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Infectious Diseases Fellowship – Faculty

Our outstanding faculty are published in numerous, highly regarded, academic journals.
Debra Putsiaka

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

Debra Poutsiaka is currently Interim Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She previously held the position of vice chief for clinical affairs. She is currently an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center (Tufts MC) and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is a former program director of the infectious disease fellowship program of Tufts MC. She is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. Poutsiaka received her medical degree 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 Center. Dr. Poutsiaka is a member of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Disease Society of America and the Massachusetts Infectious Disease Society.

Dr. Poutsiaka’s clinical interests center on general infectious diseases and the care of immunocompromised patients with infections. She serves as an attending physician on the transplant infectious disease consultation services and the infectious disease internal medicine ward service of Tufts MC. Dr. Poutsiaka’s scholarly interests include infections in the immunocompromised patient, the relationship between the gut microbiota and health and disease and COVID-19 infections in immunocompromised patients.


Helen Boucher

Helen W. Boucher, MD, FACP, FIDSA 
helen.boucher@tufts.edu; hboucher@tuftsmedicalcenter.org 
617.636.6565, 617.636.3010 @hboucher3

Helen Boucher, MD, is the dean ad interim and professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Chief Academic Officer of the Wellforce Health System. An active infectious diseases physician, she was previously chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts MC, and director of the Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance (Levy CIMAR).

Dr. Boucher’s clinical interests include infections in immunocompromised patients and S. aureus infections. Her research interests focus on S. aureus and the development 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 articles, which have been published in 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 and 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 Bacteria and elected Treasurer of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). In October 2015, she was awarded the IDSA Society Citation Award. Dr. Boucher serves as vice chair of the Board of Trustees of The College of the Holy Cross, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wellforce Health System and chair of the Board of Trustees of the Physicians of Tufts MC.


David R. Snydman

David R. Snydman, MD, 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 MC. He is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine as well as Professor in the Graduate Program in Clinical Research of the Tufts School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University. 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 2 years in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control. He was a clinical and research fellow in infectious diseases at Tufts-New England Medical Center before joining the faculty.

Dr. Snydman has been involved in transplant infections, including cytomegalovirus research as well as clinical antibiotic drug development, hospital infections and antibiotic resistance-related research, as well as clinical care for over 40 years. He has been a teaching and research scholar of the American College of Physicians. He was the recipient of the Ken Kaplan, MD award, given annually to the “outstanding infectious disease clinician” by the Massachusetts Chapter of the Infectious Disease Society of America (2004). In addition, he received a citation from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for his role in the development of cytomegalovirus immune globulin (1994). He has also received a Distinguished Faculty award from Tufts University School of Medicine as well as the Emanual Wolinsky award (2004) from the Infectious Disease Society (shared). He was awarded the Milton O. and Natalie V. Zucker Faculty Research Award 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 University 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 articles, book chapters and reviews, co-edited 13 Year Books of Infectious Disease, 5 Yearbooks of Medicine, as well as edited the third and fourth editions of Transplant Infections. He was on the editorial board of Clinical Infectious Diseases from 1999-2022. 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 research in the field of infectious diseases. In 2015 he was named as the Walter E. Stamm, MD Mentor by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.


Brian D. W. Chow

Brian D. W. Chow, MD, FAAP, FACP, FIDSA 
bchow@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Brian Chow is an 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. He is the Program Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program, and is core faculty at the Tufts Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance.

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 University, and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He completed internal medicine-pediatrics residency at Case Western Reserve University (University Hospitals/Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital) in the Global Health Track, and served as Chief Resident. He completed fellowship training in combined adult/pediatric infectious diseases at Brown University, where he was awarded a Thrasher Research Foundation Early Career Award. He has worked on research and quality improvement projects on vaccines and clinical trials for vaccines and COVID-19 therapies. He continues to work on clinical trials which advance novel therapeutics towards FDA approval, including bacteriophage therapy.

Dr. Chow attends on the consultation service and transplant service.


