Core Faculty for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program

Portrait of Ige A. George, MBBS, MD, MS, FIDSA

Ige A. George, MBBS, MD, MS, FIDSA

Associate Professor of Medicine

Ige George, MD is Director of the WashU Medicine General ID Clinic. As a core faculty member of the ID Fellowship Program, he serves as Director of the Transplant ID Track. Dr. George 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.

Laura Marks, MD, PhD

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.

Portrait of Caline Mattar, MD

Caline Mattar, MD

Professor of Medicine and Public Health

Dr. Mattar is the section chief for General Infectious Disease and the Associate Program Director of the ID Fellowship Program. As ID Fellowship core faculty, she also serves as Director of Global Health Track. Dr. Mattar’s research focuses on infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship as well as global health with a specific focus on resource-limited settings and health policy.

Eugenia Miranti, MD, MPH

Eugenia Miranti, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Associate Medical Director of WashU Infection Prevention

Eugenia Miranti, MD, MPH is an associate medical director of WashU Infection Prevention and a clinical assistant professor of medicine. As a core faculty member of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program, she serves as Director of the Hospital Epidemiology Track.

Portrait of Luis Parra-Rodriguez, MD

Luis Parra-Rodriguez, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

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.

Portrait of Sena Sayood, MD

Sena Sayood, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Sayood performs clinical research with a specific focus on antimicrobial stewardship and clinical decision support. As a core faculty member of the ID Fellowship Training Program, Dr. Sayood is the Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Track.

Portrait of M. Cristina Vazquez Guillamet, MD

M. Cristina Vazquez Guillamet, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Vazquez Guillamet is a core faculty member of the ID Fellowship Program, serving as Director of the ID/Critical Care Pathway. Her main research interest is in infections caused by multi-drug 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.

Portrait of Darcy Wooten, MD, MS, FIDSA

Darcy Wooten, MD, MS, FIDSA

Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program Director

Dr. Wooten is a nationally recognized leader in ID and HIV medical education, serving as the ID Fellowship Program Director, Vice Chair of Education, and Director of Educational Program for the WashU Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases. She currently serves as the Chair of IDSA’s Medical Education Community of Practice. Her clinical focus encompasses general infectious diseases and HIV primary care.