I work in infectious disease pediatrics because I love kids and I love taking care of them. Patients are the most vulnerable during infancy and early life development, which means they need advocates for their health.
My research interests include infectious diseases, reproductive biology, developmental biology and immunology. I was attracted to my research when I became frustrated with not being able to tell parents why their child became sick and how to prevent their illness in the future.
There are several questions that my colleagues and I are attempting to solve, such as:
Many times, the answer to these vital questions has been “I don’t know” disguised in medical language. I have said, “I don’t know” too many times to count, which is why I shifted my focus toward research to obtain new knowledge instead of reusing old practices. I hope that, with new knowledge, physicians will have more answers and parents and children can get the information that they need and deserve to prevent illness in the future.
Without gathering more research and new knowledge, there will only be minor improvements in how we take care of sick children and infants. Research and more knowledge are essential to enhance the health of children and babies.
I have been elected for membership in the Association of American Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. These are two societies that distinguish and honor physician-scientists who take part in discovery research. I have also been appointed as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar.
Throughout my career, I’ve received multiple awards, including the E. Mead John Award from the Society for Pediatric Research, the Gale & Ira Drukier Prize in Children’s Health Research and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Awards.
My research has been published in numerous respected journals, such as Nature, Cell Reports, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Science and the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease.
MD PhD: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 1999.
Residency: University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2001.
Fellowship: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2004.
Infectious Diseases
Infectious Diseases, Prevention of Preterm Birth, Inflammation and Tolerance
Friendly fungi: symbiosis with commensal Candida albicans. Trends in Immunology. 2022; 43:706-717.
Pregnancy enables antibody protection against intracellular infection. Nature. 2022; 606:769-775.
Maternal-fetal conflict averted by progesterone- induced FOXP3+ regulatory T cells. iScience. 2022; 25.
Candida albicans oscillating UME6 expression during intestinal colonization primes systemic Th17 protective immunity. Cell Reports. 2022; 39.
Effector memory CD4+ T cells induce damaging innate inflammation and autoimmune pathology by engaging CD40 and TNFR on myeloid cells. Science Immunology. 2022; 7.
Adipocyte inflammation and pathogenesis of viral pneumonias: an overlooked contribution. Mucosal Immunology. 2021; 14:1224-1234.
Systematic reconstruction of an effector-gene network reveals determinants of Salmonella cellular and tissue tropism. Cell Host and Microbe. 2021; 29:1531-1544.e9.
The induction of preterm labor in rhesus macaques is determined by the strength of immune response to intrauterine infection. PLoS Biology. 2021; 19.
Tacrolimus exposure windows responsible for Listeria monocytogenes infection susceptibility. Transplant Infectious Disease. 2021; 23.
Epidemiology of Pregnancy Complications Through the Lens of Immunological Memory. Frontiers in Immunology. 2021; 12.
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