Faculty
| Beasley, R. Palmer, MD Ashbel Smith Professor Research interests: Hepatitis B; hepatocellular carcinoma; AIDS; infectious disease epidemiology Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E743Email: r.p.beasley@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9014 |
| Belkind-Gerson, Jaime, MD Assistant Professor of Epidemiology NTR Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W704 Email: jaime.belkind-gerson@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9374 |
| Brown, Eric, PhD Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease Research interests: Immunology; infectious disease; mechanisms of immune evasion; vaccine development Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E719Email: eric.l.brown@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9355 |
| Chappell, Cynthia L., PhD Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Research interests: Parasitology; gastrointestinal parasites; immune response to parasites Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W118AEmail: cynthia.l.chappell@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9026 |
| DuPont, Herbert L., MD Professor of Infectious Diseases & Director, Center for Infectious Diseases Research interests: Worldwide study of the epidemiology; microbiology; genetic susceptibility, treatment and prevention of acute diarrhea Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E729Email: herbert.l.dupont@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9366 |
| Fisher-Hoch, Susan P., MD Professor of Epidemiology Research interests: Virology; Lassa and Ebola hemorrhagic fevers; tuberculosis; human Papilloma virus; biocontainment; microbiology; molecular epidemiology Campus: Brownsville — Office: RAC N2.202EEmail: susan.p.fisher-hoch@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (956) 882-5167 |
| Hwang, Lu-Yu , MD Professor Research interests: Pediatrics; infectious disease; perinatal transmission; viral epidemiology; cancer epidemiology; hepatitis virus/liver cancer; HIV/AIDS, HTLV/leukemia; EBV/nasopharyngeal cancer; viral oncology. Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E717Email: lu-yu.hwang@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9382 |
| Jiang, Zhi-Dong , MD Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases Research interests: Epidemiology of travelers’ diarrhea; genetic factors for acute diarrhea; enteric pathogens Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E741Email: zhi-dong.jiang@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9371 |
| Murray, Kristy O., PhD Assistant Professor Research interests: West Nile Virus, arboviruses, rabies virus, unexplained encephalitis, emerging infectious diseases, zoonoses. Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W334Email: kristy.o.murray@uth.tmc.edu |  Phone: (713) 500-9358 |