Mary J. Hopkins

Mary J. Hopkins, MD 
mhopkins1@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Mary Hopkins is currently attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is the Associate Program Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program. She is a clinician educator who spends her time on the ID Wards, consults services, and the outpatient clinic. She is passionate about excellent patient care 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 University of Washington in Seattle. She completed fellowship and was faculty at Vanderbilt University before joining Tufts. Her research interests include HIV care in pregnancy.


Carlos Acuña-Villaorduña

Carlos Acuña-Villaorduña, MD, Msc 
carlos.acuna-villaorduna@state.ma.us

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 degree 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 Center.

After finishing medical school, he worked as a researcher at the “Alexander Von Humboldt Tropical Medicine Institute” in Lima, Peru, the largest tropical medicine in South America, where he successfully collaborated in several research projects in tuberculosis epidemiology and diagnostics. After moving to the United States to complete his medical training, he earned a master degree 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 understanding the complex mechanisms leading to tuberculosis transmission in developing countries. His research focuses on investigating the ability of certain mycobacterial strains to survive in the environment and to produce infection and disease.


Genève Allison

Genève Allison, MD, MSc, FACP, FIDSA 
gallison@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Genève Allison (she/her) is Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School 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 School and has a Masters Degree in Clinical Translational Science from the School 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 Society of America (IDSA).

She has a broad clinical and research interest in infectious disease, sees patients in the multidisciplinary Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine Center as well as on the inpatient general ID consult service and ID wards. She is also trained in hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) medicine and advanced wound care. Dr. Allison runs the Wound Care/Hyperbaric ID fellow track, which offers advanced wound training, HBO certification, mentorship, and scholarly activities related to the interface of complex wound healing and infectious diseases. She is Principal Investigator for several industry studies involving chronic wound healing. She is also course director for the medical school fourth year ID consult elective.

Dr. Allison is director emeritus of the Tufts Medical Center Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) program (2009-2020). Dr. Allison is on two national committees for OPAT with IDSA and is co-author of IDSA’s OPAT guidelines and e-handbook. She is IDSA’s representative to the International Working Group of the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF), and is co-authoring the 2023 diabetic foot infection guidelines with this committee.

Dr. Allison has been awarded “Boston’s Best Doctor” by her peers for more than 10 years. In 2018, Dr. Allison was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society for her achievements in teaching, research, and clinical care. She is a certified teacher of the “SMART Course” – Stress Management and Resiliency Training, from Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and leads evidence-based small-group stress management courses tailored to physicians and scientists at Tufts Medicine.


Gabriela Andujar Vazquez

Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, MD 
gandujarvazquez@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Gabriela Andujar Vazquez is currently an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center. She is the Associate Hospital Epidemiologist and Associate Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, and the Medical Director of Tufts Medical Center 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.S. in Biology. She completed medical school at the Universidad Central del Caribe in Puerto Rico. Afterwards, 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 research interest in antimicrobial stewardship and infection control, particularly rapid diagnostics. She completed a clinical research 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 first awardees of the Leadership in Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Public health (LEAP) Fellowship. This is a training award competitively granted to four promising young infectious diseases physicians and is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This fellowship fosters the next generation of Infectious Diseases leaders in public health, hospital epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship, giving them the hands-on experience they'll need to lead and collaborate across these disciplines of healthcare. 

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


José Caro

José Caro, MD 
JCaro@tuftsmedicalcenter.org 

José Caro is an 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. Caro is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. Caro graduated from UNAM in Mexico City and did his Infectious Disease 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 treatment of HPV-related dysplasia. Dr. Caro is also a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Tufts Physicians Organization and Assistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs at Tufts University School of Medicine.


Daniel A. Caroff

Daniel A. Caroff, MD, MPH 
daniel.caroff@lahey.org

Daniel A. Caroff, MD MPH is a staff physician in Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiologist at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center 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 School. He is board 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 one year as a staff physician in the medical intensive care unit at Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia. He completed his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, and then completed received his MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from Harvard University. He spent 3 years as a senior research fellow at the Department of Population Medicine of Harvard Medical School studying the epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections. His clinical interests include general ID, diagnostic stewardship, and infection control /prevention.


