Massachusetts General Hospital

Division of Infectious Diseases
55 Fruit Street

Boston, MA 02114

Phone: 617 643 3856
Fax: 617 726 7416
Website: http://www.massgeneral.org/
Email: dhooper@partners.org

Training Program Director

David C. Hooper MD

Research Interests: Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms and Epidemiology

Participating Hospitals

Massachusetts General Hospital : 898
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute : 730

Program Training Offerings

How does this program meet the ABIM requirements for training in clinical microbiology?

Didactic Lectures
Hands-on Experience

The Program provides training in hospital epidemiology through:

Didactic Lectures
Continuity Clinic

The Program provides clinical experience for fellows in the following:

Infections in marrow transplant
Infections in solid organ transplant patients
Infections in travelers and tropical medicine
Infections in children

This Program provides training in STD management through:

Didactic Lectures
Courses Elsewhere
Attendence

The Program has a didactic lecture course for fellows:

Yes

If yes, what is the average number of lectures provided over a two-year period?

130

Training is for:

MD
DO
PhD

Are there citizenship requirements?

Yes

Citizenship Requirements:

U.S. Preferred

Types of visas accepted:

Number of fellows accepted each year:

Duration of the Fellowship (years):

2 - 4

The Program has a training grant (T32):

Yes

Average number of infectious diseases consults per trainee per year:

323

Number of Fellows completing the Program in the last 5 years:

Additional Training/Faculty Resources (optional):

Program has didactic lecture course for fellows:
*44 lectures and 86 case-based sessions

Applications accepted via Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS®)?

Timeframe when applications are accepted:

Timeframe when interviews are done

Prof

Stephen B. Calderwood , MD , Prof Massachusetts General Hospital

Research Interests: Molecular pathogenesis of bacterial diarrhea and vaccines

Prof.

Elliott D. Kieff , MD, PhD , Prof. Brigham & Women's Hospital

Research Interests: Molecular biology and genetics of Epstein-Barr virus

Prof.

Bruce D. Walker , MD , Prof. Partners AIDS Research Center

Research Interests: HIV pathogenesis and immunology

Faculty

Nesli Basgoz , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: HIV, EBV and CMV infections

Joan Butterton , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Molecular pathogenesis and vaccines

Benjamin T. Davis , MD , Instr.

Research Interests: HIV, general infectious diseases

Marlene L. Durand , MD , Instr.

Research Interests: Infections of eyes, head and neck

Donna Felsenstein , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Sexually transmitted diseases

Jay A. Fishman , MD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Host responses to infection and Pneumocystis infections

Ken Freedberg , MD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: HIV clinical care and policy

Marcia B. Goldberg , MD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions in Shigella

Howard M. Heller , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: HIV and tick-borne infections

Martin S. Hirsch , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: Antiviral therapies

Elizabeth L. Hohmann , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Molecular pathogenesis and vaccines

Cyrus C. Hopkins , MD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Hospital epidemiology and infection control

R. Paul Johnson , MD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: HIV pathogenesis and vaccines

Mark S. Pasternack , MD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Cell-mediated immunity

Eric S. Rosenberg , MD , Instr.

Research Interests: HIV pathogenesis and immunology

Robert H. Rubin , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: Infections in compromised hosts

Edward T. Ryan , MD , Instr.

Research Interests: Vaccines, tropical medicine, international health

David Scadden , MD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Hematopoietic stem cell biology

Harvey B. Simon , MD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Tuberculosis and general infectious diseases

H. Shaw Warren , MD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Pathophysiology of sepsis

Arnold N. Weinberg , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: General infectious diseases

Kimon C. Zachary , MD , Instr.

Research Interests: HIV infections, general infectious diseases

Cameron Asbaugh , MD , Instr.

Research Interests: Streptococcal pathogenesis

Lindsey Baden , MD

Research Interests: HIV

Miriam Baron , MD

Research Interests: bacterial Pathogenesis

Johanna Daily , MD , Instr.

Research Interests: HIV

Ray Dolin , MD

Research Interests: Vaccines & Virology

Paul Farmer , MD, PhD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: TB and HIV in rural Haiti

Joanna B. Goldberg , PhD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Epidemiology and bacterial virulence

Claudia Gravekamp , PhD , Instr.

Research Interests: Immunology and microbiology

Hilde-Kari Guttornsen , MD , Instr.

Research Interests: Immunology and microbiology of streptococci

Susan Huang , MD

Research Interests: Epidemiology and Bacterial Virulence

Dennis L. Kasper , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis and vaccine development

Joel Katz , MD

Research Interests: Transplant Infectious Diseases

Kenneth M. Kaye , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Molecular biology and genetics of epstein-barr virus

Dan Kuritzkes , MD

Research Interests: HIV Therapeutics and Resistance

Jean C. Lee , PhD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Pathogenesis of staphylococcus aureus infection

Lawrence C. Madoff , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis and vaccines for group B streptococcus

Francisco Marty

Research Interests: Infections in bone marrow transplant patients, infections in organ transplant patients, general infectious disease

Micheline Mathews-Roth , MD

Research Interests: Microbiology and photobiology

Thomas F. O'Brien , MD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Epidemiology of bacterial plasmids

Andrew B. Onderdonk , PhD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Animal models of bacteroides infections

Lawrence Paoletti , PhD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Microbiology and vaccinology

Richard Platt , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: Hospital epidemiology and pharmaco epidemiology

Gerald B. Pier , PhD , Prof.

Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis in pseudomonas aeruginosa and staphylococcus epidermidis

William Rodriquez , MD

Research Interests: HIV in resource poor settings

Eric Rubin , MD

Research Interests: Mycobacterial pathogenesis

Robert Rubin , MD

Research Interests: Transplant ID

Paul Sax , MD

Research Interests: HIV/AIDS therapeutics and outcomes research

Sonya Shin , MD

Research Interests: HIV/TB in resource poor settings

Arthur O. Tzianabos , PhD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Microbiology of anaerobic infection

Fred C. S. Wang , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Molecular biology and genetics of epstein-barr virus

Sigal Yawetz , MD

Research Interests: Infectious diseases in women and pregnancy, Sexually transmitted diseases

Deborah Yokoe , MD , Instr.

Research Interests: Hospital epidemiology and infection control

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