Faculty

2025 Symposium Faculty Participants

Hans Hirsch, MD, MSc, FAST

Professor, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland

"BK Virus"

Guang-Shing Cheng, MD

Associate Professor, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington

"Pulmonary Impairment after Transplantation"

Michael Boeckh, MD, PhD, FIDSA

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions | Head, Infectious Disease Sciences Program | Medical Director, Infectious Disease Consult Service, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

"The Future of Infections in the Immunocompromised Host: Science, Training, Mentoring, Clinical Care"

Jayme Locke, MD, MPH, FACS, FAST

Professor, Department of Surgery | Arnold G. Diethelm Endowed Chair in Transplantation Surgery | Director, Division of Transplantation | Director, Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program | Director, Transplant Analytics, Informatics, and Quality | Associate Chief Medical Officer, Inpatient Quality and Patient Safety, The University of Alabama Birmingham

"Xenotransplantation: State of the Art"

Symposium Co-chairs

Michael Boeckh, MD, PhD, FIDSA

Catherine Liu, MD, FIDSA

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions | Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program | Associate Director, Infection Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease Sciences, University of Washington

Joshua Schiffer, MD, MSc

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Maheen Abidi, MD, FAST, FIDSA

Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Disease, University of Colorado

Samuel Aitken, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP

Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Michigan

Barbara Alexander, MD, MHS, FIDSA

Professor, Department of Medicine and Pathology

Director, Transplant Infectious Disease Service

Head, Clinical Mycology Laboratory, Duke University

Gabriela M. Maron Alfaro, MD, MSc

Associate Member, Department of infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Upton D. Allen, O. Ont., MBBS, MSc, FAAP, FRCPC, FIDSA

Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Institute of Health Policy Management & Evaluation

Bastable Potts Chair, Infectious Diseases Research, University of Toronto, Canada

Division Head, Infectious Diseases, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada

Lindsey Baden, MD

Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Vice President, Clinical Research

Director, The Center for Clinical Investigation, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Director, Infectious Diseases Immunocompromised Host Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Michael Boeckh, MD, PhD, FIDSA

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions

Head, Infectious Disease Sciences Program

Medical Director, Infectious Disease Consult Service

Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Mitchell Cairo, MD

Chief, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation; Director, Children and Adolescent Cancer and Blood Diseases Center; Director, WMC Cancer Center; Medical and Scientific Director, WMC Cellular and Tissue Engineering Laboratory; Medical Director, WMC Hematotherapy Program; Vice Chairman of Pediatrics; Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology and Cell Biology & Anatomy, Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, Westchester Medical Center (WMC), New York Medical College

Jose F. Camargo, MD

Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Miami

Angela Campbell, MD, MPH, FAAP, FPIDS, FIDSA

Medical Officer, Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine

Roy F. Chemaly, MD, MHP, FACP, FIDSA

Professor, Division of Internal Medicine

Chair, Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Adjunct Professor, College of Medicine, Baylor University

Guang-Shing Cheng, MD

Associate Professor, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington

Charles Chiu, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine

Director, Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center

Associate Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, University of California San Francisco

Helen Chu, MD, MPH, FIDSA

Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Adjunct Associate Professor, Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology, University of Washington

Sanjeet S. Dadwal, MD, FIDSA, FACP

Professor, Department of Medicine

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, City of Hope

Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati

Director, Immunocompromised Host Infectious Disease, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

David Epstein, MD, MA

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University

Cynthia Fisher, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Director, Solid Organ Transplantation Infectious Diseases Program, University of Washington

Jay Fishman, MD, FACP, FAST, FIDSA

Professor, School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases and Compromised Host Program

Associate Director, Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

David Fredricks, MD

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions

Director, Microbiome Research Initiative, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Adjunct Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington

Kimberly E. Hanson, MD, MHS, FIDSA

Professor, Internal Medicine

Adjunct Professor, Pathology

Medical Director, Mycology, University of Utah

Head, Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospital and Huntsman Cancer Center

Madeleine Heldman, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University

Diego Hijano, MD, MSc

Associate Member, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Joshua Hill, MD, FIDSA

Associate Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Associate Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Hans Hirsch, MD, MSc, FAST

Professor, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland

Tobias Hohl, MD, PhD, FIDSA, FAAAS

Professor, Department of Medicine

Chief, Infectious Diseases, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University

