The University of Texas School of Public Health



Center for Infectious Diseases

Faculty

Beasley, R. Palmer, MD
Ashbel Smith Professor

Research interests: Hepatitis B; hepatocellular carcinoma; AIDS; infectious disease epidemiology

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E743
Email: r.p.beasley@uth.tmc.edu
R. Palmer Beasley, MD
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
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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 E719
Email: eric.l.brown@uth.tmc.edu
Eric Brown, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9355

Cardenas, Victor , MD, PhD
Associate Professor

Research interests: Public health surveillance and field epidemiology; epidemiology of cancer; infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and injuries

Campus: El Paso — Office: 097 110F
Email: victor.cardenas@uth.tmc.edu
Victor  Cardenas, MD, PhD
Phone: (915) 747-8503

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 W118A
Email: cynthia.l.chappell@uth.tmc.edu
Cynthia L. Chappell, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9026

DuPont, Herbert L., MD
Professor of Infectious Diseases and 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 E729
Email: herbert.l.dupont@uth.tmc.edu
Herbert L. DuPont, MD
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 N2.202E
Email: susan.p.fisher-hoch@uth.tmc.edu
Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, MD
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 E717
Email: lu-yu.hwang@uth.tmc.edu
Lu-Yu  Hwang, MD
Phone: (713) 500-9382

Jiang, Zhi-Dong , MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases

Research interests: Epidemiology of travelers’ diarrhea; genetic factors for acute diarrhea; enteric pathogens

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E741
Email: zhi-dong.jiang@uth.tmc.edu
Zhi-Dong  Jiang, MD, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9371

Murray, Kristy O., DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor

Research interests: West Nile Virus, arboviruses, rabies virus, unexplained encephalitis, emerging infectious diseases, zoonoses.

Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W334
Email: kristy.o.murray@uth.tmc.edu
Kristy O. Murray, DVM, PhD
Phone: (713) 500-9358

Restrepo, Blanca I., Ph.D
Assistant Professor

Research interests: Tuberculosis; pathogenesis, early disease detection, host immune response, dynamics of transmission in the Texas-Mexico border. Neurocysticercosis: host-parasite interactions, immune response, granuloma formation.

Campus: Brownsville — Office: RAC N2.202D
Email: blanca.i.restrepo@uth.tmc.edu
Blanca I. Restrepo, Ph.D
Phone: (956) 882-5172