Infectious Diseases

We are pleased to announce that Daria Van Tyne, PhD has been awarded funding in the amount of $29,873 for a two-year grant by the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF Global) entitled “Evolution of Extended-Spectrum...

We are pleased to announce that Sowmya Nanjappa, MBBS, MD, FACP, has received the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Fellow designation (FIDSA). IDSA Fellows are individuals recognized for having achieved professional excellence and for providing...

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Mustapha Mustapha, MD, PhD, to the rank of Research Assistant Professor of Medicine. Mustapha was awarded an MPH degree in Epidemiology and a PhD in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases from the Graduate School of...

We are pleased to announce that Ghady Haidar, MD, has been elected to the American Society of Transplantation’s Infectious Disease Community of Practice (ID COP) Executive Committee for a one-year term. He will serve as an Early Career Member-at-Large...

Erin McCreary, PharmD, has been appointed to the ASM Microbe Program Committee for a three-yearterm. Erin is working with the ID Division as part of the Antibiotic Management Program (AMP), a joint initiative of the Department of Medicine (Division of...

Daria Van Tyne, PhD, has been awarded funding in the amount of $25,000 for a one-year grant by the CompetitiveMedical Research Fund (CMRF) entitled “Dynamics of Mobile Genetic Element Sharing among Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Pathogens in a Hospital...

Please join us in welcoming Cristian Apetrei, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine (Visiting) with tenure, to the Division of Infectious Diseases.Dr. Apetrei’s research focuses on the study of HIV/SIV diversity and pathogenesis. Utilizing monkey models, he...

For the second consecutive year Eun Jeong Kwak, MD, has received the Fellows’ Teaching Award. The Fellows’ have shared that “Dr. Kwak has an excellent knowledge base and is always relaxed and cool…. She finds time to teach even when the service is very...

Yohei Doi, MD, PhD, has been appointed to the ASM Microbe Program Committee for a three-year term. ASM Microbe is the largest annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, drawing ten thousand attendees worldwide. In this new capacity, Yohei...