Position
Hilary M. Babcock, MD, MPH
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. He has a special interest in opioid use disorder.
Jacco Boon, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology and Pathology and Immunology
- Phone: 314-286-0857
- Fax: 314-286-2784
- Email: jboon@wustl.edu
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
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
Assistant 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.
Nicolo Cabrera, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8254
- Email: ncabrera@wustl.edu
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.
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
Instructor in 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.
Miguel A Chavez, MD, MSc
Instructor in 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.
Joseph N. Cherabie, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8254
- Email: jcherabie@wustl.edu
Dr. Cherabie specializes in sexual health care with a focus on LGBTQIA+ health, sexually transmitted infections (STI), and HIV, all within the lens of medical education.
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.
Tyler J. Degener, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8354
- Email: degener@wustl.edu
Dr. Degener has a special interest in treating those living with HIV and LGBTQ+ population health. Dr. Degener’s research interests include HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence, engagement into HIV care, and retention in care for those living with HIV (the HIV care continuum).
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.