Jennifer K. Chow

Jennifer K. Chow, MD, MS, FIDSA, FAST 
jchow@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Jennifer Chow is currently an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Chow is board certified in infectious diseases.

Dr. Chow graduated with a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.D. from Case 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 time, she earned her M.S. in Clinical & Translational Science at the School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences of Tufts University.

Dr. Chow graduated with a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.D. from Case 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 time, she earned her M.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 junior faculty, she was awarded a K23 NIH Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award to study the complex relationship between host iron metabolism and infections in orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) recipients under the mentorship of Dr. David Snydman and Dr. Tomas Ganz (of UCLA). She is a 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 Advisory Committee. Through this degree program, she has mentored multiple ID fellows in their thesis work. Other areas of research interest include risk factors and empiric treatment of candidemia in the ICU, immunological risk factors for infection in OLT and orthotopic heart transplant recipients, and prevention and treatment of CMV disease. Her clinical expertise concentrates on transplant infectious diseases (in both solid organ and stem cell transplant recipients). She is a member of the Ventricular Assist 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 Practice of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and the ID Professional Community of International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT).


Shira I. Doron

Shira I. Doron, MD, MS, FIDSA, FSHEA 
sdoron@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Shira Doron is currently the Hospital Epidemiologist as well as Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Tufts Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Doron is board 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 University of California, San Diego, and residency at the George Washington University Hospital. She completed her fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center, along with a Master’s Degree in Clinical Research at the School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University. Her research 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 Disease Control and Prevention, to support healthcare facilities throughout the region in their efforts to improve their stewardship and infection control initiatives. She is chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Centers of Excellence subcommittee. Dr. Doron is an expert in COVID-19 with a strong media presence. She sits on the Massachusetts Governor’s medical advisory board and has authored numerous op-eds related to COVID-19 policy.


Robert A. Duncan

Robert A. Duncan, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA 
Robert.A.Duncan@lahey.org

Robert A. Duncan, MD, MPH is currently Senior Advisor to Hospital Epidemiology & Infection Control at the Center for Infectious Diseases at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, MA, Medical director of Infection Prevention for Beth Israel Lahey Health, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is board certified in infectious diseases.

Dr. Duncan received a BA from Wesleyan University, an MPH (Infectious Disease Epidemiology) from Yale University, and an MD from the University of Connecticut, followed by residency training at New England Deaconess Hospital and an Infectious Diseases fellowship at Boston City Hospital, Boston University, and the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital. He has been a Senior Staff Physician in Infectious Diseases at Lahey Clinic since 1993 and Hospital Epidemiologist from 1999-2022. He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.


J. Morgan Freiman

J. Morgan Freiman, MD, MSc 
julie.m.freiman@lahey.org

J. Morgan Freiman is a Staff Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Lahey Health - Lahey Hospital & Medical Center (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 following year. 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 general infectious diseases.


Yoav Golan

Yoav Golan, MD, MS, FIDSA 
ygolan@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

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

Dr. Golan received his M.D. from the Hebrew University, 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-acquired infections, antibiotic resistance and its impact on patient outcomes, patient risk stratification, and C. difficile infections. He is also trained in clinical research 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 large 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 development of several antibiotics. Over the past 12 years, he became particularly interested in infections by C. difficile. He has been involved in multiple clinical trials as a PI- most notably- the trials that lead to the approval 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 knowledge of the field, the ability to conduct large research projects through collaborations, and a proven track record in drug development.


Jeffrey K. Griffiths

Jeffrey K. Griffiths, MD, MPH&TM, CTropMed 
Jeffrey.griffiths@tufts.edu

Attending Physician; Professor of Public Health and of Medicine, Departments of Public Health and Community Medicine, and Medicine; Tufts University School of Medicine. Adjunct Professor of Environmental Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, and Nutrition, Tufts University. Former Chair, US EPA Drinking Water Committee, Science Advisory Board of US EPA

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

Research Focus Areas: Environmental determinants of health, nutrition of women and children, and the prevention of zoonotic spillover events in Africa and Southeast Asia. Treatment of COVID-19.