Hannah Imlay, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor (Clinical), Infectious Diseases Division

Associate Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship, University of Utah

Michael Ison, MD, MS, FIDSA, FAST

Branch Chief, Respiratory Diseases , National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Erika Kampouri, MD

Infectious Diseases Physician, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Olivia Saturno Kates, MD, MA

Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University

YaeJean Kim, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea

Head, Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiency, Samsung Medical Center, Republic of Korea

Dimitrios Kontoyiannis, MD, ScD, PhD, FACP, FIDSA, FECMM, FAAM, FAAAS

Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases

Robert C. Hickey Endowed Chair, Clinical Care

Deputy Head of Research, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Adjunct Professor, Division of Pharmacology, University of Houston

Adjunct Professor, University of Texas School of Public Health

Camille Kotton, MD, FIDSA, FAST

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Clinical Director, Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital

Ricardo La Hoz, MD, FAST, FIDSA

Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases

Director, Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases

Medical Director, Transplant Services Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Abhijit Limaye, MD, FIDSA, FACP

Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases

Director, Transplant & Immunocompromised Host Infectious Disease Program, University of California San Francisco

Jessica Little, MD

Transplant Infectious Diseases Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Instructor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Catherine Liu, MD, FIDSA

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions

Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program

Associate Director, Infection Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease Sciences, University of Washington

Per Ljungman, MD, PhD, FIDSA

Emeritus Professor and Senior Physician, Department of Hematology and Cellular Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Jayme Locke, MD, MPH, FACS, FAST

Professor, Department of Surgery

Arnold G. Diethelm Endowed Chair in Transplantation Surgery

Director, Division of Transplantation

Director, Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program

Director, Transplant Analytics, Informatics, and Quality

Associate Chief Medical Officer, Inpatient Quality and Patient Safety, The University of Alabama Birmingham

Emily Lydon, MD

Senior Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Francisco

Kieren Marr, MD, MBA, FIDSA

Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

President and Chief Medical Officer, Elion Therapeutics

Founder and VP of Clinical Development, Pearl Diagnostics

Denise McCulloch, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division

Assistant Director, Infection Prevention

Assistant Medical Director, Infectious Diseases Outpatient Clinic, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Minh-Hong Nguyen, MD

Professor, Department of Medicine

Director, Transplant infectious Diseases

Director, Antimicrobial Management Program, University of Pittsburgh

Genovefa A. Papanicolaou, MD, FIDSA, FASTCT

Professor, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University

Octavio Ramilo, MD, FPIDS

Member, Department of Infectious Diseases

Chair, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Kai Rejeski, MD

Visiting Investigator and Research Fellow, Precision Cellular Therapy Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Emily Rosen, MD

Senior Fellow, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Eduardo Sanchez, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Arizona

Michael Satlin, MD, MS, FIDSA

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

William Randolph Hearst Foundation Clinical Scholar in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Clinical Director, Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program, Weill Cornell Medical College

Joshua Schiffer, MD, MSc

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Monica Slavin, MBBS, FRACP

Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia

Head, Infectious Diseases, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Head, Immunocompromised Host Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia

Erica Stohs, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases

Associate Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship, University of Nebraska

Frank Tverdek, PharmD, BCPS AQ-ID, CMQ

Clinical Pharmacist, Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship, University of Washington Medical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Alpana Waghmare, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington

Assistant Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Nathan Wiederhold, PharmD

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Director, Fungus Testing Laboratory, University of Texas Health Science Center

Christopher Woods, MD, MPH

Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pathology

Wolfgang Joklik Distinguished Professor, Global Health

Executive Director, Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health, Duke University

Chief, Infectious Disease Division, Durham Veterans Affairs

Michael Woodworth, MD

Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University

Leah Yoke, MCHS, PA-C

Chief Physician Assistant

Teaching Associate, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Clinical Faculty, MEDEX PA Training Program, University of Washington

Physician Assistant, Infectious Disease Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Michelle Yong, MBBS, PhD, MPH, FRACP

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia

Head, Infectious Diseases Clinical Trials, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Danniel Zamora, MD

Acting Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Associate, Infectious Disease Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Matt Zinter, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Program Director, Pediatric Immunocompromised Critical Care, University of California San Francisco