Kristen Valencia Deray, MD

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I am committed to providing compassionate, evidence-based care for children with infectious diseases in both inpatient and outpatient settings at Texas Children’s Hospital. I have a special interest in caring for immunocompromised patients, including those who have received solid organ or hematopoietic stem cell transplants. In addition to my clinical work, I serve as the associate program director for the pediatric infectious diseases fellowship and lead the transplant infectious diseases curriculum. My research focuses on improving the prevention and treatment of infections in pediatric transplant recipients to enhance their outcomes and quality of life.

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Alpha Omega Alpha, 2015

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Feldman AG, Beaty BL, Ferrolino JA,…Valencia Deray KG… et al. Postvaccination Immunogenicity Among Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients. JAMA Pediatrics. 2025;179(4):467-471. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.6778

Marc Foca, Salih Demirhan, Flor M Munoz, Kristen G Valencia Deray ..., Multicenter Analysis of Valganciclovir Prophylaxis in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 11, Issue 7, July 2024, ofae353, doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae353

Valencia Deray KG, Kellermayer R, Gomez AC, Patel KR, Imani P, Kitagawa S, Bocchini CE, Orjuela A. Colonic malakoplakia in a pediatric renal transplant recipient case report. SAGE Open Medical Case Reports. 2024 Mar 18;12:2050313X241239866. doi: 10.1177/2050313X241239866

Valencia Deray KG, Danziger-Isakov L, Downes K, Current and emerging antiviral agents in the prevention and treatment of CMV in pediatric transplant recipients. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society. 2024 Feb 28;13(Supplement_1):S14-S21. doi: 10.1093/jpids/piad059

Ruan W, Galvan NTN, Dike P, ... Valencia Deray KG … The Multidisciplinary Pediatric Liver Transplant. Current Problems in Surgery. Published online September 7, 2023:101377. doi:10.1016/j.cpsurg.2023.101377

Demirhan S, Munoz FM, Valencia Deray KG, et al. Body surface area compared to body weight dosing of valganciclovir is associated with increased toxicity in pediatric solid organ transplantation recipients [published online ahead of print, 2023 Jul 26]. American Journal of Transplantation. 2023;S1600-6135(23)00584-1. doi:10.1016/j.ajt.2023.07.013

Valencia Deray KG., Hosek K., Chilukuri D., Dunson J., Spielberg D., Swartz S., Spinner J., Leung D., Moulton E., Munoz F., Demmler-Harrison G., Bocchini C. “Epidemiology and long-term outcomes of cytomegalovirus DNAemia and disease in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients.” American Journal of Transplantation. 2021; doi: 10.1111/ajt.16822. PMID: 34467658