Ige A. George, MBBS, MD, MS, FIDSA

Ige A. George, MBBS, MD, MS, FIDSA

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. George specializes in transplant infectious diseases, infections in immunocompromised hosts, and mycobacterial diseases. He cares for solid organ transplant recipients and patients with HIV, tuberculosis, nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), and device-related infections in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. George attends on the WashU Medicine Transplant consult service.

His research program focuses on the development of ultrasensitive point-of-care diagnostics for infectious diseases — including HIV, tuberculosis, and gonorrhea — through interdisciplinary collaboration, with particular attention to global health applications in resource-limited settings.

Dr. George serves as a TB physician for the St. Louis City Department of Health, providing direct care for patients with active and latent tuberculosis and supporting public health TB control efforts. He is site PI for the multicenter HOPE in Action study, evaluating solid organ transplantation from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients.

As a WashU Medicine faculty member, Dr. George is a dedicated clinician-educator and faculty coach in the WashU Medicine Gateway Curriculum. 

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Education
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS): Christian Medical College, Vellore The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Tamil Nadu, India (2000)
  • Postgraduate Resident in Internal Medicine (MD: Christian Medical College, Vellore The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Tamil Nadu, India (2005)
  • Resident, Department of Internal Medicine: Albert Einstein Medical Center, 5501 Old York Road, Philadelphia, PA (2013)
  • Fellow, Infectious Disease Division: Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO (2015)
  • Master of Science in Clinical Research: University of Minnesota (2017)
Board Certifications
  • Infectious Diseases
Recognition

  • 2022 Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA)
Selected publications
  1. Mansoor, A. E., Krishnan, G., Zuniga-Moya, J. C., Papadopoulus, B., Spec, A., & George, I. (2025). Comparative Outcomes Following Candida Bloodstream Infection in Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Devices. Open forum infectious diseases, 12(9), ofaf504. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaf504
  2. Jiang, Q., Duncan, C., Ramachandraiah, H., George, I. A., Gandra, S., Perez, M., Lillis, L., Boyle, D. S., Crick, S., Ruhwald, M., & Singamaneni, S. (2025). Ultra-sensitive urinary lipoarabinomannan (LAM) immunoassay for tuberculosis detection: a performance evaluation. EBioMedicine, 119, 105885. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2025.105885
  3. Rutjanawech, S., Zuniga-Moya, J. C., George, I., Mazi, P. B., Osborn, M. R., Fallon, S. M., Spec, A., & Rauseo, A. M. (2025). Presentation and Outcomes of Histoplasmosis in Transplant Recipients: A Retrospective Single-Centre Cohort Study. Transplant infectious disease: an official journal of the Transplantation Society, 27(1), e14421. https://doi.org/10.1111/tid.14421
  4. Winkler, W. L., George, I. A., Gandra, S., Baker, J. C., Tomasian, A., Northrup, B., Velde, T. L. V., Hillen, T. J., Luo, C., Imaoka, R., Dettorre, G. M., & Jennings, J. W. (2024). Diagnostic efficacy and clinical impact of image-guided core needle biopsy of suspected vertebral osteomyelitis. International journal of infectious diseases: IJID: official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 144, 107027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107027
  5. Hamad, Y., Nickel, K. B., Olsen, M. A., & George, I. A. (2024). Outcomes of Ceftriaxone Compared With Cefazolin or Nafcillin/Oxacillin for Outpatient Therapy for Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections: Results from a Large United States Claims Database. Open forum infectious diseases, 11(2), ofad662. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad662
  6. Seth, A., Liu, Y., Gupta, R., Wang, Z., Mittal, E., Kolla, S., Rathi, P., Gupta, P., Parikh, B. A., Genin, G. M., Gandra, S., Storch, G. A., Philips, J. A., George, I. A., & Singamaneni, S. (2024). Plasmon-Enhanced Digital Fluoroimmunoassay for Subfemtomolar Detection of Protein Biomarkers. Nano letters, 24(1), 229–237. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03789
  7. Gupta, R., Gupta, P., Wang, S., Melnykov, A., Jiang, Q., Seth, A., Wang, Z., Morrissey, J. J., George, I., Gandra, S., Sinha, P., Storch, G. A., Parikh, B. A., Genin, G. M., & Singamaneni, S. (2023). Ultrasensitive lateral-flow assays via plasmonically active antibody-conjugated fluorescent nanoparticles. Nature biomedical engineering, 7(12), 1556–1570. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-022-01001-1

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