Infectious Diseases
Meet the Team

Meet the Team

Director

Paul Spearman, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
HIV assembly; HIV biology/pathogenesis; HIV vaccines; vaccines and therapeutics for children (clinical trials)

Primary Appointment

Koichi Araki, DVM, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Evaluation of vaccines and antivirals for herpes and rotovirus; development of improved adjuvants and delivery systems for vaccines; treatment and...

Rebecca C. Brady, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Cytomegalovirus and other viral infections 
Research Interests
Infections in transplantation; infections in immunocompromised hosts

Robert W. Frenck Jr., MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Enteric diseases; vaccinology

Thomas Hagan, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Systems immunology; vaccinology; microbiome-immune system interaction

Jason E. Hammonds, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
HIV biology/pathogenesis; innate immunity; macrophage biology; HIV vaccines

David B. Haslam, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Jamie Kidd, MSN, APRN, CPN, FNP-C

Nurse Practitioner, Division of Infectious Diseases
Research Interests
Infectious diseases vaccine research

Gaurav Kwatra, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Immunological correlates of protection; development of new vaccine candidates; infectious diseases surveillance; sero-surveillance and immunology...

Monica Malone McNeal, MS

Associate Director, Laboratory of Specialized Clinical Studies
Research Interests
Immunology of rotavirus infection

Grant C. Paulsen, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Felicia A. Scaggs Huang, MD, MS

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Infection prevention and control in the critically ill child

Karnail Singh, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Immunology; infectious diseases; vaccine development and translation; autoimmune diseases.

Mary Allen Staat, MD, MPH

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Epidemiology of enteric infections; surveillance of infectious diseases

Ming Tan, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Norovirus; rotavirus; influenza virus; SARS-CoV-2; viral gastroenteritis; influenza; COVID-19

Secondary Appointment

David M. Hartley, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Infectious disease epidemiology; public health surveillance; mathematical and computer modeling

Andrew B. Herr, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Structural biology and biophysics of antibodies; immune receptors; bacterial surface proteins