James Hellinger

James Hellinger, MD, MSc 
jhellinger@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

James Hellinger is currently attending physician at Tufts Medical Center in the Division of Infectious Diseases, as well as the Medical Director with Allways Health Partners and their complex community care management program.

Dr. Hellinger is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

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

Following medical school at University of California San Francisco, he completed internal medicine and infectious disease training with the Harvard Combined Infectious Disease program. Dr. Hellinger completed a Masters of Science from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Hellinger has significant clinical research experience, particularly in the development of therapeutics for HIV infections and metabolic complications. He has worked with multi-site domestic and international collaborations, and as technical advisor 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 Safety Monitoring Board Member, and for HIV research funding from the Campbell Foundation. He is the former Director of Research Development at the HIV Community Research Initiative of New England, where he advised the Massachusetts HIV Drug Assistance Program.


Steven Y. Hong

Steven Y. Hong, MD, MPH, MAR 
SHong@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Steven Y. Hong is currently an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine as well as Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. His primary appointment is as the Country Director at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) in Botswana. In this capacity Dr. Hong is working to help Botswana achieve sustainable HIV epidemic control. Dr. Hong is board certified in Infectious Diseases. Dr. Hong graduated with a B.S. and M.P.H. from Columbia University, an M.D. from New York Medical College and an M.A.R. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

From 2018-2021, Dr. Hong served as CDCs Clinical Services Branch Chief in Namibia where he led efforts in HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment, Maternal and Child Health, Laboratory, and Health Systems and Sustainability. In Namibia, he successfully led the expansion of HIV service delivery through community adherence groups, the transition to the Tenofovir, Lamivudine and Dolutegravir (TLD) treatment regimen, the launch of HIV recency testing, and the expansion of patient tracing. Dr. Hong also served as CDC Namibia’s Acting Country Director in 2021, and as the CDC and US Embassy Lead for the COVID-19 response.

Dr. Hong led the establishment of a strong research collaboration between Tufts University School of Medicine, the University of Namibia School of Medicine and the Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services. His research in Namibia focused on achieving the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets to end HIV. He conducted studies on optimization of adherence and retention of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART), assessment and prevention of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR), implementation of community adherence clubs, increasing HIV testing for men, assessment of food insecurity among ART patients, and decreasing hazardous alcohol consumption among ART patients. Dr. Hong also worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization in their HIVDR assessment and prevention strategy in resource-limited settings. In this context he helped to implement Early Warning Indicators of HIVDR and implemented surveys of HIVDR in Namibia and other resource-limited settings. He has also worked as Deputy Chief of Party, Clinical Director of the Society for Family Health in Namibia where he led the Key Population Program, spearheading the establishment of pre-exposure prophylaxis, HIV self-testing, and index-case testing. Dr. Hong also helped launch the Integrated Bio-Behavioral Surveillance Survey (IBBS).


Linden Hu

Linden Hu, MD, 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.

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 University with both an A.B. and a M.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 as faculty in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center where he is involved in research of Lyme disease and other tick borne illnesses. He is involved in both clinical and bench research and has been awarded over 20 NIH sponsored grants to date in his career. He is a former Vice-Chairman for Faculty Development in the Department of Medicine at Tufts Medical Center. He has served on numerous NIH study sections and committees and is a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America and was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.


Michael R. Jordan

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 Center and is an Associate 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 the Executive Medical Director of Tufts University’s Occupational Health Services and the university Infection Control Health Director.

Dr. Jordan is a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has a broad interest in infectious diseases with special emphasis on HIV, drug resistant viruses, sexually transmitted infections, and emerging pathogens.

He is an internationally recognized expert in HIV drug resistance (HIVDR), public health surveillance epidemiology, and antiretroviral therapy (ART) program evaluation and monitoring. A pioneer in transdisciplinary research and its methods, he collaborates widely including with basic scientists at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University on the study of differences in COVID-19 outcomes due to sex and gender in both animals and humans.

