Key Faculty & Specific Research Interests

Shashwatee Bagchi, MD, MS, MSc

Shashwatee Bagchi, MD, MS, MSc

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Bagchi specializes in clinical and translational research with a focus on cardiometabolic and vascular complications of infections.

Philip J. Budge, MD, PhD

Philip J. Budge, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

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).

Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD

Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD

The Herbert S. Gasser Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology

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.

Peter U. Fischer, PhD

Peter U. Fischer, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Fischer specializes in basic and translational sciences to support the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases, with a special focus on helminths.

Sumanth Gandra, MD, MPH

Sumanth Gandra, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Gandra specializes in clinical and public health research with a special focus on antibiotic use, antibiotic resistance surveillance and healthcare epidemiology in resource limited settings especially in India.

Languages: English,Telugu, Hindi

Elvin H.  Geng, MD, MPH

Elvin H. Geng, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Geng conducts research to advance the use of evidence-based interventions in the public health response to HIV and COVID-19 as well as increasingly for non-communicable diseases as well.

Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD

Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD

Professor of Medicine

A passionate advocate for health equity and sustainability, Dr. Iwelunmor is widely regarded for understanding how to make evidence-based interventions last, reshaping the focus on community engagement using participatory research, improving the dissemination of health information, while amplifying the voices of young people in health interventions.

Caline Mattar, MD

Caline Mattar, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Mattar’s interest is in healthcare epidemiology and global health, more specifically in infection prevention in resource limited settings. Additionally, her current work involves bloodtsream and endovascular infections.

 

Carlos Mejia, MD

Carlos Mejia, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr.  Mejia-Chew specializes in mycobacterial infections, particularly nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections.

Makedonka Mitreva, PhD

Makedonka Mitreva, PhD

Professor of Medicine of Medicine and Genetics

There are two main threads to Dr. Mitreva’s current research. The continued development of molecular information, bioinformatics tools, and reagents for the study of parasitic infections is crucial, therefore she takes advantage of next-generation technologies and implements comparative genomics approaches to study the biology and cellular pathways of these important parasites. The second area of her research is focused on the human microbiome. The approaches she undertakes in these two areas have the potential for significant impact due to the recent explosion in the amount of data requiring analysis.