Department: Medicine

Division: Infectious Diseases

• Faculty (20)
• Postdocs (16)
• All

• 
  Banaei, Niaz 
  Academic Appointments

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

  • Clinical Pathology
  • Mycobacterium Infections
  • Clinical Laboratory Techniques
  Research Interest

  My research interests include development and implementation of rapid diagnostic assays for the detection, identification, and susceptibility testing of clinically important mycobacteria. Furthermore, I am interested in understanding the role of M. tuberculosis lipoproteins and lipoprotein processing in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis.

  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
• 
  Blackburn, Brian 
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  • Parasitology
  • Tropical Medicine
  Research Interest

  My interests include parasitology and international health; I've investigated cryptosporidium and angiostrongylus outbreaks; schistosoma/strongyloides seroprevalence in refugees, and the distribution and impact of insecticide-treated bednets for malaria and filariasis prevention in Nigeria and India. In addition, I've worked on toxoplasmosis epidemiology in Colombia, and plan to work on vector-borne infections in Indonesia. Also soon to be in Liberia for clincal and programmatic work

• 
  Di Giulio, Daniel B
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Instructor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  Research Interest

  My research uses cultivation-independent methods to investigate human-associated microbiota during health and disease. This work exploits high-throughput molecular approaches to characterize stereotypic patterns of microbial prevalence, diversity and abundance associated with specific clinical syndromes of interest. I am especially interested in identifying and enumerating cultivation-resistant pathogens causing cryptic infections, particularly intra-amniotic infections leading to preterm birth.

• 
  Einav, Shirit 
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
• 
  Ho, Dora Y
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Immunocompromised Host
  Research Interest

  Dr. Ho did her PhD work in HSV pathogenesis and postdoctoral research in CNS gene therapy with viral vectors. Her current interests are in viral and fungal infections in immunocompromised patients and her research focuses on infection complications in neutropenic patients. In collaboration with Dr. C. Dekker of the Stanford-LPCH Vaccine Program and with Dr. J. Brown of the BMT Division, she is also conducting clinical trials on vaccines, antivirals and antifungals as a co-investigator.

• 
  Holodniy, Mark 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious Diseases
  Research Interest

  My research program is currently focused in three areas: 1) translational research (HCV/HIV viral evolution and antiviral resistance prevalence and development), 2) HIV/HCV clinical trials (diagnostic assay/medical device, antiretrovirals, ARVs and immunomodulators), and 3) health services research focusing on cost effectiveness of HIV antibody and ARV resistance testing and ARV utilization and clincal outcome.

• 
  Kassaye, Seble G
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  Research Interest

  I am interested in both the treatment and prevention of HIV. With Dr. Katzenstein, we study the impact of current prevention, treatment, and monitoring on viral drug resistance and evolution in southern Africa. We have worked on resistance issues pertaining to mother-to-child transmission prevention strategies. Through local collaborations, we are evaluating the use of lower cost diagnostic tools to enhance public health monitoring and surveillance for drug resistance.

• 
  Katzenstein, David 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor (Research), Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  • Member, Bio-X
  Research Interest

  Treatment and evaluation of HIV infectionin the United States and Europe through the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). International HIV pathogenesis work includes studies in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and India where we are particularly interested in the pandemic of subtype C HIV-1, TB and other co-infections. The lab currently is focused on drug resistance, envelope tropism and the pathogenesis of HIV.

• 
  Montoya, Jose 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  • Immunocompromised Host
  • Toxoplasmosis
• 
  Nevins, Andrew B
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious Diseases
  Research Interest

  Clinical HIV and general infectious diseases. Medical education.

• 
  Parsonnet, Julie 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  • Professor, Health Research & Policy
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious Diseases
  Research Interest

  I am interested in the long-term consequences of chronic interactions between the human host and the microbial world. Recently, we have focused most heavily on Helicobacter pylori, tuberculosis and helminth infections. I also remain strongly interested in diarrheal diseases, particularly in the developing world, and in sanitation and hygiene.

• 
  Pepperell, Caitlin S
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  Research Interest

  I am interested in evolutionary relationships among pathogens and human hosts. Some current projects focus on how cultural, economic and historical influences shape patterns of disease transmission and, in turn, evolution of M. tuberculosis. Genetic & epigenetic mechanisms underlying this organism’s ability to adapt to its natural environment are subjects of other investigations. I study Aboriginal North Americans and also seek to better understand health disparities affecting these populations.

• 
  Relman, David 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  • Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  • Member, Bio-X
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious Diseases
  Research Interest

  My investigative program focuses on human-microbe interactions and human microbial ecology, and is divided into two research areas: 1) Ecology of human indigenous microbial communities; 2) Classification of humans and non-human primates with systemic infectious diseases, based on features of genome-wide gene transcript abundance patterns.

• 
  Schaenman, Joanna 
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Instructor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious Diseases
• 
  Schoolnik, Gary 
  Academic Appointments

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

  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious Diseases
  Research Interest

  Structure-function analysis of bacterial adhesion proteins and toxins; design and synthesis of synthetic antigens; immunobiology of human papillomaviruses

• 
  Shafer, Robert 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor (Research), Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  • Associate Professor (Research) (By courtesy), Pathology
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  Research Interest

  Dr Shafer's research is on the mechanisms and consequences of HIV evolution with an emphasis on HIV drug resistance. He maintains an online database (http://hivdb.stanford.edu) designed to provide a publicly available resource for those performing HIV drug resistance surveillance, interpreting HIV drug resistance tests, and developing new antiretroviral drugs.

• 
  Singh, Upinder 
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  • Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
  • Member, Bio-X
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious Diseases
  Research Interest

  Our lab elucidates the molecular basis of pathogenesis of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica. We use genetic and genomic approaches to identify novel virulence determinants and to characterize the global epidemiology of the parasite.

• 
  Stevens, David 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  Research Interest

  Immunology and chemotherapy of human fungal diseases, particularly coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) in California and aspergillosis.

• 
  Tompkins, Lucy 
  Academic Appointments

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

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Internal Medicine
  • hospital epidemiology
  Research Interest

  Molecular and cellular pathogenesis of Helicobacter infection. Molecular epidemiology, hospital epidemiology.

• 
  Zolopa, Andrew 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious Diseases
  Research Interest

  Dr. Zolopa’s research applies a variety of clinical epidemiologic methods in an effort to optimize antiretroviral therapy and understand the impact of drug resistance on response to ARV. Areas of focus include the clinical application of resistance testing in optimizing antiretroviral therapy, clinical cohort and trials of antiretroviral therapies and population-based epidemiologic evaluation of HIV resistance and efficacy of ARV therapy in urban poor communities of San Francisco.