Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases

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Debra D. Poutsiaka, Dr., PhD, FIDSA
dpoutsiaka@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Debra Poutsiaka is currently Acting Main of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She was previously appointed Vice Chief for Clinical Diplomacy on October ane, 2019. She is currently attention physician in the Sectionalisation of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is a former program director of the communicable diseases fellowship program of Tufts Medical Heart. She is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases

Dr. Poutsiaka received her medical caste and doctor of philosophy (microbiology) from Boston University School of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency at the Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, followed by her fellowship in infectious diseases at Tufts New England Medical Heart.
Dr. Poutsiaka is a member of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Disease Society of America and the Massachusetts Infectious Illness Gild.

Dr. Poutsiaka's clinical interests center on full general infectious diseases and the care of immunocompromised patients with infections. She serves as an attending physician on the general communicable diseases and transplant infectious affliction consultation services, and the communicable diseases-internal medicine ward service of Tufts Medical Centre. Dr. Poutsiaka's inquiry interests include infections in the immunocompromised patient, particularly in the setting of organ or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and the relationship betwixt the gut microbiota and health and disease.

Helen W. Boucher, MDHelen West. Boucher, Medico, FACP, FIDSA
helen.boucher@tufts.edu; hboucher@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
617-636-6565, 617-636-3010 @hboucher3

Helen Boucher, Md, is the Dean ad acting and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Chief Academic Officer of the Tufts Medicine Health System. An agile Infectious Diseases dr., she was previously Primary of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Centre, and Director of the Stuart B. Levy Centre for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance (Levy CIMAR).

Dr. Boucher'south clinical interests include infections in immunocompromised patients and Due south. aureus infections. Her enquiry interests focus on S. aureus and the evolution of new anti-infective agents. She is the Chair of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG) Innovations Working Group, and serves on the Executive and Steering Committees. Dr. Boucher is the author or coauthor of numerous abstracts, chapters, and peer-reviewed manufactures, which have been published in such journals as The New England Journal of Medicine, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and The Annals of Internal Medicine. She is Associate Editor of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Editor of the Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy, and Infectious Diseases Clinics of North America.

In 2015, Dr. Boucher was appointed a voting member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic Resistant Leaner (PACCARB), and elected Treasurer of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). She was awarded the IDSA Social club Citation Laurels in Oct 2015. Dr. Boucher serves equally Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Higher of the Holy Cross, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Tufts Medicine Health Organization, and every bit Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Physicians of Tufts Medical Center.

David R. Snydman, MD is the Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center in downtown Boston, MA.David R. Snydman, Physician, FACP, FIDSA, FAST
dsnydman@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

David Snydman is Emeritus Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Emeritus Hospital Epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center. He is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine every bit well equally Professor in the Graduate Program in Clinical Inquiry of the Tufts School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts Academy. Dr. Snydman is board certified in medicine and infectious diseases.

He graduated from Williams College with highest honors in Chemistry (1968) and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1972) where he was awarded the Dr. A.O.J. Kelly prize. He was an intern and resident in medicine at Tufts-New England Medical Center, and spent two years in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control. He was a clinical and research swain in infectious diseases at Tufts-New England Medical Center before joining the faculty.

Dr. Snydman has been involved in transplant infections including cytomegalovirus enquiry as well as clinical antibiotic drug development, infirmary infections, and antibiotic resistance related research as well as clinical care for over 40 years. He has been a Education and Research scholar of the American Higher of Physicians. He was the recipient of the Ken Kaplan, MD accolade, given annually to the "outstanding infectious disease clinician" by the Massachusetts Chapter of the Infectious Affliction Order of America (2004). In addition, he received a commendation from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for his office in the evolution of cytomegalovirus immune globulin (1994). He has besides received a Distinguished Kinesthesia award from Tufts University School of Medicine besides as the Emanual Wolinsky award (2004) from the Communicable diseases Club (shared). He was awarded the Milton O. and Natalie V. Zucker Faculty Research Laurels of Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences (1998). He has been a Harold Neu, MD Visiting Professor at Columbia Academy, and a Pfizer visiting Scholar at Emory University. He has been named to Best Doctors for over 20 years. He has published over 350 peer reviewed original manufactures, book chapters and reviews, co-edited 13 Year Books of Infectious Disease, v Yearbooks of Medicine, as well equally edited the 3rd and fourth editions of Transplant Infections. He is on the editorial board of Clinical Infectious Diseases. He has been an advisor to the FDA and a member and on the advisory council of the NIAID Collaborative Antiviral Study Group. He is nationally and internationally recognized for his clinical and microbiologic enquiry in the field of infectious diseases. In 2015 he was named equally the Walter Due east. Stamm, Dr. Mentor past the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Brian D. W. Chow, MD is an attending physician in Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA.Brian D. Due west. Grub, Md, FAAP
bchow@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Brian Chow is currently attending md in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Center and Banana Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is the Plan Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Programme.

Dr. Chow is board certified in internal medicine, pediatrics, infectious diseases, and pediatric infectious diseases.

