2025 Faculty

2025 Symposium Faculty Participants

Hans Hirsch, MD, MSc, FAST

Professor, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland

"BK Virus"

Guang-Shing Cheng, MD

Associate Professor, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington

"Pulmonary Impairment after Transplantation"

Michael Boeckh, MD, PhD, FIDSA

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions | Head, Infectious Disease Sciences Program | Medical Director, Infectious Disease Consult Service, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

"The Future of Infections in the Immunocompromised Host: Science, Training, Mentoring, Clinical Care"

Jay Fishman, MD, FACP, FAST, FIDSA

Professor, School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School | Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases and Compromised Host Program | Associate Director, Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

"Xenotransplantation: State of the Art"

Symposium Co-chairs

Michael Boeckh, MD, PhD, FIDSA

Catherine Liu, MD, FIDSA

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions | Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program | Associate Director, Infection Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease Sciences, University of Washington

Joshua Schiffer, MD, MSc

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Maheen Abidi, MD, FAST, FIDSA

Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Disease, University of Colorado

Samuel Aitken, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP

Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Michigan

Barbara Alexander, MD, MHS, FIDSA

Professor, Department of Medicine and Pathology

Director, Transplant Infectious Disease Service

Head, Clinical Mycology Laboratory, Duke University

Gabriela M. Maron Alfaro, MD, MSc

Associate Member, Department of infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Upton D. Allen, O. Ont., MBBS, MSc, FAAP, FRCPC, FIDSA

Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Institute of Health Policy Management & Evaluation

Bastable Potts Chair, Infectious Diseases Research, University of Toronto, Canada

Division Head, Infectious Diseases, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada

Michael Boeckh, MD, PhD, FIDSA

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions

Head, Infectious Disease Sciences Program

Medical Director, Infectious Disease Consult Service, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Jim Boonyaratanakornkit, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Mitchell Cairo, MD

Chief, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation; Director, Children and Adolescent Cancer and Blood Diseases Center; Director, WMC Cancer Center; Medical and Scientific Director, WMC Cellular and Tissue Engineering Laboratory; Medical Director, WMC Hematotherapy Program; Vice Chairman of Pediatrics; Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology and Cell Biology & Anatomy, Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, Westchester Medical Center (WMC), New York Medical College

Jose F. Camargo, MD

Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Miami

Angela Campbell, MD, MPH, FAAP, FPIDS, FIDSA

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Roy F. Chemaly, MD, MHP, FACP, FIDSA

Professor, Division of Internal Medicine

Chair, Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Adjunct Professor, College of Medicine, Baylor University

Guang-Shing Cheng, MD

Associate Professor, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington

Charles Chiu, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine

Director, Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center

Associate Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, University of California San Francisco

Helen Chu, MD, MPH, FIDSA

Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Adjunct Associate Professor, Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology, University of Washington

Sanjeet S. Dadwal, MD, FIDSA, FACP

Professor, Department of Medicine

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, City of Hope

Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati

Director, Immunocompromised Host Infectious Disease, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Janet Englund, MD, FPIDS, FIDSA

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington

David Epstein, MD, MA

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University

Cynthia Fisher, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Director, Solid Organ Transplantation Infectious Diseases Program, University of Washington

Jay Fishman, MD, FACP, FAST, FIDSA

Professor, School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases and Compromised Host Program

Associate Director, Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

Emily Ford, MD

Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Associate, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

David Fredricks, MD

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions

Director, Microbiome Research Initiative, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Adjunct Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington

Madeleine Heldman, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University

Diego Hijano, MD, MSc

Associate Member, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Joshua Hill, MD, FIDSA

Associate Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Associate Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Hans Hirsch, MD, MSc, FAST

Professor, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland

Tobias Hohl, MD, PhD, FIDSA, FAAAS

Professor, Department of Medicine

Chief, Infectious Diseases, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University

Hannah Imlay, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor (Clinical), Infectious Diseases Division

Associate Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship, University of Utah

