The Washington University ID-CRU and ACTU are is known for their expertise and are well established in the community. Led by Rachel Presti, MD, PhD, the ID-CRU provides access to HIV and infectious diseases research opportunities, community outreach and education. Our lead faculty in these areas are:
- NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Unit – Principal Investigator – Rachel M. Presti, MD, PhD
- St. Louis STI/HIV Prevention Training Center – Medical Director – Hilary E. L. Reno, MD, PhD
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.
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 and has a special interest in opioid use disorder.
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.
Elvin H. Geng, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
- Email: elvin.geng@wustl.edu
Using the lens of implementation science, Dr. Geng conducts research to advance the use of evidence-based interventions in the public health response to HIV and non-communicable diseases.
Conor Grant, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: conorg@wustl.edu
Dr. Grant specializes in the innate immune responses to the pathogens causing Tuberculosis (TB), Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) and COVID-19 infections, and his laboratory research includes the search for novel therapies targeting the host for these difficult infections.
Donald L Hong, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: dlhong@wustl.edu
Dr. Hong is a core faculty member of the ID Fellowship Training Program, serving as Co-Director of the STI and HIV Track. He specializes in HIV and STI care, HIV prevention, and public health, with a special focus on outpatient HIV care, HIV PrEP implementation, inpatient outcomes for syphilis treatment, and community education regarding STI diagnosis and treatment.
George B. Kyei, MD, MPhil, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology
- Phone: 314-454-8354
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: gkyei@wustl.edu
Dr. Kyei specializes in HIV basic and translational research, with a special focus on viral latency and reactivation specifically: (i) characterization of factors that control HIV replication in macrophages, dendritic and resting T cells and (ii) identification of cellular factors and small molecules required for HIV reactivation in latently infected cell and (iii) perspectives of HIV patients on HIV cure.
Laura Marks, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Marks is a core faculty member of the ID Fellowship Training Program, serving as Director of Fellow Basic/Translational research, infectious diseases and substance use. She specializes in clinical infectious diseases with a special focus on infectious complications in people who inject drugs, such as infective endocarditis and Hepatitis B & C virus infections. Other core research interests include infections in pregnant women.
Madeline McCrary, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Sept 2023)
- Email: mccrary@wustl.edu
Dr. McCrary specializes in clinical infectious diseases and addiction medicine with a special focus on the infectious complications of substance use, such as Hepatitis C and Serratia endocarditis, and related quality improvement initiatives.
Aaloke Mody, MD, FIDSA
Associate Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 3144548215
- Email: aaloke.mody@wustl.edu
Dr. Mody’s 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.
Patrick D. Olson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: olsonp@wustl.edu
Areas of Interest in ID:
Host pathogen interaction in bacterial pathogenesis
Priya Pal, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: priyapal@wustl.edu
Dr. Priya Pal is a physician-scientist and infectious disease specialist whose research bridges fundamental immunology and translational HIV science. She additionally runs an HIV cure trial out of the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit (ID-CRU) and serves on the inpatient infectious diseases consult service.
Luis Parra-Rodriguez, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: lparra-rodriguez@wustl.edu
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. As a core faculty member of the ID Fellowship Program, he serves as Co-Director of the STI and HIV Track.
Marilia R. Pinzone, MD, AAHIVS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Email: marilia@wustl.edu
Marilia Pinzone is an infectious diseases physician-scientist. As a scientist, she is currently investigating chronic inflammation during antiretroviral therapy (ART). As a physician, Dr. Pinzone’s interests are outpatient care of people living with HIV, infectious diseases, and metabolic complications of HIV.
William G. Powderly, MD
J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8287
- Fax: 314-454-8294
- Email: wpowderly@wustl.edu
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.
Mental Health & Substance Abuse Key Faculty
Julia López, PhD, MPH, LCSW
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8249
- Email: julialopez@nospam.wustl.edu
Dr. López is a public health researcher who uses her clinical practice skills to further advance the field of sexual health using public health and social work theories and frameworks.