Dr. Chow graduated with a B.E., summa cum laude, with honors in biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt Academy, and an Thou.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He completed internal medicine-pediatrics residency at Case Western Reserve University (University Hospitals/Rainbow Babies and Children's Infirmary) in the Global Health Track, and served as Chief Resident. He completed fellowship preparation in combined adult/pediatric infectious diseases at Brown University, where he was awarded a Thrasher Research Foundation Early on Career Laurels. He has worked on inquiry and quality improvement projects on vaccines and clinical trials for RSV vaccines and prophylaxis.

Dr. Chow attends on the consultation service and transplant service. Dr. Chow was elected Fellow of the American University of Pediatrics in 2015, where he writes infectious disease lath review questions for their PREP:ID product.

Mary Hopkins, MD is the Associate Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program Mary J. Hopkins, Dr.
mhopkins1@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Mary Hopkins is currently attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Eye and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts Academy School of Medicine. She is the Associate Program Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Plan. She is a clinician educator who spends her fourth dimension on the ID Wards, consults services, and the outpatient dispensary. She is passionate about first-class patient intendance and improving fellow and house staff education. She has a special clinical interest in caring for patients with viral hepatitis.

Dr. Hopkins is a graduate of the University of Texas in Houston School of Medicine. She completed her residency at the Academy of Washington in Seattle. She completed fellowship and was kinesthesia at Vanderbilt University before joining Tufts. Her research interests include HIV care in pregnancy.

Carlos Acuña-Villaorduña MD, MScCarlos Acuña-Villaorduña, Dr., Msc
carlos.acuna-villaorduna@state.ma.the states

Dr. Carlos Acuña-Villaorduña is an infectious disease specialist with interest in tuberculosis, tropical medicine, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases. He earned his medical caste at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru and completed his training in internal medicine at Washington Hospital Center in DC and his infectious diseases fellowship at Boston University Medical Heart.

After finishing medical school, he worked as a researcher at the "Alexander Von Humboldt Tropical Medicine Plant" in Lima, Peru, the largest tropical medicine in South America, where he successfully collaborated in several enquiry projects in tuberculosis epidemiology and diagnostics. After moving to the The states to complete his medical grooming, he earned a chief caste in epidemiology at the "University of London". He currently provides medical care for patients at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital and at the tuberculosis clinic of Boston.

Dr. Acuña-Villaorduña is interested in agreement the complex mechanisms leading to tuberculosis transmission in developing countries. His enquiry focuses on investigating the ability of certain mycobacterial strain

Geneve Allison, MD is theDirector of the Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Program at Tufts Medical Center in downtown Boston, MA.Gen è ve Allison, Doc, MSc, FACP
gallison@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Genève Allison is Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University Schoolhouse of Medicine. Dr. Allison is board certified in Infectious Diseases and certified in Hyperbaric Medicine.

Dr. Allison is a graduate of Harvard College, University of Massachusetts Medical Schoolhouse and has a Masters Degree in Clinical Translational Science from the Schoolhouse of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University. Her internal medicine residency and chief residency were at Alameda County Medical Center, Oakland, CA. She completed infectious diseases fellowship at
Tufts Medical Center. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Gild of America.

She has a broad clinical and inquiry interest in infectious disease, sees patients in the multidisciplinary Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine Center also every bit on the inpatient general ID consult service and ID wards. She is also trained in hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) medicine and advanced wound intendance. Dr. Allison runs the Wound Care/Hyperbaric ID swain track, which offers advanced wound grooming, HBO certification, mentorship, and scholarly activities related to the interface of complex wound healing and infectious diseases.

Dr. Allison has been the director of the Tufts Medical Center Outpatient Parenteral Antibody Therapy (OPAT) program from 2009-2020. Dr. Allison is on 2 national committees for OPAT with the Infectious Diseases Society of America and is co-author of IDSA's OPAT guidelines. She has been awarded "Boston's Best Doctor" past her peers for more than ten years. In 2018, Dr. Allison was inducted into Alpha Omega Blastoff honor medical society for her achievements in teaching, inquiry, and clinical care. She is a certified instructor of the "SMART Course" – Stress Management and Resiliency Training, from Benson-Henry Found for Mind-Body Medicine, Massachusetts Full general Hospital.

Gabriela Andujar Vazquez is currently an attending doctor in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center. She is the Associate Infirmary Epidemiologist and Acquaintance Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, and the Medical Director of Tufts Medical Centre COVID 19 Vaccine Program. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Andujar is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Andujar completed her undergraduate education at the University of Puerto Rico, where she received a B.Due south. in Biological science. She completed medical school at the Universidad Cardinal del Caribe in Puerto Rico. Subsequently, she did her Internal Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan, NY and her Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Tufts Medical Center. During her fellowship training, she developed a clinical and enquiry involvement in antimicrobial stewardship and infection control, particularly rapid diagnostics. She completed a clinical inquiry certificate at the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the Tufts University Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences.

In 2018, Dr. Andujar was one of the kickoff awardees of the Leadership in Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Public health (Bound) Fellowship. This is a preparation award competitively granted to four promising young infectious diseases physicians and is funded past the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This fellowship fosters the next generation of Infectious Diseases leaders in public wellness, infirmary epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship, giving them the hands-on experience they'll need to lead and interact across these disciplines of healthcare.

