Department of Medicine
Faculty Profiles by Division

Division of Infectious Diseases

Faculty Profiles

Division Chief

John W. Mellors, MD

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV prevention, treatment, and cure

Email: jwm1@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-624-8512

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Rima Abdel-Massih, MD

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Infections in solid organ transplant recipients and telemedicine

Email: abdelmassihr@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Cristian Apetrei, MD, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Diversity and pathogenesis of SIVs in natural and non-natural nonhuman primate hosts

Email: apetreic@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-383-5256

Ricardo Arbulu, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Antimicrobial Stewardship. Quality improvement.

Email: arbuluguerrard@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-232-7539

Antonie J. Auguste, MD, MPH

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Infection Prevention and Control, Hospital Epidemiology, General Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS, Telemedicine

Email: augusteaj@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Hassan Badrane, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Investigating opportunistic infections caused by Candida species of yeasts

Email: hab42@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-648-8438

James J. Baran, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: baranjj2@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-373-8040

J. Ryan Bariola, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Antimicrobial Stewardship, Endemic Fungal Infections

Email: bariolajr@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Tatiana Bogdanovich, MD, PhD, MSc

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Clostridium difficile infection and Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

Email: bogdanovicht@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Leah Brandt, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Research Instructor in Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV-1 Latency and Persistence

Email: ldb43@pitt.edu

Sarah Welsh Burgdorf, MD, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: burgdorfsw@upmc.edu

Karin E. Byers, MD, MS

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Surgical infections, particularly neurosurgical infections and orthopedic infections

Email: byerke@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Yue Chen, MD, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Research Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV pathogenesis and HCMV reactivation in HIV

Email: cheny@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-596-2373

Shaoji Cheng, MD

Infectious Diseases

Research Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: The molecular pathogenesis of Candida infection

Email: sjc43@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-648-9928

Madhu Choudhary, MD

Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV and viral hepatitis therapeutic Clinical trials

Email: mac529@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-383-1675

Cornelius (Neil) J. Clancy, MD

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Mechanisms of antifungal drug resistance and susceptibility in Candida species, and correlations with therapeutic efficacy

Email: cjc76@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-647-0996

Julia Kang Cornett, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: cornettjk@upmc.edu

Matthew Culyba, MD, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Antimicrobial Resistance, Bacterial Evolution

Email: culybamj2@upmc.edu

Joshua C Cyktor, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: the interface of intracellular pathogens, like HIV-1 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Email: jcc114@pitt.edu

Dimiter Stanchev Dimitrov, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: therapeutic antibodies, viruses, cancer, aging

Email: dsd116@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-383-4702

Yohei Doi, MD, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Mechanism of antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative bacteria

Email: yod4@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-648-9445

Bonnie A Falcione, PharmD

Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Dr. Falcione aims to identify and improve strategies, including education, to prevent and treat infectious diseases in critically ill patients, and those at risk for critical illness due to the onse

Email: bof2@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-647-6186

Carolyn Fernandes, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Treating travel-related infections, tuberculosis and infections due to Staphylococcus aureus

Email: fernandescr@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Nupur Gupta, DO, MPH

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV/AIDS, General Infectious Diseases, Medical Education

Email: guptan8@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Christiane M Hadi, MD, MPH, MSc

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV treatment and prevention, Infections in refugee and immigrant population, Travel Health

Email: hadicm@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Ghady Haidar, MD

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Transplant infectious diseases; Multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria; HIV-to-HIV organ transplantation

Email: haidarg@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-648-6601

Elias K. Halvas, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Development of technologies for HIV detection; detection and quantification HIV minor species

Email: ekh2@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-648-8152

Lee H. Harrison, MD

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Epidemiology and molecular epidemiology of bacterial pathogens

Email: lharriso@edc.pitt.edu

Phone: 412-624-1599

Ken S. Ho, MD, MPH

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Anal HPV Diagnosis and Management, HIV-AIDS prevention research and retention in care of HIV/AIDS

Email: hok2@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-383-1675

Alina Iovleva, MD

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: iovlevaa@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-624-9435

Jana Lynn Jacobs, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Characterization of HIV reservoirs contributing to persistence

Email: jlj90@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-648-8578

Vidya Jagadeesan, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Transplant Infectious Disease

Email: jagadeesanv@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Anna Joanna Jasinska, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Systems biology of infectious diseases, aging, stress, behavior, brain functions, epigenetic clock

Email: AJJ59@pitt.edu

Amrit Kaur, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: kaura12@upmc.edu

Phone: 833-271-2408

Tina Khadem, PharmD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Antimicrobial stewardship and quality improvement

Email: khademt@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-8254

Nazia Khan, MD, MSc, DTMH

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Global Health

Email: Khann7@upmc.edu

Rabea Khedimi, MD

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: khedimir@upmc.edu

Phone: 718-844-7903

Bettina M. Knoll, MD, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Email: knollbm@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-624-5705

Eun Jeong Kwak, MD

Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Fungal infections in organ transplant

Email: KwakeJ@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Sui Kwong Li, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Antimicrobial Stewardship, Medical Education

Email: lis17@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Wei Li, Ph D

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor

Email: liwei171@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-383-4703

Yijia Li, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV/AIDS, Clinical Reasoning

Email: liy33@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Shihui Liu, MD, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Bacterial pathogen and host interactions; Cancer biology and cancer targeted therapy

Email: shl176@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-383-4419

Bernard JC Macatangay, MD

Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV Immunology; HIV Immunotherapy; and parasitic diseases