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.

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

Dr. Jordan supports WHO in the development and implementation of global HIVDR surveillance protocols. Since 2005, Dr. 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

Laura Kogelman, MD, FIDSA 
lkogelman@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Laura Kogelman is currently Director of the Traveler’s Health Service, Director of the Respiratory Infection Clinic and Medical Director for the Tufts Collegiate Covid Partnership. She is also the Director of Outpatient Services for the Department of Medicine. 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 University School of Medicine. Dr. Kogelman is board 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 Disease fellowship program, 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 Director of the Infectious Disease clinic in 2008. Our clinic provides services to more than 600 people living with HIV in the greater Boston area. In addition, she runs the Post-Exposure Prophylaxis program at Tufts, working closely with the ID Fellows, Employee Health and the Emergency Room to care for both Employees and Non-Employees who have had potential exposure to HIV. This care includes victims of sexual assault and those with high risk sexual exposure histories. As an expansion of this, she also provides Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis services to at-risk individuals. Her other major area of clinical interest is Travel and Tropical Medicine. She has been director of the Traveler’s Health Service at Tufts since 2004 and completed additional training through the Gorgas course, based in Lima, Peru. She supervises all the fellows as 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 College and Berklee College of Music as part of the Tufts Covid Collegiate Partnership. She also developed 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-center HIV clinical trials, and has collaborated on several clinical HIV and Travel Medicine studies, including NIH and NIMH funded projects.


Rakhi Kohli

Rakhi Kohli, MD, MS 
RKohli@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Rakhi Kohli is 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. Kohli is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Kohli attended Cornell University for her undergraduate studies and the University of Rochester for medical school. She completed her internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston MA and her infectious disease fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. During her fellowship she studied mortality trends in HIV-infected drug users in the early 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 current research focuses on metabolic complications of antiretroviral therapy. Dr. Kohli has published on the effect of metformin on insulin resistance and abdominal 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 general infectious diseases, transplant infectious disease, and HIV. Dr. Kohli regularly attends on the transplant infectious disease 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 Infectious Disease Course at Tufts University School of Medicine and directs the Infectious Disease Division Morbidity and Mortality Conference.


Daniel P. McQuillen

Daniel P. McQuillen, MD, FIDSA, FACP 
Daniel.p.mcquillen@lahey.org

Daniel McQuillen is a Senior Staff Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Lahey Health - Lahey Hospital & Medical Center (LHMC) and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. McQuillen is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. McQuillen completed his residency at The Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals in 1988 and his Infectious Diseases Fellowship at The Maxwell 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 Society of America (IDSA, 2008-2011), past member (2012-2016) and IDSA Chair of the IDWeek Program Committee (2016) and current IDSA President. 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 general infectious disease.


Babar Memon

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

Dr. Babar Memon is currently an attending physician 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 University 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's 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 Center.

Dr. Memon’s clinical interests include general infectious diseases and working with underserved patient populations, with a primary focus on infection control. In his role as Chair of Infection Prevention and Control at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, he led the development of institutional policies and guidelines in hospital infection control during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also participated in statewide committees to manage the detection and spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the hospital setting.


Natalie Nierenberg

Natalie Nierenberg, MD, MPH 
NNierenberg@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Natalie Nierenberg is currently Medical Director, Inpatient Wound Prevention and Management and attending physician at Tufts Medical Center. She is an Assistant Professor, Tufts University 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 School of Medicine and the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine respectively. As 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 two dozen trips to Haiti so far. On the first trip, Dr. Nierenberg helped set up mobile clinics in remote areas and assisted in training local practitioners to run the clinics. She continued these visits as a medical student, intern, resident and attending physician and has trained many students and residents to continue to the operations. Now, Dr. Nierenberg provides continuing education online and in person for local practitioners in Haiti to enhance sustainability and decrease reliance on volunteer missions.

