We are very pleased to announce several new faculty members who are joining the ID Division. The Division continues to expand its expertise and reach through in-person and Tele-ID services. As a result, the types of faculty appointments have also expanded to include casual, part-time and full-time appointments with varying effort on in-person and Tele-ID services. As you can see below, this flexibility has proven to be very attractive to faculty applicants across the spectrum of experience, ranging from new fellowship graduates to very experienced clinicians. Please take a moment to reach out to our new faculty. They very much want to feel connected to our Division as we do to them!

Please join us in welcoming Philip and Shanza!

Philip J. Palmieri, MD, joined the faculty of the ID Division at the rank of Clinical Assistant Professor effective September 1, 2020. Philip earned his medical degree from the State University of New York, Buffalo School of Medicine in Buffalo, New York in 1990. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota in 1994. Philip joined the fellowship program in Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas, graduating in 1996. He is currently a Senior Partner in Upstate Infectious Diseases Associates, LLP of Albany, New York. He may be reached at palmierip@upmc.edu.

Shanza Khan Mahmood, MD, joined the faculty of the ID Division at the rank of Clinical Assistant Professor effective October 1, 2020. Shanza earned her medical degree graduating cum laude from the American University of Antigua Medical School in Coolidge, Antigua in 2015. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the Canton Medical Education Foundation, Northeast Ohio Medical University in Canton, Ohio in 2018. Shanza completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at New York Presbyterian/Queens Hospital in Flushing, New York in June 2020. She may be reached at mahmoodsk@upmc.edu.