Eric is the Jack M. Gwaltney Jr. Professor of Infectious Diseases. He received a BA from Colgate University, an MD from Emory University, and was an Intern and Resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago. He was a fellow in Infectious Diseases at the University of Virginia from 1999 to 2002 whereupon he was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Medicine where he has risen through the ranks to Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health and Vice-Chair for Research of the Department of Medicine. Eric’s wife Gwendolyn Kelly practices OB/GYN in Charlottesville. They have three children: Hannah, Lukas, and Logan. Special clinical interests include tropical medicine (for many years he chaired the ASTMH clinical review course) and tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacterial diseases. He is the Tuberculosis Consultant Physician for the Virginia Department of Health and has NIH grants in TB diagnosis and management.
Eric and his group are internationally renowned for the development of molecular diagnostics and application to enteric infections in children in resource-limited settings. The work has fundamentally changed how infectious diarrhea is recognized, showing that diarrhea is often a multi-pathogen event and a state of enteropathogen excess above a high carriage baseline. A recent manuscript in The Lancet showed how molecular diagnostics could assign an infectious cause to diarrhea in over 80% of cases, with most of the global childhood diarrhea burden ascribable to just 6 pathogens, whereas previously we were in the dark without an etiology. This work has galvanized global efforts to develop Shigella vaccines and prompted clinical trials by the WHO to evaluate new management strategies for diarrhea. For this work, he was awarded the 2015 Oswald Avery Award for Achievement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Mayuresh Abhyankar, PhD Associate Professor of Research, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Christopher Arnold, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health
In Su Cheon, PhD Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Josh Colston, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health Courtesy Appointment in Department of Public Health Sciences
Matthew Crawford, PhD Assistant Research Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Joshua Eby, MD Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Carol Gilchrist, PhD Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Scott K. Heysell, MD, MPH • Thomas H. Hunter Associate Professor of International Medicine • Director, Center for Global Health Equity
Eric Houpt, MD Jack Gwaltney Professor Chief, Division Infectious Diseases and International Health
Molly Hughes, MD, PhD • Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health • Associate Chair for Education, UVA Department of Medicine
Patrick Jackson, MD Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Margaret Kosek, MD Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Chaofan Li, PhD Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Gregory Madden, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Chelsea Marie, PhD Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Amy Mathers, MD • Gerald Mandell Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health
• Director of Antimicrobial Resistance Services, UVA Health System Clinical Microbial Genomics Laboratory
Kathleen McManus, MD Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Christopher Moore, MD Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Brett Moreau, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Stacy Park, MD • Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
• Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship, UVA Health System
Tarina Parpia, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Pablo Peñataro Yori, PhD Instructor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
William Petri, Jr., MD, PhD • Wade Hampton Frost Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health • Vice Chair for Research, UVA Department of Medicine Courtesy Appointments in Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology and Pathology
James Platts-Mills, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Girija Ramakrishnan, PhD Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Jennifer Sasson, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Costi Sifri, MD Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health Director, Hospital Epidemiology – UVA Health
Jie Sun, PhD • Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health • Associate Director for Scientific Programs, Carter Immunology Center
Mami Taniuchi, PhD Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Tania Thomas, MD, MPH Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Gregory C. Townsend, MD • Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health • Associate Dean for Diversity, UVA School of Medicine
Cirle Alcantara Warren, MD Research Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Brian Wispelwey, MD William S. Jordan, Jr. Professor of Epidemiology in Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health
Courtesy Appointments:
Laurie Archbald-Pannone, MD Associate Professor Internal Medicine Claude Moore Associate Professor of Geriatrics Research
Taison Bell, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care
Alison Criss, PhD Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
Jennifer Güler, PhD Associate Professor of Biology Department of Biology
Dean Kedes, MD, PhD Professor Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
Glynis Kolling, PhD Research Assistant Professor of Medicine Biomedical Engineering Research