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FACULTY
A. Program Director
The Rush/Cook County ID Fellowship Program Director is Gordon M. Trenholme, M.D., the current Section Chief of Infectious Diseases at Rush. Robert A. Weinstein, M.D., Chair, Department of Medicine at Stroger Hospital of Cook County and David N. Schwartz, M.D., Chair, Division of Infectious Diseases at Stroger Hospital serve as Associate Program Directors.
B. Subspecialty Faculty
The faculty for the Rush/Cook County ID Fellowship Program consists of faculty members from both Rush University Medical Center and Stroger Hospital of Cook County (SHCC); all are members of the faculty of Rush Medical College. All are certified (or eligible) in the sub-specialty of Infectious Diseases by the American Board of Internal Medicine. The faculty members who participate in fellowship training (listed according to academic rank) are indicated as follows:
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Gordon M. Trenholme, M.D.
Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Bioterrorism, antibiotic resistant gram-negative rods, malaria/tropical diseases |
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Robert A. Weinstein, M.D.
Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Nosocomial infections, hospital epidemiology, antibiotic resistant bacteria, HIV/AIDS outcomes |
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Stuart Levin, M.D.
Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Chairman, Department of Medicine, FUO, clinical infectious disease |
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Alan A. Harris, M.D.
Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Hospital epidemiology/infection control, mycobacterial diseases, foodborne
and waterborne infections, emerging pathogens, bioterrorism |
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Harold A. Kessler, M.D.
Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Retrovirology, immunopathogenesis of HIV, new antiviral therapies (HIV, HSV, CMV, VZV, hepatitis B, C) |
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Larry Goodman, M.D.
Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Campylobacter sp., bacterial diarrheal diseases, foodborne and waterborne
infections |
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John P. Quinn, M.D.
Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Mechanisms and epidemiology of antibiotic resistance, antibiotic clinical trials |
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John Segreti, M.D.
Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Mechanisms of resistance in gram-negative bacilli, Chlamydia/Legionella
infections, community-acquired pneumonia, in vitro antibiotic susceptibility
testing of new antibiotics, infection control |
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Beverly Sha, M.D.
Associate Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
HIV disease in women, HIV immunotherapeutic vaccines, cytokine alteration
in HIV pathogenesis |
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Mary Hayden, M.D.
Associate Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Molecular epidemiology, mechanisms of resistance, new therapies; Director,
Clinical Microbiology Laboratory (Rush)
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David Schwartz, M.D.
Associate Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Antimicrobial utilization and resistance, HIV-associated pulmonary disease,
community-acquired pneumonia |
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Audrey French, M.D.
Associate Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
HIV in women, tuberculosis, and other mycobacterial infections. |
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Kimberly Smith, M.D.
Associate Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
AIDS/HIV infection, immunoreconstitution |
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Joseph Pulvirenti, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Antiretroviral clinical trials in HIV-infected patients, endocarditis/bacterial
infections in HIV, C. difficile infections |
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Patricia DeMarais, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Central nervous system infections in AIDS patients, neurocysticercosis,
nosocomial infections in AIDS patients |
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Patricia Herrera, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Neurocysticercosis, tuberculosis (community programs, educational outreach,
public health response), HIV disease in women, HIV in Hispanic community |
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Sheila Badri, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
HIV, nosocomial infections |
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David Barker, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Central nervous system infections in AIDS patients, neurodiagnostics in
AIDS/HIV therapy |
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Judith Nerad, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Nutrition, wasting, CNS cytokines in AIDS/HIV infection |
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Sharon Welbel, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Multi-resistant organisms, hospital epidemiology, epidemiology of transmitted
disease in hospital employees, prevention of needlestick exposures (suppression
of bloodborne pathogens) |
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Oluwatoyin Adeyemi, M.D
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
HIV chemotherapy, HCV |
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Laurie Proia, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Fungal infections, HIV/AIDS |
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David Simon, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Transplant-related infections, sepsis |
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Allan Tenorio, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
VRE, HIV |
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Stephanie Black, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Bioterrorism, hospital epidemiology |
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Katayoun Rezai, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Antimicrobial resistance and hospital epidemiology |
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Jack Kowalski, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Ambulatory HIV care |
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Marcella McGuinn, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Ambulatory HIV care |
| Pediatric Infectious Disease Faculty |
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Ken Boyer, M.D.
Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Department of Pediatrics; Group B streptococcal infections, congenital
toxoplasmosis, critical care of acute pediatric infections |
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James McAuley, M.D.
Associate Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Chief, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases; tuberculosis, penal medicine |
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Norman Jacobs, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Department of Pediatrics; clinical infectious disease |
| Research Faculty |
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Alan Landay, Ph.D.
Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Department of Immunology/Microbiology; immunopathogenesis and immuno-
diagnostics of HIV disease; flow cytometry |
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Greg Spear, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Department of Immunology/Microbiology; complement-mediated immuno-
pathogenesis of HIV disease |
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Nell Lurain, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Department of Immunology/Microbiology; CMV |
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Punam Verma, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Rush
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Department of Pathology; Assistant Director Clinical
Microbiology Laboratory (Rush); Information Systems, Molecular Diagnostics |
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Alla Aroutcheva, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Bacterial molecular epidemiology |
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Thomas Rice, Ph.D.
Division of ID
Primary Clinical Site:
Stroger
Major ares(s) of research interest:
Molecular epidemiology |
All faculty members participate in the clinical and didactic activities of the training program; faculty members are also actively engaged in research and in the presentation and publication of scientific studies and are available to assist and instruct fellows in the development of these skills.
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