach Learn Med, 1-7.
  2. Chow B, Mena Lora AJ, Luther VP, Neyra JA, Acharya K, Alsoubani M, Berto CG, Cariello P, Dobrzynski D, Donaghy H, Jamarkattel S, Kaltsas A, Kostka J, Medina-Garcia L, Murphy H, Sellers C, Slosar-Cheah M, Stapleton A (2026). Bridging the Gap: A Needs Assessment of Resources and Support for International Medical Graduates Navigating Visa-related Career Decisions in Infectious Diseases. Open Forum Infect Dis, 13(4), ofag183.
  3. Nguyen QT, Cabal V, Debbink M, Acosta D, Flattes VJ, Baluchi D, Ovuoba N, Cariello PF, Watts BT, Clouse ER, Nyman H, Taylor E, Kemeyou L, Lucero JE, Washington JC, Figueroa E, Campbell KM, Barbaar A, Ogbeide SA, Rodrguez JE (2024). Building an Equity-Centered Ecosystem: University of Utah Health as a Microcosm. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities.
  4. Zenger B, Chang A, Eldridge DR, Thoms SP, Gray YM, Kang A, Steinberg BA, Bunch TJ, Kamimura A, Kemeyou L, Cariello PF (2025). Preparatory Program for Students Underrepresented in Medicine Promotes Self-Efficacy in the Medical School Application Process: Novel Insights from a Qualitative Analysis. J Best Pract Health Prof Divers, 17(1), 1-17.
  5. Cariello PF, Figueroa E, Harris CM, Eldridge DR, Hooten M, Cuevas GE, Jones JL, Hightower M, Campbell KM, Martineau M, Rodrguez JE, Oquendo LA (2023). Future Doctors From Underrepresented in Medicine Communities at the University of Utah. PRiMER, 7, 25.
  6. Luther VP, Barsoumian AE, Konold VJL, Vijayan T, Balba G, Benson C, Blackburn B, Cariello P, Perloff S, Razonable R, Acharya K, Azar MM, Bhanot N, Blyth D, Butt S, Casanas B, Chow B, Cleveland K, Cutrell JB, Doshi S, Finkel D, Graber CJ, Hazra A, Hochberg NS, James SH, Kaltsas A, Kodiyanplakkal RPL, Lee M, Marcos L, Mena Lora AJ, Moore CC, Nnedu O, Osorio G, Paras ML, Reece R, Salas NM, Sanasi-Bhola K, Schultz S, Serpa JA, Shnekendorf R, Weisenberg S, Wooten D, Zuckerman RA, Melia M, Chirch LM (2023). Inclusion, Diversity, Access, and Equity in Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training: Tools for Program Directors. Open Forum Infect Dis, 10(6), ofad289.
  7. Pippitt KA, Moore KB, Lindsley JE, Cariello PF, Smith AG, Formosa T, Moser K, Morton DA, Colbert-Getz JM, Chow CJ (2022). Assessment for Learning with Ungraded and Graded Assessments. Med Sci Educ, 32(5), 1045-1054.
  8. Yee J, Unger L, Zadravecz F, Cariello P, Seibert A, Johnson MA, Fuller MJ (2020). Novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): Emergence and implications for emergency care. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open, 1(2), 63-69.
  9. Melia MT, Paez A, Reid G, Chirch LM, Luther VP, Blackburn BG, Perez F, Abdoler E, Kaul DR, Rehm S, Harik N, Barsoumian A, Person AK, Yun H, Beckham JD, Boruchoff S, Cariello PF, Cutrell JB, Graber CJ, Lee DH, Maziarz E, Paras ML, Razonable RR, Ressner R, Chen A, Chow B, Escota G, Herc E, Johnson A, Maves RC, Nnedu O, Clauss H, Kulkarni P, Pottinger PS, Serpa JA, Bhowmick T, Bittner M, Wooten D, Casanas B, Shnekendorf R, Blumberg EA (2020). The Struggling Infectious Diseases Fellow: Remediation Challenges and Opportunities. Open Forum Infect Dis, 7(3), ofaa058.
  10. Filkins LM, Gaston DC, Mathison B, Smith T, Couturier MR, Murphy RD, Ciarkowski C, Hanson KE, Cariello PF (2017). Biliary Strongyloides stercoralis With Cholecystitis and Extensive Portal Vein Thrombosis. Open Forum Infect Dis, 4(4), ofx217.
  11. Cariello PF, Kwak EJ, Abdel-Massih RC, Silveira FP (2015). Safety and tolerability of clofazimine as salvage therapy for atypical mycobacterial infection in solid organ transplant recipients. Transpl Infect Dis, 17(1), 111-8.
  12. Cariello PF, Wickes BL, Sutton DA, Castlebury LA, Levitz SM, Finberg RW, Thompson EH, Daly JS (2013). Phomopsis bougainvilleicola prepatellar bursitis in a renal transplant recipient. J Clin Microbiol, 51(2), 692-5.
  13. Soares M, Fontes F, Dantas J, Gadelha D, Cariello P, Nardes F, Amorim C, Toscano L, Rocco JR (2004). Performance of six severity-of-illness scores in cancer patients requiring admission to the intensive care unit: a prospective observational study. Crit Care, 8(4), R194-203.

