Hospital Epidemiology/Antimicrobial Stewardship

• Antimicrobial resistance (Drs. Diekema and Klutts)
• Prevention of healthcare associated infections (Drs. Herwaldt, Diekema, Perencevich and Schweizer)
• Antimicrobial stewardship (Drs. Livorsi and Ince; Brian Hoff and Brett Heinz PharmD’s)
• Healthcare Quality and Delivery, including telehealth (Drs. Schweizer, Perencevich, Goto, Ohl and Livorsi)

Host defenses/Inflammation (Faculty members of the Inflammation Program)

• Innate Immunity
• Complement
• Oxygen radicals/Nitric oxide
• Cell-mediated immunity
• Phagocyte biology, including:
  • Signal transduction
  • Cellular and molecular recognition
  • Iron and calcium metabolism
  • Antimicrobial peptides
  • NADPH oxidase/Myeloperoxidase
  • Phagocytosis

Microbial Pathogenesis

• Parasitic diseases: Leishmania; Viral diseases: Hepatitis viruses and Bacterial Diseases:
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Helicobacter pylori
  • Neisseria species
  • LPS-induced septic shock
  • Staphylococcus aureus
  • Francisella tularensis

Clinical Research/Translational Research

• Vaccine Trials (NIH funded Vaccine Treatment Evaluation Unite)
• HIV Clinical Trials
• Parasitology Research projects with Drs. Wilson and Jeronimo (India/Brazil)
• Hepatitis C clinical studies

Clinical Microbiology

• Projects available in clinical micro or in Fungal/Bacterial Resistance (Drs. Ford, Diekema and Klutts)

Computational Epi

• Projects available with Dr. Polgreen

Emerging Infections Network

• Survey projects available with Drs. Polgreen and Herwaldt