Dr. Andujar is interested in general infectious diseases too as transplant infectious diseases. She is particularly interested in antimicrobial stewardship in long term intendance, outpatient and laboratory settings. Other interests are infections in immunocompromised host, specially solid and stem cell transplant patients, and hospital caused infections.

Jose Caro, MD is an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Center in downtown Boston, MA.José Caro, MD
JCaro@tuftsmedicalcenter.org 

José Caro is an attending md in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Heart and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts Academy School of Medicine. Dr. Caro is lath certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. Caro graduated from UNAM in Mexico Metropolis and did his Communicable diseases fellowship at Boston Medical Center.

Dr. Caro's clinical interests include HIV, PrEP, Human Papillomavirus infection and prevention, and general infectious diseases. He conducts a weekly clinical session on Human Papillomavirus anal cancer screening for at-risk individuals, including MSM, people living with HIV, and other immunocompromised patients. He provides counseling on HPV infection and performs high-resolution anoscopy for diagnosis and handling of HPV-related dysplasia. Dr. Caro is also a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Commission of the Tufts Physicians Organisation.

Daniel A. Caroff, MD MPH is a staff physician in Infectious Diseases at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, MA Daniel A. Caroff, Doc, MPH
daniel.caroff@lahey.org

Daniel A. Caroff, Doc MPH is a staff dr. in Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiologist at Lahey Infirmary & Medical Heart in Burlington, MA and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical Schoolhouse. He is lath certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Dan received his BA and MD both from the University of Pennsylvania. He did his internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and spent 1 yr as a staff doc in the medical intensive care unit at Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia. He completed his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts Full general Hospital and Brigham and Women'southward Hospital, and and then completed received his MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from Harvard University. He spent 3 years as a senior inquiry beau at the Section of Population Medicine of Harvard Medical Schoolhouse studying the epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections. His clinical interests include full general ID, diagnostic stewardship, and infection control /prevention.

A headshot of Jennifer Chow, MD, MSJennifer 1000. Chow, Physician, MS
jchow@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Jennifer Chow is currently an attending physician in the Segmentation of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases and is Associate Manager of the Ventricular Assist Device and Cardiac Transplant Infectious Diseases Program at Tufts Medical Center, She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Chow is lath certified in infectious diseases.

Dr. Chow graduated with a B.A. from Cornell University and an Thou.D. from Example Western Reserve University. She then moved to Boston where she completed her residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center followed by an infectious diseases fellowship at Tufts Medical Center. During that fourth dimension, she earned her Thousand.S. in Clinical & Translational Science at the School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences of Tufts University.

Her research focuses on the prevention, early detection and management of infections in non-HIV immunocompromised hosts. As inferior kinesthesia, she was awarded a K23 NIH Mentored Patient-Oriented Inquiry Career Development Award to study the circuitous relationship between host iron metabolism and infections in orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) recipients nether the mentorship of Dr. David Snydman and Dr. Tomas Ganz (of UCLA). She is a fellow member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences of Tufts University and is a member of their Clinical and Translational Science Program Informational Commission. Through this degree program, she has mentored multiple ID fellows in their thesis work. Other areas of research interest include risk factors and empiric handling of candidemia in the ICU and immunological risk factors for infection in OLT and orthotopic center transplant recipients. Her clinical expertise concentrates on transplant infectious diseases (in both solid organ and stalk cell transplant recipients). She is a fellow member of the Ventricular Help Device (VAD) and cardiac transplant infectious diseases team and develops ID protocols relating to this patient population. At the national level, she involved in the ID Community of Do of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and the ID Professional Community of International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT).

Shira I. Doron, MD, MSShira I. Doron, Dr., MS
sdoron@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Shira Doron is currently the Infirmary Epidemiologist as well as Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Tufts Medical Centre and Acquaintance Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Doron is lath certified in infectious diseases.

Dr. Doron is a graduate of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She completed an internship in internal medicine at the Academy of California, San Diego, and residency at the George Washington University Hospital. She completed her fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Middle, along with a Main's Caste in Clinical Inquiry at the School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University. Her enquiry interests include antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, and hospital acquired infections.

Dr. Doron is known locally and nationally for her expertise in antimicrobial stewardship and infection control. She has held contracts with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, funded by the Centers for Affliction Command and Prevention, to support healthcare facilities throughout the region in their efforts to improve their stewardship and infection control initiatives. She is vice chair of the Infectious Diseases Gild of America's Centers of Excellence subcommittee and chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America's Centers of Excellence review committee.

Robert A. Duncan, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.Robert A. Duncan, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA
Robert.A.Duncan@lahey.org

Robert A. Duncan, MD, MPH is currently the Director of Hospital Epidemiology & Infection Control at the Center for Infectious Diseases at Lahey Hospital & Medical Heart in Burlington, MA and Acquaintance Professor of Medicine at Tufts Academy School of Medicine. He is lath certified in infectious diseases.

