Highlighted Research Activities
Our faculty performs cutting-edge clinical, translational, and basic science research in the pathogenesis and treatment of infectious diseases, including HIV, CNS viral infections, hepatitis C virus, respiratory tract infections, and gram-negative bacterial infections.
Laboratory-Based and Basic Sciences
David Greenberg, M.D.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Antibiotic resistance
Novel therapeutics
Genomics
Lenette Lu, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Antibody effector functions
Antibody glycosylation
Host microbial interactions
Humoral immunity
Tuberculosis
Clinical and Quantitative Sciences
Roger Bedimo, M.D.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Analysis of the rates, determinants, and mechanisms of chronic complications of HIV disease and antiretroviral therapy, including cardiovascular diseases, non-AIDS malignancies, and metabolic bone disease
Role of hepatitis C co-infection on HIV-associated morbidity
Kavita Bhavan, M.D., M.H.S.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Musculoskeletal infections
Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy/health care delivery in resource-limited settings
Antimicrobial stewardship/quality improvement
Pearlie Chong, M.D.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Clinical and translational research projects in HSCT/hematological malignancies and SOT recipients
Role of gut microbiota in human norovirus infections in transplant patients (funded by NIAID K23)
Jeremy Chow, M.D.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Understanding trends in hospitalizations among people living with HIV in states with and without Medicaid expansion
James Cutrell, M.D.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Chronic non-AIDS complications of HIV
Antimicrobial stewardship and healthcare epidemiology
Novel approaches to medical education
Mamta Jain, M.D., M.P.H.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Clinical trials in HIV prevention, HIV treatment, HIV/HBV, HIV/HCV, influenza
HIV clinical outcomes and linkage to care
Hepatitis C treatment in special populations
Ricardo La Hoz, M.D.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Donor-derived infections
Optimizing deceased organ donor utilization and testing
Parasitic infections in solid organ transplant recipients
Christian Larsen, M.D.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Non-tuberculous mycobacterium
Medical education
Ank Nijhawan, M.D., M.P.H.
Clinical & Research Interests:
HIV
Health services and outcomes research
Transitions of care
Correctional health
Trish M. Perl, M.D., M.Sc.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Health care-associated infections
Antimicrobial resistance
Infection Prevention
Emerging infectious diseases
Bonnie Prokesch, M.D.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Antimicrobial stewardship
Therapies for patients with recurrent urinary tract infections with resistant pathogens
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and the multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment
Jeffrey Tessier, M.D.
Clinical & Research Interests:
Pathogenesis and treatment of bacterial tozxin-mediated diseases: Clostridioides difficile, Bacillus anthracis
Intraabdominal infections
Clinical trials in immunocompromised patients