| Division of Infectious Diseases |
Faculty and Staff
Faculty
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Name |
Areas of Special Interest |
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Coleen K. Cunningham, MD, Chief |
Treatment of pediatric HIV, prevention of perinatal HIV transmission, and HIV vaccine studies |
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Multicenter pediatric anti-infective trials, neonatal infections | |
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Pediatric vaccine trials | |
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Safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics of antimicrobials in infants | |
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General infectious diseases, medical education | |
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Basic pathogenesis of hepatitis C, clinical outcomes of hepatitis C infection | |
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Tropical and parasitic diseases, mosquito and tick-borne infections, and travel medicine, pediatric and adolescent HIV/AIDS | |
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Treatment of HIV infection in children, medical education | |
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Clinical research in treatment of Pediatric HIV infection | |
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HIV and Tb vaccine design and development | |
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Molecular and cellular determinants of uropathogenic E. coli infection | |
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Haemophilus influenzae pathogenesis and vaccine development | |
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Clinical and basic research in invasive fungal infections, with primary interest in Aspergillus pathogenesis | |
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Vaccine research in the Pediatric Primary Care Division, pediatric travel, international adoption | |
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Samuel L. Katz, MD, emeritus | Pediatric vaccines, vaccine delivery in low resource settings |
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Catherine Wilfert, MD, emeritus |
Treatment of HIV-infected children, prevention of mother to child HIV transmission in resource limited settings |
Fellows
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Name |
Areas of Special Interest |
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Dwight Yin, MD
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First-year fellow. |
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Ann Buchanan, MD, MPH, DTM&H |
Second-year fellow conducting research on the diagnosis and treatment of mycobacterial infections in HIV-positive children in Africa. |
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Luise Rogg, MD, PhD |
Second-year fellow conducting research on the calcineurin control of the cell wall in Aspergillus fumigatus. |
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Maria Guadalupe Lopez Marti, MD |
Third-year fellow conducting research on hospital infection control and respiratory viral pathogens in pediatric bone marrow transplant recipients. |
Post-doctoral Associate
Name Role
Jarrod Fortwendel, PhD Post-doctoral Associate
Staff
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Name |
Role |
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Brenda Cole |
Administrative Secretary |
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Terry Hales |
GME Program Coordinator |
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Jesse Kaluka |
Administrative Manager |
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Lindsay Johnson |
Staff Assistant |
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Cheryl Lucker |
Staff Assistant |
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Eileen Wojciechowski |
Financial Analyst |
Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Unit And HIV Research Staff
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Name |
Role |
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Linda Connor |
Outreach Social Worker |
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Rachel Dizney |
Clinic Social Worker |
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Margaret Donnelly |
Physician Assistant |
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Mary Jo Hassett |
Nurse Coordinator |
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Carole Mathison |
Senior Research Aid |
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Teresa Martling |
Clinical Research Coordinator |
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Mary McLees-Lane |
Outreach Social Work Supervisor |
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Sunita Patil |
Clinical Research Coordinator |
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John Swetnam |
Research Analyst |
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Joan Wilson |
Research Nurse Coordinator |




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