Infectious Diseases | Duke Department of Pediatrics

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Infectious Diseases

Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Name	Areas of Special Interest
Coleen K. Cunningham, MD, Chief	Treatment of pediatric HIV, prevention of perinatal HIV transmission, and HIV vaccine studies
Daniel Benjamin, MD, MPH, PhD	Multicenter pediatric anti-infective trials, neonatal infections
Ann Buchanan, MD, MPH	Pediatric HIV and co-infections (particularly TB and hepatitis B) among children in resource-poor settings
Dennis A. Clements, MD, PhD	Pediatric vaccine trials
Michael Cohen-Wolkowiez, MD	Safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics of antimicrobials in infants
Robert P. Drucker, MD	General infectious diseases, medical education
Harmony Garges, MD	Consulting Associate
Ravi R. Jhaveri, MD	Basic pathogenesis of hepatitis C, clinical outcomes of hepatitis C infection
Paul M. Lantos, MD	Tropical and parasitic diseases, mosquito and tick-borne infections, and travel medicine, pediatric and adolescent HIV/AIDS
Kathleen A. McGann, MD	Treatment of HIV infection in children, medical education
Ross E. McKinney, MD	Clinical research in treatment of Pediatric HIV infection
M. Anthony Moody, MD	Study and design of HIV-1 and influenza vaccines, development of novel adjuvants, response of the humoral immune system to vaccination and infection
Sallie Permar, MD, PhD	Prevention and treatment of neonatal viral infections and infectious diseases in immunosuppressed pediatric patients
Patrick C. Seed, MD, PhD	Molecular and cellular determinants of uropathogenic E. coli infection
Joseph St. Geme, III, MD	Haemophilus influenzae pathogenesis and vaccine development
William J. Steinbach, MD	Clinical and basic research in invasive fungal infections, with primary interest in Aspergillus pathogenesis
Samuel L. Katz, MD, emeritus	Pediatric vaccines, vaccine delivery in low resource settings
Catherine Wilfert, MD, emeritus	Treatment of HIV-infected children, prevention of mother to child HIV transmission in resource limited settings

Fellows

Name	Role
Mehreen Arshad, MD	First-year fellow
Dorothy Dow, MD	Second-year fellow conducting research on the prevalence of HIV maternal to child transmission
Dwight Yin, MD	Third-year fellow conducting research on the calcineurin control of the cell wall in Aspergillus fumigatus

Post-doctoral Associate

Name	Role
Jarrod Fortwendel, PhD	Post-doctoral Associate

Staff

Name
Bridgit Burch	Staff Assistant
Betsy Faust	Staff Assistant
Terry Hales	GME Program Coordinator
Lindsay Johnson	Staff Assistant
Trevor Pfeiffer	Data Technician
Amy Seidel	Administrative Manager

Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and HIV Research Staff

Name
Linda Connor	Outreach Social Worker
Rachel Dizney	Clinic Social Worker
Margaret Donnelly	Physician Assistant
Mary Jo Hassett	Nurse Coordinator
Carole Mathison	Senior Research Aide
Mary McLees-Lane	Outreach Social Work Supervisor
Sunita Patil	Clinical Research Coordinator
John Swetnam	Research Analyst
Joan Wilson	Research Nurse Coordinator