Learn more about research in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
Infectious Diseases
| Faculty Member | Division | Research Expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Mariam Aziz, MD | Infectious Diseases | Aziz's research interests are around maternal and pediatric AIDS treatments and interventions. |
| Hannah Barbian, PhD | Infectious Diseases | Barbian received her PhD in molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania with research focused on the fate of viruses upon transmission, immune pressure, and chronic infection. |
| Stefan Green, PhD | Infectious Diseases | Green's current research is largely focused on the interactions of complex microbial communities with hosts across a range of experimental and diseases systems, including the study of effects of spaceflight on host-associated microbial communities. Green has over 25 years of experience in research and sequence data acquisition, and has over 175 peer-reviewed publications. |
| Mary Hayden, MD | Infectious Diseases | Hayden's research focuses on the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of emerging pathogens, healthcare associated infections, and antibiotic resistance. Current projects include investigation of the genomic epidemiology of Candida auris, a clinical trial aimed at C. auris decolonization, genomic epidemiology of multidrug-resistant organism transmission in a medical ICU, and fecal microbiome features associated with nosocomial acquisition and transmission of MDROs. |
| Michael Lin, MD | Infectious Diseases | Lin is interested in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention, treatment of influenza and H1N1 as well as the biology of infectious diseases. |
| Rachel Medernach, MD, MSCI | Infectious Diseases | Medernach's focus is on multidrug-resistant organism pathogenesis and transmission in healthcare environments. |
| Supriya Mehta, MHS, PhD | Infectious Diseases | Mehta is committed to research that leads to tangible benefits in sexual and reproductive health. She has been conducting research in Kenya since 2007, where she served as a Co-Investigator to the Randomized Controlled Trial of Medical Male Circumcision to Reduce HIV incidence, subsequently leading studies of surveillance of antibiotic resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and STI incidence among men who have sex with men. Mehta also collaborates with U.S. public health departments to conduct epidemiologic analyses that contribute to improved testing, treatment, and provision of care policies for STIs. |
| Kyle Popovich, MD | Infectious Diseases | Popovich studies Extra-nasal Colonization and Epidemiology of Community-associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and the impact of HIV status and MRSA colonization on the nasal microbiome. Learn more |
| Yoona Rhee, MD | Infectious Diseases | Rhee's expertise is in hospital epidemiology and infections in immunocompromised hosts |
| Sarah Sansom, DO | Infectious Diseases | Sansom's research focuses on the epidemiology of multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO) and Candid auris in healthcare facilities, infection prevention and control, genomic epidemiology, and decolonization. |
| Carlos A.Q. Santos, MD | Infectious Diseases | Santo's expertise is in transplant infectious disease, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, comparative effectiveness research, use of large administrative data for research, public health informatics |
| Beverly Sha, MD | Infectious Diseases | Sha is involved in several studies related to the treatment and management of HIV and AIDS including ethnicity and aging as factors in the disease. |
| Robert A. Weinstein, MD | Infectious Diseases | Weinstein’s clinical and research interests have focused on healthcare-acquired infections (particularly the epidemiology, costs, microbiome, and prevention of antimicrobial resistance and infections in intensive care units), rapid HIV testing, and healthcare costs and outcomes for patients with HIV/AIDS. |