Dr. Duncan received a BA from Wesleyan University, an MPH (Infectious Illness Epidemiology) from Yale University, and an MD from the University of Connecticut, followed by residency grooming at New England Deaconess Hospital and an Infectious Diseases fellowship at Boston City Infirmary, Boston University, and the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital. He has been a Senior Staff Doctor in Infectious Diseases at Lahey Clinic since 1993 and Hospital Epidemiologist since 1999. He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Gild of America and of the Club for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

J. Morgan Freiman is a Staff Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Lahey Health - Lahey Hospital & Medical CenterJ. Morgan Freiman, MD, MSc
julie.chiliad.freiman@lahey.org

J. Morgan Freiman is a Staff Physician in the Partitioning of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Lahey Health - Lahey Hospital & Medical Heart (LHMC). Dr. Freiman is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. Freiman completed her residency and fellowship training at Boston University Medical Center in 2015. She completed a post-doctoral Masters program in Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health the post-obit yr. She joined the staff at LHMC in 2019 as the Medical Director for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program.

Dr. Freiman is interested in Antibiotic Resistant Infections, Antibiotic Use and Resistance, Hepatitis C Virus, HIV/AIDS and full general infectious diseases.

Yoav Golan, MD is an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Center in downtown Boston, MA.Yoav Golan, Doc, MS, FIDSA
ygolan@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Yoav Golan is currently attention physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Centre and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Dr. Golan received his Yard.D. from the Hebrew Academy, Hadassah Medical School in Israel. He was trained in Internal Medicine at Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv University and Infectious diseases at Tufts New England Medical Center. His field of professional expertise includes healthcare-caused infections, antibody resistance and its impact on patient outcomes, patient gamble stratification, and C. difficile infections. He is besides trained in clinical inquiry with focus on epidemiology, statistics and modeling. In addition, he completed a drug-development course. He has completed multiple research projects as a PI and co-PI. Dr. Golan has been capable of producing big collaborations to explore various issues related to healthcare-related infections.

Over the past 15 years, Dr. Golan has been involved in the pre-clinical and clinical evolution of several antibiotics. Over the by 12 years, he became specially interested in infections past C. difficile. He has been involved in multiple clinical trials equally a PI- almost notably- the trials that pb to the approving of fidaxomicin for the treatment of C. difficile infections. Dr. Golan has a comprehensive understanding of clinical research methodologies and, as a clinician and researcher, he is familiar first-hand with the unmet need. In summary, he has the required noesis of the field, the power to deport large research projects through collaborations, and a proven rail record in drug development.

Jeffrey K. Griffiths, MD, MPH&TMJeffrey Thou. Griffiths, Dr., MPH&TM
Jeffrey.griffiths@tufts.edu

Attending Physician; Director, Global Health, Public Wellness and Professional person Degree Programs, Tufts University School of Medicine; Associate Professor of Public Wellness and of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Customs Medicine, Tufts Academy School of Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

Clinical Focus Areas: Infectious diseases, Cryptosporidiosis and other diarrheal diseases, tropical and parasitic diseases

James Hellinger, MD is an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center in downtown Boston, MA.James Hellinger, MD, MSc
jhellinger@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

James Hellinger is currently attention physician at Tufts Medical Centre in the Division of Infectious Diseases, every bit well every bit the Medical Managing director with Allways Wellness Partners and their circuitous community care management program. Dr. Hellinger is lath certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

His current practice includes full general infectious disease direction and prevention, travel medicine, HIV management and prevention (PREP) and hepatitis C treatment.

Following medical schoolhouse at University of California San Francisco, he completed internal medicine and communicable diseases training with the Harvard Combined Communicable diseases program. Dr. Hellinger completed a Masters of Science from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Hellinger has pregnant clinical research experience, especially in the development of therapeutics for HIV infections and metabolic
complications. He has worked with multi-site domestic and international collaborations, and equally technical counselor to the HIV Research Network in affiliation with Drs. Moore and Gebo at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD. His previous roles have included grant reviewer for NIH sponsored review panel for novel antiretroviral therapeutics, Data Prophylactic Monitoring Board Fellow member, and for HIV research funding from the Campbell Foundation. He is the quondam Director of Enquiry Development at the HIV Community Inquiry Initiative of New England, where he advised the Massachusetts HIV Drug Assistance Program.

Steven Y. Hong, MD is an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Center in downtown Boston, MA.Steven Y. Hong, MD, MPH, MAR
SHong@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Steven Y. Hong is currently an attention physician in the Partition of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center. He is an Banana Professor of Medicine as well as Assistant Professor of Public Wellness and Community Medicine at Tufts Academy School of Medicine. His primary appointment is equally the Clinical Services Co-operative Chief at the U.Southward. Centers for Illness Control & Prevention (CDC) in Namibia. In this capacity Dr. Hong is working to help Namibia achieve sustainable HIV epidemic control. Dr. Hong is board certified in Infectious Diseases. Dr. Hong graduated with a B.South. and 1000.P.H. from Columbia University, an One thousand.D. from New York Medical College and an M.A.R. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity Schoolhouse. He led the institution of a strong research collaboration between Tufts Academy Schoolhouse of Medicine, the Academy of Namibia School of Medicine and the Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services. His research in Namibia focuses on achieving the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets to finish HIV. He has conducted studies on optimization of adherence and retention of patients on antiretroviral therapy (Fine art), assessment and prevention of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR), implementation of customs adherence clubs, increasing HIV testing for men, assessment of food insecurity amid ART patients, and decreasing hazardous booze consumption among Fine art patients. Dr. Hong besides worked equally a consultant for the Earth Health Organization in their HIVDR assessment and prevention strategy in resources-limited settings. In this context he helped to implement Early Warning Indicators of HIVDR and implemented surveys of HIVDR in Namibia and other resource-express settings. He has likewise worked as Deputy Master of Political party, Clinical Director of the Gild for Family Health in Namibia where he led the Key Population Programme, spearheading the establishment of pre-exposure prophylaxis, HIV self-testing, and index-case testing.

