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Infectious Diseases – Investigators

Curt G. Beckwith, MD: diagnosis, treatment and longitudinal care of HIV and hepatitis C virus

Angela M. Caliendo, MD, PhD: development of molecular diagnostic tests for the detection and quantification of infectious diseases

Susan Cu-Uvin, MD: global health, HIV epidemiology, maternal and perinatal HIV

Erika D’Agata, MD: transmission dynamics of multidrug-resistant organisms, the microbiome and its role in infections, antimicrobial stewardship

Dimitrios Farmakiotis, MD, FACP: infections in hematologic malignancies and the transplant population, antifungal resistance

Beth Burgwyn Fuchs, PhD: antimicrobial drug discovery and development, compound screening using Caenorhabditis elegans

Mónica García-Solache, MD, PhD, MSc: antibiotic resistance, extracellular membrane-derived vesicles

Erica J. Hardy, MD, MA, MMSc: infectious disease issues in women, including congenital infection, complex sexually transmitted infections, as well as the medical care and follow-up of survivors of sexual assault

Leah Harvey: HIV/AIDS Harm Reduction Addiction Medicine Bacterial Infections General ID

Rami Kantor, MD: HIV drug resistance, treatment monitoring, and transmission through networks

John R. Lonks, MD: mechanism of pneumococcal resistance

Leonard A. Mermel, DO, ScM, AM (Hon), FSHEA, FIDSA, FACP: Diagnosis, management, and prevention of healthcare-associated infections

Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD, PhD, FIDSA: Host-pathogen and antimicrobial drug discovery, fungal pathogenesis, Clostridioides difficile infections in nursing homes, meta-analyses and cost-effective analyses

Gerard J. Nau, MD, PhD, FIDSA: bacterial pathogenesis, innate immunity, aging, antimicrobial target discovery

Bharat Ramratnam, MD: HIV-1 replication, persistence, RNAi, microbicides

Louis B. Rice, MD: mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria

Josiah (Jody) D. Rich, MD, MPH (NAM): treatment and prevention of HIV, health of the incarcerated population, opioid use and overdose

Natasha R. Rybak, MD: non-tuberculous Mycobacteria, tuberculosis

Karen T. Tashima, MD: Clinical Trials on HIV

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The Department of Medicine at Alpert Medical School is comprised of eleven distinct Divisions. These Divisions, working in conjunction with the community doctors who comprise our Primary Care offerings, provide patients with an outstanding level of care both within the Brown affiliated hospitals and throughout several community-based clinical locations. In addition to patient services, several of our Divisions offer exceptional programs for Residents and Fellows within their designated areas of expertise.

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    Louis B. Rice, MD
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    Providence, RI 02903