Infectious Diseases
Meet the Team

Meet the Team

Director

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Paul Spearman, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
HIV assembly; HIV biology/pathogenesis; HIV vaccines; vaccines and therapeutics for children (clinical trials)

Primary Appointment

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Koichi Araki, DVM, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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David I. Bernstein, MD, MA

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Evaluation of vaccines and antivirals for herpes and rotovirus; development of improved adjuvants and delivery systems for vaccines; treatment and...
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Rebecca C. Brady, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Cytomegalovirus and other viral infections 
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Lara A. Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Infections in transplantation; infections in immunocompromised hosts
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Michelle P. Dickey, MS, APRN, FNP-BC, PNP-BC

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Vaccine research; informed consent; digital transformation
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Robert W. Frenck Jr., MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Enteric diseases; vaccinology
Thomas Hagan.

Thomas Hagan, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Systems immunology; vaccinology; microbiome-immune system interaction
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Jason E. Hammonds, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
HIV biology/pathogenesis; innate immunity; macrophage biology; HIV vaccines
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David B. Haslam, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Jamie Kidd

Jamie Kidd, MSN, APRN, CPN, FNP-C

Nurse Practitioner, Division of Infectious Diseases
Research Interests
Infectious diseases vaccine research
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Gaurav Kwatra, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Immunological correlates of protection; development of new vaccine candidates; infectious diseases surveillance; sero-surveillance and immunology...
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Monica Malone McNeal, MS

Associate Director, Laboratory of Specialized Clinical Studies
Research Interests
Immunology of rotavirus infection
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Grant C. Paulsen, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Felicia A. Scaggs Huang, MD, MS

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Infection prevention and control in the critically ill child
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Elizabeth P. Schlaudecker, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Karnail Singh

Karnail Singh, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Immunology; infectious diseases; vaccine development and translation; autoimmune diseases.
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Mary Allen Staat, MD, MPH

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Epidemiology of enteric infections; surveillance of infectious diseases
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Ming Tan, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Norovirus; rotavirus; influenza virus; SARS-CoV-2; viral gastroenteritis; influenza; COVID-19
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Sing Sing Way

Sing Sing Way, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Secondary Appointment

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David M. Hartley, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Infectious disease epidemiology; public health surveillance; mathematical and computer modeling
Andrew Herr

Andrew B. Herr, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Structural biology and biophysics of antibodies; immune receptors; bacterial surface proteins
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