Infectious Diseases

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...

Lee Harrison, MD, and Nicolas Sluis-Cremer, PhD, have been awarded funding in the amount of $988,818 for a five-year T32 training grant by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) entitled...

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Mohamed H. Yassin, MD, PhD, to the rank of Associate Professor. Mohamed joined the Division of Infectious Diseases in 2009 as a Clinical Assistant Professor, and was appointed Medical Director of Infection...

Bonnie Falcione, PharmD, recently received a secondary promotion to the rank of Associate Professor of Medicine in the ID Division. Bonnie joined our Division in 2006 as a member of the Antibiotic Management Program serving in the role of Clinical...