UMass Chan Medical School Infectious Disease people

Jungwon Yoon, MD, MPH

Fellowship Director, Infectious Diseases and Immunology

Infectious disease physician, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Magdalena Slosar-Cheah, MD

Associate Fellowship Director

Infectious disease physician, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Douglas Golenbock, MD

Division Chief

Infectious disease physician, Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Innate immunity in the context of bacterial and parasitic infections, as well as neurodegenerative diseases

Aanchal Gupta, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Ann Moorman, MD, PhD, MPH

Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

The immunopathology of malaria, EBV, and Burkitt lymphoma, T cell and natural killer cell studies of human immunity to infectious diseases, Heterogeneity of adaptive immunity to parasites, viruses and vaccine-elicited responses, Identification of therapeutic interventions for endemic Burkitt lymphoma

Bibek Koirala, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine · Infectious Disease Fellowship

Infectious disease physician, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Bryan Kamel, MD

First Year

Infectious Disease fellow, UMass Chan Medical School

Caitlin Gauvin, DO

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Charles Specht, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Associate Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Cell wall biosynthesis in pathogenic fungi, Vaccine development for pathogenic Cryptococcus species., Transmission of cryptococcal infection in mice., Chitosan biosynthesis in

Daniel Caffrey, MB BCh BAO, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Associate Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Using genomic and computational methods to investigate immune response and host-pathogen interactions, Evolution of Host-Pathogen Interactions, Genomics of the Innate Immune Response

David Bebinger, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Egil Lien, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Understanding host-pathogen interactions – intersection of inflammation and cell death pathways, Mechanisms for pathogen activation and inhibition of Innate Immunity – inflammasomes, TLRs, regulated cell death., Manipulation of signaling by bacterial secretion system effectors from, Yersinia

Eicke Latz, MD

Professor, Adjunct

Infectious disease physician, Professor at UMass Chan Medical School

Evelyn Kurt-Jones, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Innate immune mechanisms of disease, Investigation of pathogen-receptor interactions that drive innate immunity

Filiz Korkmaz, PhD

Faculty

George Reed, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Applied statistical methods and modeling (Longitudinal data analysis; survival analysis/cure rates; logistic regression models; power analyses and simulations, Nutrition and Energy Metabolism (Weight Cycling; Thermic Effect of Food (TEF); Energy Balance)

Haris Afzal, MD

Second Year

Infectious Disease fellow, UMass Chan Medical School

Jemma Love, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Jennifer Daly, MD

Clinical Chief of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, UMass Memorial Medical Center; Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Jennifer Wang, MD

Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Innate immune factors that drive type 1 diabetes, Rat model of autoimmune diabetes

Joyce Fingeroth, MD

Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Juan Perez-Velazques, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

Jutamas Shaughnessy, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Associate Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School

The immunology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, The role of complement regulatory proteins in the pathogenesis of, Advance development of a peptide vaccine candidate that mimics an oligosaccharide epitope located as part of gonococcal lipooligosaccharide (LOS), Develop novel therapies against

Katherine Fitzgerald, MB BCh BAO, PhD

Vice Chair Research; Professor of Medicine

Infectious disease physician, Vice Chair Research at UMass Chan Medical School