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
Theodore and Bertha Bryan Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology; Co-Chief, Infectious Diseases Division
- Phone: 314-747-8058
- Email: philips.j.a@nospam.wustl.edu
Dr. Philips is principal investigator of an NIH-funded lab that studies how Mycobacterium tuberculosis evades the host immune response.
Barbara W. Trautner, MD, PhD
Gerald and Judith Medoff Professor of Infectious Diseases, Professor of Medicine, Co-Chief, Infectious Diseases Division
- Phone: 314-454-8354
- Email: trautner@nospam.wustl.edu
Dr. Trautner’s research focuses on diagnostic and antibiotic stewardship, particularly for urinary tract infections (UTIs). She has led trials to disseminate successful antibiotic stewardship interventions, improve the diagnosis and treatment of UTIs in men, develop bacteriophage therapy for UTIs in individuals with spinal cord injuries, and to reduce overdiagnosis of catheter-associated UTI.
Andrew Atkinson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Atkinson is a biostatistician providing project-based and ad hoc consultancy in the division. His methodological research includes developing methods for handling missing data in clinical trials and for observational data, novel clinical trial design methods, trial emulation and Bayesian modelling.
Ishmael D. Aziati, PhD
Instructor of Medicine
- Email: idaziati@wustl.edu
Dr Aziati specializes in the use of integrated approaches to control and prevent emerging vector-borne and zoonotic viral diseases, with a special focus on pathogen surveillance and developing therapeutic interventions.
Hilary M. Babcock, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA
Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8225
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: hbabcock@wustl.edu
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
Associate Professor of Medicine
- Email: bagchi@wustl.edu
Dr. Bagchi specializes in clinical and translational research with a focus on cardiometabolic and vascular complications of infections.
Thomas C. Bailey, MD
Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8354
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: tbailey@wustl.edu
Research Interest: Information technology to improve healthcare quality.
Megan Tierney Baldridge, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology
- Phone: 314-273-1212
- Email: mbaldridge@wustl.edu
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
Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-747-0164
- Email: epbarrette@wustl.edu
Dr. Barrette specializes in the primary care of patients living with HIV infection and AIDS and has a special interest in opioid use disorder.
Jacco Boon, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology and Pathology and Immunology
- Phone: 314-286-0857
- Fax: 314-286-2784
- Email: jboon@wustl.edu
Dr. Boon specializes in basic research on RNA viruses, with a focus on emerging virus such as influenza virus, Bourbon virus and SARS-CoV-2.
Philip J. Budge, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-747-5198
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: pbudge@wustl.edu
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
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: burnham@wustl.edu
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, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8354
- Email: anne.butler@wustl.edu
Dr. Butler’s research interest is applying epidemiologic methods to clinical and claims data to study the prevention and treatment of common infections.