Boston University Medical Center Infectious Disease people, page 2

Potential Mentor

Professor at Boston University Medical Center

Mucosal immunology in genital tissues; mechanisms of HIV-1 transmission, Mucosal immunology, Innate immunity, HIV-1 transmission

Deborah Cotton, MD, MPH

Emeritus Professor, Infectious Diseases

Infectious disease physician, Emeritus Professor at Boston University Medical Center

Donald Thea, MD, PhD, MSc

Professor, Boston University School of Public Health, Dept of Global Health (Perinatal Transmission of HIV)

Infectious disease physician, Professor at Boston University Medical Center

Elisha Wachman, MD

Faculty

Pediatric medicine physician, Professor at Boston University Medical Center

Gerald Keusch, MD

Professor of Medicine and International Health at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health; Associate Director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory Institute.

Infectious disease physician, Former Emeritus Professor at Boston University Medical Center

Ghulam Khan, MD

Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases

Addiction medicine physician, Assistant Professor at Boston University Medical Center

Helen Jenkins, PhD

Faculty

at Boston Univ Sch of Med

Helen Mu, DNP, MSN

Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases

Nurse practitioner in infectious diseases at Boston University Medical Center

Igor Kramnik, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine and Virology, Immunology & Microbiology, Investigator, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL)

Tuberculosis physician, Associate Professor at Boston University Medical Center

Innate immunity, genetics; host resistance, infection, tuberculosis, lung, interferon, macrophage, The emergence and global spread of infections caused by multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant forms of, Tuberculosis

Jai G. Marathe, MBBS, MS

Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases

Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Diseases

Jake Morgan, PhD, MS

Faculty

Research Assistant Professor at Boston Univ Sch of Med

Using real world data to predict individual- and population-level health outcomes and inform health policy

Jeffrey H Samet, MD, MA, MPH

Faculty

Professor, Medicine

Jerrold Ellner, MD

Adjunct Professor, Boston University School of Medicine, Dept of Medicine (TB, TB & HIV)

Infectious disease physician, Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Health

Joshua Barocas, MD

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases

Professor, Medicine-Infectious Disease

Judith Strymish, MD

Faculty

Infectious disease physician

Julita Mir, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Assistant Professor

Karen Jacobson, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine, Dept of Medicine, Infectious Diseases; Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology; (Epidemiology of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Improving TB Outcomes in Resource-Limited Settings)

Infectious disease physician, Associate Professor at Boston University Medical Center

Karla Thais, MD

Faculty

Infectious disease physician, Assistant Professor at Boston University Medical Center

Karsten Lunze, MD, PhD, DRPH, MPH

Faculty

Addiction medicine, global health, preventive medicine. physician, Clinical Associate Professor at Boston University Medical Center

Stigma and HIV prevention in key populations, Maternal and newborn health

Katherine Linsenmeyer, MD

Faculty

Internist, Assistant Professor at Boston University Medical Center

Katherine Reifler, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine · Infectious Disease Fellowship

Infectious disease physician, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston Univ Sch of Med

Kathryn Himmelstein, MD

Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases

Infectious disease physician, Assistant Professor at Boston University Medical Center

Laura White, PhD

Faculty

Professor of Biostatistics at Boston University Medical Center

Developing statistical tools to better understand the transmission dynamics and epidemiology of infectious diseases and substance use disorders

Lyndon James

First Year, 2026–2027