Email: macatangaybj@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-383-1272

Gul Madison, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: General ID, Telemedicine, HIV, Antimicrobial Stewardship

Email: madisong2@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Robbie B. Mailliard, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Visiting Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Immunology, HIV, Cancer and Tumor Immunology, Vaccinology

Email: rbm19@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-624-3848

Elise M. Martin, MD, MS

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Infection control and prevention, hospial epidemiology, antimicrobial stewardship

Email: emm207@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-360-1696

Sarah McBeth, MD MPH

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV; HIV/HCV co-infection

Email: mcbethsk@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-383-1675

Erin K. McCreary, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: mccrearye3@upmc.edu

Deborah K. McMahon, MD

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV; AIDS Clinical Trials

Email: mcmahond@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-383-1675

Seema Mehta Steinke, MD, MS

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Infections in transplant recipients and oncology patients, Telemedicine

Email: mehtasteinkesa@upmc.edu

John W. Mellors, MD

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV prevention, treatment, and cure

Email: jwm1@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-624-8512

Linda Nabha, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: General Infectious Diseases, HIV treatment and prevention

Email: nabhal@upmc.edu

Sowmya Nanjappa, MBBS, MD, FACP

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Patient care, Residents/Fellows ongoing academic education, antibiotic stewardship

Email: nanjappas@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-683-7147

Varidhi Nauriyal, MD, FACP

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Global health with focus on critical care development, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Endovascular Infections, COVID-19

Email: nauriyalv@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Megan E. G. Neils, MD

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: neilsme@upmc.edu

Minh-Hong Nguyen, MD

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Molecular pathogenesis of Candida albicans infections

Email: mhn5@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-647-0996

Simi Padival, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Endovascular infections, General Infectious Diseases

Email: padivals@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-0391

Urvi M Parikh, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV Prevention; HIV drug resistance

Email: ump3@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-648-3103

Christian Oscar Perez, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Zoonotic Diseases, Rickettsial Diseases

Email: perezco@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Lora Lee Pless, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: lora.pless@pitt.edu

Brian Potoski, PharmD, BCPS

Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Formulary management on pathogen resistance trends

Email: potoskiba@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-648-6487

Sharon A. Riddler, MD

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV/AIDS clinical trials

Email: riddler@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-383-1675

Charles R Rinaldo, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Cellular immunity to human viral infections (HIV, cytomegalovirus, Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus, SARS-CoV-2)

Email: rinaldo@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-624-3928

Palash Samanta, MBBS, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: samantap@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Neel B Shah, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Diagnosis, treatment & management of prosthetic joint infections

Email: shahnb@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Ryan K. Shields, PharmD, MS

Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Clinical Outcomes of Patients Infected with Drug-Resistant Pathogens

Email: shieldsrk@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-864-3745

Fernanda P. Silveira, MD, MS, FIDSA, FAST

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Infections in transplant recipients; fungal infections; antimicrobial resistance; cytomegalovirus

Email: SilveiraFD@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-648-6601

Nina Singh, MD

Infectious Diseases

Emeritus Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: CMV and beta herpes virus infections in transplant recipients

Email: nis5@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-360-1688

Nicolas Sluis-Cremer, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV drug resistance, HIV persistence, Antibiotic resistance

Email: nps2@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-648-8457

Brandon J. Smith, MD, PharmD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: B-lactam TDM, MDR GNR infections and Antimicrobial Stewardship

Email: smithbj5@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-864-0703

Graham Michael Snyder, MD, MS

Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Infection Prevention, General Infectious Diseases

Email: snydergm3@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-6718

Alexander J. Sundermann, DrPH

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Infection Prevention, Genomic Epidemiology, Healthcare-associated Infections

Email: als412@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-915-1202

Suzanne J Templer, DO, FACP, FIDSA

Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Leadership and Wellness in medical education, LGBTQI issues, Nontuberculous mycobacteria

Email: templersj@upmc.edu

Kathleen Tompkins, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: General infectious disease, telemedicine, and global health.

Email: tompkinskm@upmc.edu

Giraldina J Trevejo-Nunez, MD

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: gjt9@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-383-5943

Alex Marshal Trzebucki, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Telemedicine, antimicrobial stewardship, technology solutions, next generation ID diagnostic

Email: trzebuckiam@upmc.edu

Daria Van Tyne, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Antibiotic resistance, functional genomics, and novel antimicrobials

Email: VANTYNE@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-648-4210

Peter Jakob Veldkamp, MD, MSc

Infectious Diseases

Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Infectious Diseases, HIV, Global Health, Medical Education

Email: pjv4@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-383-2900

J. Alex Viehman, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: drug resistance, antibiotic stewardship and quality improvement

Email: viehmanja@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Peter Volpe, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: volpej@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Booth Wainscoat, DO

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Telemedicine, Antibiotic Stewardship, Precision Medicine

Email: wainscoatb@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Nicole Channon White, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: General Infectious Diseases

Email: whitenc2@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Mohamed H Yassin, MD, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Infection Control perspective in long-term care facilities; surgical site infections;

Email: yassinm@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-232-7798

Tiffany Yuh, MD, MSHP

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: yuhtg@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Sabina Zawadzka, DO, MS

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Telemedicine, HIV/AIDS, Antimicrobial Stewardship

Email: zawadzkasm@upmc.edu

Julia Zefirova, MD, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV/AIDS, General Infectious Diseases, Medical Education, Telemedicine

Email: zefirovaj@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228