Clinical & Translational Research

His overarching research interests are in utilizing implementation science and epidemiologic methods to better understand how to deliver high-quality and patient-centered HIV care in routine practice resource-limited settings

Dr. Nolan specializes in clinical medicine and education, with a special focus on marginalized populations, including patients who use drugs and patients who are unhoused.

Dr. O’Halloran specializes in clinical and translational research in infectious disease, with a special focus on HIV, SARS-CoV-2 and other viral infections.

Dr. Olsen’s primary research interests involve the epidemiology of hospital-acquired infections, particularly surgical site infection, and the use of administrative and claims data to study surgical complications.

Dr. Pande specializes in the care of transplant recipients, with a special focus on opportunistic infections and antimicrobial prophylaxis in bone marrow transplant recipients.

Dr. Parra-Rodriguez specializes in the longitudinal clinical care of people with HIV, with a special clinical research focus on aging, age-related clinical conditions, and mental health in people with HIV.

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

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.

Dr. Presti specializes in clinical and translational research in infectious disease, with a special focus on HIV, SARS-CoV-2 and other viral infections.

Dr. Ramakrishnan’s research focuses on applying implementation science strategies to improve domestic HIV prevention and care, particularly for cisgender women.

Dr. Rauseo specializes in clinical infectious diseases, with a special focus on mycology and infectious that affect immunocompromised hosts. Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic she has served as an investigator in the Infectious Disease Clinical Research Unit (ID-CRU) in multiple clinical trials and translational research in the fight against COVID-19.

Dr. Reno specializes in sexual health care, with a special focus on the clinical care of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and the intersection with HIV prevention.

Dr. Rosa’s experience in the statistical analysis of complex datasets (utilizing multiple types of evidence spanning treatments or species) has led to the identification differentially expressed genes, drug targets and pathways of interest for experimental verification.

Dr. Sayood performs clinical research with a specific focus on antimicrobial stewardship and clinical decision support.

Dr. Spec‘s research is in fungal infections, particularly in immunocompromised patients, including those with transplants. His research focuses on Cryptococcus, Histoplasma, Candida, Aspergillus and other invasive molds. Dr. Spec also runs the division’s clinic focusing on invasive fungal infections, where he takes care of both immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients with fungal infections, which he considers the best and most rewarding part of his job.

Research interest: Virology and the molecular identification of new and emerging pathogens.

Dr. Sung recently completed a two year fellowship in ID. She will continue to stay on in ID to continue her work on outpatient infection prevention, occupational health and medical education.

Why did you choose WashU for your ID fellowship?
I chose WUSM for fellowship training because of: the flexibility in career paths (very accommodating for people who don’t know what specific realm of ID they want to pursue), the abundant research opportunities, the awesome people, being able to walk to work, the giant hospital with its wide array of disease pathology and large referral radius.

Dr. Vazquez Guillamet’s main research interest is in infections caused by mutidrug resistant microbes in critically ill patients. She applies new methods to better stratify and predict the epidemiology, trajectories and outcomes of ICU patients at risk for MDR pathogens

Dr. Vo’s joined the faculty in 2021. His interests lie with HIV/STI/PrEp and Public Health and Implementation Science.

Dr. Warren specializes in clinical research in Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, with a special focus on the epidemiology and prevention of device-related infections and surgical site infections, plus improving diagnostic stewardship of microbiological testing to accurately diagnose infectious diseases.