Linden Hu, MD is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Linden Hu, Doctor, FIDSA
linden.hu@tufts.edu

Linden Hu is currently the Elaine and Paul Chervinsky Professor of Immunology, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, and Vice Dean for Research at Tufts University School of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Hu is board certified in infectious diseases.

Dr. Hu graduated from Brown Academy with both an A.B. and a Thou.D. degree. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Tufts New England Medical Center. He stayed on every bit faculty in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center where he is involved in enquiry of Lyme illness and other tick borne illnesses. He is involved in both clinical and demote research and has been awarded over 20 NIH sponsored grants to date in his career. He is a one-time Vice-Chairman for Faculty Development in the Section of Medicine at Tufts Medical Heart. He has served on numerous NIH report sections and committees and is a fellow of the Communicable diseases Society of America and was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

Michael R. Jordan, MD is an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Center in downtown Boston, MA.Michael R. Jordan, MD, MPH
mjordan@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Dr. Michael R. Jordan is an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Eye and is an Banana Professor of Medicine and Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Jordan is board certified in Infectious Diseases and is Tufts University'due south Infection Control Health Director.


Dr. Jordan is a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine and the Harvard Schoolhouse of Public Wellness. He has a wide involvement in infectious diseases with special accent on HIV, drug resistant viruses and emerging pathogens.


He is an internationally recognized practiced in HIV drug resistance (HIVDR), public health surveillance epidemiology, and antiretroviral therapy (ART) program evaluation and monitoring. His research interests include HIVDR, HIV subtypes, characterizing the clinical relevance of low-frequency HIVDR mutations, evolution of population level surveillance strategies for

assessing levels of transmitted and acquired HIVDR in resource limited countries scaling-up Art, the development of strategies to optimize quality of ART service delivery in resource express countries, and best practices and methods of assessing adherence in people taking ART for the treatment of HIV.


Dr. Jordan is the Director of Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University COVID-19 Biorepository and Comprehensive COVID-19 Database designed to accelerate research efforts in basic pathophysiology, diagnostics, vaccines, treatments, and clinical determinants and outcomes. His COVID-xix inquiry includes the development of ultra-sensitive unmarried genome sequencing assays to discover intra- and inter-host diversity of SARS-CoV-ii, antiviral drug resistance, andallowed escape. A pioneer in transdisciplinary research and its methods, he collaborates widely including with bones scientists at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University on the written report of differences in COVID-nineteen outcomes due to sex and gender in both animals and humans.


Dr. Hashemite kingdom of jordan is Key Faculty for the Infectious Diseases fellowship training program where he mentors fellows in HIV-related research also every bit surveillance epidemiology and emerging pathogens. In addition, Dr. Jordan is Fundamental Faculty at the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Graduate Program and the Tufts Center for the Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance (CIMAR).


Dr. Hashemite kingdom of jordan is an writer of over 75 peer reviewed manuscripts, numerous World Wellness Organization (WHO) publications and scientific abstracts. He has recently been appointed to the Scientific Commission of the International Workshop on HIV Drug Resistance and Handling Strategies and represents Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University on the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) Accelerator Committee.

Dr. Jordan is Co-Chair of WHO's HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance and Monitoring Working Group a sits on the WHO HIV Drug Resistance Network Steering Committee. In addition, he is Co-Chair of WHO'southward Quality of Intendance Technical Working Group.


Dr. Jordan supports WHO in the development and implementation of global HIVDR surveillance protocols. Since 2005, Dr. Hashemite kingdom of jordan has worked with Ministries of Health from over 60 countries to implement sustainable HIVDR surveillance and monitoring strategies and develop laboratory quality assurance/quality control and capacity for viral load and HIVDR testing.

Laura Kogelman, MD is the Director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at Tufts Medical Center in downtown Boston, MA.Laura Kogelman, MD, FIDSA
lkogelman@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Laura Kogelman is currently Managing director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic and the Traveler'southward Health Service, Manager of the Respiratory Infection Clinic and Medical Director for the Tufts Collegiate Covid Partnership. She is an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Center and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts Academy Schoolhouse of Medicine. Dr. Kogelman is lath certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. Kogelman has been involved in caring for patients living with HIV since completing fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital Combined Infectious Illness fellowship plan, with the second year focused specifically and exclusively on HIV. She brought that expertise to Tufts Medical Center when she joined the division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Disease in 2002. She has established a busy HIV practice and became the Manager of the Communicable diseases dispensary in 2008. Our dispensary provides services to more than 600 people living with HIV in the greater Boston area. In add-on, she runs the Mail service-Exposure Prophylaxis plan at Tufts, working closely with the ID Fellows, Employee Health and the Emergency Room to care for both Employees and Not-Employees who accept had potential exposure to HIV. This intendance includes victims of sexual assail and those with high risk sexual exposure histories. As an expansion of this, she also provides Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis services to at-take chances individuals. Her other major area of clinical involvement is Travel and Tropical Medicine. She has been manager of the Traveler's Health Service at Tufts since 2004 and completed boosted training through the Gorgas course, based in Lima, Peru. She supervises all the fellows equally the rotate through travel clinic.