Book Chapter

  1. Cariello PF, Muoz P (2017). Other Syndromes: Arthritis. In Sole A, Silveira F (Eds.), What to do in case of... A Reference Diagnostic Guide in Thoracic Organ Transplantation: Practical Approach to Frequent Scenarios (10). International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation.
  2. Wooding FG, Cariello PF, Nilsen AM (2012). Histoplasmosis. In 5-Minute Clinical Consult. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
  3. Cariello PF, Madoff LC (2012). Emerging Infectious Diseases and Globalization. In Emerging Diseases. Brazil: Editora Atheneu.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Debbink, M Cariello, P Kemeyou, L (2021). Increasing Diversity in Training Programs at the University of Utah. AAMC Group on Diversity and Inclusion Health Workforce Research Joint Conference.
  2. Cariello, PF Holaday, LW Wright, JB (2020). Pre-Faculty Development for Women. Conference Summary: Pre-Faculty Development for Diverse Trainees: Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians.
  3. Cariello, P, Bares, S, Zimmer, A, Watts, K, Johnson, M, Rosenthal, K (2019). Contagion Theater - Teaching Microbiology with a Live In Class Sketch. AAMC 2019 Western Collaborative Meeting, Reno, NV.
  4. Goyal N, Gaskill E, Graves K, Sanders S, Benefield R, Elhalta D, Link N, Cariello PF (2018). Development of an Electronic Health Record Generated Alert for Prophylaxis Against Pneumocystis Jirovecii Pneumonia in the Setting of High Dose Steroids. ID Week, San Francisco, CA.
  5. Goyal N, Gaskill E, Graves K, Sanders S, Benefield R, Elhalta D, Link N, Cariello PF (2018). A Multidisciplinary Approach to Implementing PJP Prophylaxis in the Setting of High Dose Steroids on Discharge to Reduce Risk of Incidence of PJP. High Value Practice Academic Alliance National Conference, Baltimore, MD.
  6. Bliven K, Tsuha S, Benefield R, Cariello PF (2018). Successful treatment of native valve endocarditis due to VRE in an immunocompromised host with the combination of daptomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam followed by daptomycin and tigecycline. American College of Clinical Pharmacy 2018 Virtual Poster Symposium.
  7. Cariello PF, Daly JS, Fraire AE, Smith HL (2012). Mycobacterium bovis Aortic Aneurysm Following BCG Intravascular Instillation: A Misclassified Tuberculosis Diagnosis. ID Week, San Diego, CA.
  8. Cariello PF, Wickes BL, Sutton DA, Castlebury LA, Levitz SM, Finberg RW, Thompson EH, Daly JS (2012). Pre-Patellar Bursitis Secondary to Phomopsis bougainvilleicola in a Renal Transplant Recipient. The Immunocompromised Host Society Symposium, Genova, Italy.
  9. Cariello PF, Chimienti SN, Daly JS, Finberg RW, Jabbour N, Bozorgzadeh A (2012). Solid Organ Transplant Associated Graft-Versus-Host-Disease: A Reverse Rejection Mimicking Infection. The Immunocompromised Host Society Symposium, Genova, Italy.
  10. Cariello P, Treadwell T (2009). Apparent Virologic Failures and Blips in a Suburban HIV Clinic Caused by Laboratory Errors in a Commercial HIV-1 RNA PCR Assay. Interrnational Congress of Infectious Diseases, Miami, FL.

Case Report

  1. Cariello, PF, Goyal, D, Tsuha, S (2019). Pericardial Effusion with Necrotic Ventricular Mass in a Kidney Transplant Recipient. Am J Transplant, 19(5), 1589-1591.
  2. Filkins LM, Gaston DC, Mathison B, Smith T, Couturier MR, Murphy RD, Ciarkowski C, Hanson KE, Cariello PF (2017). Biliary Strongyloides stercoralis with cholecystitis and extensive portal vein thrombosis. Open Forum Infect Dis, 4(4).

Letter

  1. Osborn JD, Cariello PF, Pena E, Lee CJ (2019). Nocardia thyroiditis after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. [Letter to the editor]. Leuk Lymphoma, 61(4), 983-986.

Other

  1. Cariello, PF (2020). Toward a Racially Just Workplace. https://uofuhealth.utah.edu/notes/postings/2020/12/friday-forum-racially-just-workplace.php#.YG0PeuhKiUk.
  2. Good, M Minoshima, S Okuyemi, K Cariello, P Rodrguez, J (2020). Continuing the Work of Anti-racism, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the School of Medicine. https://uofuhealth.utah.edu/notes/postings/2020/07/school-of-medicine-anti-racism-equity-diversity-inclusion.php#.YHSrhOhKiUk.