Michael Ison, MD, MS, FIDSA, FAST

Branch Chief, Respiratory Diseases , National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Erika Kampouri, MD

Infectious Diseases Physician, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Olivia Saturno Kates, MD, MA

Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University

YaeJean Kim, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea

Head, Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiency, Samsung Medical Center, Republic of Korea

Dimitrios Kontoyiannis, MD, ScD, PhD, FACP, FIDSA, FECMM, FAAM, FAAAS

Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases

Robert C. Hickey Endowed Chair, Clinical Care

Deputy Head of Research, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Adjunct Professor, Division of Pharmacology, University of Houston

Adjunct Professor, University of Texas School of Public Health

Camille Kotton, MD, FIDSA, FAST

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Clinical Director, Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital

Ricardo La Hoz, MD, FAST, FIDSA

Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases

Director, Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases

Medical Director, Transplant Services Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Yeon Joo Lee, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Regina Lengermann, PA-C

Physician Assistant, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Teaching Associate, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Washington

Abhijit Limaye, MD, FIDSA, FACP

Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases

Director, Transplant & Immunocompromised Host Infectious Disease Program, University of California San Francisco

Julian Lindsay, BPharm, MClinPharm, BCOP, PhD

Clinical Research Pharmacist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Jessica Little, MD

Transplant Infectious Diseases Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Instructor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Catherine Liu, MD, FIDSA

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions

Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program

Associate Director, Infection Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease Sciences, University of Washington

Per Ljungman, MD, PhD, FIDSA

Emeritus Professor and Senior Physician, Department of Hematology and Cellular Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Emily Lydon, MD

Senior Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Francisco

Thomas J. Lynch Jr., MD

President and Director

Raisbeck Endowed Chair for the President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Director, Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children's Cancer Consortium

Kieren Marr, MD, MBA, FIDSA

Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

President and Chief Medical Officer, Elion Therapeutics

Founder and VP of Clinical Development, Pearl Diagnostics

Micah McClain, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Duke University

Denise McCulloch, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division

Assistant Director, Infection Prevention

Assistant Medical Director, Infectious Diseases Outpatient Clinic, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Alejandra Mendoza, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Utah

Minh-Hong Nguyen, MD

Professor, Department of Medicine

Director, Transplant infectious Diseases

Director, Antimicrobial Management Program, University of Pittsburgh

Chikara Ogimi, MD

Chief, Division of Infection and Immunity, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo Japan

Steven Pergam, MD, MPH

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Clinical Research Divisions

Medical Director, Infection Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington

Emily Rosen, MD

Senior Fellow, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Eduardo Sanchez, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Arizona

Michael Satlin, MD, MS, FIDSA

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

William Randolph Hearst Foundation Clinical Scholar in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Clinical Director, Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program, Weill Cornell Medical College

Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program

Director, Transplant Infectious Disease Service, Boston Children's Hospital

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Monica Slavin, MBBS, FRACP

Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia

Head, Infectious Diseases, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Head, Immunocompromised Host Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia

Erica Stohs, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Creighton University

Frank Tverdek, PharmD, BCPS AQ-ID, CMQ

Clinical Pharmacist, Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship, University of Washington Medical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Alpana Waghmare, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington

Assistant Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Nathan Wiederhold, PharmD

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Director, Fungus Testing Laboratory, University of Texas Health Science Center

Michael Woodworth, MD

Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University

Leah Yoke, MCHS, PA-C

Chief Physician Assistant

Teaching Associate, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Clinical Faculty, MEDEX PA Training Program, University of Washington

Physician Assistant, Infectious Disease Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Michelle Yong, MBBS, PhD, MPH, FRACP

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia

Head, Infectious Diseases Clinical Trials, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Danniel Zamora, MD

Acting Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington

Associate, Infectious Disease Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Danielle Zerr, MD, MPH

Professor

Division Chief of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Seattle Children's Hospital

Matt Zinter, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Program Director, Pediatric Immunocompromised Critical Care, University of California San Francisco