Platts-Mills, James A

Primary Appointment

Associate Professor, Medicine: Infectious Diseases and International Health

Education

AB, Philosophy of Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
MD, , University of Virginia
Medical Residency, Internal Medicine, UCSF
Clinical Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, University of Virginia

Contact Information

P.O. Box 801340
MR-6, Room 1522
Charlottesville,, VA 22908-1340
Telephone: 434-243-8997
Fax: 434-924-0075
Email: jp5t@virginia.edu

Research Interests

Enteric diseases, molecular diagnostics and infectious disease epidemiology.

Research Description

My research focuses on the application of quantitative molecular diagnostics to the epidemiology of enteric diseases in children in developing countries, including revising estimates of pathogen-specific burdens of diarrhea and understanding the impact of early enteric infections on child growth and development.