In the midst of the Covid epidemic, she took on the role of medical director overseeing Covid testing for students at the Tufts Boston Campus, Emerson Higher and Berklee Higher of Music as part of the Tufts Covid Collegiate Partnership. She also adult the Respiratory Infection Clinic where care is provided to these students as well as TMC patients with Covid infection or with symptoms suggestive of Covid.

In addition to her clinical duties, she is responsible for multiple didactic lectures for medical students, residents and fellows at Tufts and she has lectured on HIV and Travel Medicine at multiple institutions throughout Massachusetts. She has been a site PI for several multinational multi-eye HIV clinical trials, and has collaborated on several clinical HIV and Travel Medicine studies, including NIH and NIMH funded projects.

Rakhi Kohli, MD is an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Center in downtown Boston, MA.Rakhi Kohli, MD, MS
RKohli@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Rakhi Kohli is attention medico in the Partitioning of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Kohli is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Kohli attended Cornell Academy for her undergraduate studies and the University of Rochester for medical school. She completed her internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston MA and her infectious disease fellowship at Albert Einstein Higher of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. During her fellowship she studied mortality trends in HIV- infected drug users in the early on HAART era and earned a Masters of Science with a focus in Clinical Research Methods.

In 2005 Dr. Kohli joined the faculty at Tufts. Her electric current research focuses on metabolic complications of antiretroviral therapy. Dr. Kohli has published on the effect of metformin on insulin resistance and intestinal fat in HIV-infected persons and received a NIH K23 award to examine insulin resistance and body fat changes in HIV-infected persons. Her clinical interests include full general infectious diseases, transplant communicable diseases, and HIV. Dr. Kohli regularly attends on the transplant communicable diseases consult service and maintains an outpatient continuity clinic where she follows patients with chronic infections. She co-directs the 2n year medical school Microbiology and Communicable diseases Class at Tufts University Schoolhouse of Medicine and directs the Infectious disease Division Morbidity and Mortality Conference.

Dan McQuillen, MD, is a Senior Staff Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center (LHMC) and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Daniel P. McQuillen, Doctor, FIDSA, FACP
Daniel.p.mcquillen@lahey.org

Daniel McQuillen is a Senior Staff Physician in the Segmentation of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Lahey Wellness - Lahey Infirmary & Medical Heart (LHMC) and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University Schoolhouse of Medicine. Dr. McQuillen is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. McQuillen completed his residency at The Medical Higher of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals in 1988 and his Infectious Diseases Fellowship at The Maxwell Republic of finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine in 1991. He is a former Chair of the Clinical Affairs Committee of the Infectious Diseases Club of America (IDSA, 2008-2011), past member (2012-2016) and IDSA Chair of the IDWeek Program Commission (2016) and current IDSA President-Elect. He is a past President of the Massachusetts Infectious disease Society. He has been active in IDSA efforts to document and advocate for the value of Infectious Disease physicians on a national level.

He directs the Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Disease service at LHMC and is interested in antimicrobial stewardship, tick-associated infections, management of Clostridioides difficile infection, HIV medicine, and full general infectious disease.

Babar Memon, MD, MScBabar Memon, MD, MSc
babar.memon@mass.gov

Dr. Babar Memon is currently an attending md in the Division of Infectious Diseases and serves as the Chair of Infection Prevention and Control at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital. He has been appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts Academy School of Medicine and is board certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. Memon earned his medical degree at Dow Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan, and obtained a Master'due south Degree in Infection Control from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine at Carney Hospital in Boston, followed by a fellowship in infectious diseases at Boston University Medical Middle.

Dr. Memon'south clinical interests include general infectious diseases and working with underserved patient populations, with a master focus on infection
control. In his role equally Chair of Infection Prevention and Control at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, he led the development of institutional policies and guidelines in hospital infection command during the COVID-xix pandemic. He as well participated in statewide committees to manage the detection and spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the hospital setting.

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Natalie Nierenberg, MD is the Medical Director of Inpatient Wound Prevention and Management and an Attending Physician at Tufts Medical Center.Natalie Nierenberg, MD, MPH
NNierenberg@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Natalie Nierenberg is currently Medical Director, Inpatient Wound Prevention and Direction and attending physician at Tufts Medical Eye. She is an Assistant Professor, Tufts Academy School of Medicine. Dr. Nierenberg is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. Nierenberg graduated from Georgetown University and went on to get her MD and MPH in International Medicine from the Tulane University Schoolhouse of Medicine and the Tulane Schoolhouse of Public Health and Tropical Medicine respectively. Equally an undergraduate, Dr. Nierenberg started working in developing countries with Project Medishare for Haiti and Partners in Health and took her first trip to Haiti. This trip became the first of nearly ii dozen trips to Republic of haiti and then far. On the first trip, Dr. Nierenberg helped set up mobile clinics in remote areas and assisted in grooming local practitioners to run the clinics. She continued these visits as a medical student, intern, resident and attention medico and has trained many students and residents to continue to the operations. At present, Dr. Nierenberg provides standing education online and in person for local practitioners in Haiti to heighten sustainability and decrease reliance on volunteer missions.