As an attending 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 fall of 2015, she will assume the position of Medical Director for Inpatient Wound Care.


Winnie W. Ooi

 

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

Winnie Ooi is Senior Staff Physician 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 Center and Infectious Diseases training at the Boston University Medical Center. She holds Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and has specific interest 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 interest 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

Whitney Perry, MD, MS 
wperry@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Whitney Perry is an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. Perry received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and her medical degree from Tufts University School 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 faculty at Tufts Medical Center in 2020 and was awarded a Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) K12 career development award. She is interested in infections in the immunocompromised host and her current research focuses on sex-based differences in immune response following solid organ transplantation. She attends on the inpatient transplant and general ID consult services at TMC.


David R. Stone

David R. Stone, MD 
dstone@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

David Stone is currently attending physician as well as Co-Director of the Mycobacteria Treatment Clinic at Tufts Medical Center. He is an Associate Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Stone is board 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 Department of Public Health and continues to see patients with HIV in prisons. His focus of interest 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 care for a large population of people with active and latent TB and with atypical mycobacteria.


Andrew M. Strand

Andrew M. Strand, MD  
Astrand1@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Andrew Strand is currently an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Disease at Tufts Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University 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 training in infectious disease at Duke University Medical Center. While at Duke 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 disease in immunocompromised patients.

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


Ramnath Subbaraman

Ramnath 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 Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School 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 Health (MSc in Epidemiology), the University of California at San Francisco Internal Medicine Residency, and the Massachusetts General Hospital / Brigham and Women’s Hospital Infectious Diseases Fellowship. Before joining the Tufts University School of Medicine, he was an associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.

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


Cheleste M. Thorpe

Cheleste M. Thorpe, MD, MS 
cthorpe@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Dr. Thorpe is currently an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases (GMID) at Tufts Medical Center, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Thorpe is board certified in infectious diseases.

Dr. Thorpe graduated with a B.S. from University of Michigan in Cellular and Molecular Biology, followed by a Master’s degree in Biophysics at Harvard University prior to attending Tufts University School of Medicine (M’93). She completed internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship training at Tufts Medical Center. Following post-doctoral work with Gerald T. Keusch MD (former GMID Division Chief), she joined GMID staff in 2000. Her research interests include diarrheal disease, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, toxin biology, Clostridium difficile, probiotics and gut immune activation. She is a Director of the Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance at Tufts. She was the Chair of the Institutional Biosafety Committee for 20 years.

Dr. Thorpe is a member of the Immunology Program in the Graduate School at TUSM, and serves on thesis committees for PhD students. In her clinical role, she attends at Tufts Medical Center on the consult services.


Tine Vindenes

Tine Vindenes, MD, 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 University Faculty of Medicine with Honors in 2008. She went on to complete an official Norwegian internship 2008-2010 before moving to the United States. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut in 2013, and went on to complete an Infectious Disease fellowship at Tufts Medical Center 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 as an ID/HIV consultant to Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, collaborates with Tufts liver center in a multi-disciplinary clinic to serve people with complex liver diseases, and care for people with Mycobacterial diseases in Tufts multidisciplinary Mycobacterial disease clinic. Dr. Vindenes is the Director of Tufts Medical Center’s OPAT [Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy] program that systematically facilitates IV antimicrobials after hospital discharge.


Kenneth Wener

Kenneth Wener, MD 
Kenneth.m.wener@lahey.org

Dr. Wener is currently Chairman of the Division 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 school at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology School of Medicine. Afterwards, he completed Internal Medicine residency training at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals of Cleveland and subsequent fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.

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

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


Alysse G. Wurcel

Alysse G. Wurcel, MD, MS 
AWurcel@tuftsmedicalcenter.org 

Alysse Wurcel 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. Wurcel is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Wurcel completed her undergraduate education at Tufts University. 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 Master’s 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 care at Tufts Medical Center as well as five county jails.

Dr. Wurcel is a mixed-methods researcher and implementation scientist. Her research interests include prevention and treatment 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 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 then received a K08 from AHRQ to continue this research.

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