Department: Pediatrics

Division: Infectious Diseases

• Faculty (10)
• Postdocs (9)
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  Amieva, Manuel R
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
  • Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Diseases, Pediatric
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease
  Research Interest

  My laboratory studies the strategies pathogens utilize to colonize and subvert the epithelial barrier. We have focused on the epithelial junctions as a target for bacterial pathogens, since the cell-cell junctions serve as both a barrier to infection and also a major control site for epithelial function. In particular, we are interested in how the gastric pathogen Helicobater pylori may cause cancer by interfering with cell signaling at the epithelial junctions. We are also studying how variou..

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  Arvin, Ann 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
  • Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Diseases, Pediatric
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease
  Research Interest

  Our laboratory investigates the pathogenesis of varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection, focusing on the functional roles of particular viral gene products in pathogenesis and virus-cell interactions in differentiated human cells in humans and in Scid-hu mouse models of VZV cell tropisms in vivo, and the immunobiology of VZV infections.

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  Chen, Sharon F
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Pediatric Infectious Disease
  Research Interest

  My research interest is focused on Herpes virus pathogenesis and the host immune response to these viral infections. To characterize these interactions, we use flow-cytometry based immunology assays, culture-based assays, molecular techniques and tissue histology. My current study investigates anti-viral immunity to CMV in lung transplant patients to characterize the kinetics of CMV-specific T-cell reconstitution and to test its ability to predict CMV infection and allograft rejection.

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  Dekker, Cornelia 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor (Research), Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Pediatric Infectious Disease
  • Vaccine Clinical Trials
  • Vaccine Safety
  Research Interest

  The Stanford-LPCH Program provides an infrastructure for conducting clinical studies of new vaccines in children and adults. Current emphasis is on seasonal and avian influenza, malaria and smallpox vaccine studies. We secreend 20,000 newborn infants for congenital HCMV infection in 3 local hospitals and continue with prospective audiology and immunology follow-up of identified children. Additionally, we are a CDC Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment site to evaluate licensed vaccine safety.

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  Farman-Farmaian, Elizabeth 
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Instructor, Pediatrics - Adolescent Medicine
  • Clinical Instructor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • General Pediatrics
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  Gans, Hayley 
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Diseases, Pediatric
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease
  Research Interest

  The focus of my laboratory is the immune response to viral vaccines evaluating the ontogeny of responses in infants and limitations in immunocompromised hosts. We have studied responses to an early two-dose measles immunization, one versus 2 doses of varicella immunization, and polio vaccine in preterm versus term infants. Other active areas of research include measles and varicella immunity in HIV infected individuals, and transplant recipients.

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  Gutierrez, M 
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Diseases, Pediatric
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease
  Research Interest

  Dr. Gutierrez' research interests include clinical studies of anti-viral therapies in infants. She also studies the epidemiology of childhood infectious diseases in California, and the epidemiology of hospital acquired infections.

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  Hong, David K
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Pediatrics - Immunology & Transplant Biology
  • Instructor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Diseases
  • General Pediatrics
  Research Interest

  We are interested in improving current influenza vaccines through the use of novel vaccine adjuvants - compounds that boost the immune response to vaccination. An ideal influenza vaccine would lead to durable immunity that would be broadly protective against circulating influenza strains as well as new, emerging strains.

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  Maldonado, Yvonne 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
  • Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Diseases, Pediatric
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease
  Research Interest

  My research focuses on epidemiologic aspects of viral vaccines and perinatal HIV infection. This includes the molecular epidemiology of factors affecting the immunogenicity of oral polio vaccine (OPV) in developing areas of the world, and now the epidemiology of transmission and circulation of vaccine derived polioviruses in order to assist in global eradication of polio. I also work in development of methods to prevent breastfeeding transmission of HIV in Africa.

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  Prober, Charles 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
  • Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Diseases, Pediatric
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease
  Research Interest

  My area of research interest is focused on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment of infections in children. Much of my research has focused on viral infections, especially those caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV). I have conducted a number of studies concerned with the epidemiology of HSV-2 infections in pregnant women, their partners, and neonates. Recently, I have extended these epidemiologic studies to adolescents.

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