Equally an attention physician at Tufts Medical Center, Dr. Nierenberg specializes in transplant infectious disease, the management of device related infections, and is also a wound care specialist in the Center for Vascular Medicine, Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine. In the autumn of 2015, she volition assume the position of Medical Director for Inpatient Wound Care.

Winnie W. Ooi, MDWinnie W. Ooi, MD, MPH
Winnie.Westward.Ooi@lahey.org

Winnie Ooi is Senior Staff Medico in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center. Dr. Ooi is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

She joined the staff in 1984 after completing medical school at the Medical College of Philadelphia. She completed her internal medicine residency training at USC Medical Centre and Infectious Diseases training at the Boston Academy Medical Eye. She holds Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and has specific involvement in tropical infections (especially cutaneous leishmaniasis and cysticercosis) and parasitology. She is Director of the Travel and Tropical Medicine Clinic at Lahey Hospital.

She is a nationally known leprologist with a special involvement and expertise in the neurologic aspects of Hansen's disease and is the codirector of the monthly multidisciplinary Federally funded regional center for Hansen's disease.

Whitney Perry, MD, MSWhitney Perry, MD, MS
wperry@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Whitney Perry is an attending dr. in the Partition of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University Schoolhouse of Medicine. She is lath certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. Perry received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and her medical degree from Tufts Academy Schoolhouse of Medicine. She went on to complete her Internal Medicine residency, as well as clinical and research fellowship in Infectious Diseases, at Tufts Medical Center (TMC). During fellowship, she also earned a master's degree in Clinical and Translational Science at Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
She joined the kinesthesia at Tufts Medical Center in 2020 and was awarded a Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) K12 career evolution award. She is interested in infections in the immunocompromised host and her current research focuses on sex activity-based differences in immune response following solid organ transplantation. She attends on the inpatient transplant and full general ID consult services at TMC.

David R. Stone, MD is an Attending Physician as well as Co-Director of the Mycobacteria Treatment Clinic at Tufts Medical Center.David R. Stone, Doctor
dstone@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

David Stone is currently attention physician as well equally Co-Director of the Mycobacteria Treatment Clinic at Tufts Medical Center. He is an Acquaintance Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Stone is lath certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. Stone graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine. His particular interest is with HIV and with Tuberculosis. Dr. Stone works with the Massachusetts Section of Public Health and continues to see patients with HIV in prisons. His focus of involvement has been with adherence to medications and drug resistance. In addition he has been very involved in the care of HIV positive inmates who are transitioning to the community.

At Tufts Medical Center, Dr. Stone co-directs the Mycobacterial Clinic with Dr. Ismail from pulmonary. They treat a large population of people with active and latent TB and with singular mycobacteria.

Andrew Strand is currently an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Disease Andrew M. Strand, Doctor
Astrand1@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Andrew Strand is currently an attending doc in the Sectionalisation of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Disease at Tufts Medical Eye and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts Academy School of Medicine. He is board certified in both internal medicine and infectious disease.

Dr. Strand is a graduate of Eastern Virginia Medical School. He completed residency in internal medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed fellowship preparation in infectious disease at Knuckles University Medical Middle. While at Knuckles he specialized in the care of patients with solid organ transplant and hematologic transplants. His research interests there included fungal prophylaxis in the hematologic malignancy population as well as novel viral therapy for CMV illness in immunocompromised patients.

He is a clinician educator who spends his time on ID wards, full general and transplant consult services and the outpatient clinic. He is passionate about excellent patient care equally well as training the next generation of physicians.

Ramnath Subbaraman is currently an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious DiseasesRamnath Subbaraman, MD, MSc, FACP
ramnath.subbaraman@tufts.edu

Ramnath Subbaraman is currently an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center and Banana Professor in the Section of Public Wellness and Community Medicine at Tufts University Schoolhouse of Medicine. Dr. Subbaraman is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Subbaraman is a graduate of the University of Chicago (BA in Social Anthropology), Yale University School of Medicine (MD), the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Wellness (MSc in Epidemiology), the University of California at San Francisco Internal Medicine Residency, and the Massachusetts General Infirmary / Brigham and Women'due south Hospital Infectious Diseases Fellowship. Earlier joining the Tufts Academy School of Medicine, he was an associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an teacher at Harvard Medical School.

His research focuses on strategies to improve the delivery of tuberculosis (TB) care in India, which has the globe's largest TB epidemic. Specifically, his piece of work focuses on improving linkage to treatment and patient memory across stages of the TB pour of care. He conducts research on digital adherence technologies that have the potential to better medication adherence in TB patients. He also conducts research on social determinants of health in urban slums in Republic of india, in collaboration with colleagues at PUKAR, an innovative research commonage in Mumbai.

Cheleste M. Thorpe, MD is an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Center. Cheleste Chiliad. Thorpe, Dr., MS
cthorpe@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Dr. Thorpe is currently an attending medico in the Sectionalisation of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases (GMID) at Tufts Medical Middle, and an Acquaintance Professor of Medicine at Tufts Academy School of Medicine. Dr. Thorpe is board certified in infectious diseases.

