Division Chief
Liise-anne Pirofski, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
Selma and Dr. Jacques Mitrani Professor in Biomedical Research
Research Interests: Immunity to encapsulated pathogens, antibody immunity, vaccine development
Faculty
Jacqueline M. Achkar, MD, MS
Associate Professor Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Research Interests: Antibody responses to immunodominant proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, TB diagnostics, TB in immigrants, immune responses in vulvovaginal candidiasis
Peter Alpert, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Research Interests: HIV treatment, resistance, adherence
Stephen G. Baum, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine (Administration)
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Senior Associate Dean for Students
Research Interests: Viral and mycoplasmal pneumonia
Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Leo and Julia Forchheimer Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Fungal pathogenesis, antibody structure and function, anthrax
Michela Catalano, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Director, Occupational Health Service, Montefiore Medical Center
Research Interests: Infections in health care workers, vaccines
John Chan, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Associate Director, Medical Scientists Training Program
Research Interests: Mycobacterium tuberculosis-host interaction
Christina M. Coyle, MD, MS
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Assistant Dean for Faculty Development
Director of Clinical Infectious Disease, Jacobi Hospital
Director of Tropical of Medicine Clinic, Jacobi Hospital
Hospital Epidemiologist, Jacobi Hospital
Research Interests: Clinical tropical medicine
Brian Currie, MD, MPH
Assistant Dean for Clinical Research at Montefiore Medical Center
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Population Health, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health
Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology,multible antibiotic resistant organisms,molecular diagnostics
Johanna P Daily, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Plasmodium falciparum pathogenesis; drug resistance; host response
Marta Feldmesser, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health (Maternal & Fetal Medicine)
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Host-aspergillus interactions, antibody immunity, aspergillus diagnostics, fungal asthma
Bettina Fries, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Phenotypic variation of pathogens, pathogenesis of Cryptococcus neoformans infection, neutralizing Abs to staphylococcal toxins
Robert Grossberg, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Medical Director, Center for Positive Living/ID Clinic
Research Interests: Treatment adherence, HIV quality of care, HIV clinical trials
Lawrence Hanau, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Research Interests: Clinical HIV studies and information systems
Carol Harris, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Research Interests: International AIDS
Sarah Hochman, MD
Instructor, Deparment of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Research Interests: HIV and malaria co-infection effects on immune dysfunction, blood-brain barrier breakdown, and outcomes in cerebral malaria
Julie Hoffman, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Research Interests: HIV, tropical medicine
Elizabeth R. Jenny-Avital, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Attending Physician, Jacobi Medical Center
Research Interests: Clinical aspects of TB, HIV related immune reconstitution syndrome, CNS HIV disease
Marla Keller, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health
Director, Clinical Research Center, Harold and Muriel Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Einstein and Montefiore
Research Interests: Clinical trials to assess microbicide safety, genital tract mucosal immunity, HIV infection in women
Kami Kim, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Molecular pathogenesis of Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium species, epigenetics, chemotherapy of parasitic infections, vaccine design
Ira Leviton, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Research Interests: Rational use of antibiotics, writing consent forms that research subjects understand
Grace Minamoto, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Inpatient Director, Montefiore AIDS Center
Research Interests: Infections in immunocompromised hosts (HIV, transplantation, cancer)
Victoria A. Muggia, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Research Interests: Transplant infectious disease, HIV primary care
Joshua Nosanchuk, MD, FIDSA, FACP
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: Microbial pathogenesis, virulence factors, antibody immunity
Belinda Ostrowsky, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Research Interests: Antimicrobial stewardship, antimicrobial resistance, public health
Paul Riska, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Research Interests: Diagnosis, treatment and epidemiology of Clostridium difficile; tuberculosis
Noah Robbins, MD, CM
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Jonathan Shuter, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Director of Clinical Research, Montefiore Medical Center AIDS Center
Research Interests: Tobacco use in persons living with HIV/AIDS, adherence to antiretroviral medications
David K. Stein, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Director, Adult HIV Clinic, Jacobi Medical Center
Research Interests: HIV therapeutics
Herbert B. Tanowitz, MD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Director of the Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory, Jacobi Medical Center
Research Interests: Pathogenesis of parasitic diseases, Chagas disease, and cerebral malaria
Louis M. Weiss, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Professor, Department of Pathology
Research Interests: Pathogenesis of parasitic diseases, Chagas disease, and cerebral malaria
Barry S. Zingman, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Medical Director, AIDS Center
Clinical Director, Infectious Diseases, Moses Division
Research Interests: HIV and infectious diseases administration and care; HIV quality and guidelines development; new antiretroviral agents; HIV/Hepatitis C co-infection; HIV testing
Affiliated Faculty
(Research fields are included where available.)
Infectious Diseases
Morad Hassani, MD (Jacobi Medical Center)
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Jacobo Abadi, MD
Natalia Cheshenko, PhD
Joanna Dobroszycki, MD
Esra Fakioglu, MD
Glenn Fennelly, MD
Joy Glaser, MD
Betsy Herold, MD (HIV and HSV)
David Goldman, MD (cryptococcus, anthrax)
Tsoline Kojaoglanian, MD (HIV)
Nathan Litman, MD
Rebecca Madan, MD (CMV transplant immunology)
Marguerite Mayers, MD
Michael Rosenberg, MD, PhD
Arye Rubinstein, MD (allergies)
Basic Science
John S. Blanchard, Ph.D. (drug action and resistance in tuberculosis)
Jurgen Brojatsch, PhD (drug action and resistance in tuberculosis)
Robert Burk, MD (HPV)
Kartik Chandran, Ph.D. (ebola)
Harris Goldstein, MD, Director, Einstein/MMC Center for AIDS Research (HIV)
William Jacobs, PhD (tuberculosis)
Ganjam Kalpana, PhD (HIV)
Margaret Kielian, PhD (viral entry)
Gregoire Lauvau, Ph.D. (T-cell immunity)
Jack Lenz, PhD (retroviruses)
Stanley Nathenson, MD (T-cell immunity)
Steven Porcelli, MD (tuberculosis, T-cell immunity)
Vinayaka Prasad, PhD (HIV)
Matthew Scharff, MD (humoral immune response)
Duncan Wilson, PhD (HSV)
Epidemiology and Population Health Medicine
Eran Y. Bellin, MD, Vice President, Clinical IT Research and Development Emerging Health Information Technology Montefiore Medical Center
Ellie Schoenbaum, MD, Director, Clinical Research Training Program, Harold and Muriel Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Einstein and Montefiore
General Internal Medicine
Kathy Anastos, MD (HIV)
Julia Arnsten, MD (HIV)
James C.M. Brust, MD (tuberculosis)
Pathology
Joan Berman, PhD (HIV)
Amy Fox, MD, Director, Clinical Virology Laboratory
Michael Levi, DSc, Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory