Infectious Disease Research

Advancing Infectious Disease Research, Surveillance, and Public Health Response

The Wake Forest School of Medicine Section on Infectious Diseases integrates clinical excellence, epidemiology, and data‑driven modeling to address emerging and endemic infectious threats.

Wake Forest University School of Medicine Section on Infectious Diseases is home to not only excellence in clinical care but also research and education. Our infectious diseases specialists are recognized locally, nationally and internationally for their expertise in treating all types of infectious diseases. Additionally, our department is home to professional researchers, clinical trialists, and support staff engaged in everything from basic and translational research to infectious disease epidemiology and public health.

Respiratory Virus Surveillance

Check out our current work on respiratory virus surveillance. This includes COVID-19, influenza, RSV, and other respiratory viruses. As part of a Duke Endowment grant, we are working to improve respiratory virus surveillance in North Carolina and communicating the results directly to the public and our public health partners.

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Recent publications

Amplifying Our Voices: Fostering Advocacy in Infectious Diseases Fellowship.

Paras ML, Stead W, Bisono-Garcia B, Pottinger PS, Aziz R, Aziz M, Balba GP, Blackburn BG, Butt S, Chow B, Graber CJ, Muñoz-Gomez S, Pellegrino RA, Schultz S, Shnekendorf R, Jezek A, Martin A, Luther VP, Infectious Diseases Society of America Training Program Directors Community of Practice and Working Group

Journal: Open forum infectious diseases · Publish Date: 2025 Dec · DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaf677 · PMID: 41322240

Distinct microbiota profiles in non-survivors in preterm infants with surgical necrotizing enterocolitis: Insights from FFPE intestinal tissue analysis.

Zhang P, Garg PP, Liu L, Zhang W, Kavanagh K, Shetty A, Howard T, Varshney N, Sawaya D, Hawkins G, Schwartz DJ, Garg PM

Journal: Journal of neonatal-perinatal medicine · Publish Date: 2025 Nov · DOI: 10.1177/19345798251353777 · PMID: 40556262

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) infectious diseases fellow infection prevention and control and healthcare epidemiology curriculum.

Martin EM, Cichon C, Choudhury R, Day SR, Fatemi Y, Luther VP, Stillwell T, Sung A

Journal: Infection control and hospital epidemiology · Publish Date: 2025 Jun 3 · DOI: 10.1017/ice.2025.85 · PMID: 40457777

Association of Cardiologist Clinic Visits With Cardiovascular Primary Prevention Outcomes Among People With HIV From Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Groups in the Southern United States.

Durstenfeld MS, Hill CL, Clare RM, Chiswell K, Sanders G, Gray S, Vicini J, Marsolo K, Okeke NL, Meissner EG, Thomas KL, Morse CG, Bloomfield GS, Pettit AC, Longenecker CT

Journal: Journal of the American Heart Association · Publish Date: 2025 Mar 18 · DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.124.038462 · PMID: 40055869

Salary Equity Among Subspecialty Fellows: A Call to Action.

Liao S, Amin AN, Barczi S, Barron C, Degnon LE, Duncan JG, Kwan B, Luther V, Moffatt ME, Myers A, O'Rourke P Jr, Vera ID, Zaas AK, Solomonides J

Journal: The American journal of medicine · Publish Date: 2025 Feb · DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2024.10.017 · PMID: 39447955

Train with us

The Wake Forest University School of Medicine Infectious Disease offers a variety of training opportunities for undergraduates, medical students, residents, fellows, and pharmacy residents. Learn more about our training opportunities here.