Key Faculty & Specific Research Interests

Nicolo Cabrera, MD

Nicolo Cabrera, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

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.

Erik R. Dubberke, MD, MSPH

Erik R. Dubberke, MD, MSPH

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Dubberke specializes in clinical and translational infectious diseases, with a focus on transplant infectious diseases, hospital epidemiology, and Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI).

Ige A. George, MD, MS

Ige A. George, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Medicine

Ige George, MD is the director of the infectious diseases fellowship program. He specializes in clinical research focused on the epidemiology and treatment of infections in the immune compromised hosts and solid organ transplant recipients. He also serves as the TB physician for the St. Louis City TB and Refugee Clinic.

Michael J. Hendrix, MD

Michael J. Hendrix, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Hendrix specializes in antimicrobial stewardship and clinical infectious disease with a special focus on COVID-19 and bone marrow transplant (BMT) recipients.

Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI

Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI

Associate Professor of Medicine, Section Director, Healthcare Epidemiology & Antimicrobial Stewardship

Dr. Kwon specializes in clinical and translational research with a focus on antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention.

Steven J. Lawrence, MD, MSc

Steven J. Lawrence, MD, MSc

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Lawrence’s research interests focus on the human immune response to viral infections and vaccines, the epidemiology of infections in solid organ and stem cell transplant recipients, and public health preparedness for pandemic COVID-19, Delta and other variants, pandemic influenza and bioterrorism events.

Anupam Pande, MD, MPH

Anupam Pande, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine

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

Adriana M.  Rauseo, MD

Adriana M. Rauseo, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

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.

Andrej Spec, MD, MSCI

Andrej Spec, MD, MSCI

Associate Professor of Medicine

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.