People
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.
Brett Case, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Email: casejb@wustl.edu
Dr. Case's primary research interests include vaccine design, generation of broadly cross-reactive immune responses, mucosal immunity, viral immunology, and emerging pathogens.
Pallavi Chandra, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-747-5228
- Email: chandra.pallavi@wustl.edu
Dr. Chandra specializes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis, with a special focus on immunometabolism. In recent work, she characterized a novel relationship between macrophage fatty acid metabolism and antimycobacterial immunity.
Zanetta Chang, MD, PhD
Fouth Year Fellow - Research
Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine, Druham, NC
Residency: Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine/ Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis MO
Miguel A. Chavez, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Miguel A. Chavez, MD MSc is currently working with the BJH-Antimicrobial Stewardship program and the division of Hospital Medicine in the department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor.
Patrick R. Ching, MD, MPH
Second Year Fellow
Why did you choose WashU for your ID fellowship?
I felt that WashU ID will help me become the best infectious disease physician that I can be. As a well-rounded program with strong clinical orientation, endless research opportunities and excellent mentorship, WashU is a large academic center where cases are incredibly varied. The collegial atmosphere among faculty members, fellows and members of other departments fosters a great learning, nurturing, and collaborative environment.
I am interested in HIV, STIs, parasitic infections, tropical medicine, anything ID!
Noah Chodos, MD
Second Year Fellow Graduate 2025
- Email: cnoah@wustl.edu
Tufts Medical Center, Boston MA
Zhenlu Chong, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-2847
- Email: zchong@wustl.edu
Dr. Chong specializes in innate immunology and infectious diseases, with a special focus on how innate immunity responds to flavivirus infection. He is also very interested in identifying host factors of flaviviruses including West Nile virus, Dengue virus, Zika virus, etc. by using CRISPR screening.
Courtney Chrisler, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8354
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: cchrisler@wustl.edu
Dr. Chrisler specializes in general infectious diseases with a focus on management of acutely hospitalized patients, clinical education, and patient safety and quality improvement.
Cody Cunningham, MD, PhD
First Year Fellow
- Email: codyc@wustl.edu
Dr. Cunningham was born and raised in Scottsdale, AZ. He earned his PhD at the University of Missouri. He then completed his medical education at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and his residency at the Mayo Clinic Arizona before returning to Missouri for his ID fellowship at WashU Medicine. His areas of interest are transplant ID, medical education and invasive fungal infections. He is also an avid rock climber.
Why did you choose WashU for your ID fellowship?
“I chose WashU for the excellent training it offers across the full spectrum of infectious diseases, from bread-and-butter cases to unusual infections in severely immunocompromised patients. No matter what you want to pursue within ID, you will receive excellent support from program leadership.”
Megan Rose Curtis, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: curtismegan@wustl.edu
Dr. Curtis specializes in clinical infectious diseases, with a particular focus on diseases impacting pregnant people living with substance use disorders, such as HIV, hepatitis C, and syphilis.
Pritesh Desai, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-2847
- Email: desai@wustl.edu
Dr. Desai concentration is immunology and microbiology, and virology.
Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD
The Herbert S. Gasser Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-362-2842
- Fax: 314-362-9230
- Email: diamond@wusm.wustl.edu
Michael Diamond, MD, PhD is the leader of a basic and translational research laboratory studying the interface between viral pathogenesis and host immunity. His laboratory focuses on emerging RNA viruses including flaviviruses, alphaviruses, and coronaviruses.
Jessica R. Doiron, DNP, ANP-BC
Nurse Practitioner, ID Transplant Service
- Phone: 314-747-5703
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: jdoiron@wustl.edu
Dr. Doiron has specialized in infectious diseases since 2004. She serves as a preceptor for nurse practitioner students and speaks at regional conferences on infectious disease issues.
Erin Drinen, NP
Nurse Practitioner - Infectious Diseases Outpatient Service
- Email: drinene@wustl.edu
Erik R. Dubberke, MD, MSPH
Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8354
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: edubberk@wustl.edu
Dr. Dubberke specializes in clinical and translational infectious diseases, with a focus on transplant infectious diseases, hospital epidemiology, and Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI).
William Dunagan, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8215
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: cdunagan@bjc.org
Dr. Dunagan’s primary research focus is in the assessment and improvement of healthcare quality, with a particular emphasis on patient safety research, medical informatics and infection prevention.