Department of Medicine
Faculty Profiles by Division

Division of Infectious Diseases

Faculty Profiles

Division Chief

Bernard JC Macatangay, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

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

Email: macatangaybj@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-383-1272

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Rima Abdel-Massih, MD

Infectious Diseases

Associate 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

Milana Bogorodskaya, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: HIV prevention, cardiovascular disease in individuals with HIV

Email: bogorodskayam@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

Edwin Chen, MD, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Instructor of Medicine

Email: chene@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

Xiaojie Chu, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Therapeutic antibody and cancer

Email: XIC110@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-383-4706

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

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

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

Will Jerrold Scoutt Garner, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Infections in patients with hematological malignancies or solid organ transplants.

Email: garnerwj@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

James Joseph Harrigan, MD, PharmD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Clinical Informatics, Antibiotic Stewardship

Email: HarriganJJ2@upmc.edu

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

Associate 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

Kailey Hughes Kramer, PhD

Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Immunocompromised adults, infectious disease epidemiology

Email: hugheskl4@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-648-6453

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

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

Jasanjeet Jawanda, MBBS

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Antimicrobial stewardship, general infectious diseases, telemedicine to increase access to care

Email: jawandaj@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Krupa Karnik, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: karnikkd@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Amrit Kaur, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: kaura12@upmc.edu

Phone: 833-271-2408

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

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: khedimir@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

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

Robbie B. Mailliard, PhD

Infectious Diseases

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

Stephen Michael Mills Maurer, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: maurersm@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

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, FIDSA

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

Clinical 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

Sobia Nizami, MBBS

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: nizamis@upmc.edu

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

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: lora.pless@pitt.edu

Maura Porto, DO

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Inpatient infectous disease, MDR gram negative infections

Email: portomc@upmc.edu

Phone: 203-988-1720

Rose A. Ressner, DO

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Email: ressnerra@upmc.edu

Phone: 301-319-9582

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

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: 989-676-7575

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

Phone: 412-648-8937

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: 412-383-1675

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

Anna Nanigian Witt, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: wittan@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228

Darren Wong, MD

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Academic Interest: Extensively drug resistant bacterial infections, orthopedic infections and limb salvage

Email: wongdw@upmc.edu

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

Diana Zhong, MD, MHS

Infectious Diseases

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: zhongdz@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-647-7228