Research 

Faculty and fellows of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases are engaged in a wide range of clinical, translational and basic investigation related to pediatric infectious diseases.   The research being conducted in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases is broadly based.  These areas of research include viral, fungal and bacterial pathogenesis; prevention and treatment of pediatric HIV-infection; prevention and treatment of infection in neonates and other immunocompromised hosts; and treatment of infectious diseases in the international setting.

Research 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
Michael Cohen-Wolkowiez, MD	Safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics of antimicrobials in infants
Dennis A. Clements, MD, PhD	Pediatric vaccine trials
Robert P. Drucker, MD	General infectious diseases, medical education
Harmony Garges, MD
Ravi R. Jhaveri, MD	Basic pathogenesis of hepatitis C, clinical outcomes of hepatitis C infection
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, M.D.	HIV and Tb vaccine design and development
Patrick C. Seed, MD, PhD	Molecular and cellular determinants of uropathogenic E. coli infection
Joseph St. Geme, 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
Emmanuel B. Walter, MD	Vaccine research in the Pediatric Primary Care Division, pediatric travel, international adoption
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

 

Basic Research

Bacterial Pathogenesis

• Haemophilus influenzae pathogenesis and vaccine development
• Molecular and cellular determinants of uropathogenic E. coli infection
  
  

Fungal Pathogenesis

• Evaluation of the pathogenic mechanisms of Aspergillus infection.