Our faculty are heavily involved in research and mentoring. Details of basic science and clinical translational science are on our Research page.

Jennifer A. Philips, MD, PhD

Jennifer A. Philips, MD, PhD

Theodore and Bertha Bryan Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology; Co-director, Infectious Diseases Division

Dr. Philips is principal investigator of an NIH-funded lab that studies how Mycobacterium tuberculosis evades the host immune response.

William G. Powderly, MD

William G. Powderly, MD

J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine & Co-director, Infectious Diseases Division

Dr. Powderly has been actively involved in HIV-related clinical research for over thirty years with specific interests in opportunistic infections, metabolic complications and long-term outcomes of antiretroviral therapy.

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Hilary M. Babcock, MD, MPH

Hilary M. Babcock, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Babcock specializes in prevention and outcomes of healthcare associated infections including respiratory viral infections, vaccination of healthcare workers, pathogen transmission in healthcare settings and protection of healthcare personnel. She co-chairs the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committeee (HICPAC) of the CDC. Her also serves on the bone and Joint/orthopedic infections inpatient consult service.

Shashwatee Bagchi, MD, MS, MSc

Shashwatee Bagchi, MD, MS, MSc

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Bagchi specializes in clinical and translational research with a focus on cardiometabolic and vascular complications of infections.

Thomas C. Bailey, MD

Thomas C. Bailey, MD

Professor of Medicine

Research Interest: Information technology to improve healthcare quality.

Megan Tierney Baldridge, MD, PhD

Megan Tierney Baldridge, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology

Dr. Baldridge studies the complicated interplay among three important factors: commensal microbes, the host immune system, and viral and bacterial pathogens.

Ernie-Paul Barrette, MD, FIDSA, FACP

Ernie-Paul Barrette, MD, FIDSA, FACP

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Barrette specializes in the primary care of patients living with HIV infection and AIDS. He has a special interest in opioid use disorder.

Jacco Boon, PhD

Jacco Boon, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology and Pathology and Immunology

Dr. Boon He specializes in basic research on RNA viruses, with a special focus on emerging virus such as influenza virus, Bourbon virus and SARS-CoV-2.

Philip J. Budge, MD, PhD

Philip J. Budge, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Budge specializes in translational, public health-related research, with a special focus on filarial infections—insect-borne threadlike parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), onchocerciasis (river blindness), and loiasis (African eye worm).

Jason P. Burnham, MD

Jason P. Burnham, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Burnham specializes in clinical research and implementation science, with a special focus on telemedicine, multidrug resistant organisms, and climate change.

Anne Mobley Butler, PhD

Anne Mobley Butler, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Butler’s research interest is applying epidemiologic methods to clinical and claims data to study the prevention and treatment of common infections.

Nicolo Cabrera, MD

Nicolo Cabrera, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Cabrera specializes in clinical infectious disease, with a special focus on infectious disease in the setting of transplant, cancer and other forms of immune compromise.

Matthew Cain, PhD

Matthew Cain, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Brett Case, PhD

Brett Case, PhD

Instructor in Medicine

Dr. Case’s primary research interests include vaccine design, generation of broadly cross-reactive immune responses, mucosal immunity, viral immunology, and emerging pathogens.