New York University

School of Medicine
550 First Avenue
NBV 16S 8
New York, NY 10016

Phone: 212 263 6400
Fax: 212 263 7369
Website: http://school.med.nyu.edu/
Email: Demetre.Daskalakis@med.nyu.edu

Training Program Director

Demetre Daskalakis MD Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: HIV prevention; mechanisms of resistance to HIV infection

Participating Hospitals

New York University Langone Medical Center; Bellevue Hospital Center, Manhattan VA Hospital: 1500

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?

100

Training is for:

Are there citizenship requirements?

Types of visas accepted:

Number of fellows accepted each year:

Duration of the Fellowship (years):

2 - 3

The Program has a training grant (T32):

Average number of infectious diseases consults per trainee per year:

500

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

Additional Training/Faculty Resources (optional):

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

Timeframe when applications are accepted:

Timeframe when interviews are done

Prof.

Joel D. Ernst , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: Microbial Immunity, biology of tuberculosis

Faculty

Judith Aberg , MD , Prof. Director of the NYU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit

Research Interests: HIV clinical trials; HIV-associated abnormalities of lipid metabolism and cardiovascular disease

Melissa Bender , MD, MPH , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Cost-effectiveness analyses in HIV and TB

Martin J. Blaser , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: Campylobacter, helicobacter and other diarrheal disease, human microbiome

Donald Chen , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Research Interests: genetic determinants of malaria severity

Bouke de Jong , MD, PhD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis; genetic diversity in M. tuberculosis complex

Jeffrey Greene , MD , Clin. Prof.

Research Interests: HIV, General infectious diseases, infections in travellers

Randa Hamadeh , MD , Clin. Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: HIV and general infectious diseases

Robert Holzman , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: General infectious diseases

Howard L. Leaf , MD , Instr.

Research Interests: HIV care

Greg Lee , MD , Clin. Instr.

Research Interests: HIV

Eddie Louie , MD , Clin. Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: General infectious diseases

Melanie J. Maslow , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: General infectious diseases

Alexander McMeeking , MD , Clin. Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: HIV, HCV, General infectious diseases

Sapna Mehta , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Clinical effectiveness of antimicrobial stewardship

Elizabeth Miller , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: HIV vaccine development and trials

Meagan O'Brien , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: HIV pathogenesis; HIV interaction with plasmacytoid dendritic cells

Zhiheng Pei , MD, PhD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Bacterial ecology and human microbiome

Guillermo I. Perez-Perez , DSc , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Epidemiology and genetics of helicobacter pylori

Jennifer Philips , MD, PhD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Cellular and molecular pathogenesis of tuberculosis

Michael Phillips , MD , Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Hospital epidemiology and infection prevention

Robert Press , MD, PhD , Clin. Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Surgical infections

Bo Shopsin , MD, PhD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: Pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus

Michael S. Simberkoff , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: AIDS, humoral immunity, and vaccines

Sumathi Sivapalasingam , MD , Asst. Prof.

Research Interests: International HIV Clinical Trials, HIV epidemiology

Neal Steigbigel , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: Antibiotic activities and mechanisms; general infectious diseases

Fred T. Valentine , MD , Prof.

Research Interests: Cellular immunology, AIDS, clinical trials, and lymphokines

Roger Wetherbee , MD , Clin. Assoc. Prof.

Research Interests: Infections in solid organ transplant

Brent Wise , MD , Clin. Instr.

Research Interests: Bone and joint infections

Douglas Zeiger , MD , Clin. Instr.

Research Interests: General infectious diseases

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