Dr. Thorpe graduated with a B.South. from University of Michigan in Cellular and Molecular Biology, followed by a Master's caste in Biophysics at Harvard University prior to attending Tufts Academy School of Medicine (M'93). She completed internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship preparation at Tufts Medical Eye. Post-obit mail service-doctoral work with Gerald T. Keusch MD (former GMID Partition Chief), she joined GMID staff in 2000. Her enquiry interests include diarrheal disease, Shiga toxin-producing Due east. coli, toxin biology, Clostridium difficile, probiotics and gut allowed activation.

Dr. Thorpe is a member of the Immunology Program in the Graduate School at TUSM, and serves on thesis committees for PhD students. She has been the Chair of the Tufts Institutional Biosafety Committee for many years. In her clinical office, she attends at Tufts Medical Centre on the consult services.

Dr. Viau is currently attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Disease Roberto Viau Colindres, Doc
rviaucolindres@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Dr. Viau is currently attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Disease at Tufts Medical Eye and Banana Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, attention both the Infectious Diseases Ward and the Consult service.

Dr. Viau did a seven-year Medical Schoolhouse in Republic of guatemala City. He then did internal Medicine Residency at Jacobi Medical Center in New York City. He completed his fellowship training at Instance Western Reserve Academy. He then joined the faculty at the Cleveland VA where he worked for three years as a hospitalist while pioneering some the VA antibiotic stewardship programs via Tele-health. He besides worked on resistance mechanisms and molecular epidemiology of Gram negative bacteria. He joined the Tufts faculty in 2018.

Dr. Viau's research interests are Gram negative resistance, antibiotic stewardship, and molecular epidemiology of bacterial infections. He is part of the Core Kinesthesia of the Tufts Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance (CIMAR). In addition he serves as a member on the Standards and Exercise Guidelines Commission of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

Tine Vindenes, MD, MPH is an attending physician in Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA.Tine Vindenes, Physician, MPH
tvindenes@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Tine Vindenes is currently attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Vindenes is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Vindenes graduated from Palacky Academy Kinesthesia of Medicine with Honors in 2008. She went on to complete an official Norwegian internship 2008-2010 earlier moving to the United States. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut in 2013, and went on to consummate an Infectious disease fellowship at Tufts Medical Eye as well as a Master of Public Health at Tufts University in 2016.

Dr. Vindenes is interested in general infectious diseases, and particularly diseases affecting underserved populations. She is particularly interested in infectious diseases in the immunocompromised, including HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and Mycobacteria. She serves equally an ID/HIV consultant to Greater Lawrence Family Health Middle, collaborates with Tufts liver middle in a multi-disciplinary clinic to serve people with complex liver diseases, and care for people with Mycobacterial diseases in Tufts multidisciplinary Mycobacterial illness clinic. Dr. Vindenes is the Manager of Tufts Medical Center's OPAT [Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy] program that systematically facilitates IV antimicrobials after infirmary
discharge. https://world wide web.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/patient-care-services/Departments- and-Services/Infectious-Affliction/Clinical-Care-Services/OPAT-Dispensary

Kenneth Wener, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Kenneth Wener, Md
Kenneth.thousand.wener@lahey.org

Dr. Wener is currently Chairman of the Sectionalization of Infectious Diseases of Lahey Health and Senior Staff Physician at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Wener is board certified in infectious diseases.

He completed medical schoolhouse at the Technion-Israel Plant of Engineering science School of Medicine. Afterwards, he completed Internal Medicine residency grooming at Instance Western Reserve University Hospitals of Cleveland and subsequent fellowship preparation in Infectious Diseases at the Beth State of israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Wener joined the Section of Infectious Diseases at Lahey in 2006 and has served as the Acquaintance Hospital Epidemiologist and Co-chair of the Antimicrobial Subcommittee of Pharmacy and Therapeutics.

He is the site coordinator for communicable diseases trainee education at Lahey. He has numerous interests including infections of the critically ill and the prevention of healthcare associated infections.

Alysse G. Wurcel, MD is an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Center.Alysse G. Wurcel, Doctor, MS
AWurcel@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Alysse Wurcel is currently attention doctor in the Sectionalization of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Tufts Medical Eye and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University Schoolhouse of Medicine. Dr. Wurcel is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Wurcel completed her undergraduate educational activity at Tufts Academy. She is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She completed Infectious disease fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital and Tufts Medical Center, and received a Masters in Clinical Research from the Sacker School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University. In addition to her faculty position in the Department of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She currently provides HIV and hepatitis C intendance at Tufts Medical Center equally well as four local canton jails.

Her research interests include prevention and handling of infectious diseases in people who use drugs and people who are incarcerated. In May 2018, she was awarded a KL2 grant from the Tufts Center for Translational Studies Institute (CTSI) to piece of work with key stakeholders in the criminal justice and public health systems to evaluate and improve current hepatitis C testing and treatment protocols in jails. She is co-investigator on a Tufts CTSI Pilot projection aimed at understanding HIV care transitions from jail to community. She serves on the Infectious Diseases Society of America "Opioid Task Force," a subcommittee aimed at improving communicable diseases care for people with substance use disorders.