ID Faculty

The Division's faculty take care of patients with infectious diseases in the mountain west and across the world, do scientific research on major infectious disease health problems, and educate the next generation of physicians and scientists in our field. We work at several sites located in the Denver metropolitan area:

Name	Research/Clinical Interests
Lorna Allen, FNP-C Assistant Professor
Wendy Armstrong, MD, FIDSA Professor, Infectious Diseases Division Head	Health equity, innovative models of care delivery for people living with or at risk for HIV, ID medical education and workforce
Shaikh Atif, PhD Assistant Professor
Nipun Atri, MD Assistant Professor	Clinical research and outpatient clinical practice in the field of bone and joint infections, OPAT, Orthopedic Infectious Diseases
Joshua Barocas, MD Associate Professor	Improving health outcomes for patients with infectious diseases including HIV and HCV, substance use disorders, and other vulnerable populations
Michelle Barron, MD Professor	Infection Control and Transplant Infectious Diseases
Kathryn Bowman, MD Assistant Professor
Marisa Brightman, PA-C Instructor
Tyler Brown, MD Assistant Professor
Thomas B. Campbell, MD Professor	AIDS treatment, HHV8 pathophysiology in AIDS patients, Medical Education and Training in Zimbabwe
Alyssa Castillo, MD Assistant Professor	Infection Prevention & Control
Jose Castillo-Mancilla, MD Volunteer Associate Clinical Professor
Ramasubramanian Lakshmi Chauhan, MD Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases Associate Division Head for Clinical Affairs	Antimicrobial resistance, evaluating patterns of antibiotic use and developing antimicrobial stewardship programs to decrease inappropriate antibiotic use
Chia-Yu Chiu, MD Assistant Professor	Infectious disease conditions in immunocompromised hosts, such as solid organ transplant recipients and patients with cancer, Transplant Infectious Diseases
Laura Damioli, MD Associate Professor	Orthopedic or Musculoskeletal Infectious Disease, Orthopedic Infectious Diseases
Kendra Dickson, LCSW Instructor
Steph Dillon, PhD Associate Research Professor
Charles A. Dinarello, MD Professor
Hillary Dunlevy, MD Associate Professor	HIV and anal/rectal disease screening
Molly Eaton, MD Associate Professor
Kristine Erlandson, MD Professor, Infectious Diseases Associate Division Head for Research
Leigh Espinoza, PA Instructor
Carolee Estelle, MD Visiting Associate Professor
Suzanne Fiorillo, MSPH Senior Instructor
Cynthia Firnhaber, MD Professor
Daniel N. Frank, PhD Associate Professor
Katherine Frasca, MD Associate Professor	HIV clinical care and education, HIV prevention and PrEP
Brian Grundy, MBBS, MD, MPH Assistant Professor	Global health
Kejun Guo, PhD Associate Research Professor
Michael Haden, MD Assistant Professor	Orthopedic and musculoskeletal infections, Orthopedic Infectious Diseases
Andrés F. Henao-Martínez, MD, PhD Associate Professor	Tropical medicine including Chagas disease, global health, post travel illnesses
Rachel Hendryx, PA-C Assistant Professor
Misha Huang, MD Associate Professor	Preventative care, epidemiology, and antimicrobial stewardship
Edward N. Janoff, MD Clinical Professor	HIV, pneumococcus and the role of mucosal immunity in disease
Steven C. Johnson, MD Professor	Clinical HIV treatment
Samantha Kaplan, MD Assistant Professor	Global public health, climate change, epidemiology, HIV, TB, vector-borne diseases, tropical medicine
Dana Karp, MSN Instructor
Martin Krsak, MD Volunteer Associate Clinical Professor
Rachel Kuker, DNP Instructor
Mamuka Kvaratskhelia, PhD Professor
Lisa Lawrence, MSW Assistant Professor
Suzhao Li, PhD Associate Research Professor
Nancy E. Madinger, MD Professor	Transplant Infectious Diseases and International Health Co-director of Educational development in Zimbabwe
Sarah Mann, MD Assistant Professor	HIV care, underserved populations
Bruce D. McCollister, MD Associate Professor
Nina Millman, MD Assistant Professor	Patients living with HIV, treatment and management of Hepatitis viruses, General Infectious Diseases
Hayato Mitaka, MD Assistant Professor
Brian Montague, DO, MS, MPH Professor, Fellowship Program Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases Medical Director	HIV, hepatitis, medical informatics, epidemiology of respiratory viral infection, Transplant Infectious Diseases
Stephen Morris, MD Assistant Professor	Transplant Infectious Diseases
James H. Morrison, PhD Research Instructor
Steven Mudroch, MD Assistant Professor	General Infectious Diseases
Craig Nielsen, DNP Associate Clinical Professor
Aakriti Pandita, MD Assistant Professor
Larissa Pisney, MD Associate Professor	Quality improvement: prevention of hospital acquired infections, diagnostic stewardship, transitions of care, and OPAT optimization, Infection Control
Laura Platt, MD Assistant Professor
Eric Murnane Poeschla, MD Professor	Virology
Connie Price, MD Professor
Mario L. Santiago, PhD Professor
Sarah Scott, MD Assistant Professor
Sara Scherrer, MD Associate Professor	HIV clinical care
Whitney Schraufnagel, MS FNP Associate Professor
Jennifer Spicer, MD, MPHE, MPH Visiting Associate Professor
Eddie Stenehjem, MD Professor, DOM Executive Vice Chair	General Infectious Diseases
Cara Wilson, MD Professor
Melissa Wilson, MS Research Instructor
Shanta Zimmer, MD Professor	General Infectious Diseases

Name	Research/Clinical Interests
Robert Belknap, MD Professor	TB treatment and screening
Edward M. Gardner, MD Professor	Adherence to ART in HIV patients
Kellie Hawkins, MD Assistant Professor	General Infectious Diseases
Timothy C. Jenkins, MD Associate Professor, Denver Health Interim Infectious Diseases Division Head	Hospital epidemiology and Staphylococcus Aureus
Margaret McLees, MD Assistant Professor	Clinical care of HIV
Guillermo Rodriguez Nava, MD Assistant Professor
Sarah Rowan, MD Associate Professor	HIV, Hepatitis C, COVID-19, infections affecting people experiencing homelessness and people who use drugs
Karen Wendel, MD Assistant Professor	General Infectious Diseases
Heather Young, MD Associate Professor	Skin, muscle, bone, and joint infections

Name	Research/Clinical Interests
Margaret A. Fitzpatrick, MD, MS Associate Professor	Healthcare epidemiology, multi-drug resistant organisms, infection prevention in high-risk populations, antimicrobial stewardship, patient-reported outcomes and mixed methods
Edward N. Janoff, MD Clinical Professor	HIV, pneumococcus and the role of mucosal immunity in disease
Shelley Kon, MD Assistant Professor	Infection Control and Antibiotic Stewardship
Ellen Mangione, MD, MPH/MSPH Professor
Lindsay Nicholson, MD Associate Professor	HIV and antibody responses to vaccination
Leland Shapiro, MD Associate Professor	Pathophysiology of the infection and host response

Name	Research/Clinical Interests
Charles L. Daley, MD Professor, Mycobacterial & Respiratory Infections Division Head	TB and mycobacterial infections
Jared Eddy, MD, MPhil, MSc Assistant Professor	Mycobacterial and respiratory infections
Michelle Haas, MD Associate Professor	Underserved populations and HIV
Shannon H. Kasperbauer, MD Associate Professor	Mycobacterial infections

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