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, Division of Infectious Diseases at Stroger Hospital of Cook County and David N. Schwartz, M.D., also in the 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:

	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
	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
	Stuart Levin, M.D. Professor Primary Clinical Site: Rush Major ares(s) of research interest: Chairman, Department of Medicine, FUO, clinical infectious disease
	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
	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)
	Larry Goodman, M.D. Professor Primary Clinical Site: Rush Major ares(s) of research interest: Campylobacter sp., bacterial diarrheal diseases, foodborne and waterborne infections
	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
	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
	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
	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)
	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
	Audrey French, M.D. Associate Professor Primary Clinical Site: Stroger Major ares(s) of research interest: HIV in women, tuberculosis, and other mycobacterial infections.
	Kimberly Smith, M.D. Associate Professor Primary Clinical Site: Rush Major ares(s) of research interest: AIDS/HIV infection, immunoreconstitution
	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
	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
	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
	Sheila Badri, M.D. Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Stroger Major ares(s) of research interest: HIV, nosocomial infections
	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
	Judith Nerad, M.D. Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Stroger Major ares(s) of research interest: Nutrition, wasting, CNS cytokines in AIDS/HIV infection
	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)
	Oluwatoyin Adeyemi, M.D Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Stroger Major ares(s) of research interest: HIV chemotherapy, HCV
	Laurie Proia, M.D. Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Rush Major ares(s) of research interest: Fungal infections, HIV/AIDS
	David Simon, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Rush Major ares(s) of research interest: Transplant-related infections, sepsis
	Allan Tenorio, M.D. Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Rush Major ares(s) of research interest: VRE, HIV
	Stephanie Black, M.D. Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Rush Major ares(s) of research interest: Bioterrorism, hospital epidemiology
	Katayoun Rezai, M.D. Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Stroger Major ares(s) of research interest: Antimicrobial resistance and hospital epidemiology
	Jack Kowalski, M.D. Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Stroger Major ares(s) of research interest: Ambulatory HIV care
	Marcella McGuinn, M.D. Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Stroger Major ares(s) of research interest: Ambulatory HIV care
Pediatric Infectious Disease Faculty
	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
	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
	Norman Jacobs, M.D. Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Stroger Major ares(s) of research interest: Department of Pediatrics; clinical infectious disease
Research Faculty
	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
	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
	Nell Lurain, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Rush Major ares(s) of research interest: Department of Immunology/Microbiology; CMV
	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
	Alla Aroutcheva, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Primary Clinical Site: Stroger Major ares(s) of research interest: Bacterial molecular epidemiology
	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.