Key Faculty & Specific Research Interests
![Shashwatee Bagchi, MD, MS, MSc](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Bagchi-Shashwatee_Med__06_1400x1930-280x386.jpg)
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.
![Philip J. Budge, MD, PhD](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/philip_budge-280x386.jpg)
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](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/burnham290x400-280x386.jpg)
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.
![Joseph N. Cherabie, MD, MSc](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Cherabie-Joseph-280x386-1-280x386.jpg)
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.
![Michael Durkin, MD, MPH](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/michael_durkin-280x386.jpg)
Michael Durkin, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8354
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: mdurkin@wustl.edu
Dr. Durkin uses administrative data to identify opportunities to improve antibiotic prescribing in outpatient settings, with a focus on outpatient and community settings; harnesses survey and qualitative research methods to identify potential solutions based on input from frontline providers; and designs, pilot tests, and disseminates antibiotic stewardship interventions using dissemination & implementation science and informatics technology.
![Peter U. Fischer, PhD](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FischerP_300-280x386.jpg)
Peter U. Fischer, PhD
Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-7876
- Fax: 314-454-5293
- Email: pufische@wustl.edu
Dr. Fischer specializes in basic and translational sciences to support the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases, with a special focus on helminths.
![Elvin H. Geng, MD, MPH](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Elvin-Geng-280x386-1-280x386.jpg)
Elvin H. Geng, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
- Email: elvin.geng@wustl.edu
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](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IAM-Summit-2022-187_HS-280x386.jpg)
Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
Professor of Medicine
- Email: ijuliet@wustl.edu
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.
![Madeline McCrary, MD](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/McCrary-Madeline_Headshot-web-280x386.jpg)
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](https://infectiousdiseases.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mody-Aaloke-280x386.jpg)
Aaloke Mody, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 3144548215
- Email: aaloke.mody@wustl.edu
His 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